Anna Karlsson EP12 Engelska Book report Book report I have read The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera. It is a short little book with a green cover. On the cover it is a shape of a whale-tail with the ocean in the background. Themes of the book is unrequited love‚ equality and culture of the Maoris. The Whale Rider is on my personally list of ”Do not read”‚ truly not a book I am going to read again and now I am going to tell you why. Firstly the names i the book is typical Maori-names and I thought it
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door any second now. The sad truth is: yesterday was the very last time I will ever see Sam. He was my best friend‚ my rock‚ and he meant the world to me. We’ve been inseparable ever since kindergarten and now I have to live without him. We were all each other ever needed. We told each other everything‚ went everywhere together‚ and I’m the only one he allowed to call him "Sammy". Wherever I was‚ you can bet that Sam wasn’t too far behind and vise versa. We were so much alike‚ our moms used to joke about
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Death‚ and War in J.D Salinger’s “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut” J.D Salinger was best known for his portrayal of isolationism and the loss of innocence in his literary works. Like many Modern artists of the 1950’s‚ such as his good friend Ernest Hemmingway‚ Salinger was highly interested in reflection of the individual as well as the disconnectedness between adults and children (Calloway 3). In his short story‚ “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut”‚ Salinger uses the themes of
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growing up listening to these meetings‚ Samuel Adams had showed interest in the government. Because the family was very religious as well‚ it was expected of Sam to one day become a minister. Spending his childhood devoted to religion and the church‚ he believed that he would turn out to be one as well. (A1‚ A2) At the age of fourteen‚ Sam Adams enrolled in Harvard University. There he studied Hebrew‚ Latin‚ and Greek‚ philosophy‚ science‚ writing and public speaking. He seemed to enjoy writing
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―faint shadow‚ a dim picture‖? 5. Find a passage in this chapter where Stowe appeals to mothers everywhere to sympathize with the slave women who are separated from their children. In Stowe’s appeal‚ we hear echoes of the two main themes of Uncle Tom’s Cabin: motherhood and Christian duty. She asks mothers to not allow more families to be broken apart‚ as were Tom and Eliza’s. She also tells Christians that they have a duty to educate slaves. Indeed‚ Stowe is preaching to her readers‚ and her
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin Slavery has existed in USA since the colonial days. Slavery obviously means to have control over a person with no rights who works for the so called master and if the slave refuses to obey the master they will get punished with violence. Slavery has been a big part of the history but generally most of the actions took place in USA. The text “The Martyr”‚ Chapter XL is taken from the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” written by Harriet Beccher Stowe‚ a writer who has experienced slavery
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the defining piece of the time in which it was written. The book opened eyes in both the North and South to the cruelties that occurred in all forms of slavery‚ and held back nothing in exposing the complicity of non-slaveholders in the upholding of America’s peculiar institution. Then-president Abraham Lincoln himself attributed Stowe’s narrative to being a cause of the American Civil War. In such an influential tale that so powerfully points out
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Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song)‚ and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself‚ Sam’s limitations start to become a problem at school; she’s intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away‚ and Sam shames high-priced lawyer
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Sam Houston and the American Southwest By phillipsr / Oct 2014 Sam Houston was born at Timber Ridge‚ Rockbridge County‚ in the Shenandoah Valley. Sam was born on March 2‚ 1793‚ to the parentage of Major Sam Houston and Elizabeth Paxton Houston. Sam had eight siblings and he was the fifth child to be born to his parents. Due to financial issues‚ Major Houston sold what was left of Timber Ridge‚ took care of his unsettled debts‚ and purchased land in Tennessee to make a fresh start. However‚ when Sam
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Tone and Diction in Quilt of a Country and The Immigration Contribution Quilt of a Country by Anna Quindlen is an essay written after the 9/11 terror attacks in New York. In this piece Quindlen explains how America is like a quilt‚ and made up of all different cultures sewn together by a common enemy. In her essay Quindlen uses a diction that easy to understand‚ but at the same time it gives you good information. In the first paragraph of the essay the author states “America is an improbable idea
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