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    Name Analogies of: Oliver Twist A story of an orphan‚ lost and found. Written by: Charles Dickens Summary: Oliver Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry‚ he runs away to London‚ only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master criminal‚ Fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang‚ Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a new home‚ a fortune and a brand new family! Name Analogies: Oliver:

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    Independent Project Checkpoint Oliver Twist Critical essay Question: How does Charles Dickens represent the fate of the individual in the Victorian Era? A critical analysis of the novel ‘Oliver Twist’ by Charles Dickens clearly suggests that Dickens represents the fate of the individual in the Victorian era. Being written in the Victorian era‚ Dickens focusses on themes relevant to this era. These themes include “the moving depiction of the evils of homelessness and its consequences”‚ “the powerlessness

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    “The allotment of death.” Hawks may be considered noble creatures but Ted Hughes gives a rather different image of them in his poem ‘Hawk Roosting’. He provides the reader with the image of a corrupt and arrogant predator. A very different image to what we are perhaps used to. One cannot deny that the hawk is a bird of prey but Ted’s clever use of personification allows one to look at it from a different perspective: from the hawks own eyes. I will look into how this corrupt figure is conveyed‚ how

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    Teenage Obesity The problem of childhood obesity in the United States has grown considerably in recent years. Do you know‚ or have known someone who has become or fought obesity? If you do then your aware of the effects of letting this happen‚ or if you don’t do anything about it. Some effects are health issues‚ and also Excess weight at young ages has been linked to higher and earlier death rates in adulthood. One of the most riveting statements regarding the severity of the childhood obesity

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    has his own style of writing. He may use an idea in one of his novels in another. In the books Great Expectations and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens‚ the author uses descriptive plots‚ exiting characters‚ and a meaningful message to prove that two ideas in a book although similar can be presented differently. Throughout the plot of Great Expectations and Oliver twist‚ Dickens uses robbery to show the similarities and differences within the book. After a young child‚ Pip‚ visits his parents’

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    Rhetorical Analysis Essay Read the first seven paragraphs of “Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain” carefully. Then write a well-organized essay that explains how Mitford uses features of style and rhetoric to convey her attitude toward her subject. Argument on Argument Essay Read the first seven paragraphs of “Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain” carefully. Consider the implications of the rhetorical question posed in paragraph 6: “Is it possible he fears that public information about embalming might

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    Major Works Data Sheet Advanced Placement Literature and Composition Title: Turn of the Screw Author: Henry James Date of Publication: 1898 Genre: Gothic Ghost story Biographical Information about the Author: Henry James was born in New York‚ then alternated between living in England and America‚ but most of his writing career took place in England‚ where he eventually settled and died. His brother was a famous psychologist and his sister a diarist. His education was odd: he mostly learned from

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    The Turn of the Screw is a novella written by Henry James published close to the turn of the century. The novella tells an undoubtedly gruesome tale of ghosts and the corruption of innocence. However‚ nearly a decade after its conception‚ some readers began to question if the story was really about ghosts at all‚ instead a tale of a sexually repressed young Governess too mad to even have the inkling to self-evaluate. Over a century has passed since the book first made its debut in 1898‚ and it continues

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    An Ironic Twist of the American Dream The American dream was first expressed by James Truslow in 1931‚ "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone‚ with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement". The American dream is never fully accomplished because all good things have to come to an end at one point or another as it does in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The American dream speaks for its meaning since any dream is far from reality. The American

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    Book Review on Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Young Oliver is born in a workhouse‚ and although his single mother dies in childbirth and leaves him with no one to give him true care or attention‚ Oliver thrives‚ in a certain sense. He grows up in this workhouse‚ and the horrors of his childhood can seem all the worse because of the light comic tone of the narration. Charles Dickens is always a wonderful author for pointing out hypocrisy‚ cruelty‚ and social injustices‚ but though it’s good to be

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