The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 Author: Sue Townsend Published: Mandarin Paperbacks‚ 1983 Setting: from Thursday January 1st to Saturday April 3rd (Two years later) Plot Summary Adrian is an acne plagued thirteen-year-old teenager who reports his thoughts and experiences in his secret diary every day. He finds himself confronted with all sorts of problems‚ worries about his father who works all day and is a heavy smoker and drinker‚ about his dog that runs away and regularly has
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Adrian Barlow writes of Susan Hill’s Strange Meeting: “At the time of its publication‚ to write a novel about intense relationships between men in the First World War was considered an ambitious risk for a woman writer.” Compare and contrast the ways in which your three writers present relationships between men. ’One of the paradoxes of the War - one of the many - was that this most brutal of conflicts should set up a relationship between officers and men that was... domestic. Caring. As Layard
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The Wellands knew from the start that being Jim’s foster parents was going to be quite demanding. They knew he was a difficult child and were told about his mother‚ but they were willing to take the challenge. Jim’s arrival into their family didn’t just alter their daily routines; they found that he became their prime worry. There are several instances where the family members show signs of exasperation and even desperation towards Jim’s antics. The first signs of trouble incidentally start from
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The poem ’I Am Tourist’ deals with the meaning and significance of tourism; particularly focussing on the modern take on what is a tourist. Adrian Mitchell presents the point of a ignorant tourist‚ and shows their lack of connection to the foreign land through the use of various literacy techniques such as imagery. The poem’s purpose is to let us witness the typical tourists’s shallow mindset‚ lack of respect to the culture and misplacing of priorities. It is written in first person narrative which
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appreciation of its message. The poem ‘To Whom It May Concern’‚ written by Adrian Mitchell‚ is designed mainly to protest against three things‚ war‚ the government’s lies and disrespect of the people who fought in the Vietnam War and the cowardice of the general public. These protests are enhanced for the reader through poetic techniques such as a lengthening refrain and the use of imagery. In the fifth verse of the poem Mitchell refers to war as a “crime” this clearly shows that he is strongly against
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thing in common… they all talk about the negative points of school. The authors refer back to the bullying‚ corporal punishment and fears that they may have experienced during their childhood. Paragraph 1: In “back In the Playground Blues” Adrian Mitchell refers back to all the fears that he had on “The Killing Ground.” He talks about the innocent being bullied for no reason: “Well you get it for being different‚ And you get it for being black‚ Get it for being chicken‚ And you get it for fighting
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Adrian Alla December 8‚ 2012 English 4061-3 Joseph Mitchell Marques Topic: How has television changed our lives? A. Television a.) Educational b.) Entertainment c.) Informative II. Positive effects of television * Gives information for viewers. * Teach people how to live in their lives. * To see different cultures. * Educates people in a precise way. III. Negative effects of television * It teaches the children to be stupid by using pranks or comedy
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Street Corner Society‚ William Foote Whyte Andy Smooth Part II. Racketeers and Politicians Through interviewing and participant observation‚ the second part of Whyte’s book examines politics and racketeering in Cornerville. In examining these two societal structures‚ Whyte focuses on the details of group formation and association. His study reveals the historical context of Cornerville’s group formation‚ the definition and perpetuation of norms
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Andrea Mitchell Professor Kim Shegog English 102-84 February 6‚ 2013 The Decimation and Manipulation of the Native American Culture The United States has definitely succeeded in tarnishing and corrupting the Native American culture‚ as evident in Sherman Alexie’s poem‚ “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. One researcher records that‚ “The poem is a painful reminder of how the United States has at one and the same time decimated native peoples and their culture while exploiting
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realities of war‚ such as dying children‚ U.S. citizens being drifted one at a time‚ murders‚ and other horrors! Around the Vietnam era‚ many people started to react to this‚ and truly began to think about the war. The poem called Norman Morrison‚ by Adrian Mitchell‚ and the excerpt “The Man I Killed” in the novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ by Tim O’ Brien both show the breakdown of individuals under the stresses of the modern world – which in this case would be the Vietnam War. The poem Norman Morrison
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