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| Wild | Mar 31 2009, 10:25 PM Post #201 |
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British Bitch
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IN OTHER NEWS, I THINK I FOUND MY GAY BEST FRIEND. |
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HAY BITCHES, I'M BACK. | |
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| +Ashley Benlove | Apr 1 2009, 03:36 AM Post #202 |
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My gay best friend turned out to be straight and he proposed marriage to me. But, I know it's totally an AFJ. Dammit. But, hey, he even changed his Facebook profile to correspond with it. I love that British dude. |
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| Wild | Apr 1 2009, 06:59 AM Post #203 |
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British Bitch
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THAT SOUNDS EPIC. |
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HAY BITCHES, I'M BACK. | |
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| +Ashley Benlove | Apr 1 2009, 08:45 AM Post #204 |
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IT IS. |
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| !ROWAN | Apr 1 2009, 11:55 AM Post #205 |
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nothing to say/nothing at all
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My art exam is TEN HOURS LONG. TEN HOURS LONG. |
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and here i am, fighting fighting yes i'm fighting not to cry and that's another reason why i oughta hate you アメリカ x イギリス like i do oh like i do | |
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| +Ashley Benlove | Apr 1 2009, 12:00 PM Post #206 |
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WTF. NOT FAIR. My exams went over really well. |
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| !ROWAN | Apr 1 2009, 12:13 PM Post #207 |
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nothing to say/nothing at all
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That's good. :3 I had exams this week, too. Everything except Maths was laughably easy. Maths was horrific. I counted up all my marks, and the most I could possibly have got was 46/100. |
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and here i am, fighting fighting yes i'm fighting not to cry and that's another reason why i oughta hate you アメリカ x イギリス like i do oh like i do | |
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| !Pantherstrike | Apr 1 2009, 06:20 PM Post #208 |
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#1 ELMO FANGIRL
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Okonkwo killed himself because he could no longer stand how his clan dealt with the missionaries’ presence in Umofia, and was sure his methods would solve the problem. After Okownkwo returns from his exile and is told that his clan will not do anything to drive then white men away, he asks, “What is it the happened to our people? Why have they lost the power to fight?” (175) Okonkwo is despondent to find out that his clanare not the warriors they once were and refuse to fight. He is baffled as to why they would not take violent and drastic action, because to him, that is the only way to assure his clan’s safety. When the missionaries imprison Okonkwo and five of his peers and humiliate them for several days, Okownkwo turns to the other five men and resentfully says, “We should have killed the white man if you had listened to me.” (195) Okonkwo turned out to be right – the clan’s inaction only led to his misery and the misery of a few of his clanmates. He still believes that killing the white men is the only way, and it spiteful because of it. While Okonkwo is alone and thinks about the state his clan is in, “He mourned for the clan, which he saw breaking up and falling apart, and he mourned for the warlike men of Umofia, who had so unaccountably become soft like women.” (183) To Okonkwo, comparing a man, especially an honorable one, to a woman is a terrible insult. He is saying that the men he once held to a very high regard are as week as they can be, and he is mourning his clan as if he knows that it will eventually fall apart and is saddened by this. Okonkwo shows great disappointment towards the changes in the way his clan defend themselves. In addition to his frustration with his clan’s methods, Okonkwo also found himself depressed because his dreams of rising to power had been crushed. Right after Okonkwo returned from his seven year old exile, he noticed that in relation to the missionaries’ doing, “There were still many who saw these new institutions as evil, but even they talked and thought about little else, and certainly not about Okonkwo’s return.” (183) Although Okownko is concerned with how his peers are reacting to the recent arrival of the white men, his main concern is that they are not talking about his return. He expected more of a warm welcome upon his return, and is now worried that he is no longer respected, which worries him greatly. After Okownko has been exiled and is pondering his life, he thinks about how “He had been ruled by one passion – to become one of the lords of his clan…Then everything had been broken” (131). Since Okonkwo was exiled for several years, even if he can still gain respect from members of his clan, he cannot obtain a seat of power. This makes ashames Okonkwo and leaves him without something to strive for. I predict an A+++ |
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| +moe lolicon dog | Apr 1 2009, 06:26 PM Post #209 |
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rainy days don't get me down ☂
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I AM the gay best friend, so yeah. xDD I'm enjoying my vampire report. Is that wrong? It's funnnnnn |
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| +Ashley Benlove | Apr 2 2009, 04:25 AM Post #210 |
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Panther deserves an A+++ on that paper. I has an Ethics exam at 2 today. |
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