Black powder fills the sky while the bodies of soldiers lay on the blood soaked ground. Drums beat and soldiers march as people from long ago are dying on the big flickering screen. ... The film vividly displays the sadness experienced from families being torn apart, innocent people dying terrible deaths, and the fighting and dying of soldiers in a quest for independence. ... "If I was going to make a film about the revolution I would have made a film about George Washington." ... This scene is followed by one in which one son expresses his joy of killing the soldiers and t...

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"I would bawl and hurl myself at my mother and she would reach out her claws and seize me, though I could see I alarmed her ( I had teeth like a saw), and she would smash me to her fat, limp breast as if to make me a part of her flesh again"(Gardner 17). This quote directly demonstrates how Grendel as a child would feel so rejected and solitary that he would have to go to the only person in which he trusted,his mother, and, just lay against her and release his emotions. ... At first Grendel does kill plenty of people,although, this was Grendel's last, Beowulf rips his heart out...

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It is the general belief that "if I do not know, therefore it cannot be" state of mind that causes people to feel this way. ... At the beginning of the story, "A light fringe of snow lay like a cape on the shoulders of his overcoat and like toecaps on the toes of his galoshes", but he was trying to "scrape the snow [off]"(185). ... He cherished the "colour on her cheeks and that her eyes were shining," that made "A sudden joy went leaping out of his heart"(223) When Gabriel walked with his wonderful wife the snow was beginning to be "slushy underfoot; and only streaks and patches of snow lay o...

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Personally, I think that teens are more vulnerable to what others say and do. ... Juliet was not pleased at all with that decision; she"d rather die than marry someone other than Romeo. ... When Romeo sees her laying there he says, " O my love, my wife! ... He can't resist seeing his only true love laying there dead so he kills himself so they can finally be together forever. ... I personally feel like these situations can not be prevented because no matter how much you can talk to a person they are still going to feel like they are helpless in this world. ...

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"I want to tell you this: twenty years ago I watched a man die on a trail near the village of My Khe. ... He lay in the center of a red clay trail near the village of My Khe. ... I killed him. ... I can look at things I never looked at. ... I can be brave. ...

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