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    The Great Gatsby: Symbols of Honesty and Dishonesty within its Characters The 1920’s are known as the Roaring Twenties where there was economical prosperity and moral decline. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby displays many symbols throughout the text of this moral decline‚ one being honesty versus dishonesty‚ these symbols are represented within the characters Jordan Baker and Nick Carraway. Jordan Baker is a symbol of dishonesty and vice versa so is Nick Carraway but rather for honesty. Nick’s truthfulness

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    Good afternoon everybody. Today I’d like to take the time to discuss how scenes from Shakespeare’s play Othello are reshaped to create meaning in Tim Nelson’s film ‘O’. Othello is a Shakespearean tragedy written and set in the Victorian era which tells the story of a powerful general of the Venetian party whose life and marriage is a ruined by a malevolent and envious soldier named Iago. Tim Nelson’s film ‘O’ is a transformation of Shakespeare’s Othello which has been taken and placed into a modern

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    ‘Examine how Martin Luther King creates impact in two of his speeches and two contexts’ Martin Luther King’s speeches can be recalled in all parts of the world today‚ largely through his charismatic‚ albeit remarkably energetic demeanour. The powerful message that manifests itself in many of his orations - the dream in which Negros would one day be on equal terms with white people - appealed to his admiring audiences infallibly speech after speech. His lectures display his optimistic aspirations

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    “A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I and II” Starting on Act 1‚ tensions and problems already begin to introduce themselves. It all begins with love and war. With the audience wanting Demetrius‚ Lysander‚ Hermia‚ and Helena to be separated lovers‚ the author places both Demetrius and Lysander to love Hermia instead of Helena. I consider this unbalanced love with a happy ending. The reason why I say this is because Shakespeare creates a dramatic feel and role to the play in the beginning. By establishing

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    English Controlled Assessment Draft: Conflict in the Crucible The play I am studying for this essay is called “The Crucible” and I will be focusing on Act 1 of the book. The question I will be answering is what’s the most powerful type of conflict in the opening act of the crucible? The word conflict means a state of disharmony‚ opposition and or fighting. The conflict portrayed in the Crucible is often described as tools used to describe events in Millers time period. For example‚ witchcraft doesn’t

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    Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management. Dubbed "the GPS of the information universe"‚ topic maps are also destined to provide powerful new ways of navigating large and interconnected corpora. While it is possible to represent immensely complex structures using topic maps‚ the basic concepts of the model — Topics‚ Associations‚ and Occurrences

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    Just like the story Confetti Girl‚ the story Tortilla Sun has tension between the remaining parent and child. This tension is caused by the different point of views between the two. In the story‚ Izzy and her mom seem to have a very close relationship. The author made it seem like nothing could ruin their special bond in the beginning of the of the passage. Shortly later‚ Izzy’s mom brings up that she is leaving for Costa Rica on Tuesday so she can finally get her degree. She says that it will change

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    Book Report: Non-Fiction Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust by Jacob Boas Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer Hiding to Survive: Stories of Jewish Children Rescued from the Holocaust by Maxine B. Rosenberg Parts of the Book Report: Title Page Actual Book Report Contents of Book Report: 1. Discuss the setting of the book.

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    How does Steinbeck use Foreshadowing and Settings effectively in Of Mice and Men? John Ernst Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men uses a lot of foreshadowing and clever settings effectively‚ which makes his novel a great book. The use of foreshadowing entices the reader and makes you want to read on. The well-described settings make a vivid image of what is actually going on and help us think what it really was like during the 1930’s. Steinbeck uses masses of foreshadowing throughout his book. For instance

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    John Steinbeck was born in February 27‚ 1902 in Salinas‚ California. Salinas was an agricultural valley in California. His father was the county treasurer and his mother was a schoolteacher. This is where his education began from a mother that encouraged him to read. The community was a comfortable environment for him to live in because of the encouragement of independence and initiative. His parents didn’t want him to be a writer. They wanted him to have a true profession as a lawyer. His early

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