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    The Round House

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    he was only thirteen and lived a somber‚ isolated lifestyle from then on‚ leading to his inevitable passage into adulthood happening at an earlier stage in life than it should have. Louise Erdrich foreshadows this in the first chapter of The Round House through the image of the Handbook of Federal Indian Law‚ by Felix Cohen. This book symbolizes Joe’s mental coming of age and his rapid maturation into the new realm of adulthood. It is first evident that this book is a representation of Joe’s

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    The Birchbark House

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    Micro theme 3 In The Birchbark House‚ three characters had died. There was the visitor‚ a white man‚ Ten Snow‚ Omakayas’ friend‚ and Neewo‚ Omakayas’ youngest brother. In Waterlily‚ Gloku‚ Waterlily’s grandmother‚ dies as well as Sacred Horse‚ Waterlily’s husband. It all started in the beginning to middle of winter when the characters in The Birchbark House started dying off. One day‚ after the first snow and the lake had frozen over‚ a group of men dragged their sled of furs from the mainland

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    The Boarding House

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    THE BOARDING HOUSE The Boarding House is included in Dubliners‚ a collection of fifteen short stories by the Irish poet and novelist James Joyce‚ which was first published in 1914. This story of a boarding house‚ like the other stories in Dubliners‚ describes the lives of ordinary citizens of Dublin and illustrates their various qualities. There are three main characters - Mrs. Mooney‚ her daughter Polly and Mr. Doran. At the very beginning the author describes Mrs. Mooney‚ who relinquished

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    a doll's house

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    doll’s house TOPIC:Compare passage A and passage B excerpts of any unit (exclude unit3)‚ and write a report under any topic you choose. (suggestion: content‚ theme‚ form and writing technics‚ etc.) 班级:卓会12-1 学号:201205001464 姓名:李晟 the word-count on the cover:918 abstract A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare.The play is one of Shakespeare’s most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world. A a doll’s house is significant

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    A Doll's House

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    Reflective Statement on a Doll’s House How was your understanding of cultural and contextual (literary) considerations of the novel developed through the oral exercise? When I first started reading the play I was prepared for it to be a little backward since I had the knowledge of it been written in the 19th century and set in Norway;in which time day to day life and the culture was very closed and what it’s called now is backwards. In the beginning of the play‚ I felt really bad for Nora when

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    House as a Home

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    HOUSE AS A HOME… How can you consider your house as a home? Before proceeding to answer this query‚ it would be better to know first the meaning of home and house. According to International New Webster Dictionary of the English Language‚ a home is a “private living quarters of a person. A house is a “building for a person of family to live in”. HOME… a home should be a ” little heaven on earth” . a home is a place where the affections are cultivated instead of being repressed. Our happiness

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    your own life” says Ms. Linde to Nora in their first conversation. Ms. Linde who is part of the sub-plot is used as a convenient device for exposition but also to introduce idea’s in the play‚ being that she is an “old” friend of Nora’s. A doll’s house is a tragic play written in the form of a well-made play by Ibsen who wants to introduce the idea of social control and expectations in society. Ibsen uses Krogstad and Ms. Linde as tools for convenience and flow to the play‚ although it has been criticized

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    Slaughter House

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    Dreadful Destruction of Dresden ​Slaughter-House-Five written by Kurt Vonnegut is a novel about a character named Billy Pilgrim‚ who was a Prisoner of War in WWII who fought during the bombing of Dresden in Germany.  Since the war Billy has never been the same returning home.  He constantly travels back in time to the memories of being in Dresden and how horrible the war was.  Billy has insane time travel stories throughout the book making readers believe he is crazy. Kurt Vonnegut himself was a

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    The House of Spirits

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    Life in Affection Much of The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende revolves around the life of one of its main characters Esteban Trueba. Esteban Trueba is an aggressive‚ violent character whose only goals throughout the novel are to achieve success and power. The reader sees his brutal nature through the way he deals with people around him‚ whom in his eyes are all significantly inferior. However‚ one minor character in The House of the Spirits seems to change Trueba’s aggressive nature

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    Hull House

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    Chicago are explained very well throughout the readings from the Hull House articles. They give real world insight to what the time was like back then. The Hull House was founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 and was the most famous Settlement House in the United States. The first section that I chose to read was the “Beginnings of Settlement Life In Chicago” and the area of The Experiment in Chicago. Making the Hull House available to those who were not fortunate was a great idea to create

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