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    Connor from Unwind

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    Connor Lassiter (the "Akron AWOL") is a sixteen-year-old boy whose parents signed the unwind order because of his constant fighting and getting thrown out of several schools. His escape and shooting the JuveyCop with his own tranqulizer gun creates a legend about the Akron AWOL‚ with stories that continue to become more elaborate with each telling. Connor doesn’t admit to being the Akron AWOL until Roland discovers it at the harvest camp. Connor changes from being an uncontrolled fighter to a person

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    GREAT CHILDREN’S LEARNING HUB ONLINE ENROLMENT SYSTEM A Capstone Project Presented to the Faculty of the Department of Computer Science University of San Carlos In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Information and Communications Technology by Dean Mar E. Diana Ariel A. Augusto Ms. Stephanie Polinar‚ MBA Faculty Adviser March 2014 ENDORSEMENT This project entitled “GREAT CHILDREN’S LEARNING HUB ONLINE

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    In the story‚ “Everything Everything‚” by Nicola Yoon‚ Madeline Whittier has a very rare disease called‚ severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)‚ also known as "bubble baby disease.” This disease causes Madeline to not be able to go outside. Throughout the book Madeline faces many obstacles. One of the obstacles that she faces is when Olly‚ the boy who moved next door and her fall in love with each other. With Madeline being allergic to outside it makes it very hard for her to talk and see Olly.

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    Severe Combined Immunodeficiency is a disease that makes someone allergic to anything at any time or get really bad infections. This is what Madeline Whitter has in the book EverythingEverything by Nicola Yoon. She has never left the house in the last seventeen years and only lives with her mother since her dad and brother was killed in a car accident. One day‚ a boy named Olly Bright moves in next door and Madeline really wants to meet him‚ but that would be risking her life. The different

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    Foreshadowing In Macbeth

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    Shakespeare uses many literary devices is his writing. One that plays a major role in The Tragedy of Macbeth is foreshadowing. "Fair is foul‚ and foul is fair” (The Tragedy of Macbeth‚ Act I:Sc. I‚ line 13) lays setting for the majority of the play and foreshadows that not everything is what it seems. “No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive/or bosom interest: go pronounce his present death‚/ And with his former title greet Macbeth.” (The Tragedy of Macbeth‚ Act I:Sc II‚ lines 91-93) by receiving

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    Irony

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    Irony Matt looked on as Mr Lensher was handcuffed by the police. The wrinkles on his face were suddenly so detailed that Matt suspected if he had made the right decision. Aged sixty‚ a sentence for theft would have caused to die in jail. Ironically‚ Matt could remember the exact same words Mr Lensher once told him‚ "No matter how old or young a person is‚ or whatever reason he has for committing a crime‚ if he breaks the law‚ he deserves to be punished. " It was these exact words that made Matt

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    Foreshadowing in The Lottery In the short story The Lottery‚ (reprinted in Perrine’s Literature: Structure‚ Sound‚ and Sense‚ 7th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt‚ 1998] 421) Shirley Jackson depicts a special day‚ June 27‚ in the lives of the inhabitants of a small‚ apparently serene village. The use of foreshadowing is applied extensively to hint to the reader that despite the seemingly festive occasion‚ there is something morbid about the lottery that causes the people of the town to be uneasy. Jackson

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    Ophelia Foreshadowing

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    to do that. Ophelia Foreshadowing Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius and whom Hamlet loves. Her role in the play was to be Hamlet’s girl in the play. There was some foreshadowing that led to the dead of Ophelia. In the beginning of the play Hamlet starts to act a little crazy with meant Ophelia was gonna be treated differently. If Hamlet didn’t go crazy and mad ‚ it wouldn’t have made Ophelia depressed making her kill herself later on in the play. Another foreshadowing of Ophelia deaf would be

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    their speech every day. However‚ few people know what they’re called. In his short story “The Whirligig of Life” O Henry demonstrates five common examples of literary devices. The first example of figurative language is in the very beginning of the excerpt‚ “The Ransom of Red Chief”. O Henry ironically uses the simile “as flat as a flannel cake” to describe the town of Summit. The irony is that the flat town of Summit doesn’t contain a single summit. The author presents many similes in his writing

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    In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein‚ the author takes you on a journey through a time of scientific error. As she embraces the horrors of scientific advancement through different frame narratives she uses imagery and foreshadowing to enhance the terror of it all. Imagery brings the novel to life and allows you to visualize the intense details of the dark monster created by Victor Frankenstein. As the story progresses the importance of the relationship between a creator and

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