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    of them‚ no insects buzzed or night birds called out to break the silence. Sorrow led the way‚ a grey ghost in the shadowy recesses among the trees. He scouted ahead‚ eyes and ears alert for danger. The others followed as best they could‚ staying close in the pitch black of the woods. Once the wolf-dog alerted them to a party of Goblyns in the trees ahead of them and they had to double back. Jerth and Jakth led the children silently through the maze of trees and dense shrubbery. Skirting the area

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    Every morning‚ after I see Renji off to office‚ I close the grill door behind me ‚put a chain around and lock it… Having closed the grill door‚ I would leave the front door open so that there is good ventilation. This morning since I couldn’t find the key to the lock‚ I just put the chain around the grill door and put the lock on it without actually locking it… What if I lock the automatic lock and can’t find the key. So I left it so. I was sure that the chain around the door would give the impression

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    Mentos Ad: Close Reading

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    Jasmine Tsai E. McCarthy Fourth Period AP Lang 25 September 2011 Close Reading: Visual Advertisement In this eye-catching print advertisement for Mentos Gum‚ marketers successfully captured the attention of their intended market: those who are interested in bold flavors with natural origins (as I am among them.) This is achieved through the texture and style of the text‚ the meaning the text bears‚ as well as the brightness of the ad itself. Accompanying the extensive usage of the color green

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    The Awakening Close Textual Analysis Semester 2‚ 2013 Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is the tragic story of Edna Pontellier‚ a young wife and mother who has realised how confining domestic and married life is‚ and has begun to seek ways in which to rebel against societal conventions. It is the story of her transformation from being a woman who accepted her role as a housewife without question‚ to one who discovered the true joy of independent thought and action. The extract selected‚ chapter

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    Close Knit Movie Analysis

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    Looking at how femininity is expressed in Japanese culture from the perspective of the movie Close Knit we are given a specific focus on femininity and gender performance‚ motherhood. This is played out in two main forces in the movie that are in conflict with one another‚ as well as one that is an intersection of the two‚ but also distinct in its’ own way. The first is Rinko‚ who was born male but had completed the transition into female before the beginning of the movie. Rinko participates in many

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    1. Although Elinor knew before that Edward and Lucy would probably be married‚ she was still very hurt by the news. This entire secrete marriage seemed somewhat odd to me‚ as a reader‚ because Jane Austen doesn’t foreshadow this event in the text. Robert Ferrars and Lucy Steele hardly seem to know each other. It seems to me that Jane Austen just placed this relationship into the plot instead of letting it naturally develop throughout the book. 2. The expectation of an unpleasant event was very

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    His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father‚ who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter‚ a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building‚ and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately‚ Oskar ends his journey where it began‚ at his father’s grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother’s apartment. Oskar reminisces about his father and the games

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    Two interesting friends in my life In life‚ you always have good and bad friends‚ but for me‚ it is probably lucky to have many good friends around. Specially Tu and Sum‚ who are living in tenancy with me. I has find interesting and impressing in their similarities and differences in life style. To find the similarities between Tu and Sum is not difficult and also not easy‚ and I will prove you why I say that. Firstly‚ about their appearance‚ you will easy to see the similarities‚ because both

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    1 She chirped‚ and talked‚ and coaxed and he hopped‚ and 2 Flirted his tail and twittered. It was as if he were talking. His red 3 Wasitcoat was like satin and he puffed his tiny breast out and 4 Was so fine and so grand and so pretty that it was really as if he 5 Were showing her how important and like a human person a 6 Robin could be. Mistress Mary forgot that she had ever been 7 contrary in her life when he allowed her to draw closer and 8 closer to him‚ and bend down and talk and try

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    Catcher in the Rye Essay The journey of the adolescent mind into the more mature structure of adulthood‚ displays the corruption the world inflicts on the innocent. In the book‚ The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ Holden‚ who is a sixteen year old boy struggling with school and a few disorders‚ explores the various parts of New York while observing the atmosphere of it all through a flittered lens. The book demonstrates the innocence in youth while still exhibiting the phoniness of the adult

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