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    Short Story (AICE Lang.)

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    As Lucas places his key into his old‚ rusted‚ ford truck‚ he slowly turns the key to the right while breathing a much needed sigh of relief. His junior year of high school has finally ended and all he had left to do was one exam two weeks from now. He could now take the 15 minute drive‚ over the winding‚ hilly country roads of Skylar County‚ to his father’s house. Lucas lived in the small town of Odessa‚ New York‚ a town mostly populated by farmers and rednecks. Although the small hill top town

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    Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a society without books? Well if you have Farenheit 451 is the book for you. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a book about society and how you need to have individuality and books to have a full happy life. In Montag’s society you can’t read‚ walk‚ or talk without being considered “weird”‚ If you are caught reading you are thrown in jail. And your books and all of your things in your home will be burned. “...while the flapping pigeon-winged

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    Name______________________  Mr. Green  English 101   18 March 2015  Fahrenheit 451​  Writing Prompts  Literary Essay​  ­ Compare “Plato’s Allegory of the Cave” to ​ Fahrenheit 451​ .   ● Focus your comparison on the philosophical ideas proposed by both piece.    ● Be sure to use literary terms whenever applicable and identify literary techniques  used.  ● Provide cited quotations for support.  ● Provide a Works Cited page  ● Length must be 1100 words  ● Upon request Mr. Green will help you obtain a credible summary of “Plato’s Allegory of 

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    Symbolic Short Stories

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    PAPER 2 Symbolic Short Stories James Naylor Comp111 October 13‚ 2008 Symbolism is when repeated images gather significant meaning throughout a story and can be directly related to the overall premise. There are a few symbols in James Joyce’s “Araby” and “Eveline” that can be compared in terms of similar significance. Both stories give you symbols that point towards dreariness‚ gloominess and just overall sadness in the story. If looked at closely‚ the characters

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    Australian Voice Essay

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    Good afternoon guys. I am Wayne Hyett‚ the editor of The castle. I am glad to standing here to show you my opinion of "The way Australians view and understand the word is unique". Which is represent the Australian’s voice. This movie talking about a sweet-natured family called the Kerrigan. Eventhough they live beside the airport and under the power lines‚ they still pride of the house. One day Darryl has been told to evicted [i’vikt] out‚ but the house is really important to him so he attempts

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    Joan Didion

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    Joan Didion had messed up on a job and had nothing to do since. So on the cold spring of 1967‚ she decided to go to San Francisco‚ where her essay Slouching Towards Bethlehem takes place. San Francisco is a place where there are full of hippies. In her essay‚ she illustrates the detailed encounters with the hippies and portrays their personalities and lifestyles. Although Joan Didion describes the hippies as immature‚ she also feels pity for their situation at the same time. Didion expresses that

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    Rose for Emily

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    Escaping Loneliness In "A Rose for Emily‚" William Faulkner’s use of setting and characterization foreshadows and builds up to the climax of the story. His use of metaphors prepares the reader for the bittersweet ending. A theme of respectability and the loss of‚ is threaded throughout the story. Appropriately‚ the story begins with death‚ flashes back to the past and hints towards the demise of a woman and the traditions of the past she personifies. Faulkner has carefully crafted a multi-layered

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    SUMMARY When moving into a new house‚ newlyweds Twinkle and Sanjeev find Christian icons everywhere. The first is a porcelain effigy of Jesus found next to a bottle of malt vinegar left in the kitchen by the previous owners. Sanjeev tells his wife to throw both away‚ reminding her that they are not Christian. He feels that he has had to remind Twinkle of the obvious several times when moving in. But Twinkle is attached to the figurine and places it on the mantle – which Sanjeev notices needs dusting

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    Places in Birdsong

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    The importance of places in Birdsong. Birdsong is a novel written in a tripartite structure‚ which uses many different places in the novel to help emphasise the key elements and also foreshadows certain events which will happen and can also link back to events which have happened which helps to make the specific parts have more of an impact overall. In Birdsong the three different time periods in which the novel is set all have significant places throughout. In part 1 of the novel it talks a lot

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    Violence against women is a topic of concern which cannot be ignored as it is hindering almost one half growth of the country. It refers to the violent acts that are committed against women. This is a issue which falls under category of the gender equality or gender biasing. It is a matter of great distress that women in our country are treated in such a manner and are considered to be lower then men in all fields. Violence against women is an event which displays historically unequal power relations

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