Which excerpt from dispatches is an example of paradox? a. and at night it was beautiful. even the incoming was beautiful at night, beautiful and deeply dreadful. b. one hit anywhere in the chopper would bring you back, bitten lips, white knuckles and all, and then you knew where you were. c. at night you could lie out on some sandbags and watch the c-47’s mounted with vulcans doing their work. d. at night in khe sanh, waiting there, thinking about all of them (40,000, some said), thinking that they might really try it, could keep you up.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”

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