If there is a God up there tending to business or not no one can know and Jones in his novel The Known World leaves the question up to the reader. What he does offer us is the opportunity to explore what makes life worth living and bearable in the mist of chaos through the characters in the novel. Jones starts his novel with the words: “my soul’s often wonder how I got over…” The essence of this statement is pondering how he made it, it being a moment in life that was particularly defining or life
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and, hopefully, be able to hunt my first dove. After hours of driving, we finally arrived at the lease. It was like something I had never seen. There were retired school busses pushed side-by-side in a square, turned into something like cabins. The owner of the lease had built bunk beds up and down both sides of the four school busses. We unpacked our things onto the busses, and Dustin’s dad took out his handgun. He showed Dustin and I how to handle it, unload it and shoot it. We shot the handgun
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colors in the night sky. The Starry Night reflects Van Gogh's negative description of that time. As we have seen in the painting, he has a nervous breakdown, that he thinks the sky is not so beautiful, it is extremely distorted, as the picture's tone, dark color. This picture shows a highly exaggerated and strong, shocking
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spring flowers and the joy of the birds' songs. We were holding our hands and happily as happy can two little girls be, we were bouncing and jumping in the park. Spring could be seen in our eyes, sunshine could be recognized in our smile. It seemed to us like we were flying in the air as two colourful butterflies from a flower to a flower, each of them more and more beautiful, each of them more and more attracting, as if they were the last days of our lives and each of them was more and more challenging
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to participate in an experiment in exchange of money. For about a week he is being tested with a lot of others men. In this experiment-center he is asked about his past, his present and his future. So is everyone else. He then has to sit in a tiny, dark room with a slideshow of gruesome pictures and video clips. Thereafter 26 men are selected to be participate and are taken to the prison where they are given the roles of guards and prisoners. Here the participants are given five rules. Guards were
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Out of the dark early morning sky, when the bright stars are still out and everyone was tired, came an ugly bird. It had long dark legs as long as a humans legs, and a very long neck as long as a human's hands, dirty looking feather, it was dark blue I couldn't notice any further details. it looked aggressive like any other bird. it stood on the edge of my small boat starting with is dark brown eyes like a hawk. It was looking straight into my eyes. I tried to scare it away by moving my head and
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there, reading this, and wondering what I’m talking about. There’s another side to this story and we’ll get to that, for now, all you need to know is that Germany was on the brink of world domination with no country left to stand in its
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“Conch!” shouted Jack. “ We don’t need the conch anymore.” This shows Jack feels as if he has complete power over everyone and the conch. He feels as if they don’t need it anymore and thinks of himself as a “ruler”. The boys are seeing eachothers dark side at it’s peak and they are having arguments over power and authority over others. They have all given up on eachother and have different mindsets. They split up into different groups and are trying to figure out what is right. The island has been
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carry the boat and the motor down to the shoreline. After which they attached the motor and climbed in. They needed the boat to carry their pelts in and also to leave their swim trunks in the boat when they took their Selkie form. If it was after dark they would have been able to leave their swim trunks on the beach and carry out their fur pelts unseen. The risk during daylight hours was too immense and just wouldn't work at Venice Beach, even though the house on Ocean Front Walk was directly in
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model built using someone’s Facebook likes can judge the person’s personality traits more accurately than can friends or even family members” (Maney). So if one person seems to portray an almost angelic and cheery side of themselves in front of you every time, yet they input likes on dark, dark cases like war and brutality and the like, then are they really that cheery person you seem to know? “When every thought is externalized, what becomes of insight? When we reflexively post each feeling, what becomes
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