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    Grease Lake Lessons

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    Grease Lake Lessons There comes a time in many kids life where they want to be bad. They don’t want to be bad to get in trouble and face consequences. They want to be bad because it appears cool. The cool kids sat in the back of class and talked while the teacher was teaching. The cool kids went to parties where there was underage drinking and drugs. The cool kids walked around wearing cool clothes and sunglasses as if they answered to no one and had no care in the world. The cool kids acted

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    Once More To The Lake

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    Rhetorical Analysis of E.B. White?s ?Once More to the Lake? E.B. White?s ?Once more to the Lake? provides keen insight into the life of a middle-aged man reflecting on the past‚ present‚ and future. The setting of the essay primarily resides at a lake that offered the author endless amounts of pleasure as a child. Now as an adult‚ the author wishes to relive this experience and try to recapture his youth. Throughout the essay a major theme develops: Although the passage of time produces a link between

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    Swan Lake Interpretation

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    Swan Lake is a globally well-known ballet choreographed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He composed the ballet in the late 1880s. Even though it failed miserably initially‚ Swan Lake is now considered the renowned classical ballet piece among the many others. I personally grew up watching numerous Swan Lake plays. Talk about the choreographer briefly in one paragraph. Swan Lake centers around the story of two girls: Odette and Odile who resemble each other closely. Odette‚ a young maiden

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    Korobochk The Sacred Lake

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    because it conveys how far away the man on the bottom right is from the building. Scale is the size of an object compared to another object. I also thought it was intriguing how the man is dressed in religious garb. The painting is titled “The Sacred Lake” so there is likely some religious

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    The Lake Victor Monologue

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    The lake’s liquid is bright yellow and somehow glittering. The scent is seducing; mildly bittersweet with a hint of barley‚ malt and hops. Carlo is tranced as he walks slowly towards the lake. The water’s level is at his waist; he slowly lowers his head ‚ sipping a bit. Carlo likes it. Carlo likes it a lot! The sweet earthy herbal taste gradually elicits ecstacy. The brew is thick‚ rich‚ with floral and grapefruit notes. He can sense a slight sourness and mysterious enchanting undertone

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    Crow Lake- Education

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    texts: Mary Lawson’s Crow Lake‚ and David Auburn’s Proof‚ though not necessarily in the most traditional sense of the word. The characters in both texts are greatly influenced by education‚ both formal and informal‚ which in turn‚ becomes a key element in their overall success.                 Formal education takes a powerful position in both Crow Lake as well as in Proof‚ and is part of the reason the characters In both find themselves becoming successful. Crow Lake From the very begging

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    Once More to the Lake

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    “Once More to the Lake” Response Once More to the Lake was written by E. B. White. This essay is about a boy and his childhood‚ but more than that. E.B. White talks about his childhood and decides to take his son to the same place. He talks about all the familiar smells‚ and what the cabin looks like. White keeps confusing his own childhood with the present. White taught his son all the things that his dad taught him. He also taught his son how drive an outboard boat‚ though the sound irritated

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    Greasy Lake Analysis

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    “Greasy Lake” is a story about catastrophic mistakes that affect young adult lives. The story is about three boys who think highly of themselves. The narrator tells about how he and his friends‚ Digby and Jeff‚ drink‚ smoke‚ and stay out late. It is obvious that the narrator and his friends are immature and simply do not care about the consequences of their actions. The boys find themselves in a brawl with some men at the lake. The narrator separates from his friends to order to protect himself.

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    The Swan Lake Ballet

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    Swan Lake Ballet is a form of dance that started during Western Europe during the Renaissance. Itwas created towards the end of the romantic period‚ so the culture and style of romanticism was prominent‚ with glimpses of the beginning of the classical era. Because of this‚ it contains elements of both eras. Some of the romantic characteristics include the pursuit of the unattainable‚ romance‚ fantasy‚ focus on the female role‚  simple play‚ pointe work‚ soft and feminine technique for females and

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    Cold Knap Lake

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    Gillian Clarke’s poem ’Cold Knap Lake’ centres on a childhood memory of a girl almost drowning in a lake in South Wales. The poet‚ with her parents‚ ’watched a crowd’ of people pull the girl out of the water. It seemed at first that they were too late: the girl’s lips were blue and she ’lay for dead’. The metaphor ’dressed in water’s long green silk’ tells us that she was covered in weeds from the lake. In the second stanza‚ Clarke describes her mother as a ’heroine’ as she knelt down to resuscitate

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