July 06‚ 2012 Journal #2 – Miss Brill “Behind the rotunda the slender trees with yellow leaves down drooping”. This quote represents Miss Brill’s old age. Using the autumn season means that Miss Brill is long past her prime and is about to enter the final stage of her life – winter. Also‚ the “yellow leaves” described in the story are colourless and decayed‚ just like Miss Brill. At the end of the story‚ the boy and the girl basically say that Miss Brill is decayed and obsolete by calling her
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Mark Twain Quote Journal Baker College of Allen Park 5/7/14 Mark Twain said‚ “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that‚ but the really great make you feel that you‚ too‚ can become great.” Twain had the belief that people need to surround themselves with others who will encourage them to be their best. Those who belittle others who are in pursuit of something ambitious are not the kind of people who are pursuing their own passions
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English 22211 Journal Chapter 1: I felt anger and disbelief. Why couldn’t they have known where the Jews were being transported? They had many chances to run away and escape‚ but how could they have known what was waiting for them at the end of their “vacation”? Chapter
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The Great Gatsby Journal 1 Quote: "I hope she’ll be a foolthat’s the best thing a girl can be in this world‚ a beautiful little fool." This quote‚ from chapter 1 is an important quote said by Daisy Buchanan‚ the second cousin of Nick Carraway‚ narrator of the "Great Gatsby". This quote is significant towards the story because it reveals glimpses into Daisy’s character. Daisy is not a fool herself‚ but due to the times and the extent of her exposure to the social environment‚ she has not
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Secret Life of Bees Book Journal Chapter 1 Lily Owens is lying in her bed watching bees squeeze in and out of cracks in her walls. She thinks about her mother‚ who died when Lily was a child. She also thinks about Rosaleen‚ a black woman who looks after her and her father‚ T. Ray. When the bees begin to swarm around Lily‚ she wakes T. Ray to show him but when he comes‚ the bees are gone. He threatens to make her kneel in grits if she wakes him again. Lily decides she will catch some bees in a jar to
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The Great Gatsby Journals Chapter One: The narrator of The Great Gatsby is a man from Minnesota named Nick Carraway. He starts off the story by stating that he learned from his father to not judge other people because he could make the mistake of misunderstanding someone. Nick characterizes himself as highly moral and highly tolerant. He briefly mentions Gatsby. In the summer of 1922‚ Nick moved to New York to work in the bond business. He rented a house on a part of Long Island called West Egg
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A Tale of Two Cities: Dialectal Journal Doubles and opposites: "It was the best of times‚ it was the worst of times‚ (...)" In the first chapter of A Tale of Two cities‚ Dickens emphasizes the fact of how bad the people lived. "It was the worst of times‚" due to mistreatment from the third estate. But it was also the "best of times‚" for the nobles‚ and higher class people who could actually afford things‚ and weren’t mistreated and starved. "(...) ’John Solomon‚ or Solomon John?’ (...)"
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“Still‚ our first impressions of the Germans were rather reassuring. The officers were billeted in private homes‚ even in the homes of Jews. Their attitude toward their hosts was distant‚ but polite. They never demanded the impossible‚ made no unpleasant comments‚ and even smiled occasionally at the mistress of the house.” (5) | The idea that the Germans weren’t always harsh during that time baffles me. I always thought that the Germans were constantly beating down on Jews‚ and‚ even though they
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn‚ Dialectical Journal · "You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was madeby Mr.Mark Twain‚ and he told the truth‚ mainly. There was things which he stretched‚ but mainly he told the truth. Chapter 1 Page1 - This is an example of foreshadowing. It sets the mood of whats going to happen next. · "There warn’t anybody at church‚ except maybe a hog or two‚ for there warn’t
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1. ------------------------------------------------- Two Europeans‚ Kayerts and Carlier work on an outpost in Africa. They work for a Belgian ivory trading company. The outpost is very isolated‚ and the men must have their supplies/food delivered by boat. At the station work ten black natives and Makola. He is the storekeeper and lives at the station with his wife. At first Kayerts and Carlier are working very hard. They want to get very rich‚ but after a while they become lazy. One day‚ Makola
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