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    Ann Petry Prose Response

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    8 September 2013 Ann Petry Prose Response In the selection from The Street‚ Ann Petry most frequently employs personification to provide insight into Lutie Johnson’s disgust with the wind and how that‚ in turn‚ builds a bitter relationship between the protagonist and the city setting. To begin the passage‚ Petry sets a dark‚ desolate mood as she personifies the wind as relentless and assaulting. It is made blatantly clear that the weather “did everything it could to discourage the people

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    Midterm Break Commentary

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    From the first person perspective of a young school boy as the protagonist‚ Seamus Heaney reflects on his own childhood memory in the poem “Mid-term Break”. The reader discovers through reading the poem that Heaney returns home for the funeral of his younger brother’s car accident. The author illustrates the theme grief through diction‚ puns‚ and structure. The diction chosen in this poem are not only for the readers to understand the situation but are also very powerful and meaningful. In the beginning

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    M/S Carol Cottrell

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    ound Sun‚ 15 Sep 13 Flight TOM 7734 Inb ound Sun‚ 22 Sep 13 Flight TOM 7735 10:55 De p a rt Palma Mallorca (PMI) 12:25 Arrive Birmingham (BHX) 06:30 De p a rt Birmingham (BHX) 09:55 Arrive Palma Mallorca (PMI) Who is flying 2 1 2 P a sse nge rs CAROL ANN COTTRELL JANET FRANCES BALLARD Che ck-in lugga ge None None E xce ss Ba gga ge 0 kg 0 kg T ota l che ck-in we ight 0 kg 0 kg Each passenger that has paid for an extra baggage allowance can check in up to 5 items. Just so you know‚ individual pieces

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    Social Commentary Project: Poems Values ’68 By Spike Milligan The Price is dying ‘Give him air.’ Headlines! Crisis! Kennedy Shot! The assassin captured Too late! Kennedy dies! The telegrams flow And bury the body in- Arlington. Somewhere in Meekong A prince of battle is blown into bloody meat. No headlines No crisis And only One telegram. (Written on the day of Robert Kennedy’s assassination) Explanation: In this poem‚ the speaker discusses how people will

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    IB SL English 2 Commentary on The Comfort of Strangers In one part of the novel‚ The Comfort of Strangers‚ the English writer Ian McEwan describes the admiration with which his male character‚ Robert‚ contemplates his sisters playing dress up. Though the speaker’s age is never divulged‚ we readily jump to the conclusion that he is around ten years old because of the childish and rudimentary language. The structure of the sentences is also very reflective of the child’s young age‚ as well as

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    Childhood Obesity

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    is present when total body weight is more than 25 percent fat in boys and more than 32 percent fat in girls" (Lohman‚ 1987). Although childhood obesity is often defined as a weight-for-height in excess of 120 percent of the ideal‚ skin fold measures are more accurate determinants of corpulence (Dietz‚ 676-686; Lohman‚ 1987). The New York State has a childhood obesity crisis; it has been notified that approximately 1.1 million young people are obese in New York. The issue of obesity among children

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    Revolutionary Mothers Book Report When people talk about the revolutionary war‚ they think of a bunch of men fighting. Not many people know that women actually did take part in the war and had a great influence in it. In “Revolutionary Mothers” by Carol Berkin‚ she writes about all of the different ways that women were affected by the war and how they influenced the war. Berkin explains with detail about the enormous workloads that women had before the war and the way it doubled during the war. The

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    Leigh Ann Walker Case

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    Shortly after accepting an entry-level position on the auditing staff of a Big Six accounting firm‚ Leigh Ann Walker was assigned to work on the audit of Saint Andrew’s Hospital. While nervous about her first assignment‚ Ms. Walker was excited to be working under Jackie Vaughn‚ a third-year senior. Early in the engagement‚ Ms. Vaughn casually asked Ms. Walker if she had taken the CPA exam. Ms. Walker had in fact attempted the exam‚ but told Ms. Vaughn that she had not yet taken it. Ms. Walker was

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    When analyzed‚ Ann Putnam can be represented as suspicious‚ distressed‚ and manipulative. She is seen as suspicious because she is constantly analyzing other people’s actions. In The Crucible‚ Mrs. Putnam accuses Sarah Good of being a witch when she says‚ "I knew it! Goody Osburn were midwife to me three times. I begged you‚ Thomas‚ did I not? I begged him not to call Osburn because I feared her. My babies always shriveled in her hands." (Act 1.Page 47). Another explanation of her suspicion is

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    In every childhood‚ it is hard to find a hobby which is the right one‚ the coolest‚ the funniest and which one is the most interesting. There are several themes for this story for example finding a hobby another one could be that he would prove himself. I would start with explaining why I choose finding a hobby as a theme. In the story Michael the main character plays the piano and at the end of the story it says “Six month later‚ I started violin lessons” (Page 12 Line 168). In the start of the

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