was the first “young-adult” book I’d ever read‚ and it transported me to a new and thrilling world; one with winged children‚ bloodthirsty wolf-hybrids‚ and action scenes upon action scenes. It was the first time of many that I would completely
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How to Read CLOSELY and SUCCESFULLY 1. Annotate Use ALL of the annotation skills we’ve learned all year—look for literary devices‚ themes‚ characters‚ moments that make you question‚ predict of connect with the text. 2. Read the questions accompanying the passage FIRST It ALWAYS helps to know what you are looking for! 3. Read the passage slowly and carefully… Be aware of the time…but don’t rush. Check the clock and set a pace for yourself. 4. When answering the questions‚ PAY ATTENTION
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ESSAY 2 Aura A. De Leon Sosa Professor A. Webb September 26‚ 2014 Learning How to Read and Write By Frederick Douglass “Learning how to Read and Write by Frederick Douglass is based on the very unfair life of this little boy (Douglass) who was born a slave. In his essay Douglass began expressing how his mistress was a very kind woman when he met her. This kind woman started to teach him how to read. However after her husband forbade her to teach him‚ she transformed herself
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Like men‚ women have always played a specific role in society. Depending on the perspective of the viewer‚ one may say that the role woman have should change dramatically. In Ibsen’s play‚ A Doll House‚ legendary Greek playwright Euripides’ play‚ Medea and Eavan Boland’s poem “A Woman’s World‚” the idea of a “woman’s place” and the appropriate conception of a “Woman’s World” is challenged. In all of these pieces of literature‚ women are faced with inevitable misogyny and unjustified predetermined
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Journal 1 Hearing that I had to read The Taming of the Shew‚ I was not enthusiastic at all. I read the play previously in my eighth grade literature class‚ years ago‚ and I have not been a Shakespeare fan since then. Also‚ if I had the power to ban Shakespeare from any educational curriculum‚ then I probably would. I believe that Shakespeare belongs in a History class or a class just on Shakespeare‚ for its dated‚ old‚ and not quite fit for many modern English learners like myself. However‚ since it is
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2) Miss Julie/ A Dolls house DFK 120 Erene Oberholzer 11045231 Dr. M. Taub 4 September 2012 In this essay two plays‚ Miss Julie written by August Strindberg‚ and A Dolls House written by Hendrik Ibsen will be compared and concerns such as gender‚ identity and class will be contextualized. The section I’ve chosen to portray realism and other elements concerning these two plays resourced to the last pages of both scripts. As I see the last pages construct the difference between the plays and
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In Catherine Mansfield’s " The Doll’s house"‚ the main theme is on the injustices and cruelty associated with class distinctions. Set in New Zealand sometime after it becomes a colony‚ Mansfield shows how the differences among social classes are closely adhered to. She also explores themes such as how the high class people take deliberate pleasure in being cruel to the lower classes‚ and how innocently born children who are brought up in this atmosphere can become easily influenced. Mansfield uses
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WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYI N G An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People JOE NAVARRO FBI Special Agent (Ret.) with Marvin Karlins‚ Ph.D. To my grandmother‚ Adelina‚ whose withered hands lovingly molded a child into a man. —J O E N AVA R R O To my wife‚ Edyth‚ who has blessed me with her love and taught me what it means to be a caring human being. —MARVIN KARLINS CONTENTS Foreword: I See What You’re Thinking Acknowledgments ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX Mastering the Secrets
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How to Read a Roman Portrait SHELDON NODELMAN from E. D’Ambra‚ ed.‚ Roman Art in Context. NY: Prentice Hall. 1993 pp. 10‐20 Like all works of art. the portrait is a system of signs; it is often an ideogram of “public’ meanings condensed into the image of a human face. Roman portrait sculpture from the Republic through the late Empire-the second century BCE. to the sixth CE -constitutes what is surely the most remarkable body of portrait art ever created. Its shifting montage of abstractions from
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Outline Prescribed question: Power and privilege: “How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? Title of text for analysis: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen‚ Norway 1879. Task is related to course section: Part 3: Literature texts and context Task focus: This essay focuses on Ibsen’s way of representing women‚ it explains why does he represent them in that specific particular way and how the time‚ era and context he lived in affected this aim. It states that women are
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