He is an ordinary young man, accepted by society, who is drawn by chance into a " journey" from life to death, and back to life again. ... His incident invokes fear and disbelief in people because " the pronouncement of his death clings to him, close to his skin," pg. 55 wherever he goes. ... He hadn't been among people since it happened. ... Wherever he goes he evokes fear and shock in people. ... In conclusion, Godrey Rainbird, the protagonist of Janet Frame's novel Yellow Flowers in the antipodean room is an ordinary man until he undergoes an exceptional chang...

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He is so exited about traveling, meeting new people and visiting new places. He used to live his ordinary life with his sheeps. ... Feeding his sheeps and traviling to the ordinary places that he has seen thousands of times in his life. His life is so ordinary but he always dreams of different lands different people. ... Santiago's ordinary life goes on until the day he meets the strange old guy... ...

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These pieces of writing are all on our ordinary women but yet so distinctive to each other. ... She had this sort of power over the people who were believers and those that were not, that they felt that they had to obey her immediately. It was also believed that she had special powers that perform miracles, that healed many people. ... How she had enough courage to show the world what she believed in not worrying about whether people would believe in her faith, she took that chance. ... (page 101) She allows her people to be different in expressing themselv...

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However, Simpson's assertions don't end here; fetuses are not an ordinary "organ of [the female] body]...but an organism [Simpson 6].... Alas, murder always shreds the moral fabric and ethical code most people otherwise abide by. ... Do ordinary signals of activity equate to human life?... This doesn't mention the crippling effects of teenagers who become mothers as they are much more likely to leave school, receive inadequate prenatal care, rely on public assistance to raise their children, develop health problems of their own, and create stress levels that impair people. ...

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The reasons to each ones desire to leave this family is similar, both feel saturated by the situation of having people depend on them to live. ... Laura also is different from other people, as mentioned before, because of it glasslike qualities. During scene seven, accidentally the unicorn breaks, and it looses its horn, making it normal, ordinary, just like the other horses. ... Laura feels that she probably will not be remembered by Jim in the future, that she has been just another girl in her life, while for Laura this has been the love of her life and their kiss was not just an ordinary ki...

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Mairs says: "I lead, on the whole, an ordinary life, probably rather like the one I would have led had I not had MS. " (Mairs 247). ... Changing people's mind is hard, specially for a women who want to be taken seriously among such a hostile environment. ... "I wake up in the morning feeling the way most people do at the end of a bad day, and I take ir from there " (Mairs 247). ... She grew up with different customs and traditions from the other people who lived around her. " Puerto Rican mothers also encouraged their daughters to look and act like women and to dress in clothes our Anglo ...

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Two people enquire as to whether or not he will be signing up to fight. ... "Abos," the girls said with cool disgust, as if the rituals being enacted, however violent were ordinary and not to be taken note of." The hypocrisy of human nature is displayed, using Connie as a representative, whereby she discourages the fighting between the people in her own town, yet encourages Jim to enlist, in order to fight in a war of which he is completely ignorant. ...

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The reader can picture these two situations, a child examining an ordinary object as if it is suddenly extraordinary. ... Life often ends as the poem does, in a gray boring blend; the purpose of this poem is to advise people to take advantage of their early years so they will have something to remember in those last years of life. ...

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Something as ordinary, as our morning routine can be satisfying to the soul. ... "That gives peace when people feel that they are living the symbolic life, that they are actors in the divine drama. ... Some people describe this phenomenon as a coincidence. ... Hundreds of people have had a premonition that a plane will crash, and low and behold it does. ... Studies have shown that people who meditate have greater processing speed and perceptual sensitivity. ...

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There are people in this world that will be willing to change their view, attitudes and perspectives in their own life. In contrast, there are people who are not willing to accept change within their lifestyle and choose to stay the same. ... This can be seen through the imagery used to remind the reader that there are no certainties when we open the door, just opportunities from the common and ordinary, "a tree", " a garden" to the fantastic and abstract, "magic city". ... The areas some people who are more reluctant to change their views and attitudes in life but on the other h...

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People are often too distracted by money and materialistic things to appreciate truth and reality. ... When people are consumed in the shallow world, they see reality as mere shadows compared to truth. ... Many people search for happiness by engulfing themselves in life's highest pleasures, others look for contentment by over-working themselves to try and be the richest. ... By surmounting the influence of society, one can withstand the evil displayed and look inside the ordinary, in order to find the extraordinary. ...

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In some respects I always knew that my dad was an extraordinary man, but I never understood just how out of the ordinary he really was. ... Of all the people I have come across, none of them have held but the highest regard for him. ... In a world where there are so many negatives to focus on, he is one of the few people who is always happy and thankful. ...

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Ambiguity is defined as a property of a linguistic string that is used with two of more meanings within ordinary discourse. ... If the definition of human includes being born with ten fingers and a case is witnessed where a human was born having more than ten fingers such is the case for people with polydactyly, the having ten fingers is not a defining trait of humans. ...

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Along with the use of dualities throughout his poetry, Robert Frost uses nature to make his poetry to connect dualities with symbols that ordinary people can relate to. ... This is the reason I believe that most of his poetry is misunderstood by most the people who read it. ... When Robert Frost wrote this poem(1920) people were more connected to nature. They was nearly as many distractions that people have today(television, twitter, facebook, ect). ... " Just like in the people we have promise to maintain. ...

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