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    Matt Huynh's The Boat

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    adaptation by Matt Huynh of the story ‘The Boat’ by Nam Le‚ we experience these modern possibilities of writing in a new ‘ecological’ way. The concept of writing

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    The Attack Pearl Harbor

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    The Attack on Pearl Harbor Devry University Contemporary History Lawrence Robinson August 18‚ 2012 Introduction The Pearl Harbor attack was a military strike that was surprisingly carried out by Imperial Japanese Navy at the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii‚ United States. Naval base of the United States was the primary target for the Japanese military forces that launched the attack. The attack was carried out in December 1941. The Japanese military forces used the attack as a precautionary action

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    three man in the boat

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    I’m going to analyze an extract from a novel “Three men in a boat” by Jerome Klapka Jerome‚ a famous English writer and humorist. Jerome K. Jerome was born on 2 May 1859 in Walsall‚ Staffordshire‚ England. "Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)" is the most famous literary work which was published in 1889. The plot is centered around three friends who are always getting into funny situations. The story opens with three friends roaming about Sweet Sonning. One of three friends‚ George by

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    Looking for Alibrandi

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    Good after noon fellow students and teachers I am here to talk to you about my choice of two texts that I have chosen that are related to adaptation. The two texts I have chosen are the novel looking for alibrandi by Melina Marchetta and the film Shawshank redemption by Frank Darabont. Adaptation is a movement from a previous state to a new state which will cause people to react differently depending on what the change is. Adaptation is expressed throughout life in many different aspects and formats

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    Looking for Work

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    Looking For Work” In “Looking for Work”‚ Gary is a 9 year old Hispanic child who wants his family to be more like the traditional white family that he saw in a TV show. For example‚ on pg.29 "The father looks on in his suit. The mother‚ decked out earrings and a pearl necklace‚ cuts into her steak and blushes.” After watching this scene on TV‚ Gary wanted his family to be like the family in that show. He saw the happiness in the TV family as they ate dinner and wanted his own family

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    Alistair McLeod The Boat

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    A Boat to the New World And I saw then‚ that summer‚ many things that I had seen all my life as if for the first time and I thought that perhaps my father had never been intended for a fisherman physically or mentally. At least not in the manner of my uncles; he had never really loved it. And I remembered that‚ one evening in his room when we were talking about David Copperfield‚ he had said that he had always wanted to go to the university and I had dismissed it then in the

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    The Boat by Alistair Macleod The narrator loves his father and shows appreciation for him because his father had chosen a career that he enjoys and benefits from‚ “rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.” (Pg 275) Although he appreciates him and loves him‚ he does not idealize him or his way of life. This may be due to him "withering away"‚ such as when he is constantly seen by his son smoking‚ and listening to the radio in bed‚ his son may see this as taking

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    Looking for Work

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    Chun Nam Yip Robert Reeves Eng 114-17 7th Sep 2011 Looking for work 1. Why is the narrator attracted to the kind of family life depicted on TV? What‚ if anything‚ does he think is wrong with his life? Why do his desires apparently have so little impact on his family? Responds: The family life on TV attracted the narrator because the family on the TV show was so uncomplicated in its routine. The narrator thinks that his life was complicated and was broken. He thinks that he didn’t

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    Looking for Alibrandi

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    TOPIC: Josie Alibrandi goes "looking" for herself she discovers she needs to create herself. In the novel "looking for Alibrandi‚ written by Melina Marchetta‚" there are many different situations and feelings that Josephine Alibrandi goes through‚ in order to figure out who she really is as a person. Josie also has to deal with the normal up and down roller coaster ride of being a teenage girl. At the end of her journey she has very different views on certain topics to the original thoughts

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    Self Propelling Boat

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    (Allen & Tom)…...………………….................…..4 Mind Map (David & Allen)………..………………………...……..…….6 Process Map (David & Thomas)……………………………………..…7 Four Designs…………………………………..…...………...……..…8     Rubber Band Driven Boat (Tom) Air Injection Boat (Thomas) Stream Driven Boat (Allen) DC Motor Boat with Infrared Sensors (David) Designs Selection……………….…………………………………...13  Quick Elimination (Allen &Thomas)  Deep Balance (David) Final Design & Specification…………………..………………..…..16  Mechanical Drawing (Tom

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