I am reading a book called Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel. It’s the second book of the Airborn series. This book has 350 pages‚ which adds 350 pages to my reading goal. This book has a lot of awards so I am expecting good things out of this book. This book is about a boy named Matt Cruse. While on the Airship Academy the cadets that are on duty spot a stranded airship named “The Hyperion”. The Hyperion is a long lost ship created by a famous and wealthy inventor‚ and the ship rumoured to have most
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The film “Everybody Rides the Carousel” by John and Faith Hubley accurately depicts Erik Erikson’s eight stages of development. The entire film is a metaphor for these stages‚ and at the beginning they say how there is “an age for every rider on our circle of life‚” meaning their carousel. The narrator also mentions that each stage builds on the other. On the first ride‚ they show “trust vs. mistrust” which Erikson says it is approximately from birth to the first year. The film uses cats to demonstrate
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Kenneth Burke says that‚ “life is not like a drama‚ life is drama” (Griffin 293). Burke’s theory says that all of life is drama and everything can be analyzed through his work. Most everything can be evaluated by using the tools of Burke’s dramatism theory. The movie that I chose to watch and analyze was Miracle. Miracle is based on the story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team. The movie was released in 2004 to celebrate the team’s miracle and portrays the drama of life perfectly. It is about
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Paul Revere’s ride by Henry David Longfellow was written in 1860. Henry david Longfellow was born in 1807 in maine and was a harvard scholar. The poem “Paul Revere’s Ride is one of his most known verses. Paul Revere was a silversmith and a colonist who took part in the boston tea party. Paul revere during the Revolutionary war was a rider for boston’s committee of safety. While Revere was in that position he made a warning system by using lanterns to warn minutemen of the british. Paul Revere is
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Denotation and Connotation A primary distinction between practical use of language and the literary use is that in literature‚ especially in poetry‚ a fuller use is made of individual words. To understand this‚ we need to examine the composition of a word. The average word has three component parts: sound‚ denotation‚ and connotation. It begins as a combination of tones and noises‚ uttered by the lips‚ tongue and throat‚ for which the written word is a notation. But it differs from a musical tone
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available for free for the first year. Subsequent to this‚ the annual membership fee was an affordable 40$/ year. This membership entitled the members to a plethora of benefits including subscription to the Hog Tales magazine‚ access to the Fly and Ride program (rentals at 39 locations around the country)‚ insurance‚ roadside assistance‚ support of rallies as well as access to Harley Davidson memorabilia. This multi-beneficiary model led to a significant surge in the active members with a 75% renewal
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Meet Elie Wiesel Look‚ it’s important to bear witness. Important to tell your story. . . . You cannot imagine what it meant spending a night of death among death. —Elie Wiesel The obligation Elie Wiesel feels to justify his survival of a Nazi concentration camp has shaped his destiny. It has guided his work as a writer‚ teacher‚ and humanitarian activist; influ- enced his interaction with his Jewish faith; and affected his family and personal choices. Since World War II‚ Wiesel has borne witness
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We were at the rides and all of a sudden my friend and I saw the Slingshot ride. We thought it would be fun to go on. It was about $60 for 2 riders. Later on‚ we found my parents‚ we told them the cost‚ and my mom automatically said no. But then‚ I asked my dad and he said yes. We weren’t able to do it that night because they were doing work on the ride. The next day‚ we went to the waterpark‚ and after the waterpark‚ we went back to the beach house and got changed to do rides. When we got there
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The Famous Ride of Paul Revere Paul Revere is known for his famous ride through Charlestown‚ Virginia on April eighteenth‚ 1775 at midnight. There are countless stories that have been published about this famous ride‚ but copious amounts of them are inaccurate. “Paul Revere’s Ride‚” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is not a credible source of information considering Revere does not execute the same things within these two pieces of literature‚ the British’s actions are not the same in the poem and
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or rhythmic language choices to evoke an emotional response from their readers. Poetry was extremely popular during wartimes as people got to express how they felt about war through words. ‘The soldier’ by Rupert Brooke and ‘Beach Burial’ by Kenneth Slessor are both poem written during wartime and both contain contrasting ideas about war. These two poems are particularly useful to study as they show us how the attitude towards war has changes for individuals through a wide range of vivid poetry techniques
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