description to convey action Events and people in the novel are described in considerable detail‚ to allow us to be closely involved in the action. Day uses short sentences for fast-paced action to give us a moment-by-moment understanding of events. When Claudia is breaking into the gaming arcade through the roof‚ the short non-sentences
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While the genre of crime writing covers a wide diversity of texts‚ these texts all engage with investigating a crime and associated social and moral issues. Evaluate this statement. Although the crime-writing genre consists of a wide array of subgenres and hybrids‚ these texts all focus on a criminal investigation using this as a platform/vehicle to explore and comment on the values and the social context in which it was composed. In doing so‚ crime fiction texts do not just tell a crime story;
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Doris Lessing’s On Not Winning the Nobel Prize (2007) and Margaret Atwood’s Spotty-Handed Villainesses (1994) are both worthy speeches because they evoke a personal response in their intended audience and offer solutions to complex global issues. These issues are complex because they do not have a clear answer and hence‚ remains a controversial topic and reverberates across time. Therefore‚ the solutions offered by these speeches also resonates beyond the contextual audience and holds value for the
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Claudia’s grandmother. Claudia goes over to spend time with her father but is afraid to upset her mother. She learns his father has a girlfriend called Stella. Claudia meets her at Christmas and is furious with her father for staging that meeting. Claudia’s father moves in with Stella. Claudia ignores her all the time. She feels disloyal to her mumas she knows her mum is miserable when she is with her father and Stella. The turning point is the night of the dinner. Claudia sees Stella putting a lot
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The Bluest Eye‚ the character Claudia struggles with the beauty standard that harms her sense of self-esteem. Claudia tries to make sense of why the beauty standard does not include black girls. The beauty standard determines that blonde-haired blue-eyed white girls are the image of beauty and therefore they are worthy of not only attention‚ but are considered valuable to American culture of the 1940s. Thus‚ learning she has no value or beauty as a black girl‚ Claudia destroys her white doll in an
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Those were the days is by Jenny Bravo. Those were the days is about a girl named Claudia and her sister Wendy. Claudia is upset that wendy got her first car at the age of 16 and she still doesn’t have a car‚ Her mom still has to take her to school since she doesn’t have a car and Wendy won’t take her. The reason why Claudia doesn’t have a car is because she failed her test 5 times‚ so their mom takes Claudia to practice driving just so that she can get better at driving when she does get her license
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Wicked Step’ by Anne Fine‚ I like Claudia from the story the Green Pyjamas. I like Claudia because she is kind‚ loyal and she can be very mature and wise. Claudia is a very kind girl. During her father’s birthday party‚ Claudia wears her green pyjamas given by her father’s girlfriend‚ Stella. She decides to do this because she feels that the guests in the party are very rude when they refuse to talk to Stella. They act like Stella is invisible and Claudia feels angry because Stella is actually
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held them captive. Claudia is the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron. She is betrothed to the prince of the Realm ruled over Protocol. Claudia and her teacher‚ Jared‚ try to uncover the mysteries of the Realm
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the theme beauty comes into place. In the novel; the reader is introduced to two protagonists who share a similar belief to what the standard of beauty is. Pecola Breedlove describes herself to be the opposite of what beauty is. Unlike Pecola‚ Claudia Macteer despises what the standard of beauty is. Pecola Breedlove has been tormented and abused as long as she can remember. The Breedloves have been labeled as "-relentlessly and aggressively ugly" Pecola is suggested to be insecure of this trait
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referred to the program is not happy with the services. Her friend is Viviana Cox and Claudia is a FSW. I replied to Maria J‚ that I will call her friend and talk to her. On Sunday Oct 18 @ 11:00 am I made a phone call to Viviana. Viviana stated that on Friday Claudia did a home visit for only 5 minutes. Viviana asked Claudia for assistance calling the insurance because she received a bill from the hospital. Claudia told Viviana that she cannot help with that issue; she came only to see how the baby
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