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The theme and central idea of Earth on Turtle's back. The theme of this short is always look fowarrd because there's always good thing waiting for you, the theme could also be determination. The central idea is that you have to have determination to succeed in a anything

Response to The Earth On Turtles Back

In the short Story The Earth on Turtles back, it talks about a situation of determination and partly about wanting something. The ancient chief's young wife, wanted a special tree, she accidentally fell in a big hole, done by the chief uprooting the special tree. In that hole there were birds and animals and they thought she fell from the sky. They knew she was different from them and also knew that there was earth below the water and thought they were able to bring it up. So they did as they thought every animal took turns to go down, surpassing the animal from before, but nobody was able to reach the earth. Then, a muskrat spoke and said, "I will bring up earth or die trying', she was determined to get to a point but it didn't necessarily benefit her but she was willing to help out even if her life depended on it. There's two life lessons in this story teaching us things that are positive. Sometimes wanting things that you don't have, have two directions whic

Richard Cory poem reading

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Response to Richard Cory

In the poem Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson, it talks about Cory. The main point of the poem was to say or prove that in life you can have materlistic things but you'll never be satisfied if you know deeply inside, all the money and good living won't give you happiness and love. People saw the richness but didn't realize that in reality he was lonely and abandoned. Sometimes people crave but that crave is not always something positive.

Response to the right to your opinion

In the article the right to your opinion, things were said about the right we "have" being fake or some being true. Using an example of President Bush and Jack, Jack assumed that Bush invaded Iraq. Using this example the writer proved his point that you don't have the right to your opinions, the situation may only be argued if there's a true statement. Therefore, it sometimes may seem like someone is doing the right thing but the may doing something bad.