Introduction On Keeping a Notebook Joan Didion ’s essay ‚ ``On Keeping a Notebook ’ concretely shows the importance of everyday objects and persons we encounter in our daily lives . To a certain extent ‚ beneath all the stresses of being a working person and encountering different kinds of people ‚ there are certain little ‚ sometimes even grand things which utterly provide us glimpses of very important moments of our past . It actually transports us back into almost forgotten memories
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The Notebook‚ by Nicholas Sparks is a touching story about true love but affected by a horrible disease. This story begins when Noah and Allie are in a nursing home‚ eighty years into their life. Noah goes back in time to tell the story of him and Allie‚ and how they came to be together. Their major conflict is when Noah and Allie grow older and diseases start to appear. The main conflict‚ in present time‚ is that the old lady‚ Allie has a disease called Alzheimer’s‚ in which she cannot remember
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Ruben Zelaya BMC Class B1 28 June 2013 True Notebook Book Report I am reading the book “True Notebooks” by Mark Salzman. It is about a teacher who teaches a writing class in a juvenile detention center. The student wrote about their life and some of the things they wrote were interesting and deep. For example one of the students wrote about hate and how it been through his life “hate taught me how to speak‚ hate taught me how to love‚ and eventually hate taught me how to hate. This kid
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English II Homework Essay Writing Pages 114-121 3/17/14 On keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion As far as writing an essay on weather I agree or disagree with the author’s statement that it is a good idea to leave the past behind is rather puzzling to me because after all‚ if she had a hard time to remembering the past and when she jotted things down on paper‚ the result was that she couldn’t remember what she was doing on a day in August in a hotel
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The story begins with Duke (Old Noah) and Allie in a nursing home. Duke goes to Allie’s room and begins reading to her a story that started July of 1940 at a Carnival in Seabrook‚ South Carolina. Noah and Allie meet for the first time and Noah falls instantly in love but Allie is not that quick. Noah and Allie are thrown together by mutual friends Fin and Sara. Allie‚ Noah‚ Sarah and Fin go to a movie and Allie and Noah walk home together and that is when the romance picks up. Allie falls for
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Kristina Roberts June 7‚ 2011 Furey-EN 305 Notebook Assignment 7. Research and identify people –not necessarily local or U.S. based—who hold what you consider the “ideal job”. What does the job entail? Can you find the person’s resume/vita somewhere? Write a brief summary of the persons training and career‚ using as many real statics as you can find. Explain what you admire about this person. What kind of worker is he? What were his greatest accomplishments? Setbacks? How did the field
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Thesis In the brilliant writing of the story “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Conner‚ it shows how people tend to use clichés in ways that make it easy for them to avoid thinking or seeing clearly. O’Conner develops naïve and close-minded as the main theme that connects with the characters Hulga‚ Mrs. Hopewell‚ and Mrs. Freeman because all three characters seem intelligent ‚ but yet again can’t use their common sense in different levels. I. Hulga A. She never really grew up‚ she acts like a
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The Notebook By Nicholas Sparks Major Characters * Allison Hamilton – seventeen year old heiress‚ who shared an epic summer romance to Noah. * Noah Calhoun – local country boy who fell in love to a city girl‚ Allison. * Anne Hamilton – Allison’s mother. * Lon Hammond – Allison’s fiancé. Minor Characters * Martha Saw – a war widow‚ Noah’s girlfriend. * Frank Calhoun – Noah’s father. * John Hamilton – Allison’s father. * Fin – Noah’s friend. * Nurse Esther
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1. The Notebook is a classic love story. Duke (aka Noah) and Allie are the two main characters as they are a married couple in their late years of life. Allie has dementia and is within a nursing home. Duke comes to read her stories of their love life that Allie wrote within a notebook within their younger years. The occupational profile of Allie consists of her having dementia. As the story reflects on their past‚ it was known that Allie liked adventure and excitement as they both wandered around
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This book report is written for the Language Arts’ class and the professor Samuel Jaja. The novel "The Notebook" was written by Nicholas Sparks which is an American romance novelist‚ screenwriter and producer. This publication has 214 pages. "The Notebook" was published by Warner Books in October 1‚ 1996. The language of the book it is English‚ and it was published in the United States. It’s genre is romance with a hardcover and paperback. This novel has been on my required reading list by my professor
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