IB SL English 2 Commentary on The Comfort of Strangers In one part of the novel‚ The Comfort of Strangers‚ the English writer Ian McEwan describes the admiration with which his male character‚ Robert‚ contemplates his sisters playing dress up. Though the speaker’s age is never divulged‚ we readily jump to the conclusion that he is around ten years old because of the childish and rudimentary language. The structure of the sentences is also very reflective of the child’s young age‚ as well as
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Michael Abushacra English SL Commentary: The Nine Tailors In this passage from The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers‚ Wimsey‚ the main character‚ climbs up a bell-‐tower and endures the deafening vexatious shrills of the bells. The clangor from the bells causes him
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Araby: An Outline Commentary ‘The Sisters’ and ‘An Encounter’ are about the same length. ‘Araby’ is roughly a hundred lines shorter than these. There is a progression in the three stories. The boy in ‘The Sisters’ is a passive witness‚ limited in his capacity to act by the weight of the adults about him. The boy of ‘An Encounter’ rebels against this oppression but his reward is the menace of a bizarre and abnormal adult. The boy in ‘Araby’ strives both to act and to realize an actual affective
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Azaria Chand Ms. Kelly English 10R-4 12 November 2013 Independent Reading Book Report Veronica Roth was raised in the Chicago suburb of Barrington Illinois. Roth studied creative writing at Northwestern University where she wrote the first book in her trilogy‚ Divergent‚ which became a New York Times Best Selling novel. Roth has won numerous awards for each book in the trilogy including; Good Reads Favorite Book of 2011 and Good Reads Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction (2012). Divergent
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Statistics say that 44 percent of LGBTQ youth report being physically harassed due to their perceived sexual orientation according to the GLSEN school climate survey. In the world today there are a lot of people that aren’t understood from people with mental and physical handicaps to the Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bisexual‚ Transgendered‚ and Queer community. In my opinion I feel like the LGBTQ community would be some of the people that are mistreated the most. Some of these homosexual children are
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Have you ever thought of tying up someone’s feet and buckle them upside down? Imagine being stuck in that particular matrix situation forever? I pity you if you have. For some reason‚ the folks at the back of a queue just can’t resist invading your personal space‚ as if moving forward an inch will somehow catapult them to the front of the queue! I mean I can understand how impatient people can be at times but simply waiting in a line at the bank without banging up against the person in front of them
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------------------------------------------------- School bullying School bullying is a type of bullying in which occurs during the time period a child is in school. Bullying can be physical‚ verbal‚ or emotional. According to a study by Yale‚ bullying victims are at least 70% more likely to commit suicide than non-victims. Bullying happens everywhere‚ in all different forms. There are six primary types of bullying: physical bullying‚ verbal bullying‚ sexual bullying‚ relational bullying‚ reactive bullying‚ and cyber bullying. Physical bullying
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Monte McKay Take a Stand on Bullying Bullying is a form of verbal and physical abuse that needs to stop. It takes place every day all over the world. It represents the attacking of someone that is stronger mentally‚ emotionally and physically attacking someone that is weaker in all of these fields. Bullying has long term effects on its victims such as mental and emotional stress that can carry on into the future. Bullying has been around for a while now. “Bullying is so long established in our
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Bullying What is really going on in schools Stephanie Neill We have all been a victim of bullying at some point in our lives. In almost all cases that I have heard of bullying it has been in a school setting. In today ’s world‚ bullying is nothing out of the ordinary. Every day we hear about bullying‚ whether it is in the news‚ at school‚ or from our friends. What has developed as a common thing amongst people of all ages has had serious effects and caused tragedy for many people. Students
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