Olivia Lockett- Baker Ms.Spisak Honors English 11 Period 10 November 4‚ 2012 My Sisters Keeper My book was split in sections by individual characters. The four characters I chose were Anna Fitzgerald which is the thirteen year old daughter born to be of assistance to her terminally ill sister. Sara Fitzgerald the mother of three children who is overwhelmed by her daughters diagnosis. Brian Fitzgerald the father of this family who is a fire fighter that is constantly at the station but shows
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The Pleiades star cluster or “the Seven Sisters” is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and the most discernible to the naked eye. Visible from nearly every location on the planet‚ Pleiades can be seen from the north pole to the southernmost tip of South America. Historically‚ the Pleiades were seen as a group of seven stars‚ Alcyone‚ Atlas‚ Electra‚ Maia‚ Merope‚ Taygeta and Pleione. With modern technology‚ we now know that the Pleiades cluster is actually comprised of several hundred stars
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of visual art. It has created impetus and inspiration for those artists wishing to produce a pure and transcendental art form.Many artists have discovered unconventional techniques in their art-making approach.Morgan Russell and Stanton Macdonald-Wright are the two influential forces in furthering the connection between music and art. in 1911 Kandinsky attempted to put order to tonal colors. In his famed 1912 essay Concerning the Spiritual in Art he explained how he associated certain colors with
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“Lost Brother” This is probably my favorite poem in this packet‚ although reading this poem the first time left me kind of unsure of what to think. Was Moss talking simply about a tree that knew another tree that just died or was there a deeper meaning behind it? I suppose that if one were to apply human characteristics to a tree‚ one could find an answer to that. I thought of the tree in the poem as the younger brother to the tree that lived to be four thousand eight hundred and sixty-two years
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What can we learn when we journey through life? Journeys and experiences can help us evolve to overcome fears‚ losses‚ and help gain wisdom. Experiences that were gained through life and journeys were written in the story "Volar" by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail‚ and the poem “12 (From ‘Gitanjali)”. In “Valor” the narrator dreams of herself being a superhero in the world she wishes to break free from her real-life limitations. The narrator learned and went
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The Imagery in “Conjoined” Poets use imagery to capture the emotion and feeling in the poem in which they are writing. Judith Minty‚ in her poem “Conjoined‚” uses imagery to truly depict the meaning and emphasis of that work. Through the images that Minty paints in the minds of her readers‚ the essence of the poem is revealed. One can strongly see and feel the emotion that this poem possesses. The images are distinct and bold‚ and through the first‚ second‚ and third stanza‚ the images can be easily
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Plautus’ comedy The Brothers Menaechmus easily brings about laughs. The play is full of comedic motifs that keep the audience entertained. For example‚ in this comedy there is dirty and sexual humor‚ mistaken identities‚ asides‚ literal wordplay‚ and running gags all throughout but this paper will focus on a few key parts. This comedy outdoes itself when it comes to dirty and sexual humor . For example‚ in the play when Menaechmus had just stolen his wife’s night gown he asks Peniculus to smell
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that forces us to. Although there are many scientists‚ sociologists‚ doctors and psychologists who have contributed to the study and works of Queer theory‚ the four that this essay focuses on are Jacques Derrida‚ Michel Foucault‚ Alfred Kinsey and Judith Butler. Derrida‚ Foucault and Kinsey all contributed separate theories‚ and Butler brought them together to give us one of the most basic understandings we have of Queer Theory today. First‚ Jacques
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Blood Brother Performance Essay On the 14TH June 2012‚ we watched Blood Brothers‚ by Willy Russell‚ at the Phoenix Theatre. The play ‘Blood Brothers’ is set in 1980s Britain; it deals with numerous themes such as fate‚ the class system‚ insanity‚ superstition and division. The genres of the play are drama‚ tragedy & comedy-to an extent. Something I found particularly interesting was how the genre of comedy became less and less apparent as the play went on‚ whereas the genre of tragedy- became
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Over the years‚ Grimm fairytales have become childhood favourites. Though children’s tales were not what the Grimm brothers originally had in mind with their gruesome style of writing‚ the two authors have become tremendously popular amongst the ages. The stories of "Hansel and Gretel" and "Little Red Cap" are both widely known and accepted fairytales. Both stories involve children wandering about the woods and facing a threatening mythical character. They each include the traditional "happily ever
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