Couch Dents by Samuel Piedmonte She sits down on the living room’s faded blue couch and turns on the TV—to turn off the landscape of thoughts—dealing with the swirling. Her body needs a reset‚ but it’s yelling way too loud. Tell no one about it. Tell no one about it. She gets up for a glass of water‚ the tap’s broken and she gives up‚ thinking she was thirsty. With the empty glass‚ she toasts the dilemma in silence. Her stomach’s talking and she tells herself she isn’t hungry. She eats her nails
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Samuel P. Huntington’s paper "The clash of civilizations" defines the shifting of causes for friction between nations. He describes the changing of the guard‚ between secular ideological friction‚ such as democracy versus communism‚ to cultural and religious reasoning. Huntington’s hypothesis is based heavily on examples of recent struggles between civilizations all over the world. I agree with Huntington’s hypothesis because it is evident that since the fall of the "Iron curtain" culture and religion
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In the fourth paragraph of the story “ Samuel” by Grace Paley‚ the narrator states “ But three of the boys were Negroes and the fourth one was something else she couldn’t tell for sure. In other words as readers we get a pretty good idea about the race of the kids. The statement is a pretty good hit trying to tell the reader that race plays an important role in the story. Due to the fact that the race of the children was indicate‚ implies that the time period must have been when there was racial
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Obituary: Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain‚ who has died aged 61‚ was a French navigator and soldier. He is important to Canadian history because he helped establish the settlements. He founded New France and Quebec City as well. Early experience In 1604‚ he was made an assistant to the Sieur de Monts‚ who was a French noble appointed by the king of France to set up trading posts in Canada. In the summer of 1605‚ de Monts‚ Champlain and approximately sixty settlers and established a small
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Protagonist of the story‚ Samuel Spade‚ is a very mysterious man who trusts only himself. The problems he may encounter tend to get done without the help of higher authorities (police) in his life‚ Spade‚ works only for Spade. Characterized by devilish qualities throughout the book‚ Samuel is associated with the term “blonde Satan” (3)‚ implying that he is comparable to the devil. He wants to outsmart everyone and win this “game” that is going on between him and Gutman. His potential love interest
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service profession. Service denotes stewardship‚ involves integration and facilitation and engenders a cooperative approach to problem solving” (P.5). Stewardship is to hold something in trust for another‚ a commitment to serve the needs of others. Samuel Mockbee was a great leader of his profession. He demonstrated leadership characteristics by “cautioning students that goodness was more important than greatness‚ compassion more eventful than passion” He also believed that “everyone‚ rich or poor
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Samuel De Champlain (1567?-1635) was a French explorer and navigator who mapped much of northeastern North America and started a settlement in Quebec. Champlain also discovered the lake named for him (Lake Champlain‚ on the border of northern New York state and Vermont‚ named in 1609) and was important in establishing and administering the French colonies in the New World. In 1603‚ Champlain sailed to France on Francois Grave Du Pont’s expedition. They sailed up the St. Lawrence River and the Saguenay
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Samuel became a judge despite not being a descendant of Aaron‚ and became the national leader and head of the tribes. He appointed Saul‚ a warrior from the small tribe of Benjamin‚ the first king of Israel during a time of war against the Philistines. Saul led the Israelites to Gilead to defeat the Ammonites‚ reuniting the tribes and defeating an enemy. However‚ Saul did not always follow the standards of the Torah‚ so Samuel secretly proclaimed David as the next king of Israel. David was an exceptional
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produce products by machines when before they were hand-made and took a long time to produce. Which resulted in the expanding efficiency where it made a higher expectation for everyday products that was known back then as “pre-modern world”. In 1790‚ Samuel Slater is often credited at the first person to start the “American Revolution which was similar to the British model. With his innovation expanding the pace of how cotton string could be converted to yarn.
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