Chapter 8 – Doctor! Doctor!- pages 115 - 127 Chapter summary: The chapter starts out with Sathnam and his family making their way to Croft Resource centre in Bilston. Sathnam first describes how each of his family members look like and how odd they must seem as a collection to onlookers. Sathnam and his mum start a series of discussions and he describes the bus ride vividly referring back to his teenage days where he remembers the same people in the street. Once at the Croft Resource Centre‚ Sathnam
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Name ProfWRT 150.18 26 October 2013 The Importance of Reading Mark Twain once said that “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” Reading is one of the most powerful skills sets a person can have‚ yet almost all students who have access to good books‚ shamelessly take little advantage of them. Children who are growing up in the digital age are reading less and less‚ but can we blame them? The children of this era are growing up immediately immersed
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Jessica Bartlein November 10‚ 2014 Phase 5 Individual Project LITR201-1404A-06 Melissa Eidson Reading can open one’s mind to the imagination of anything to be dreamt of. Poems‚ short stories‚ novels‚ plays‚ and dramas are all different types of literature that exist today. All of the different types of literature have their own ways and formats that they are written in. Literature has many ways of speaking to us as we read them‚ it can strike up emotions or memories that we have or it can
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Any good writer knows about the impact that reading can have on his/her work‚ as well as that in order to be able to fully understand and digest a piece of literature‚ one should follow the basic guidelines of active reading‚ the type of reading where a reader subjects a writing to a critical analyze by using different types of reading techniques (Stubbs‚ Barnet‚ and Cain‚ 2). However‚ every reader‚ just like every writer‚ has his/her own style of reading that is composed of or is guided by a combination
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know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them” (Sayers 1). This quote demonstrates that a great man comes from a great woman and one is not better than the other‚ but how many woman have great men behind them. In the The Little Mermaid‚ Ariel’s father is hard to please and is seen as dominant. He is in control of her and everything she does. If Ariel did something that he did not approve of‚ she would hear about it and get upset. Ariel did not listen to her father and did
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Reading Log – The Kite Runner In the first two chapters of the book‚ “The Kite Runner”‚ the author introduces four persons. Amir is the main – person in the book. He names his father “Baba”. His father is well – to – do and he has much money. Amir´s father has many friends. One of the best friends of “Baba” is Rahim Khan. On the other side of the good family relationships stands Hassan‚ a childhood friend of Amir‚ and his father Ali. Hassan´s father works for Amir´s and he isn´t rich. It´s interesting
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1) Works Cited Foer‚ Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Boston‚ MA: Mariner‚ 2005. Print. 2) Annotation This book is told through the eyes of an extremely smart and funny nine-year-old who is also the narrator‚ Jonathan Safran Foer. He tells a story of the effects of his fathers tragic death‚ in the 9/11 terrorist attack‚ on his father‚ Oskar Schell‚ and his family as a whole. Oskar’s father not only endured the pain of being trapped in the towers‚ but was killed due to
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American families are suffering from the violence and substance abuse in their towns today‚ as reflected in the film “Boys of Baraka”. This film focuses on four young African American boys and their families from an inner city in Baltimore; Richard and brother Romash‚ Devon‚ and Montrey. As a result of the lack of discipline and an increased violence rate‚ these African American boys are suffering education-wise. Luckily‚ the Baraka School in Africa was designed for these children and gave them hope
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The Campaign Strategy for Close Up Toothpaste Introduction: The Unilever group is responsible for the creation and maintenance of thirteen successful global brands. Close Up is one of two oral health care brands under the Unilever umbrella‚ and is fairly unknown in the U.S. market and comparatively lacking marketing support. The American company that owns the licensing rights to Close Up‚ Church & Dwight Co.‚ also leads the way in marketing some of the bigger name brands. The oral health care market
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The “Boy at the Window” by Richard Wilbur is a poignant poem. Richard Wilbur “said that he wrote the “Boy at the Window” after seeing how distressed his five-year-old son was about a snowman they had built” was stuck out in a storm (Clugston‚ 2010). Poignant can be described as an awareness of both beauty and loss through powerful feelings or pain. Poetry has this beautiful gift of being able to evoke strong feelings in the reader. In the “Boy at the Window” the poet captures the innocent nature
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