gone‚ I look at Brewsters knuckles and see they looked the way mine was‚ this is a mystery to solve.(p.249)” I chose this quote because I honestly thought it sounded weird and creepy. The author of the Bruiser is young adult Neal Shusterman‚ the book is a level 5.5 and is supernatural fiction. It takes place in the twins house Tennyson and Bronte and the mysterious brewsters house‚ One day Tennyson tells his twin sister‚Bronte to stay away from “The Bruiser “ aka Brewster. She has a knack for bad boys
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hurts and it is hard to deal with. From the book‚ The House on Mango Street and the short story‚ “By Any Other Name”‚ the girls in the stories are treated horribly‚ discriminated against‚ disrespected‚ and are victims of prejudice‚ because of this we learn that discrimination hurts and effects the way that we live our lives in a negative manner. In both of the stories‚ all three girls (and in some cases more) are treated horribly. In The House on Mango Street‚ Esperanza describes one of her experience
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1.) “I had heard of Miss Havisham up town everybody for miles round‚ had heard of Miss Havisham up town as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers‚ and who led a life of seclusion.” o Pip’s town is socially stratified. He lives in a "village‚" and Miss Havisham lives "up town." this delineation between the wealthy and working class in the town is palpable and is reinforced by the gate that guards Miss Havisham’s decaying riches. 2.) “I wished
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April 6‚ 2011 U.S History Period 2 Homework; Quote ACE Response Quote; “The Negro slaves of the South are the happiest‚ and in some sense‚ the freest people in the world… The free laborer must work or starve. He is more of slave than the Negro‚ because he works longer and harder for less allowance than the slave.” George Fitzhugh‚ 1857 ACE Response; This is a famous quote entitled “The Blessings of Slavery”. I feel
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Question 1 Christopher Balderas I think telling a story out of sequence makes the story more effective in conveying its message after you have read the whole story. In the beginning of an out of sequence story you might have a lot of questions on why things are occurring‚ and why the author would tell you‚ for example‚ the end of the story at the beginning of the book. The disorganization
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Beauty Quotes “I worked and studied with passionate dedication‚ lived in hope‚ and avoided society and mirrors.” (McKinley 5) Beauty is describing herself. She does not feel as though she matches up to her older sisters so she spends her time studying. This shows she does not like the way she looks and that she has grown to except this. “Hope and I met‚ usually in my bedroom‚ to discuss how “the other two” were doing‚” (McKinley 22) After Grace’s‚ Beauty’s older sister‚ loses her fiancée at sea
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Claim: I believe a team‚ no matter if it’s a football team or speech team‚ should be funded‚ awarded‚ and accepted equally. Quote: “Nearly all of the graduating seniors will remember the name and escapades of their star quarterback; nearly none of them will ever even realize that their class produced Arizona’s first national champion in Lincoln-Douglas debate.” Comment: I completely agree with this author. I think that not a lot of kids remember the nerds. I think they work just as hard if
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Pompeian houses. What do they each tell us about the status of their owners? Within Pompeii‚ the size and decorative aspects of someone’s home explained a lot about their monetary wealth and what sort of social status they upheld. People who had money and good social status would decorate their homes with High Greek culture for example myths and mosaics of Greek heroes. Whereas people from a lower class‚ tended to use less grandeur within the decorative style of their homes. The houses that I shall
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The quote that Lee says is “Before I can live with other folks‚ I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience” This quote means that in order to like other people you need to know yourself‚ because if you don’t know what makes you happy you won’t know who makes you happy. The first reason everyone needs self confidence is because self confidence helps us succeed or acquire even further progress than when we failed. Without self confidence
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Cultural context In this essay I will be discussing the architectural qualities of the ‘Farnsworth House’ by ‘Mies Van Der Rohe’. Mies Van Der Rohe was born in Germany in 1886 and died in USA in 1969. He managed to complete projects such as ‘Commonwealth Plaza’‚ ‘860-880 Lake Shore Drive apartments’‚ Crown hall’ and ‘Seagram Building’ in which the structure for all was out of steel and glass. (Franz SCHULZE 2004:294) It could be said that architectural qualities can be the set of qualities
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