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    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) Jonathan Safran Foer Jonathan Safran Foer‚ born in Washington DC in 1977‚ faced a challenge when writing ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’; he had to equal his acclaimed debut ‘Everything Is Illuminated’ (2002). He definitely succeeded; his second novel does not just live up to‚ but exceeds expectations. For the second time Foer has managed to create a work of genius. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close tells the story of Oskar Schell‚ a highly intelligent

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    Analyse the role of the female characters in An Inspector Calls Priestley includes a range of female characters in An Inspector Calls from an upper class snob‚ through a vain daughter to an oppressed factory worker. Throughout this play‚ the selfishness and moral hypocrisy of upper middle-class capitalist society is revealed. The vulnerability of women evokes sympathy‚ which supports Priestley’s belief in gender equality and community as “one body”. At the beginning of the play‚ Sybil

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    This unit is about making and receiving telephone calls and transferring calls‚ when necessary‚ in a business environment. 1- Understand how to make telephone calls. 1.1 Describe the different features of telephone systems and how to use them. Telephone systems have many different features this allows us to handle and manage calls in a professional manner. · Call holding- places a caller on hold so you can perform another task. This could be to locate paperwork‚ find

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    How is the theme of responsibility Explored in ‘An Inspector Calls?’ There are many theme in the play in ’An Inspector Calls. This was written by J.B.Priestley on 1945 and set on 1912. The play begins with the engagement party of Sheila and Gerald. Sheila is the daughter of Birlings’‚ who own a successful business. During the party an Inspector comes and started to enquire about a woman who has just committed suicide. From the course of the play we know that each members of the Birling family

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    In the book An Inspector Calls the character Sheila has more of an impact and changes her views on things. The writer‚ Priestley‚ uses Sheila as someone who helps the audience follow the play by what she says. Act One In Act One‚ Sheila and her family are celebrating her engagement to Gerald Croft. Although Sheila is excited and full of joy‚ she can’t help but wonder why Gerald spent all of last summer avoiding her and blaming it on work‚ as it says on page 3‚ “(half serious‚ half playfully)

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    BOOKREPORT – "An Inspector Calls" by J.B. Priestley Short plot summary: The play deals with an inspector‚ named Goole‚ who arrives by the Birling family‚ who is celebrating Sheila’s engagement to Gerald Croft. He tells about Eva Smith’s suicide. After lots of questions it turns out that they are all more or less responsible for this tragically death and after the inspector left they find out that he wasn’t a real inspector and that no girl died. The play opens with the engagement celebration

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    During the time An Inspector Calls was written the author wanted to encourage the audience to feel and express their emotions they had from the time leading up to 1945. Historical events happened between 1912 and 1945‚ which helped the author create Inspector Goole. Inspector Goole was portrayed as a sham and it was hard for the other characters to believe what he was doing because he already knew so much. The author created someone in the play that the Conservative family would dislike. He had

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    The book i read was Call of the Wild. It is an awesome book. The main character is a dog named Buck. He is stolen and taken to be a sled dog in the Yukon territory. It is set during the time of the Klondike gold rush. I encourage people to read it. In the book Buck is a half breed that lived in Santa Clara‚California. He was taken from his home one night by a man named Manuel. He was then put on a train and sent to the Yukon territory in Canada. For a while he was a sled dog on a mail team

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    What is the significance of Inspector Goole in the play? The audience are first introduced to Inspector Goole half way through act 1. He is a mysterious character from the very beginning‚ but we see that he is confident and has an air of authority about him and he is determined to make the family face their guilt. He claims that he has seen the dead body of Eva Smith who died earlier that day after she had ‘swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant’. He is of much significance throughout the play

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    An inspector calls was written by J.B.Priestly‚ Priestley presents the character of the inspector as a defense of socialism as Priestley was a defensor of the socialist party. The play was set in 1912 which is also linked with 1945 as it is about the same century. the play transmits a lot of political and social messages as Priestley believed in socialism and used his plays to convince people of his way of thinking. The play is about a family who are in a lunch room celebrating their daughter’s engagement

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