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    In the book “A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution” by Carol Berkin she explains the constitution from start to finish from how it all began‚ to the debates inside the convention and finally the end product. Berkin takes the reader and puts him directly in the middle of the convention of 1786; throughout the book you can feel the excitement‚ the frustration‚ the tensions between delegates and the overall commitment to making a new government work for all. The time for a new

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    A Christmas Carol is a play that visits the past‚ present‚ and future lifestyle of Ebenezer Scrooge in order to show him how his attitude could shape Christmas. In A Christmas Carol there are many characters. In this essay‚ I will attempt to explain on in particular‚ Ebenezer Scrooge. Ebenezer Scrooge was a tall‚ middle-aged man with a white beard who sometimes wore reading glasses. Scrooge was also a wealthy businessman who hated Christmas and only cared about himself. He had lost his business

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    A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens was a Victorian writer . He grew up in London and therefore uses the city as the backdrop to most of his novels . Dickens took a keen interest towards the interaction between people of all classes which comes across in his writing. He would spend days simply wandering the streets of London in order to soak up the atmosphere and watch people pass by. These observations helped him to create larger than life characters in his novels. In his novels Dickens criticizes

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    Before You Were Mine ‘Before You Were Mine’‚ written by Carol Ann Duffy is a poem about the adoration that the writer feels for her mother. Her feelings are revealed in first person. Duffy uses a range of narrative techniques like onomatopoeia‚ metaphors and short sentences which stand out and make the writer’s point clear. These techniques help reveal the author’s changing attitude from selfish and possessive to loving and affectionate‚ when considering the younger version of her mother. After

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    ------------------------------------------------- Shooting Stars By Carol Ann Duffy ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- “Shooting Stars” is a horrific and moving poem written by Carol Ann Duffy. She adopts the persona of a female Jew speaking out from beyond the grave about her terrifying ordeal before she died in the Holocaust. A powerful impression is left on the reader after reading Duffy’s dramatic monologue and visual descriptions

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    When I was 8 years old my family and I went to knotts berry farm. Being a small kid the time‚ I barely reached the height minimum to board. When I got on‚ I had to share a seat and lap bar with my dad and we didn’t put the seat belt on correctly. When the ride started‚ I could feel me slide around and my body lift off the seat. The whole ride I ended up hugging the lap bar‚ that wasn’t even pushing on my legs‚ in hopes that I would not fly off the seat. With this experience my mood transformed

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    prison while Charles and his mother helped the finances of the house. Barely getting any sleep‚ Charles had to get part time jobs‚ working during the day‚ and studying for school at night. The Christmas Carol is set in the Victorian Era‚ so the stuff that goes on in the Christmas Carol will be very similar to the things we read about. The Christmas holiday that the characters are celebrating will go by the same traditions that Victorian Era Christmas traditions go by. We will know why the people

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    Ebenezer Scrooge a cold hearted miser who despises Christmas. Scrooge is a no good mean man that hates everyone. In the story Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens‚ there are very many noticeable themes about the novel. Charles Dickens makes the themes vary easy to find and understand. Everybody deserves or should be happy during christmas time. This is one of the themes I discovered early in the book. The theme means that christmas is a time for anyone to be happy and enjoy time with their families

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    How is true happiness attained? True happiness does not come from material things but believing in life that you did your best or gave your most. True happiness isn’t a thing you can get simply by buying the nicest car or the nicest house. It’s about having a feeling inside that you are doing good for other people and yourself. Buddha once said‚ “you must let go of your desires to achieve happiness.” I find this true on a much smaller scale. It is okay to want things but there is a difference

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    Shooting Stars By Carol Ann Duffy‚ a critical response. This shows an example of Analysis‚ Evaluation‚ Structure and Expression Date: 29/06/2012 Author Information Uploaded by: Karen Uploaded on: 29/06/2012 Subject: English "Shooting stars" by Carol Anne Duffy is a disturbing and tragically intriguing poem. In the poem‚ Duffy creates a picture of a heroic figure enduring life within a concentration camp‚ in the form of the narrator. This admirable figure tugs at the heart strings of the

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