series ends and you are left wishing you could learn more about the characters? Over the last two weeks‚ I have read Fairest by Marissa Meyer and Stars Above‚ also by Marissa Meyer. These books are extras of The Lunar Chronicles‚ and tell you the past and futures of the characters in the series. I have finished both books; Fairest is 220 pages‚ and Stars Above is 369 pages. Fairest is the backstory of Queen Levana‚ who is a character in The Lunar Chronicles. Levana has a painful backstory‚ filled with
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first-person point of view. The story opens up with the narrator find out his younger brother Sonny being held in prison due to the use and sale of heroine. Thorough the day the narrator can’t seem to focus on his day due to the awful news he read about his brother. He then speaks to one of his brother’s friend that lets him know how difficult Sonny’s life has been due to his drug addiction and how it will continue to be. Time passes by‚ but the narrator never reaches out to his brother in prison until
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star crossed lovers were torn by something that was stronger than them and their families feud. The strongest force between these two happily ever after is a four letter word… Fate. Fate brought these two unlikely worlds together and pulled them apart with more damage than it had when began. In Romeo and Juliet’s tale the young lovers were meant to be when the servant couldn’t read‚ and when they meet at the party and finally the family feud‚ that was just the beginning of the end. In this essay fate
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Pros and Cons of Tanning Beds Tanning beds‚ also known as sunbeds‚ are devices that are very popular among people across the country. Just by looking in magazines or watching television anyone can see that the latest trend is to have a dark golden tan‚ even during the winter. Tanning beds are used by people to tan all year around; men and women are no longer forced to schedule around the weather nor are they restricted by the time of day. Sessions with a tanning bed can significantly improve
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an American nowadays. However‚ the merit was not given inherently‚ yet was won by a lot of movements and revolutions by large amounts of civil rights heroes in the glorious upheaval of history. As claimed by Joseph Campbell‚ the famous writer‚ “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” Ella Baker fits directed toward Campbell’s definition of a hero by devoting herself delicately facing her pertinent career. Baker was a consistent African-American civil rights
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The short story “ A Man Who Was Almost A Man” by Richard Wright is about a young man named Dave who struggles with being able to grow up and become a man. Dave has a hard time growing up and becoming a man because of his mother and his father. His mother realizes that he is not fully prepared to take on the task that a man would have to perform so she keeps him sheltered. Dave believes that if he gets a gun that the will be recognized as a man. Dave has the concept of being a man misconstrued.
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black cloud. He was born on December 29 which seemed a foreshadowing of his whole life for two reasons. First‚ his birthday‚ the most important day for a young boy‚ was associated with tragedy‚ because both of his grandfathers died on December 28‚ his grandmother on December 29‚ and his sister lost a baby early one January. The close of the year‚ which contained his birthday‚ was often a time of mourning‚ instead of his rightful time of joy and attention. His birthday celebration was also upstaged
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Who Was To Blame For The Cold War? The blame for the Cold War cannot be placed on one person -- it developed as a series of chain reactions as a struggle for supremacy. It can be argued that the Cold War was inevitable‚ and therefore no one’s fault‚ due to the differences in the capitalist and communist ideologies. It was only the need for self-preservation that had caused the two countries to sink their differences temporarily during the Second World War. Yet many of the tensions that existed
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The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog It is amazing‚ ridiculous‚ and sometimes scary how the brain deals with trauma. It is also ludicrous to believe that your environment and how you are treated are not always believed to strongly affect children. The first story in this book is a very moving one. I thought it interesting and appropriate that that was his first child patient. One of the helpful people in this book that stood out to me was Mama P. Her intuitive knowledge of her "babies" is amazing
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Poe does provide a narrator who claims he is not mad but there is signs that provide he is going crazy. In my opinion this makes him an unreliable narrator. We as a reader are not able to trust everything he saying to us since he is saying something but doing another thing. Although we can conclude he is crazy because since the start he said he loved the old man but his eye was evil. He is trying to justify the reason he murdered this old man. Yet‚ there is no justification for killing that old man
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