Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan, after having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent to the land of Tossuk Vlad as ambassador by the Caliph of Baghdad. ... He journeyed on camelback many months into the land of barbarian people. ... Later they carry the dead king's body out to the shore where the ship is. ... In the Arabic religion and traditions they do not celebrate a person's death or burn the dead body. ... After the dead is buried they read a sura of the Koran. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He speaks of how America is supposed to be the land of love but how it never was that to him. ... For example "the negro bearing slavery's scar" and "the red man driven from the land" and it also mentions "the immigrant clutching the hope I seek". ... The poem speaks of young men who dream of growing up and making their own profit but finding the world an "ancient endless chain of profit, power, gain, of grab the land". ... He says how the dream is almost dead today because of slavery and all the other injustices in America at that day and age. ... America is supposed to be a ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I put up with the fear, the cold, the rats, the dead bodies, the gas, the smell, the lice and the loud ringing in my ears from all the gun shots and bombs. ... There are so many dead bodies everywhere, we can't bury them. ... Today sharp at three o'clock the order came down for us to load our rifles and to prepare to run across No Man's Land. ... Have a nice non-dirty, stinky, rat and lice infested, dead bodies, muddy, loud, filthy life. ...

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The knowledge that these photos show history brings up the idea of the past, of things long gone, or long dead. ... This monochromatic land forms an image of blandness and bleakness, causing the feelings of hopelessness and despair. Findley further describes the land as a deathtrap, where "Men and horses sank from sight. ... This loss refers to death and connects with Hell, which is supposedly where the (damned) dead wind up. ...

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After that, the boss decided to make him work for fdsadsa for paying for the dead mule which he can not accept and runs away from town. ... After killing the mule, in other words when his exploited labor was dead, he realizes that he has been treated for long time just like a mule, he says "Dam em all! ... The dead mule is now his burden which he can not carry with him forever, he has to face with realities and responsibilities. Now his past is dead, it died in the wilderness with Jenny. ... Without the dead body of his past and his weaknesses, he gets on the freedom express to go to the land...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Before it was over, it had swept the colonies of the Eastern seaboard, transforming the social and religious life of land. ... Many people that attended church complained about the "dead dogs," which were those priests that made extensive and dull sermons from the head of the church. ...

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The boys begin to do so, using the lens from Piggy *s eyeglasses as a means of igniting dead wood. ... A large swath of dead wood burns out of control. ... He is dead. Sam and Eric the twins responsible for watching the fire at night, have fallen asleep, and so they do not see him land. ... Simon faints; when he wakes up, he travels to the mountain, where he sees the dead parachutist. ...

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The evil he had committed were with full eyesight so he wanted to make himself blind instead of dead for a worse punishment. ... He arrogance shows when he thinks he has a higher power than the land of the law and thinking he can overcome his own fate. ...

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She was then raped, and left for dead. ... Palestine, desire its land back, that had been taking away a long time ago. When they were repeatedly denied their land back, they resorted to trying to take it back with minor threats, and attacks, when that didn't work, they started viciously attacking to the point were Israel must fight back to defend itself, and a war broke out between the two. In this case Palestine, when rejected, upon trying to get there land back, resorted to evil, when they began using lethal force. ...

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Confusion sets in over the relation between the dead wife, Wallace and the princess. The movie tries to portray that the whole fight is just for the dead wife. ... Burning men thrown many feet in the air by mines and grenades, land with missing body parts. ...

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Two other children, Jack, the head of a choir group, and Simon, a small but intellectual boy, accompany Ralph on an expedition to determine whether the land is truly an island. ... He finds that it is a dead man wrapped partially in a parachute and runs down to the beach where Jack's group, along with Ralph's, is feasting. ... Simon is dead; killed by those whom he depended on to survive. ...

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Throughout there lives, they have seen disturbing things, that they have lost there dreams, scared about being dead, scared about gang shootings, scared about everything. ... Can you imagine living in a home with rats in your basements, and dead cats, and the building totally dark, with no lobby? ... They were gangs such as Vice Lords and Disciples; they would always fight for turf or land. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In "Negro Hero" we enter the story of Dorie Miller a black soldier who is struggling within himself to deal with the war that is going on in his home land against the black man that he is, a soldier fighting to save the people that more than likely want him dead. ...

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George stood up, like he was in the army, as the atmosphere got dead silent. ... Then early in the morning the ranch awoke to the sound of birds singing and their duets were heard for miles across open land America. ...

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Gilbert proves that farmers have the right to protect their land and livestock from aggressive animals using whatever means necessary because livestock is their lively hood, the livestock is viewed as part of the family, and the deaths of the livestock are wasted because the carcasses are not used to their full potential. ... He directs attention to the owners who allow their dogs to roam and that the owners do not care that their dogs are returning home with dead chickens. ...

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Ralph and the other two boys explore the whole jungle from end to end and didn't find anything, Ralph says it's like they discovered their own land. ... Jack and the other hunters came back onto the beach from the woods covered in blood and chanting a song with a dead pig on stakes. ...

• Word Count: 1191
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• Grade Level: High School