After seeing his father brutally murdered by the leader of the native gang‚ Amsterdam Vallon makes it his mission to avenge his father’s death. He comes back to the Five Points district in New York and joins an old friend‚ Johnny Sirocco‚ to learn the ropes of the area. While doing so‚ Vallon gains the trust of his father’s assassin‚ William “The Butcher” Cutting‚ and is taken under his wing. Young Amsterdam falls in love with the local beauty and pickpocket Jenny Everdeane‚ but in doing so angers
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Odile Bouchard 11/10/2010 Frankenstein Commentary: Female Monster Creation Scene (REVISED) Mary Shelley‚ the author of the novel Frankenstein‚ greatly uses various literary devices‚ such as language‚ setting‚ contrast‚ imagery‚ description‚ foreshadowing and in some cases a vague sense of irony‚ much to her benefit in order to portray a certain hidden meaning to her text. This ‘secret message’‚ a sense of reality that makes the text come to life‚ can only be found through analyzing the
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Thinking about everything I have learned from reading “Monique‚” I would say it is one of the greatest books I have read. Kris Holloway did an awesome job with how she made you feel about Monique and Mali. I liked everything from when she spoke about child birthing to the culture status for women in Mali. (Question #1) After reading the book‚ I would say that I know a lot more about childbirth and childrearing practices in Mali then I did before. Starting with chapter 1 I knew this was going to
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System By: Bianca Siregar Grade: 11 Title of Article: Good-bye Jakarta Source of Article: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/01/26/editorial-goodbye jakarta.html Date of access: Feb 1st‚ 2013 Date of article published: Jan 26‚ 2013 Date commentary was written: Jan 31st‚ 2013 Word Count: 726 Section of syllabus related: Market Failure Article Highlights Editorial: Good-bye Jakarta The Jakarta Post | Editorial | Sat‚ January 26 2013‚ 7:27 AM A- A A+ Paper Edition | Page: 5
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_SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT BY GEORGE ORWELL:_ _Commentary_ Political‚ social & ethical issues raised in Orwell’s essay "Shooting an Elephant" create a controversial storyline in which the events metaphorically symbolize the colonial imperialism of the time. Set in Burma‚ 1936‚ the context is based around the anti-European attitudes existent post the Anglo-Burmese Wars. Orwell’s positions‚ as police officer for the despotic British governments‚ required him to hold authority over the Burmese‚ consequently
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Caged Bird by Maya Angelou explores themes of Social injustice‚ Lack of freedom/choice and Shattered dreams in six stanzas of varying length. There is no set rhyme scheme to the poem but there are noticeable rhymes in stanzas two‚ three‚ four and five. Stanza six is a repetition of stanza three. There are half rhymes throughout. Vocabulary and sentence structure is very straightforward. The stanzas alternate between the free bird’s perspective and that of the caged bird with regularity: two stanzas
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Literature Between Wars Critical Commentary of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’ The very first sentence in this extract gives an insight into how Woolf has set to present her main character‚ Clarissa as someone who is lighthearted and somewhat pretentious‚ as she concerns herself with such a trivial matter as buying flowers for her upcoming party. Claiming that she will buy the flowers herself and alleviate the burden of her servant Lucy who has enough to do‚ it is also ironic
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As the title of the speech affirms‚ assuming the label of being the National University and facing the burdens tied upon it was the central issue discussed throughout the speech. The speaker‚ a professor who has worked in the academe for decades‚ has of no doubt‚ already acquired significant knowledge of the university’s functions and tasks‚ and is thus‚ able to truly understand and express the recognition and the obligations of being called the National University. His speech was addressed to his
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A Long Way Gone “I was not afraid of these lifeless bodies. I despised them and kicked them to flip them.” This is what Ishmael was saying at the end first war day they had. It had only been the first time when Ishmael and his friends went to war and by the end of it he had already shot someone. At the beginning when they started training he was afraid to hold the gun‚ and now that the day has come where he actually needed to shot‚ he had no problem with it. 2 of his friends died that day‚ Musa
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Pony boy not to change. If you are wealthy‚ does it make you better than people who are not? Just because they are different‚ and do not have enough money to afford material things. Does it make you better and more of a person? If you think that you are right‚ then you are incorrect. Just because you have a lot of money‚ it does not make you more of a person‚ and it does not make you better at all. I mean big whoop‚ you drive a nice car‚ and have nice clothes. Guess what‚ when you cut yourself
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