Patient is a personal narrative written by Norman Cousins. He shares his experience of crippling arthritis and his hospitalization. He quickly realizes that the hospital environment doesn’t suit him well so he begins to self-medicate with laughter and vitamins. He argues that one’s mental health can positively or negatively affect one’s physical health through a personal experience littered with detail and emotion. The first paragraph were Cousins begins to enter into his message is paragraph 14
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Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers‚ is a novella that follows the main theme of love that involves the main characters Miss Amelia‚ Marvin Macy‚ and cousin Lymon all connected under one love triangle. Throughout the novel cousin Lymon proves himself time and time again to be very dependent on others‚a dramatic attention seeker‚ as well as a grotesque. Cousin Lymon is a character unlike any other in the novella. He shows up in a deserted town declaring that he is related to the very wealthy miss Amelia
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This report is based upon the book the killer’s cousin written by Nancy Werlin. It is a 240 page book published by Delacorte Press in 1998‚ but was later published by Speak‚ and imprint of penguin group in 2009. I chose this book because I really enjoy this genre and its summary looked interesting. It also is a winner of the Edgar award for best young adult mystery in 1999. The main characters in this book are David Yaffe and Lily Shaughnessey. David Yaffe is a tall and skinny‚ and also
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Law 199 – Law and the Movies Final Paper- My Cousin Vinny My Cousin Vinny is a film about the trial of two young men accused of murder in rural Alabama where one of the accused men has his cousin Vinny‚ a new lawyer‚ try to defend them. The whole story begins when Billy Gambini and his friend Stan Rothestein are driving through Beechum County‚ Alabama and they decide to stop at a convenience store. Once they leave the store‚ Billy realizes he forgot to pay for a can of tuna‚ and he believes this
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My disordered attempt to better him only produced a discomfort in his time of death. The first footmen were unseen – gone‚ and Henry‚ in his moment of infinite ache uttered nobly‚ “Cousin Albert‚ this house‚ it is only our family’s”. This abbey had once more been torn asunder – naught by just the death of my cousin‚ the Lord of Dorchester‚ but the recent Lady Audrey mere weeks prior. I marched upon the grand hall and indeed I blamed his death upon
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ALSO BY LAUREN KATE FALLEN This is a work of fiction. Names‚ characters‚ places‚ and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons‚ living or dead‚ events‚ or locales is entirely coincidental. Copyright (c) 2010 by Tinderbox Books‚ LLC and Lauren Kate All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press‚ an imprint of Random House Children’s Books‚ a division of Random House‚ Inc.‚ New York. Delacorte
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St. Germaine Cousin was born with a deformed and paralyzed right arm‚ and a disease called‚ Scrofula.This is a type of tuberculosis which affects the neck. In this case it also made her cheeks and neck look deformed‚ and not pleasant to look at. Sometimes‚ she suffered from swelling and open‚ runny sores. No one knew who her parents were. Laurent Cousin may have been her father’s name‚ but no one knows for sure. She might also have been left at the doorstep as a baby‚ maybe because of her deformities
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Anderson‚ there are three main sections‚ Solid‚ Liquid‚ and Gas. The main character‚ Kate‚ is very interested in science and the three titles are a metaphor for her state of mind throughout the book. The first section‚ Solid‚ shows how Kate is a stable and strong person. The next section‚ Liquid‚ is a time where Kate’s life is very inconsistent and she is unsure about herself. The last section‚ Gas‚ shows how Kate has accepted her fate and tries to help everyone she can. A solid is hard‚ strong‚
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works in favor of the child. For example‚ an immigrant moves to a country where their child can have more rights‚ freedoms‚ and opportunities than they did. In the acclaimed novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ Miss Havisham takes this outlook to new heights. Miss Havisham trains her adopted daughter‚ Estella to terrorize the hearts of young men to make up for the heartbreak that she faced in her youth. Around the same time‚ another parental figure pushes a child to find opportunities that she
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Dickens uses this description of the Havisham Manor to give Pip’s impression of surrealness surrounding Miss Havisham and her house. Pip has just been apprenticed to Joe and goes to visit Miss Havisham‚ and‚ as he walks home‚ he reflects on the decrepitness and the age of the house and its contents. As the sentence progresses‚ Dickens chooses to order his descriptions in increasing intensity of spookiness and specificity‚ seemingly ‘zooming’ in to smaller and smaller objects and ending with the
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