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Heroism in 'After the First Death' by Robert Cormier - An Analysis
Presentation733 Words / ~ pages 3/11/10 Period 5 After the First Death In everyday society, thousand­s of normal people get up on the brink of situatio­ns. They are recogniz­ed as the heroes of today and tomorrow­. Achievin­g the status of hero is seen through many traits. For instance­, in the book After the First Death, heroism is displaye­d through traits. In the book After the First Death, heroism is displaye­d through intellig­ence. For example, Artkin is an intellig­ent, sly person. “M­iro slitted his eyes, studying Artkin, trying to determin­e if Artkin were really serious about his name or whether he was playing some kind of game” (Cormier 20). Artkin being smart gives the sense of leadersh­ip. Although Raymond is a kid, he’­;s surprisi­ngly smart. “T­hey were bright and alert, transfor­ming his fat baby face into the visage of an intellig­ent little…[show more]
Gründe und Folgen der Kolonialisierung: Analyse in Lernskript Mitschrift
Notes1.115 Words / ~ pages Pourquoi colonise­r ? – L’­intér&ec­ir­c;­t des pays européen­s pour la colonisa­tion s’­explique en grande partie par des motifs politiqu­es national­istes. Tout d’­abord, les gouverne­ments souhaite­nt s’­assurer le contrôle des grands axes de circulat­ion, sur terre comme sur mer, dans des buts commerci­aux et stratégi­ques + Concurre­nce entre pays européen­s sur le territoi­re encore peu connu, mal organisé­, peu de gouverne­ments fixes car composé dethnies diverses et parfois nomades. Ex : La France, vaincue en 1870-187­1, cherche à saffirme­r grâce à son empire. Le Royaume-­Uni veut conserve­r son rang de premi&eg­rave;re puissanc­e mondiale­.(cf cours sur les économie­s mondes). – Les causes économiq­ues sont plus nuancées­: Dabord, il y a la Grande Dépressi­on que connaît…[show more]
What Were the Underlying Causes of World War One?
Essay887 Words / ~2 pages What We­re the Un­der­ly­ing Cau­ses of World War One? The big­gest war which has ever ta­ken place un­til that time was hap­pe­ning. Af­ter ye­ars of ten­si­on bet­ween and wi­thin na­ti­ons, on Ju­ly 28th 1914, Aus­tria-Hun­ga­ry de­clared war on Ser­bia af­ter a Ser­bi­an ass­as­sin mur­de­red their heir of the thro­ne, Arch­du­ke Fran­cis Fer­di­nand. This star­ted a war which in­cluded the Tri­ple Al­li­ance wi­th Ger­ma­ny, Aus­tria-Hun­ga­ry and Ita­ly, the Tri­ple En­tente in­clu­ding the United King­dom, France and Rus­sia, as well as Ser­bia and Bel­gi­um and the United Sta­tes who joi­n­ed in la­ter. But what we­re the un­der­ly­ing cau­ses of this World War I? The im­me­dia­te cau­se was the ass­as­si­na­ti­on of Fer­di­nand, but the main cau­ses that lead to this war we­re Na­tio­na­lism, Im­pe­ria­lism and Mi­li­ta­rism. In the fol­lo­wing pa­ra­graphs, the­se terms will be ex­plai­ned wi­th the help of do­cu­ments…[show more]
Little Red Riding Hood - A rewritten fairy tale of the little red riding hood mixed with the catcher in the rye
Essay744 Words / ~ pages Ms. To­land AP LANG12/5/12 Litt­le Red Ri­ding Hood I sup­po­se you want to hear an­o­ther sto­ry wi­th a hap­py en­ding wrap­ped all up nice­ly in a bow. Well this isn’t that kin­da sto­ry, and I’m ti­red of hea­ring that sa­me crap again and again. Any­way, my na­me is Eric not much of a na­me. I know. But ever­yo­ne around he­re calls me Litt­le Red Ri­ding Hood. For Chris­sa­ke don’t ask why. Cau­se hell if I know, tho­se po­or bas­tards will pick on an­yo­ne if you gi­ve em the chan­ce. Pho­nies, all tho­se snob­bish peo­p­le do it run around flaun­ting their fa­thers mo­ney. Well as I was say­ing, I got a call one mor­ning from my grand­mo­ther she was ly­ing in bed “sick as a dog”. God I can’t stand that. Well of cour­se she nee­ded me to co­me bring her so­me of my mo­ther ho­me­ma­de soup to help her feel bet­ter. That la­dy is al­ways sick, hell may­be if she mo­ved out of the god­dam woods she wouldn’t feel…[show more]
The constant unknown: Earth's Core
Presentation785 Words / ~ pages Co­re pa­per In the mo­vie Co­re peo­p­le wi­th any ma­gne­tic ob­jects we­re ex­pe­ri­en­cing dif­fi­cul­ties be­cau­se the midd­le of the earth, or the co­re, had stop­ped mo­ving. Thun­der storms tur­ned in­to a light­ning may­hem, ear­th­qua­kes be­ca­me ha­voc, and the earth was in dan­ger of its­elf. Pa­nic was on the ri­se all over the world un­til a crew of six bra­ve peo­p­le de­ci­ded to co­me head to head wi­th the world’s most mo­ving event, li­te­ral­ly. When…[show more]
Assess the view that the welfare state is the cause of poverty rather than the solution of poverty
Examination questions1.002 Words / ~ pages As­sess the view that the wel­fa­re sta­te is the cau­se of po­ver­ty ra­ther than the so­lu­ti­on of po­ver­ty. (24 Marks) What does the wel­fa­re sta­te achie­ve? Does the wel­fa­re sta­te bring ad­van­ta­ges or di­s­ad­van­ta­ges when it co­mes to po­ver­ty? Who does the wel­fa­re sta­te re­al­ly be­ne­fit? The­se are all ques­ti­ons that do not have a cor­rect ans­wer, and are all just mat­ters of opi­ni­ons that are held by dif­fe­rent so­cial groups, so­cial spea­k­ers…[show more]

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