IB English HL Major Works Data Sheet: The Awakening | | |Author: Kate Chopin Year of publication: 1899 | | | |
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Data Sheet – English 1 Honors Block: 1AB Date: 4/27/13 Title: A Lesson Before Dying Author: Ernest J. Gaines Genre: Historical Fiction Title Associations or Predictions: Given the title‚ A Lesson Before Dying‚ we can infer and predict that a character in the book will die. Also‚ we can predict that before they die‚ they will learn something‚ probably a valuable lesson Biographical Information about the author: Ernest J. Gaines was born in Oscar‚ Louisiana in 1933. He was born
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Patrick r Dery Mrs. Oshikiri Honors Chem/Period 2 3/8/13 AMDG Types of Chemical Reactions Abstract The purpose of the Types of Chemical Reactions lab is to become familiar with the different types of chemical equations. Also the experiment allows one to apply their equation skills to explain reactions. This is done by heating compounds with the Bunsen burner and also by mixing compounds in the twenty four well plate. The experiment found that the liquid compounds reacted to form milky
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“Faith is the heroism of the intellect” (Charles Henry Parkhurst). In Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury‚ the protagonist‚ Montag‚ is an intellect. In the society he lives in‚ books are illegal. The government feels threatened by people with the knowledge that books promote. Montag has the infamous job of a fireman‚ an odd twist on our society’s fireman. Fireman in this time start fires rather than stop them and the fuel for the fires are books. The government attempts to suppress thinkers; people
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MAJOR WORK DATA SHEET Page 4 ----------------------- Setting (place and time): Significance of the opening scene: The narration opens in present The action of Nelly’s story begins in the 1770s; tense with Mr. Lockwood describing his first personal encounter with Mr. Lockwood leaves Yorkshire in 1802. Heathcliff. At first‚ he is fond of him and called him a “capital fellow” All the action of Wuthering Heights takes place who “warmed” his heart. Lockwood also describes the atmosphere
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The book‚ Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ talks about a fireman who burns books as his job. It was something that the firemen did. The number 451 is the temperature at which these books‚ or paper‚ would burn. Montag‚ the fireman and main character in the story‚ would always sneak a book home and end up hiding it where no one could find it – not even his wife‚ Mildred. The book talks about the people discriminating against intellect and that the burning of books would be a good way for everyone
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“Alive but dead” Ray Bradbury uses figurative language in Fahrenheit 451 by using the terms “alive yet not alive” and “dead but not dead.” By using these terms Bradbury is saying that things are alive when they are not‚ but in reality they are just machines. Bradbury also says things are dead‚ but really they are alive and human. Bradbury uses the term‚ “alive yet not alive‚” when talking about Mildred. He also uses the term‚ “dead but not dead‚” when talking about the snake that sucked all
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English 2342 20 April 2011 Dover Beach and Fahrenheit 451 The classic poem‚ Dover Beach‚ written by Matthew Arnold‚ is a statement about losing faith as a result of enlightenment. In an emotionally charged scene in Ray Bradbury’s novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ fireman Guy Montag reads the poem aloud to his wife and her friends. Bradbury could have chosen any piece of literature for Montag to read as a means of unveiling his collection of hoarded books and his newfound interest in reading them. Bradbury
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Reflection #1 Cipriano Echavarria Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Pg. 72 “You can’t build a house without nails and wood. If you don’t want a house built‚ hide the nails and wood. If you don’t want a man unhappy politically‚ don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet‚ give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war”. (72) Censorship has stroked the world for many decades; fearful governments have been hiding information or modifying it to its citizens
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Molded Into a Free Thinker It all took place within an unknowingly ruined society. Each citizen glued to their television and never paying more than five seconds worth of attention to what one another had to say. Vehicles roar up and down streets driven by people searching for that adrenaline they desire‚ and friends only talk to each other not because they want to‚ but because they feel they have to. Guy Montag‚ the protagonist firefighter who doesn’t see beyond his book-blazing job‚ is an extraordinary
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