This book focuses on the necessities in our life that we take for granted, necessities we do not even think about as being important. ... The reading of this book has made me think more of life as a privilege rather than a right. ... Not a single book or person can give me an adequate reason as to WHY this genocide happened. ... Wiesel, in my mind, is a virtuous person. ... Do my thoughts hinder me as a selfish person, I do not know. ...

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Jack is enjoying life as a leader of the savages, and he fears that fire will possibly end his authoritarian rule over the savages. ... Ralph is certainly not a perfect person. ... However, he is the only person who acknowledges the importance of being responsible, and he takes over as a true leader even though he is not necessarily good at it....

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Each one of their six sons was successful in life. ... But most of all he was just a regular person. Just like any other person he liked to play sports and games such as golf, fishing, football, and bridge. ... If I could this would definitely be a person I would pick to be my friend. ... One is because he is a really important person in history. ...

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Throughout the several hundred pages of Mein Kampf, Hitler constantly reinforces the notion that, in every single aspect of life, in every single corruption, lies a Jew, and that in no area whatsoever is a Jew beneficial to anyone at all. ... "Was there any form of filth or profligacy, particularly in cultural life, without at least one Jew involved in it? ...

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But I lived most of my life in Marceline, Missouri. ... The way I choose how to live my life is my decision and nobody else's. ... I don't know about the rest of America but I would like to live my life while I can. I do not want to be told what to do with my life that is like being a child again and I do not want to be a grown man being told what to do. ... But overall McCarthyism was terrible and my life is better without it....

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TONY ENTERED A RACE CALLED THE VENDEE GLOBE, WHICH IS THE LONGEST MOST CHALLENGING YACHT RACE EVERY CONCEIVED, IT STARTS ON THE WEST COAST OF FRANCE, GOES AROUND ANTARTICA AND BACK TO FRANCE. 25,000MILES OF WATER TRAVELLED BY ONE PERSON. ... HE SPENT AN HR TRYING TO SEE WHETHER HE COULD FREE THE LIFE RAFT BUT IT WOULD TAKE 3 MEN TO DO SO. HIS MIND TENDED TO WANDER & HE THOUGHT OF HIS WIFE IN ENGLAND & WOT SHE WOULD BE DOING & THEN STARTED TO THINK BOUT HIS LIFE & SOMETIMES HE WAS FASCINATED BY THE LITTLE THINGS HE HAD DONE, LIKE WHEN HE WAS LITTLE HE TOOK COLD BATHS CAUSE HE THOUGHT IT WOUL...

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Love and war can have many effects on a person. ... Love can make a person softer, more caring, but it can also make a person selfish. Love can change a person's personality. ... Every aspect of life either kills us or makes us stronger. ... Without a war then there would be no reason to fear for one's life. ...

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When the cat is tortured and killed he feels helpless and simply wants to take his own life. ... Sassoon outlines that the soldier used to be a very joyful person who was broken down by the conditions of war in the trenches and eventually wanted to take his own life. ... Birth I can give you - but life I cannot. ... Losing the person you thought you were going to marry or be with a long time takes immense psychological tolls on a person. ... War is not only about one person, but it is also about everyone that particular person is connected to in some way. ...

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When a person donates a significant amount of money to a humanitarian organization, this person is regarded as being generous. ... Life can be regarded as a battlefield with no man's land in the middle and trenches at the end of both extremities such as in the first world war. ... To achieve this social threshhold, a person must eliminate his surroundings by using social war tactics. ... Life, once again, can be regarded as a race track where everyone intends to reach the first place. ... Life is a race track with various racers, each one having advantages and disadvantages, and the go...

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She is kind and sweet but extremely vulnerable to the charm that various men in her life seem to smother her with. Brett is not happy with her life or her surroundings and seeks escape and refuge in the arms of these men. ... He a weak person socially, but he is also physically disabled because of an injury that he suffered during the war. ... These are a very unusual group of feelings for a person to have toward one person, but it was a very unusual time. ... In this story, there is a very different way of life from what people know today. ...

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Within this story many truths are brought to life, that of love, human nature, and the actions of one person. ... Through the love of Ishmael and Hatsue, we can see that things can come between a person and the one they love, and these things cannot always be pushed aside. ... Because of this, Kabuo is freed, Hatsue is grateful, and Ishmael is able to make peace with his bitterness and get on with his life. ... It also shows that one person can determine the outcome of many, through Etta Heine's prejudice actions towards the Miyamotos. ...

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While we go throughout life chronologically, he slips in and out of periods of his life, in and out of time and lives in that moment. ... These aliens experience life in the 4th dimension, time. ... The degrees of emotion experienced are what is important and defines the person's character. ... It does not focus on the entire life of Billy Pilgrim, but instead focuses on certain moments of his life. ... Trafamadorians view life similarly. ...

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She remembers the pressure of camp life "they had no way of dignity and privacy, the loss of authority, and the pressure to sign loyalty oaths. ... Jeanne does not want to think about Manzanar, but as she grows, she realizes that her life began and was shaped there. ... And last the effect that racism can have on a person even though the person does not admit it. ...

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This mistake was one that would leave Broderick blind and change his life forever. ... Broderick also helped fellow blind veterans by speaking about his life. ... At this point in her life, she had gained much nursing experience through working in hospitals. ... Normally blindness would be a handicap that many people would not be able to live with, it changes a person's life completely. ... When I originally purchased this book I had no idea that this was going to be a first person account and that it wad going to be a person's life chapter by chapter. ...

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Oskar Schindler Many great things have happened in the course of ones life that will define the round sphere of reality that the person has placed on each person. ... After he left the store, Thomas knew that he had to publ In a time of fear, horror, and humility, where everything is lost and nothing is to gain, there remains one element that keeps a person alive. ... Before World War II, Schindler accomplished practically nothing in his life and little can be said about his actions afterward. ... At a time of little hope and tremendous suffering in the lives of millions of Jews, o...

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At some point in everyone's life, they have to think about the values that have been imposed upon them during their earlier years. Each person has to make the decision regarding what values they are going to embrace and incorporate into their life. ... Each person in society today is part of a larger community of people. Sometimes the community does not allow a person to express growth in their life. The story directs the reader to reflect on situations in their life where they are being forced to fit into a standard mold. ...

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Loving support from my grandfather has kept me going and allowed me to focus on the positive aspects of life. ... His stories have taught me that there is a reason behind every struggle, and what really matters is how a person learns to overcome adversity. ... His mood was positive, despite the fact that his life was impacted by falls and accidents. ... As the days went by, I realized how fast cancer can take a person's life away. ...

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A person feels less emotionally attached to this thought of "I am about to kill another person," but since I am thousands of miles away and not pulling the trigger then there is nothing I can do. ... Catalano defines promoting peace as "not only the absence of war ( 'negative peace') but also the establishment of life-affirming and life-enhancing values and structures ( 'positive peace'). ... Not entirely open minded, a design that will do something for some person, cause, organization, or ecosystem. ... (p. 7)" Now how can someone, like myself, ethic...

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When most people think of lust, they think of lust for another person, a romantic type of lusting that usually culminates in getting a person into bed. ... Hitler used his anger towards his situation in life in order to promote anger and loyalty in his followers. ... Hitler truly would have felt at home here, since he was such a person himself. ... Almost through the eighth circle of Hell, Hitler would have belonged in the seventh pouch, which punishes those who were thieves in life. ... He was truly a horrible person in life; therefore, in Dante's story, he would have gotten all that he ...

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In times of war and uncertainty war brings out a person's courage that was not previously there and also it allows you to realize your self-worth. ... Vivienne starts to become much more courageous when faced with problems in her life. ... It takes much courage to risk your own life to save one of another. ... Self worth in an individual is a very important aspect of one's character and without self worth a person is influenced quite easily and do not value themselves. ... War brings out a person's courage and also war allows you to realize your self-worth. ...

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In both books, we are given lessons about how others interpret life and how it can be different for anyone. ... Reading Tuesdays with Morrie, the reader gains knowledge about Morrie's perspective of life, and how we shape our lives by doing the simplest of things. ... Questioning the strength of those who had suffered and pondering the fact of what each person's happiness was from and if they had lost something. ... Love, a passionate affection, is something people experience if their lives can is harder to explain than life in general. ... In conclusion, Morrie's general reacti...

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Having the responsibility of another person's life is considered a great power to the POWs, due to the fact that if the guards would have treated them differently, their lives during war would have been altered for the best. ... It shows how the behavior of the Japanese prison guards toward the American POWs could change a person. The guard was kind before the war, but during he became a horrible person. ... Watanabe is an example of how one could change their life after a traumatic event. ... In comparison, the Milgram Experiment's authority figure was just a person standing in a wh...

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When we went through these doors they handed us a card, a card that would tell us all about one person and there life during the Holocaust. It was basically a key to their life during this time period. ... For instance, the person on my card, her name was Magda Mozes. ...

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In today's world, human life is associated with a several types of technology. ... Today people cannot imagine the life without technology. ... Video games not only influenced my life but also my friends' lives. ... I think the person who does not have a mobile phone is not a person is an alien. ... Technology not only affected and changed my life but also the lives of other people and the whole world itself. ...

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Stem cells are extracted from embryos which some Pro-life activists view as a human person. ... I find Pro-life activists contradictive because they are supporting to ban stem cell research and cloning. Many would die each year and live a crippled life if we weren't to cure their diseases. ... In reality the true pro-life position on stem cell research is to support it. ... We are polluting the earth with all our industries but we are also living longer and have a better life. ...

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