Noughts and Crosses- Malorie Blackman The book Noughts and Crosses is a sitting on the fence sort of book for me. The writing of it hooked you in and made you think but I absolutely hated what happened in the end. The plot was good but as I said I didn’t like some things that occurred during the novel‚ like the fact Callum dying made me want to scream and rip my hair out (I did restrain myself by the way). But the fact that I did want to do that was because you grew attached to the characters‚ as
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Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s greatest and most intriguing female characters. She is evil‚ loving and witch-like all at the same time. However‚ during the play we see her in two different ways. At the time when we first meet her‚ she is a brutally violent‚ power wanting witch‚ and later on she turns to a shameful suicidal grieving woman. At the beginning of Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth is very vicious. She thinks nothing of killing King Duncan. She has no sense of what is wrong and right‚ and
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PERSONAL RESPONSE TO LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI The novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta (1993)‚ is about a young 16 year old girl named Josephine Alibrandi trying to find herself in her final year of high school. It shows high and lows throughout the novel with Josie finding her father and starting a relationship with him‚ to losing her close friend John Barton from suicide. There are many themes in the novel such as Family‚ Relationships‚ Search for identity and MULTICULTURALISM. The narrative
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What intrigues me most about the poems of T.S Eliot is the subtle delicateness of his writing and yet it is delivered with amazing strength and profound depth. In certain poems‚ I felt that Eliot wrote in a rather impersonal‚ detached dry tone. However a lot of his poetic lines are brimming with attitude. His general tone is quite understated. However this only serves to sharpen the impact on the reader’s feelings. I felt his poetry was a type of aesthetic despair. While registering a despairing
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PERSONAL RESPONSE TO TEXTS ASSIGNMENT Suggested time: approximately 45 to 60 minutes You have been provided with three texts on pages 1 to 4. In “The Jackhammer Syndrome” by Al Purdy‚ the speaker recalls transcendent moments of elation as he walks about in his business suit. In the excerpt from The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean‚ Laroche is characterized as an individual who pursues his personal obsessions while maintaining an unconventional code of conduct. In Gilbert Garcin’s Diogenes or Lucidity
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“Eveline”‚ is a story about a 19 year old girl who diligently reflects on the life she has had residing in the same town (in Dublin) with her siblings‚ everyone she knows‚ and her abusive father whom she labours excessively for to support. This is the same town her mother died in that she now anticipates leaving for Buenos Ayres‚ with her fiancé Frank. The story of Eveline‚ by James Joyce‚ handles many interconnected themes such as attachments‚ escape and identity‚ which employs great attention
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On Thursday‚ November 12‚ 2015‚ at approximately 0333 hours. I responded to Waffle House‚ 1170 West Avenue for a disturbance in progress. The caller advised Conyers Communication that a verbal altercation had taken place. They then stayed the subject left in a silver pickup truck towards the Motel 6‚ 1351 Dogwood Drive. As I patrolled the area‚ I noticed a silver Dodge Ram‚ Ga tag CCN8347‚ had left the Waffle House parking lot. The vehicle made a left onto Dogwood Drive and continued towards the
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Anass Elwawi ENGL 2290 Dr.Shawn Casey September 16‚ 2016 Mary Rowlandson Response Paper Mary Rowlandson‚ the daughter of a wealthy land holder in the Massachusetts Bay colony‚ was a victim of the King Philip war. She got married to Joseph Rowlandson at the age of 18‚ they had four children‚ one in which died in infancy. Shortly before the King Philip war ended a group of American Indians attacked the city of Lancaster and captured Mrs. Rowlandson along with her 3 children and a group of settlers
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Assignment 1.2: Summary and Personal Response-“Farm Girl” by Jessica Hemauer Gloria Warner Professor Amy Williams ENG115: English Composition August 11‚ 2013 From reading the passage “Farm Girl” by Jessica Hemauer‚ helped me realize how easy I had it as a child. She has had big responsibilities all her life‚ and I myself was amazed on how she managed it all. The genre of this passage is a nonfiction narrative. She tells a true story about her life‚ and I never got bored reading this at all
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Hi Russsel‚ First and foremost‚ I apologize for the tardy response. I’m swamped in work and have little to no time for myself these days. Right now‚ I’m about to finish a few chapters on Differential Equations and probably Dynamics‚ if time allows. The entire spring break I labored doing mostly course work‚ spending sleepless nights trying to catch up on topics that I didn’t quite fully understand. Things got even worst upon returning back to campus a week after‚ a departmental advisor related to
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