"Tomorrow When The War Began" is the first book in a series of seven that were written by John Marsden and published in 1993. ... It is about her and her seven friends, six of whom when returning on a camping trip with her into a supposedly impenetrable ravine called Hell, find that their homes have been invaded and their family and friends held hostage at the Wirrawee Showgrounds by an unknown foreign army. ... They"re the ones who tore up the rule book, not us." ... Stock them with food and stuff, in case we get cut off from this place. ... This could almost be called sibling rivalry. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In his book The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard defines the self as: "Man is spirit. ... One can choose to get out of bed in the morning, go to work, go home, relax and then go to bed. ... And this is what Kierkegaard calls unchanging "that which does not change within the self system is the fact of the self's freedom". ... Let us say that it is now six fifty nine in the morning and this person starts work at eight o"clock and in order to get to work on time they have to be up by seven o"clock at the latest, I suppose we should also note that being late for work is not an option, if yo...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

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• Grade Level: High School