Analysis of the extract from “The fun they had” The story under the title "The Fun They Had" was written by a highly prolific American writer‚ one of the three grand masters of science fiction - Isaac Asimov. The key in this text is lyrical. The theme is probably "the influence of technology on the process of teaching." In this story the author uses colloquial speech and jargonized words‚ such as “gee‚ I guess‚ I betcha“ here‚ to show us that these children are rather ordinary‚ and looks similar
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Throughout the texts‚ “The First Seven Years‚” the story of Jacob and Rachel‚ the poem‚ "I Wish I Had Said...‚" and the Time article‚ the common theme of love is treated similarly and differently. For example‚ in the Time article and “First Seven Years‚” both of the main characters are playing matchmaker and trying to find a person a spouse. Feld is trying to play matchmaker and find Miriam a young‚ good looking man to be her husband‚ but Miriam has different ideas‚ when she discovers Max is boring
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„Robinson Crusoe” as Bildungsroman Daniel Defoe’s life is full of gaps and mysteries‚ of contradictions and dramatic turns. As a journalist‚ he excelled in the writing of the political pamphlet‚ and his criticism of the system made him highly controversial‚ and even landed him in prison. In time‚ his journalistic career in time gave birth to a literary career. Defoe was sixty in 1719 when he wrote Robinson Crusoe‚ and during the following five years he was to write most of his fiction‚ thus becoming
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A Reaction Paper on the Story: “The Best Teacher I Ever Had” Thank you first for this interesting story; in fact‚ there are no enough words to explain how this story affected me. This maybe because of being a little bit sentimental; I was about to cry for pain towards Teddy; unless of being afraid‚ to feel shame by the presence of my colleagues. But‚ regardless to the dramatic feeling‚ I found that there are some beneficial lessons to pull out from this story‚ that could be resumed in the following
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Jackie Chan Jackie Chan was born in 1954‚ the son of a poor couple who had just come to Hong Kong from the Province of Shandong‚ China. When he was born‚ his parents could barely raise the money for the hospital bill‚ and were almost forced to adopt him out to the delivering doctor. His parents tried very hard to raise money to pay the hospital bill and took Jackie‚ their only child‚ home. They named him Chan Kong-sang‚ which means "born in Hong Kong"‚ to celebrate their safe arrival in Hong
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Dominic Wills. Jackie Chan Biography. [Online] 22‚ April 2008. URL<http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/jackie_chan_biog.html>. Jackie Chan is 5’8” in height! Attended Nah-hwa primary school at Hong Kong‚ but spent his travel money on food‚ and got into a lot of fights with caucasian kids attending schools in the area. He failed to pass primary 1 while his peers went on to primary 3‚ so his dad enrolled him at peking opera school when he was 7 years old. His dad‚ Charles‚ left
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looking at the differences in society. The Tom Robinson trial is an important asset in To Kill a Mockingbird which emphasizes the racial injustices in court. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in Maycomb county and the father of the lead protagonist‚ Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. Atticus agreed to defend Tom Robinson‚ a black man accused
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How I Made a Good First Impression As everybody knows‚ the first minutes of communication with humans form a first opinion. I made a good first impression on my husband the first time that we met. I showed up with a nice dress which was appropriate for the restaurant. I looked fresh‚ a little bit a perfume‚ and my hair looked beautiful‚ so that it showed that I respect him‚ and making a good first impression for him was really important for me. After I hugged him if he were an old friend‚ he
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accustomed to in everyday life. Therefore these certain individuals are viewed as outcasts to society for no certain reason at all‚ such as skin color. One character who was symbolized by the mockingbird was a black man‚ Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson was a man who had been wrongly viewed by society. Society viewed him as just a black man living in a white
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Robinson Crusoe and Friday Essay Families‚ in the late 17th century‚ played an important role in the development of children. Since Robinson Crusoe left his family at a relatively young age‚ he was unable to see that people cared for him on a daily basis. To be set free‚ a person is able to live on their own without being told what to do and when to do it‚ with the government being the exception in that you have to do what they tell you to do. Crusoe fails to set Friday free because‚ Friday is
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