Book: Looking for Alaska by John Green # Character Trait Context of Quote & Page Number Response to Text 1 Warm “In the dark beside me‚ she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla‚ and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette except for when she smoked‚ when the burning cherry of the cigarette washed her face in the pale red light. But even in the dark‚ I could see her eyes-fierce emeralds. She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every
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In this sentence from John Green’s Looking for Alaska‚ the speaker’s attitude toward the party is best described as indifferent. The speaker’s tone and diction implies that he lacks interest or concern in the unsuccessful party that was thrown for him. He mentions how “he could feel their pity”‚ but then goes on to say that “they needed more pity than I did”. This shows how although his parents pitied him for not having friends‚ he did not pity himself‚ but instead felt bad for his hopeful parents
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Alaska Airline & Corporate Culture A unique cultural characteristic of Alaska Airline would be the benefits they allot their employees. After 90 days of working with Alaska Airline‚ an employee earns benefits which allows him or her to fly anywhere at anytime with 1 other individual. In addition to this‚ the employee is given 6 “buddy passes” each year which allows the employee to give 6 roundtrip tickets to people other than himself or the 1 person he chooses to travel with. The best part
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interprets it differently. In a way this person achieves some form of enlightenment from this revelation‚ and because of this they are more mature after the trial. An example of this was the death of Alaska Young from John Green’s award winning novel ‘Looking for Alaska’. In the novel‚ The title character‚ Alaska‚ died in a car crash. This severely affected the lives of the ones who loved‚ especially Miles Hartler‚ one of Alaska’s best friends. Following Alaska’s death‚ Miles‚ along with other friends
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Passing Down Values and Traditions In the mid-nineteenth century a girl named Ni-bo-wi-se-gwe (Oona) was born in pitch darkness in the middle of the day when the sun and moon crossed paths. The book Night Flying Woman by Ignatia Broker is biography of Broker’s great-great-grandmother‚ Oona. It describes Oona’s life through what Broker has learned from her grandparents when they passed down the stories. In the book‚ one of the main themes is passing traditions on. I chose this theme because in the
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Night Flying Woman Reflection As Americans of the 21st century it is hard for us to relate to the tough struggles that our ancestors dealt with. In the book Night Flying Woman by Ignatia Broker‚ the story of a young girl facing intrusion on her homeland is told. The book is told through the eyes of Oona‚ who describes for us the long journey to a new home. I thought this book was great because it allowed for children of younger generations to be able to relate to such a troublesome story‚
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From the famous “The Flying Geese Paradigm (FGP)” model‚ we know that the world economic pattern has been shifting from the developed countries to the developing countries and this phenomenon was prevalent in the history of industrialization and development. In this present time of Globalization‚ this has become more vivid and frequent as this time has also been witnessing the emergence of Regionalization in case of international economic cooperation in which trade and investment plays a vital role
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An Eye for an Eye This was something ought to do… Something that had to be done. There was no other lucid reason for my resurgence; as a spirit in the doll of my callous assassin’s daughter. Due to the juvenile fault of the colonel‚ my innocent family was killed; Hence‚ it was certain that I would not lose this glorious chance laid right in front of cursed blood-thirsty eyes. The colonel and the surrounding people must pay for his doings‚ and I could not have been more maliciously intrigued as to
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root word for "fish". According to the article "The History of the Christian Fish Symbol"‚ the symbols of the fish combined with the “wine and a basket of bread represent the Eucharist and the Last Supper in Christian art." The word "fish" was mentioned quite often in the gospels. For instance‚ in the book of Mark‚ it says "Come after me‚ and I will make you become fishers of men." Or in Matthew 14:17 it states‚ "And they said to Him‚ ’We have here only five loaves and two fish.’" It is even
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Pedro Álvares Cabral lived from c. 1467-1520. During his lifetime he made an expedition to India‚ but ended up discovering a new land in the process. He was born in Belmonte‚ Portugal‚ and was the son of respected nobles‚ in turn receiving many privileges from King Manuel I of Portugal‚ such as being made one of his counselors. This is how he got involved in exploration- King Manuel chose him to lead an expedition to the coast of southern India. The king made him the captain of a fleet of 13 ships
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