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    Hammurabi’s codes were just/fair and some of his codes were not just/fair. This is because even though some of his codes ended in physical harm such as hand cutting, his codes had a purpose to help keep order and allow people to get justice. Hammurabi lived eighteen centuries ago and ruled for forty two years. “If a son has struck his father, his hand shall be cut off”. (Code 195) In this code it shows that as a son you must obey your father or else you will face harsh consequences. This quote…

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    The Reflecting Pool revolves around a man made pool in the middle of a forest. Throughout the film, the camera angle never moves. This explains that the camera remains at the same place throughout the film. In the beginning of the film, you can see a pool reflecting its surroundings on its surface. It looks like a perfectly normal scene except that you can hear the sound of the surroundings combined with the sound of running water. The sound of the running water sounded as…

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    essentially a conversation between a woman (Jig) and a man (unnamed, but referred to as The American) at a train station. Although this story is a conversation, neither of them truly communicate with each other, and they do not seem to care about the point of view of one another. The American is exasperatingly trying to convince the girl to have an operation. The nature of this operation is never clearly stated, but it is assumed to be an abortion. The man repeatedly tells her how simple the…

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    that. As I went in to poke my large, pointed nose into the man’s skiff, a Portuguese man-of-war came along. I panicked and quickly let go of the bait and instead of drowning the man hid under the cover of his small and powerless boat. The jellyfish left and I began to taunt the man once more. Two days had passed and the man showed no sign of giving up but only sign of pushing forward. I started to fear that the man would win. He still did not know how gigantic and masculine I was. I decided to…

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    According to the poem “water people were harvester and volcano people sowed in ash” (line 12 and 13). Also “they gated in trees and built houses of blocks,” so it is a clear difference in the living circumstances between the two groups of people, and the water people seem to be living better. Based on the title the singing boy represents Trayvon; an innocent seventeen year old boy gun down…

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    lifelike already. Rainsford vs. General Zaroff is a very big event. Before that, Rainsford even almost drowned in the ocean. Rainsford tells himself to stay calm to be able to beat the general. The three conflicts, Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, and Man vs. Himself, exist in this story. Man vs. Man is the most used conflict in The Most Dangerous Game. When Rainsford meets General Zaroff, he is not very suspicious of what he does on the island. However, after Zaroff told him that he hunts men for a…

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    Wants upon a time: There was Water Salem,mn school there was a black cat ring to get out. Then there was a spell Witch trying to drown the cat but it was trying to save it live. The old witch Ran To the classroom and still a Parchment paper and a killer right a list of the cat and water and it had blood all over the Parchment paper In righting the man In the black suit the mask Was scary there was a kid how was just now getting out of lunch. All the Teachers and kids were all outside there…

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    Le Khuc Hoang Uyen – 1AH DEP IS – Storyboard- Text and Movement Context: Rural Vietnam in 1930s-1940s (under French colonization). Frame 1: Community and extreme poverty (a group of performers perform a full traditional farming dance that illustrates the burden of agricultural activities) The scene opens with narration about the abject poverty in rural areas in Northern Vietnam under French colonization. Accompanying the narration is a full farming dance that illustrates the burden of…

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    Drowned Man in the World”, Gabriel Garcia Marquez utilizes an ordinary small town setting along with the unnamed protagonist, who is later given the name of Esteban, to develop the theme of magical realism in order to convey that the human conscience needs something greater than itself to believe in. He is able to combine the real and the magical worlds in such a natural way that conveys the possibility to have both worlds, and this helps give this…

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    Water: Taken for Granted Water is present on more than seventy percent of the Earth’s surface. It is found in almost every part of the world, whether it is clear and glistening on the beaches of Florida or murky and muddy in the Amazon River. This mesmerizing liquid is able to take the form of a liquid, solid, or a gas which makes it universal solution. The presence of water in the lives of humans is as vast as the universe because it is at the epicenter of sustaining life. It is often said that…

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