his life. He focused on one per week I love the diversity and simplicity of his virtues. They cover large and small aspects of the good life :) WHO’S THE AUTHOR? Franklin is a fascinating historical figure: a Founding Father and Renaissance Man (scientist, journalist, businessman, statesman), he was well-respected and enormously influential in his time; his writings, teachings, and discoveries deeply improved our lives. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Franklin always carried a booklet with these 13
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these assumptions/decisions? This image makes me feel blue. This image makes me want to go back in time and see what the past is like. This man is obviously a cowboy. He looks like he’s really in his thoughts. He looks like a man with a strong character and serious personality. He looks like a very intereting man, he seems to look like he’s a very insightful man. The date of the magazine informs me that the time period is the late 1940’s. These assumptions are made by carefully analyzing the image
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short story “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber” written by Ernest Hemingway. Robert Wilson is a professional hunter that guides hunts for animals in Africa, and Francis Macomber is one of his clients. At the beginning of the story, we think that Robert is a good man. He works with people doing the thing that he loves, he fought in World War I, and always gets his clients the things that they want. As we read the story more, we find out that he isn’t such a good man. Like everybody else, he
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about in class about how human beings do not like their ignorance exposed, but Socrates did that. He did not feel shameful when he pointed out how most of the politicians he asked about wisdom were not knowledgeable at all. Socrates stated about the man “...and in conversation with him I formed the impression that although in many people’s opinion, and especially in his own, he appeared to be wise, in fact he was not. Then when I began to try to show him that he only thought he was wise and was not
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my mother phoned the owner. A little arrogant man came in a Mercedes Benz and collected the dog. It was a big Labrador a sort of hunting dog. One week later the dog came round the corner of our house an early evening when we were grilling. The house the man lived in was approximately a kilometer from our house. It was glad to see us especially my father and this episode happened several times. The last time my father brought back the dog to the man I was in the car too. When we came to the house
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1. Money is not the only thing in life to make people happy but it can be a huge influence to people of how they think and act. There are two different kind of people towards moolah the “Joe Keller” where you believe that money is more important than everything else and usally get there lives controlled by the greed and there desire to obtain it. The other kind is the “Chris Keller” where you do not have to have alot of money to make a happy life becasue there are more things to life rather than
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0202 / مجلة ديالى العدد الرابع و االربعون The Bird as a Sacrificial Hero in Oscar Wilde’s “The Nightingale and the Rose” and “The Happy Prince” BY ASST. INST. Shaima’ Fadhil Hassan UNIVERSITY OF KOYA/ COLLEGE OF LANGUAGES/ DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Heroism and sacrifice are not new concepts; they can be traced back to the early days of human life. These concepts developed throughout history as a result of the development of human thought. In literature, the idea of heroism appears on
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Assignment B – ”Happy birthday, 1951” 1. Summary of ”Happy Birthday, 1951” “Happy Birthday, 1951”, is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut, 2008, which begins in media res. The story is about a young boy and an old man, who is not the father of the boy. The boy was given to him as a baby, by a refugee woman. They have lived in the ruins, for 7 years, after a war and have survived by collecting things they could find or steal. One day soldiers find them and order some documents filled out. For
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The epigraph to “Saturday” (from Saul Bellow’s Herzog) introduces not only the concept of the accumulative interplay of text but also the complex nature of what is to be part of a complex world constantly bombarded and buffeted – “what it is to be a man, in a city, in a century, in transition, in a mass … brother to the rest”. This is a suitable introduction to what the reader is going to experience as he/she undertakes to spend a day with Henry Perowne. It will be a day that: challenges a linear
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seems to be in a train station at a bar. The two characters of the story is a man called the American and a woman called “jig”. The two walked in to get their drinks while the woman looked outside the winter and song The Hills And reference them to white elephants, as their drinks come the man and woman begin to talk about an operation. The man told the girl that a lot of people who had the operation singing to be happy and that he would not force her to go get the operation if she didn't want to
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