Alex Curley
May 04, 2003
SYMBOLISM
He wakes. It is 7:00AM. As his eyes adjust to the sunlight, he reflects on his life. Born in the projects, grown in the projects, and taught in the projects, his vi...
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Uncommon, classic, and most of all, beloved works of literature such as Lord of the Flies by William Golding and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, contain the common feature of symbolism. Alt...
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The Wiccan pentacle has been added to the list of emblems allowed in national cemeteries and on goverment-issued headstones of fallen soldiers, according to a settlement announced Monday.A settleme...
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Italian Premier Romano Prodi expressed dismay Sunday that the convictions of 10 former Nazi SS members in the 1944 slaughter of hundreds of civilians near Bologna have only "symbolic" value since t...
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There was no mourning at this funeral. Hundreds of onlookers cheered Monday afternoon as the NAACP put to rest a long-standing expression of racism by holding a public burial for the N-word during ...
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An anti-Semitic church formed by white supremacists has abandoned its neo-Nazi imagery, such as swastikas, to make its message more palatable, a change that a leading Jewish group called an attempt...
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The life-size statue of a Red Army soldier stands at a crossroads in this Baltic capital, fist clenched and head bowed, marking the spot where Soviet war dead are buried.But the statue is engulfed ...
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Huge crowds of Muslims hurled pebbles at stone walls representing the devil in a purging ritual of the hajj pilgrimage Saturday, with many expressing joy at the news of Saddam Hussein's execution i...
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq is a clear sign the newly empowered Democratic Congress is not going to abide by the notion that foreign policy is the sole province of the White House.Wh...
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The four college-age friends who were hanging out in a schoolyard late on a Saturday night were the type of children who make hometowns proud, especially hard-luck hometowns like this one.They had ...
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Iran issued a bank note emblazoned with a nuclear symbol on Monday, in a move seen as an assertion of the national will in the face of international sanctions over its insistence on enriching urani...
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