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    Advanced English Book Review – Zlata’s Diary: Imagine yourself as a child again‚ your living life in a tiny‚ freezing cold house with no gas‚ electricity or water and insufficient food. You can’t go anywhere outside because it isn’t safe. There is no school for you to attend because there are too many risks and no one is willing to teach. You don’t ever see your friends‚ and the thought of them in danger is always on your mind. You have played with all your toys and read all your books. You don’t

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    A Patch of Blue Elizabeth Kata 5/2/06 145 pages A. This story takes place in the nineteen-sixties. It is an urban setting. The story takes about two weeks. B. The point of view in this story is third person. It is third person because it say worlds like me‚ my‚ and I. C. The story starts out by telling us what has happen to Sileena. Sileena is the main character‚ she is 18 years old and she is blind. She is blind because about thirteen years ago her father had come inexpediently

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    Asylum “Even in his sleep he couldn’t escape.” This was a quote said by the author of the book “Asylum.” Dan‚ the main character‚ kept having these terrible nightmares after going into the abandoned office and seeing all of the “clues” and pictures in it. The Puritans would oppose the novel‚ “Asylum” due to the strong belief in ghosts‚ not respecting authority‚ and living sinful lives. The Puritans would loathe the book “Asylum” because of the strong belief in ghosts. Dan‚ Abby‚ and Jordan heard

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    A group of British Boys‚ Marooned on an Island A group of British school-boys find themselves marooned on an island (perhaps in the Pacific Ocean). They were being transported by an aircraft from England to some safer country on account of a nuclear war which had broken out in Europe. When‚ on the way‚ the aircraft caught fire the pilot released the detachable passenger-tube carrying the school-boys. The passenger-tube crash-landed on this island‚ and most of the boys managed to come out of it

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    American life in the twentieth century has been characterized more by continuity than by change. Since the beginning of the republic Americans have defined progress by continuity. Settlers from all over the world came to America looking for the same thing—a new world. Although these newcomers had different ideas and their share of disagreement‚ for the most part‚ everyone wanted the same thing. Americans agreed that it was time for a government and it was time to stop immigration and develop

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    Before The Trail of Tears was even a thought we first experience assimilation with Moravian missionaries being allowed on the Cherokee’s land. This tribe was very much settled‚ they had a newspaper‚ a form of slavery and even had gone as far as to adopt a government based mostly around that of the United States. In 1802 Georgia ceded their claim of the land west of the Appalachian Mountains to the federal government‚ in return Georgia wanted Cherokees out. Pleads were being made by tribes to stay

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    The story begins with a 13-year-old boy who wakes up in an elevator with no memory of his past other than the fact that his name is Thomas. When it the elevator doors open‚ he is pulled into a huge glade by a bunch of teenage boys who also have no memories besides what they should be called. Thomas gradually discovers that the Glade is run by two boys‚ Alby and Newt‚ who maintain order by enforcing strict rules and keeping all of the boys working‚ be it through farming‚ building‚ or cooking. Outside

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    The novel begins by depicting what a “fireman” in this dystopian society is: a person who burns houses with books. One day on the way home from work‚ he meets Clarisse McClellan. Montag is rattled by Clarisse and her parting question: Was he happy? However‚ he is distracted when he discovers his wife had overdosed on sleeping tablets. When he meets Clarisse again‚ he finds himself behaving differently‚ starting with tasting the rain as Clarisse suggested. The Mechanical Hound is then introduced as

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    During the middle ages‚ Europe was under the dark shadows of ignorance and superstition and their towns were underdeveloped and lived near the woods‚ so they always feared wolf attacks. They feared leaving their village and would find human limbs in their fields. The first recorded Werewolf sighting took place around the countryside of German town Colongne and Bedburg in 1591.Few people cornered a large wolf and set their dogs upon it. They started to pierce it with sharp sticks and spears. Surprisingly

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    In this reading‚ Lisa Cartwright explores the first rotoscope animation created by the Fleischer brothers and the significance behind their labor-intensive discovery. Lisa Cartwright argues that the many bodies behind the scenes of animated features have just as much significance as the body behind the rotoscope because of Sigmund Freud’s studies on manifest destiny and the masochistic desire from labor. I find this article too wordy and repetitive to effectively get the thesis across. In the third

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