So many things come into play when it comes to social class such as History perhaps of the town that he lives in or maybe the race of him and the people that surround his family. When you look at examples of Social Class and despair such as a poor town in a city, it's a safe assumption to believe Race may also play a role in the way these people live their lives. It is beyond naive to think Race no longer effects society and the way our world works. ... It is the small glimpses that keep us striving and help us to drag our tired bodies out of the comfort of our beds in the morning. ......

• Word Count: 1552
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Dunstan's home changes from a peaceful town of Deptford into the violent and killing fields of World War two. "It was called Deptford and lay on the Thames River about fifteen miles east of Pittstown, our county town and nearest big place. ... "This was fighting we lived in trenches, in dung-coloured mud into which dung and every filthiness had been trodden, in our dung-coloured uniforms; we were cold, badly fed, and lousy." ... Joel Surgeoner, the atheastic tramp who had an intimat encounter with Mary Dempster at the town's "pit" changed his way of life and became a servant of Go...

• Word Count: 1556
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The condemnation of innocence sheds light on the meaninglessness, irrationality, and inexplicableness of our existence, and until we witness something this horrendous we cannot fully conceive of what our world truly is. ... When he later discusses his plague with Rieux it indicates that there is a better understanding after all that the town has experienced. ... Even if it appears futile and pointless, we have to make something out of our lives. ... In the first stage of the outbreak of the plague the common people of the town know nothing about it. ... Some want out of town with no concern...

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• Grade Level: High School

This is so painfully symbolic of our relationship with our caretaker, Mother Earth. ... As the transition from the second part of the story into the third part occurs, the narrator describes her last journey into town to trade her meager goods for food. ... The butcher that she visits in town does not understand her compulsion to feed those that hurt her, and cannot see her place in the scheme of things. ... Unfortunately, when the weight of our burdens finally does our Mother Earth in, we won't be able to mourn her and put her to rest with ceremony. Our own circle of life is far too depe...

• Word Count: 1944
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

While driving or walking down a city or large town street, chances are good that we will see a homeless person standing on the next corner, in need of financial help or a job. ... Altruism is important for human life because it promotes the survival of our species. It is also important to our well-being because it potentially makes us happy, is good for our health, fights addiction, and is contagious. ... When we help others, we overlook the flaws that could interfere with our decision. ... However, as we grow older our decision to help others becomes shaped by the opinion of our peers and sur...

• Word Count: 1702
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

These ideas are surround mortality, hope, and the power of words, are important to Zusak's novel and to society due to the way they connect with each other to help us understand character's lives and reflect on our own. ... In town bombings the sky has been described as blood red,  plane crashes explained to be black but for the death of Jews in Germany that summer, it was so severe that death has no color to associate with it. ... This expresses to the reader the mass scale of humans dying under orders of Hitler, reminding us that this isnt just a novel, this happened in our socie...

• Word Count: 1566
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We are unable to grow toward greater understanding of our true nature unless we take time to examine and reflect upon our life. ... People began to look down on Ivan rather than to sympathize for him, such as his wife, who didn't care that he is dying but rather troubled by the inconvenience his suffering was putting her through and the financial bind his death puts her in; she is a symbol of the indifferent people of his town. ... I believe reflection is something very important in our lives and I think this should be a priority in the life of every human being. All of us should exa...

• Word Count: 1628
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

It not only not only includes species that are rare , threatened or endangered instead every living thing even organisms such as fungi, microbes and etc There is a massive variety of life everywhere, not just in our country sides or gardens but also in towns and etc. Biodiversity is the measure of life and also the indicator for the overall health of our planet. ... It is due to our actions that has lead to such as destruction. ... Our complex web has now made it impossible for species to survive on planet. ... As the living world is dependent on the natural environment specifically it'...

• Word Count: 1967
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When Victor travels home after the death of his brother William, the beautiful scenery of nature restores him "I contemplated the lake; the waters were placed, all around was calm, and the snowy mountains by degrees the calm and heavenly scene restored meas I approached my native town, I discovered more distinctly the black sides of Jura and the bright summit of Mont Blanc. ... " (p. 61) Victor is comforted by the immense natural landscape and the majesty of these landscapes implies the hand of God; by taking in the beauty and majesty of nature we realize that there is a force and an...

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John Kotre's How Memory Speaks describes memory as: "A scene we experience for a moment-and only once-remains clear in our minds for a lifetime, yet we forget the looks of things we see and touch almost every day." ... "The time you won your town the race/ we chaired you through the market- place/ Man and boy stood cheering by/ and home we brought you shoulder high/." ... Does memory provide a means to integrate ourselves into a future of our own devising or does it chain us to an unchangeable past? ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He has the ability to influence and persuade people so easily, while at the same time bringing life and fulfillment to a dry town. ... Val says to Lady, "We"re under a lifelong sentence to solitary confinement inside our own lonely skins for as long as we live on this earth! ...

• Word Count: 1480
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• Grade Level: High School

He comments on how he knows the man who owns them, but how the person lives in the town, and wont see him. ... This poem is all about mans eternal struggle between Life, Death, and the consequences of our actions in between, which decide what comes after. ...

• Word Count: 1767
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In her hometown, which is in Kentucky, she does everything she can to not get pregnant and be stuck in a farmer town like all the other high schools girls ended up being. ... Estevan says later that even these names that everyone is calling them by are not their real names, "Our true first names are Indian names. ... Her eyes were clear and she spoke directly, looking at our eyes" (Kingsolver pg.207). ...

• Word Count: 2103
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School