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We are not alone

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             discounted as a kook or con-artist in search of either attention or monetary .
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             reward. It wasn't until more reputable figures in our society began to come .
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             An article written 1957, entitled " Strange lights over Grenada" written by .
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             Aime' Michel describes just such an account: .
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             At 10:35 p.m. on September the 4th, 1957 Cpt Ferreira ordered his .
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             wing to abandon a planned exercise and execute a 50 degree turn to .
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             port. Ferreira was attempting to get a closer look at what he .
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             described as brilliant, pulsating light hanging low over the horizon. .
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             When the turn was completed he noticed that the object had turned .
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             too. It was still directly over his left. There was absolutely no doubt .
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             that the orange light was shadowing the F-84s. For another 10 .
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             minutes, it followed the jets without changing direction or .
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             appearance. The pilots watched as four small yellow discs broke away .
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             from the large red object and took up a formation on either side of it. .
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             All at once the large luminous disc shot vertically upward while the .
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             smaller discs shot straight towards the F-84s. In an instant the flat .
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             disc sped overhead in a hazy blur and vanished. When Cpt Ferriera .
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             was questioned by Portuguese Air Force Investigators he was quoted .
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             as saying: "Please don't come out with the old explanation that we .
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             were being chased by the planet Venus, weather balloons, or freak .
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             atmospheric conditions. What we saw up there was real and .
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             intelligently controlled.


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1. We are More Like Sisters

I can clearly remember the day my best friend, Lannah Tamborello, moved to Chicago. It feels as if it were just yesterday, the grief we both felt. We still smiled all day that day, just to keep each other from crying. But as soon as I got into my car, and drove away from her house, I broke down. That was the moment it all became so surreal. Lannah and I figured out there was a slight possibility she would be moving because of a new opening for a job her dad was entitled to. We didn't think anything of it at the time, we just went on about our day as we usually did. That was until the end of th...

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2. Alone-Looking For Alibrandi

... he would say. He felt isolated. Alone. After I finished my HSC, I did go on to study law at Sydney Uni, just like I said I would. And you know what. Ivy and I did catch up for that coffee we promised each other on Speech Night, and many more after that. Actually, whenever, we aren't in classes, we are always together. After we lost John, Ivy and I had to ... turn to each other. He had always been there to pull us up when we were down, but now Ivy and I need each other. Ivy is always there to make sure that I remember the way the John lived, not the way that he died. It ... 's hard, I wo...

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3. Alone by Poe

... and creative writer. Everything he was feeling he brought out in his work. In this poem, Poe presents gothic images of a person who feels alone in this world. He accomplishes this by contrasting how the speaker views himself, with how he views the rest of the world emphasizing the isolation ... . His view is completely different from everyone else's. This difference is what makes the speaker an outsider. This is the reason he feels isolated. We may then ask the question, what causes him to view things as he does? The speaker never answers this question, but instead offers the term ... ang...

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4. In Education We Trust: A Critique of an Ideology

America is in an education crisis. Crumbling schools, low test scores, underpaid teachers and high school drop-outs all seem to signify that the American public school system is failing its students, specifically those in poverty. Yet in order to earn a decent wage in today's economy, most students will need at least some post secondary education (U.S. Department of Labor). So with the wake of a schooling disaster near, the American public has blamed the overall rise in poverty on the failure of schools. It seems reasonable for society to hold such idea, that education is the cure-all for pove...

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5. Comparing The NightWind & Because I could not stop for Death

... a contrasting but friendly role. While the wind in "The Night-Wind- is enticing and death in "Because I could not stop for Death- is guiding, the poets are relaying the same message of seize the day. Bronte, however, describes death as final, while Dickinson describes death as the beginning ... personifies the wind by referring to it as "the wanderer- who would not leave the narrator alone while playing on the fact they have been companions since childhood: "Have we not been from childhood friends? Have I not loved thee long?- (29-30). This indicates an existing bond of intimacy ... Di...

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6. Leave Me Alone

... the article "Look at me! Leave me alone" by author Joshua Gemson we get to know his thoughts and feelings about privacy. Gemson also tells us how remarkable it is to see that people want to get on TV and get ... of how obsessed the society has become of seeing reality TV. Gemson finds it frightening to see how accustomed we have grown to be with all the cameras and reality TV around." The TV solution to the worry that we are too watched to be real, our lives too public to be trusted, is more watching in the hope of ... glimpsing t e real he says" (p.459). Later in his article he is di...

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7. Alone In The White House (Richard Nixon)

... told Haldeman, "I must build a wall around me." Nixon's desire to be alone and avoid social situations even extended to dinner. After his first state dinner Nixon told Haldeman that dinners lasted too long and needed to be sped up. He even suggested leaving out the soup course Nixon did not like to have to confront people. According to Nixon, the chief of ... delusional and paranoid manner. Even during times when the media appeared very cordial and positive toward him, he saw things in a much different light. "You don't understand," he stated, "they are waiting to destroy to us." Whenev...

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8. Being Alone

... , so Earth ain't so bad!" Sung by Barry Manilow Words and Music by Randy Edelman Being alone Is living alone so hard? I believe it is. If we did not have someone to turn to in a time of loneliness or need, we would soon crumble from the complexities and demands we face continuously in life. The words sung by Barry Manilow "With you I can bring out all ... out all the love that I have. With you there's a Heaven, so Earth ain't so bad!" I believe he states clearly the need we all have to be with someone else. People, as they grow older and together, deplore being alone. Then there are inte...

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9. Comparing the images of childhood created in the poems we ha

... and Seek" ,as it is made up of equally spaced stanzas and even having some rhyming sections. U.A. Fanthrope seems to be telling a story, but when we look closer, we in fact see that the poem, like a "Hide and Seek", actually covers more serious issues in a child's life. Similarly to "Hide and Seek", " ... room until "Half- past Two". In her rush, she forgets that "She hadn't taught him Time." The only time concepts he is aware of and understands are daily routines such as "Gettinguptime," "Timeyouwereofftime." Whilst waiting, he escapes into a "clockless land" "out of reach of all the tim...

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10. Salvation by Faith and Not By Works

... to us so that he could live the perfect life in which man, even from the beginning of time, could not do and so that his death on the cross would pay for the sins we have committed. And that the faith in Jesus Christ would lead them to the salvation they have been seeking for ... this God is now able to impute the life of his son, Jesus, upon all those who believe in him. So does this mean that we are free to do what ever we please, to bathe in our iniquities? The Protestants say that the grace of God changes a person, that when "born again" through Christ one starts ... doing good dee...

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