lots of time together. HIGHT page 2 Me and Doug (my step-dad) used to be close when I was young. I grew up and had a different lifestyle than he expected me to live so we did not get along at all. About three months before Doug died we started getting along. Things had just started getting better between us when he was killed in a horrible motorcycle wreck. I will never forget this horrible moment in my life. I still think about Doug dyeing every day. I will never forget him. I love
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texts of your own choosing * Link them by concept NOT content (i.e. don’t link by setting‚ character or plot/events) * Belonging to a group can establish your sense of identity e.g.: * Scott Hastings – included * Mr Hastings (Doug) – excluded * Mrs Hastings (Shirley) – included * Fran – excluded * Concept: ‘the struggle or fight to belong is an innate (essential) quality in people’ * Director: Baz Luhrmann * Iconic Australian Film * Key Scenes:
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Web. 07 Nov. 2012 http://americanhistory.about.com/od/revolutionarywar/a/boston_massacre.htm. “The Boston Massacre.” The Boston Massacre. Independence Hall Association‚ n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. http://ushistory.org/declaration/ralated/massacre.htm Doug Linder “The Boston Massacre Trials.” An Account. Account of Boston Massacre‚ n.d. Web © 2001 http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/bostonmassacre/bostonaccount.html
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Stefan Schmid A challenge in someone’s life can be something as little as having to defend your point of view to something as major like having to re-evaluate your understanding of something. In Cosi a play by Louis Nowra various characters are faced with challenges and throughout the play some characters rise to the challenges put before them and overcome them‚ others fail. Using that concept Louis Nowra hopes to communicate the challenges that people must undergo in their life. Louis Nowra uses
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Research paper: The Disenchanted F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life and work were in a knot from the start; his profession spanned one of the most tumultuous eras of the century‚ and from the very start he was the creator and the victim of the new culture of celebrity which accompanied the rise of modern technology. Budd Schulberg masterfully created a character that closely and in many ways represents Fitzgerald in his later years; Manley Halliday is that character. “His mind’s eye‚ incurably bifocal
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happily married. In the Muslim city Banda Aceh‚Indonesia‚ dating is still similar to what it was back then in countries like America‚ Britain‚ India‚ etc. In his essay‚ “Crimson Leopard-Print Headscarves: Wearing the Veil in Banda Aceh‚ Indonesia”‚ Doug Clark talks about what different styles of headscarves or jilbab say about the woman and the different meanings behind each style. The jilbab is a headscarf that covers the hair of a woman and flows down till her breasts or her shoulders of her waist
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Greavu 1 John Greavu WRIT 1301 Mr. Anderson 25 OCT 2011 Reading Response #5: Time’s Exchange Rate “Time is money”: Bejamin Franklin‚ Founding Father of the United States of America seemed to imply his country’s priorities fairly well in his famous three-word quote. Time and money are valued almost above all in the U.S.‚ and sacrificing one or the other usually is at least a minor struggle for most Americans. In the capitalist society that we live in‚ people are always competing. They are always
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Why Disappointment is Vital Is Disappointment the last straw? “We must accept finite disappointment‚ but never lose infinite hope.” Martin Luther King‚ Jr .Is disappointment the end? Disappointment is not the last straw. Sometimes it happens for a reason‚ teaches you a lesson‚ sometimes it is followed by success...we must not give up no matter how long it takes. All these people you read about in the news and idolize as bravehearts have gone through many terrible times
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Mental illnesses were seen by society as a negative form of difference and so mental illness patients have continuously been stereotyped and marginalised by society throughout there lives. The mistreatment of mental illness patients has been displayed throughout the play Cosi. The mental characters from the play create a theme of madness through there different personalities and quirks. The theme; mental illness and madness are developed for the audience by Louis Nowra’s choice of stage directions
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Cosi by Louis Nowra conveys significant ideas about human nature. Through the play Cosi‚ the audience witnesses the lives of mentally ill people unfold before them. Central characters Lewis‚ Doug and Julie each show and express a different view upon the world and work towards their own idea of reality. They each express their individual ideas of the norm and work together to escape reality. Many themes such as love and infidelity as well as change are conveyed throughout the play. Cosi is a comic
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