Deborah Samson was a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man and served for over a year in the revolutionary war. I think it was very brave of her to do that knowing how much trouble she could have got in. In Deborah Samson’s child and teenage years were rough because she lived in poverty. It didn’t make anything any better when her father left on a expedition
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Chuck Close Chuck Close A Portrait in Progress is an extremley interesting and educational short film that walks the viewer through the life of the esteemed artist‚ Chuck Close. The movie explains the feats that Close overcame as well as the ongoing stuggles from his disability. Furthermore‚ this film depicts the changes in Close’s artwork and the reasoning behind his form of expression. The story of Chuck Close belongs to both the world of art and to the annals of human triumph over adversity
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Losing Someone Close Losing a close person to you is like losing an important body part. Knowing someone is about to leave your side but you just don’t know when and what time of the day is scary. Checking on that person to make sure they still breathing and still responds when you call their name and conversations are good. My grandmother was a great woman. She’s a great definition of what a wife‚ mother‚ grandmother‚ survivor‚ and a supporter should be. Knowing it was almost her time to leave
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Sample Lesson Plan – Close Reading English Close Reading “The Rider” page 61 Lesson Overview Depending on class needs‚ this close reading should take two to three days. In this two-day lesson‚ the teacher begins by having students read and annotate the selected passage individually or as part of a class oral reading. Students then work with vocabulary and story questions. On the second day‚ students re-read the passage with a partner. They check their annotations and answers. They work
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English Close Reading Analysis The poem Mariana by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson was published in 1830 and is the text I have chosen to do closely analyze. The subject matter of the poem was taken from one of Shakespeare’s plays titled “Measure for Measure”‚ and the line: “Mariana in the moated grange‚” gave Tennyson the inspiration to write of a young woman waiting for her lover. The two texts share a common theme of abandonment‚ as in Shakespeare’s play the young woman is also diligently awaiting
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actual or potential threat. They are: the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS)‚ the Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) and the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) and are made up of external experts. In addition‚ the Commission relies upon the work of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)‚ the European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA)‚ the European Centre for Disease prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Chemicals
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Close Reading of “Pkhents” In the opening scene of “Pkhents‚” Abram Tertz introduces a first-person limited narrator‚ who is also the main character in the story. Unfortunately‚ Tertz provides no background information about this character. However‚ as the story progresses‚ the narrator’s unique mannerisms suggest that he is actually an extraterrestrial who belongs to a different world. A sense of confusion is created about the narrator’s identity when the narrator begins to form specific observations
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Keeping Close to Home By Bell Hooks Bell Hooks essay “Keeping Close to Home”‚ describes her struggles after she was accepted at Stanford University to further her self-realization. In this essay Hooks talks about her journey to educate herself and no losing her sense of where she came from as African American woman from a working class background. Hooks parents wanted her to go to a school close to home‚ a non-diverse like Stanford was. They wanted her to go to a school no just close to home
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10/12/12 A.P English Close In-Class Analysis Essay An author by the name Christopher Morley writes to us an essay called‚ “On Laziness”. Within his essay he uses the styles of allusion and diction to engage his readers and achieve his purpose. Morley speaks on how people should be lazier; it gets you more in life. The more lazy you are the less people are going to ask from you he says. Morley uses a lot of dictions throughout his essay to achieve his purpose on laziness. “It is our
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