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    How does Fitzgerald tell the story in chapter 1 of ‘The Great Gatsby’?” Fitzgerald opens the first chapter introducing us to Nick Carroway‚ who is clearly of first person narration and he is telling the story from the future. By telling the story as though it has already occurred‚ Fitzgerald has created the illusion that his main character has already experienced the events that are unfolding. This ensures that Nick is a retrospective narrator throughout the book but also obviously a bias story

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    How does Ian McEwan tell the story in Chapter 9? Ian McEwan uses a variety of techniques in order to tell the story throughout the novel ‘Enduring Love’. Looking at Chapter 9 in close detail I am going to analyse the ways in which McEwan tells the story with the use of form‚ structure and language. The majority of the novel is told in the first person however chapter 9 has a third person narrative and is in the present tense. McEwan uses Joe’s narratives in order to explain Clarissa’s perspective

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    Analyse and evaluate how the Smithsonian National Museum of American History September 11 Website and ONE related text of your choosing represent history and memory in unique and evocative ways Good Morning teachers and students‚ my name is Lala Smith‚ and I’d like to share and address to you my own personal understanding as both a composer and responder‚ of historymemory and their representations. Standing here before you‚ I will elaborate further into the relationship of both factors and

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    Barefoot A True Story It was a beautiful‚ sunny day out‚ and I woke up only to figure out I had to clean. My chores were assigned and I got stuck with the bathroom‚ mopping‚ and dishes. Our cousins whom I adore were coming to visit us from Arkansas. Although I didn’t know it at the time. We see them once a year at Thanksgiving‚ so this was a big deal. Our parents told us some of our friends from where we use to live were coming to visit us. I finished my bedroom which only needed to be tidied up

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    relationship between history and memory. This notion is explored in the autobiographical book through the depiction of his parents’‚ and his own past. The bricolage style of the text aids in portraying the interplay between history and memory‚ enabling a more cohesive representation of the lasting repercussions of the Holocaust. Due to the traumatic nature of her past experiences‚ Genia finds historical accounts of the Holocaust confronting to reconcile with her own memories. This tension is depicted

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    (n.d.). Retrieved August 31‚ 2014‚ from New Hampshire Public Television website: http://www.nhptv.org/authors/alphabet.asp “Chapter One – Colonial Missionaries and Their Schools” from Reyhner‚ J.‚ & Eder‚ J. (2004). American Indian Education: A History. Norman‚ OK: University of Oklahoma Press. Carty‚ B.‚ Macready‚ S.‚ & Sayers‚ E.E. (2009). “A grave and gractious woman”: Deaf people and signed language in colonial New England. Sign Language Studies‚ 9(3)‚ 287-323. Hiner‚ N.R. (1973). The cry

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    campaign also know as the Desert War took place in the early 1940’s during world war II. “The North African campaign had three phases: the Western desert campaign (western Egypt and eastern Libya); Operation Torch(Algeria and Morocco); and the Tunisia campaign”. After the defeat of France and the withdrawal of British forces at Dunkirk‚ the center of warfare soon came to be north africa between the axis and allied forces america wasnt involved in the desert war physically but materilistic Rosevelt

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    How to become a true Russian The personality of Russians is a particularly interesting subject. Russians contrast themselves with the materialistic culture of the West and define themselves in terms of spirituality and their “Russian soul.” Russian national character was explored by outstanding novelists and came to be used by historians and political scientists as part of the explanation for Russia’s history. Every nation has its own character. It is no wonder that so much has

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    Willa Cather’s My Anthonia‚ in my opinion was not only easy to read but also a thoroughly enjoyable read. It tells the vivid stories of several immigrant families who move to the rural state of Nebraska to start new lives in America. A Bohemian family‚ by the name of the Shimerdas‚ is one of the main focal points of the story. The eldest daughter of the Shimerda family is named Antonia. The book’s narrator‚ Jim Burden‚ arrives in the town of Black Hawk‚ Nebraska‚ on the same train as the Shimerdas

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    In her article‚ “The Vietnam War in American Memory‚” Marilyn Young discusses that the Vietnam War “happened among Americans.” What Young is saying is that there was a war going on in Vietnam‚ but there was also animosity between the American soldiers and citizens. It was a horrifying and devastating time in American during the Vietnam War and Young even describes it as‚ “American civil War.” Young inquiries the government on why America got involved in this war in the first place. In the film

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