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    To Be or Not to Be

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    Series of Quotes ▪ Schopenhaur‚ “The world is my representation.” ▪ 50th Gate Quotes: - "[I]t was not the facts that were held under suspicion‚ but her credibility as a survivor. Unlike my father‚ she could never show her children the scars on her arm; hers were invisible‚ numbered in the days and years of her stolen childhood." - ‘Let their memory be bound up in the bond of life.’ - ‘So always remember it‚ and your children will remember it. They will survive‚ they will

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    The story I analyzed was “Beauty and the Beast” by Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont. In this story there is a wealthy merchant with 6 children‚ 3 boys and 3 girls. The youngest daughter Beauty was the epitome of the perfect person; where as her sisters were very pompous and only cared about materialistic items and status. Their father’s fortune was lost and the family had to move out to the countryside. The father then took a trip to the homeport to get his fortune back‚ but instead he was left

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    Jeanne Fahnestock’s Accommodating Science: The Rhetorical Life of Scientific Facts (1998) is a comparative study which describes the changes in genre and information that take place when accommodating scientific texts to lay audiences. Fahnestock identifies three main ideas that affect the changes of genre and information‚ they are: The change of genre between the original text and a public article‚ changes in information when a larger audience is addressed and lastly the usefulness of classical

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    Widely regarded as one of Disney’s more recognised films‚ the 1991 film version of Beauty and the beast‚ produced by Walt Disney Pictures‚ is based on the French fairy tale where a beautiful woman falls deeply in love with a beast. The original‚ La Belle et la Bete was published in 1740 by Madame de Villeneuve‚ however‚ was then edited and rewritten by Madame Leprince de Beaumont in 1757. The tale has gone through many varied and imaginative incarnations‚ however‚ it still remains persistent with

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    City of Embers By Jeanne DeParu My Reviews I thought the City of Embers was a good book. It was a race against time before the whole city will go black. In the beginning of the book it was boring but when Lina and Doon discovered that there was a way out of the city that’s when the story became exciting. I like when Lina and Doon switched jobs because they were better for the job the other one had. I like the science fiction part and that the book was set in the future. There was adventure

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    The City Of Ember Essay

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    The City of Ember - Book Review I have never really been underground‚ but author Jeanne DuPrau made me feel as if I had been there during the dark‚ long‚ blackouts. Ember was the only city or place anyone knew of. No one knew what was beyond the city; out in the darkness. The power and light of the city came from electricity generated by the river running underneath Ember and sudden blackouts occurred as nobody at all knew when to expect them. Every night at nine o’clock the power was turned

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    The City of Ember

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    The City Of Ember “The City Of Ember”‚ the first “Book Of Ember”‚ was written by Jeanne DuPrau and published in 2003. This is a “science fiction for those who do not like science fiction” (Voice of Youth Advocates‚ Starred). The story was about Ember‚ a city underground that is running out most of energy and supplies. Ember is covered by the darkness and colorlessness. In the city of Ember‚ Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow are trying to find a new world that has light. Following the Instruction of

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    villagers can find. The story ends and everyone made it up above ground for the first time in their lives. The “City of Ember” and The Cask of Amontillado are two completely different stories that share similar lessons. While The “City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau and The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe have different motivations for the underground setting‚ they both have similar lessons such as underground is a setting for disaster‚ every person has the ability to be a hero or a villain‚ and no

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    In the City of Ember‚ the setting is dark and gloomy. The author‚ Jeanne DuPrau‚ reveals that the city is very broken and is in a destitute condition as many blackouts occurred in the city. For instance‚ Doon points out‚ “Running out of light bulbs‚ running out of power‚ running out of time—disaster was right around the corner” (48). The status of Ember is poor due to the lack of resources. As this dark situation threatens to overtake the city‚ Doon steps forward to join the pipeworkers‚ while he

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    The City of Ember is a post apocalyptic fantasy about Ember. I was written by Jeanne DuPrau and published in 2003.Ember is a city which was built by people‚ in the book know as "The Builders"‚ they built this city underground to house its citizens for 200 years. They say that the earth is uninhabitable for those years but never specify why. During these years a box with instructions is passed from mayor to mayor but a plague is spreading and the seventh mayor thinks the box may contain a cure so

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