Jasmine Tsai E. McCarthy Fourth Period AP Lang 25 September 2011 Close Reading: Visual Advertisement In this eye-catching print advertisement for Mentos Gum‚ marketers successfully captured the attention of their intended market: those who are interested in bold flavors with natural origins (as I am among them.) This is achieved through the texture and style of the text‚ the meaning the text bears‚ as well as the brightness of the ad itself. Accompanying the extensive usage of the color green
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The Awakening Close Textual Analysis Semester 2‚ 2013 Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is the tragic story of Edna Pontellier‚ a young wife and mother who has realised how confining domestic and married life is‚ and has begun to seek ways in which to rebel against societal conventions. It is the story of her transformation from being a woman who accepted her role as a housewife without question‚ to one who discovered the true joy of independent thought and action. The extract selected‚ chapter
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Looking at how femininity is expressed in Japanese culture from the perspective of the movie Close Knit we are given a specific focus on femininity and gender performance‚ motherhood. This is played out in two main forces in the movie that are in conflict with one another‚ as well as one that is an intersection of the two‚ but also distinct in its’ own way. The first is Rinko‚ who was born male but had completed the transition into female before the beginning of the movie. Rinko participates in many
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The eldest child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush‚ George Walker Bush‚ was born on July 6‚ 1946. His family had been involved in business and politics since in 1950s. The family moved to Midland‚ Texas and this is where George W. Bush’s father made his fortune in oil business in 1948. In 1961‚ they moved again to Houston and George W. Bush entered Phillips Academy in Andover‚ Massachusetts. He played all kind of sports‚ baseball‚ basketball‚ and football. He had a reputation
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Why did the finches of the Galapagos Islands die around the dry season of 1977? This has been an important question lately. The answer to this question actually starts a year before in the dry season of 1976. In this season there was a drought. The temperature was higher than usual‚ and the rainfall was minimal. Actually no rain fell. This drought led to a chain of events that ended up with the finches dead. The first part of the chain occurred when the drought caused the plants to not produce as
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Jasper Jones Close Reading By Lindie Naudé In this passage from the novel Jasper Jones‚ written by Craig Silvey‚ Charlie is busy filling in a hole‚ which his mother told him to dig and then refill after a fight‚ and his father finally comes to tell him he can stop. This scene results in Charlie’s ever growing anxiety over Laura’s death and Jaspers own fate. Within this scene Charlie seems to regress to a childish state with a cynical understanding of the relationships around him‚ showing his
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1. Although Elinor knew before that Edward and Lucy would probably be married‚ she was still very hurt by the news. This entire secrete marriage seemed somewhat odd to me‚ as a reader‚ because Jane Austen doesn’t foreshadow this event in the text. Robert Ferrars and Lucy Steele hardly seem to know each other. It seems to me that Jane Austen just placed this relationship into the plot instead of letting it naturally develop throughout the book. 2. The expectation of an unpleasant event was very
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Plot Development The spillway is set at party at Dana’s house but the spillway is a dangerous narrow path across a waterway and very important part to develop the story line. “The setting is rapidly planned which allows the action of the story to begin. The party throbbed on‚ like a living thing with an existence and momentum all its own” (Kirkwood M‚). More clues are given right through the story about other settings about the spillway such as: “there has been an open dare to walk across the
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His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father‚ who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter‚ a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building‚ and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately‚ Oskar ends his journey where it began‚ at his father’s grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother’s apartment. Oskar reminisces about his father and the games
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Passage 1 This passage is a very good representation of the overall character of Nathan Price. His stubborn attitude and refusal to admit that he is wrong comes through very strongly in the passage. Especially towards the beginning of the book that really helps readers understand the character and carry that understanding throughout the rest of the book. The violent nature of the passage also reflects Nathan’s attitude and actions towards his family throughout the book. Also‚ the passage discusses
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