I. INTRODUCTION A. Attention-Getter: 1.What would you do if you came across a dragon? 2. Would you run? or would you stay and try to train it? B. Present the Topic: This was one of the conflicts faced in the movie “ How To Train Your Dragon.” C.Thesis Statement: I liked this movie because it never got boring and had me laughing most of the time. D. Preview of Main Points: I will give you: 1. A description of the movie 2. and also my evaluation of it. II. BODY
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To them‚ it is an assortment of magical beings‚ a land filled with wonderful places‚ with varieties of different colors. They do not picture it as something with far more meaning than just a plain fairytale. On the other hand‚ gender/feminist critics have been able to analyze the Wizard of Oz as well as Wicked‚ in order to find a more elaborate meaning behind the story itself. They have discussed what lies behind the story when it comes to the issue of sexism and masculinity towards the book
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“Times change but concerns and worries do not” discuss this statement with reference to the poems studied. In this essay i will be writing about the poems ‘ozymandias’ by Percy Shelley‚ ‘I remember‚ I remember’ by Thomas Hood‚ ‘The darkling thrush’ by Thomas Hardy and ‘To the virgins‚ make much of time’ by Robert Herrick. I will be writing about how the poems address the subjects of time and change and the worries and concerns of the people and how the poets show their opinions though their peoms
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Kingston herself. The book integrates Kingston’s lived experience as well as the spoken stories that Kingston’s mother told her‚ combining Chinese culture‚ myths‚ history and beliefs all together. The Woman Warrior receives wide praises from critics‚ saying that the book provides a glimpse into the real part of Chinese culture‚ from an American Chinese perspective. However‚ the Woman Warrior also receives some misinterpretations with regards to Chinese culture. In response‚ Maxine Hong Kingston
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include Homer & Langley‚The March‚ Billy Bathgate‚ Ragtime‚ the Book of Daniel‚ City of God‚ Welcome to Hard Times‚ Loon Lake‚ World’s Fair‚ The Waterworks‚ and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award‚ three National Book Critics Circle Awards‚ two PEN Faulkner Awards‚ The Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction and the presidentially-conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement
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Pulitzer Prize for her memoir Clear Spring. Also‚ Shiloh and Other Stories‚ PEN Hemingway Award for first fiction‚ and it was nominated for the PEN Faulkner Award‚ the National Book Critics Circle Award‚ and the American Book Award which was published in 1982. Among many other awards she received a Southern Book Critics Circle Award for "Feather Crowns" and "Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail". Her first book In Country was turned in to a Norman Jewison film starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd. These are
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Amabelle‚ an orphaned Haitian maid‚ struggles with the idea of letting go of the past‚ the tragedy of death‚ and loss. According to the quote by Barbara Christian‚ she states‚ “among the folk who speak in muted tones of color‚ feminists‚ radical critics‚ creative writers‚ who have struggled for much longer then a decade to make their voices heard.” This quote symbolizes one of the many reasons Amabelle struggles to let go of the past‚ because she is afraid to speak out about issues that are causing
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Michael Hemmingson 9700 Gilman Drive PMB 241 La Jolla‚ CA 92093 michaelhemmingson@yahoo.com approx. 2‚300 words My Review of Bill by Vern Myers Michael Hemmingson Bill: A Novella. Vern Myers. NY: Pelican Publishing. 102 pp. Cloth‚ $17.95. Reviewed by Gerald Bass To start‚ I would like you to know that I am writing this book review on an old fashioned manual typewriter‚ an Olympia Model 9 in fact‚ that I purchased at a consignment antique store. I think this
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the first American poet to win the £10‚000 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry‚ for his book My Alexandria. The book was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Doty also received a 1994 Whiting Writers’ Award. He has written twelve books of poetry and three memoirs. Firebird told the story of his childhood in the American South and in Arizona. Dog Years was a memoir of the lives of two of
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The novel Tracks‚ while an entertaining read‚ is (as I ’ve learned) far more than a simple novel. The book perplexes me with its symbolism and layered and difficult to discern metaphorical references. I am accustomed to reading books wherein characters are simply people‚ birds‚ bears‚ the wind‚ etc. Surprisingly‚ I did "get" the underlying story; Nanapush was telling Lulu about her family her people and what portents the future held for them all but‚ the symbolism was not clear. Only after hour
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