Katherine Zoepf’s nonfiction work “Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World” published by Penguin Books tells different stories of women throughout the Arab world. Zoepf takes readers on a journey beginning in Syria and ending in Egypt. Zoepf compares and contrasts the cultures‚ challenges and changes in women’s lives across five Arab countries. Zoepf’s interest in the Arab world began soon after the terror attacks in New York City on September 11
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‘It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength’ (Patterson‚ 1995‚ p.141.) Bridge to Terabithia (1977)‚ by Katherine Paterson is a coming-of-age‚ heart-wrenching but exciting book about Jesse Aarons and Leslie Burke who rule an imaginative land called Terabithia to escape the pressures of school‚ bullies and family. In the novel‚ Leslie’s friendship acts as a guide for Jesse as he faces these challenges and difficulties of adolescence
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The aftermath of a destructive obsession What happens when the burdens of addiction confront a household; what dilemmas arise inside of a family? The novel Tweaked by Katherine Holubitsky; explores the life of an ordinary teenager‚ Gordie; and his internal struggles with his Brother Chase’s tyrannical addiction to crystal meth. Furthermore‚ Chase’s self-harm tragically cripples his family‚ which composes of Gordie‚ his mother‚ and father. Although it impacts their personal lives it also damages
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The Witch of Blackbird The story of The Witch of Blackbird Pond has many different parts to it. It takes place in the Connecticut Colony in the year 1687‚ is about a girl trying to fit into the new Connecticut lifestyle‚ and she goes through changes in her personality and characteristics as she learns to live in humility. The author of this book uses many details‚ creating a more vivid picture in the readers mind. It is also written in Katherine’s perspective‚ which allows the reader to get to know
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Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is an African-American mathematician and physicist who is known for calculating the trajectories for many NASA missions. She was born on the 26th of August‚ 1918 in the town of White Sulphur Springs‚ West Virginia. Katherine was a very brilliant child and by the age of 13 she was attending the black West Virginia State College’s high school. At 18‚ she enrolled in the actual college graduating in 1937 with the most advanced honors. In 1939‚ Katherine was handpicked
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In Life‚ we are always faced with hard decisions. We are sometimes forced to choose between decisions that support you or your family. Lyddie is faced with just that. In 1991 Katherine Paterson wrote the novel “Lyddie.” The main character Lyddie lived with her family but then is separated from them when a bear invades her house and is mistaken for the end of the world. Lyddie’s father sells the farm so she has to work at a mill in Lowell that pays little and the working conditions are very poor.She
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that no matter the shrew or the lady‚ when they are angry‚ it is very dangerous. ● Katherine: today I will tell all of you the acridity of Bianca—who you think is a mild and gentle lady‚ and I will show you the real face of her. Of course you will get surprised‚ but only in this way‚ you can see her clearly. ● Bianca: oh my god‚ my life is so poor. My sister Katherine is so stupid that I cannot stand anymore. She wants to grab everything from
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because they have to make more money or their house was destroyed.Katherine Boo explain how a boy named Abdul‚ childhood was stolen. Author Katherine Boo did a better job Behind the Beautiful Forever‚ did a better job at describing the story better and she made the story easier to understand‚ using description‚ action‚ and foreshadowing. One technique Katherine Boo discusses in Behind the Beautiful Forever is foreshadowing. She used foreshadowing because Abdul and his family will soon be landowners
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“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall” (“Quote by Nelson Mandela”). Katherine Stockett’s novel‚ The Help‚ depicts the struggles of African-American maids living in the South in the 1960s through their experiences whilst working in prejudice white households. Skeeter‚ a young white woman‚ moves back to Jackson‚ Mississippi after getting her degree at Ole Miss. Skeeter wants to be a writer instead of a housewife like the rest of the women in her town
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sometimes the original function of the idea may be misused. The accessibility to communication‚ networking and connecting people‚ can sometimes end up in situations of abuse and misuse. In the essay “Time and Distance Overcome” which is written by Eula Bliss in 2008‚ she points out that criminality throughout history influence the perception on an invention‚ and furthermore how time and distance can overcome things and restore the true idea of an invention. The story involves two themes. The invention
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