The book I read is Hollow City: The second novel of Miss Peregrine’s peculiar children by Ransom Riggs. It is a horror story about a group of kids with special abilities trying to help their headmistress turn back into her human form. It is told form the perspective of Jacob Portman‚ a kid from present day Florida‚ the other kids have been in a time loop that has preserved them for many centuries. The kids and their abilities are as follows(as written in the books character description): Jacob Portman-Our
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artifice‚ and superficiality from ballet. Modern dance resembled modern art and music being experimental. Pioneers of Modern dance like “Isadora Duncan‚ Loie Fuller‚ and Ruth St. Denis in the United States‚ Rudolf von Landon and Mary Wigman in Germany” they all wanted to create an awareness to their audiences of inner and outer realities. Isadora Duncan started “free dance” where she would perform in a simple tunic like the Greek vase figures that inspired a lot of her work. Her work would use natural
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seasons and if we had seasons we wouldn’t be able to grow crops year round so we will not have enough food to feed the community‚” (Lowry). This rule described in Jonas’s community in Lois Lowry’s The Giver may sound unusual to us. But climate control exists all around the world today. After reading The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ most people would think that controlling the climate is bad and destroys the earth. But on the other hand‚ it is very successful and happens globally today. To start climate
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what purpose? 2. What do you suppose is suggested by the line‚ “Fair is foul‚ and foul is fair”? Act I scene ii 1. What do we learn of Macbeth’s courage and skill? 2. What is his relationship to King Duncan? 3. Who had Macbeth and Banquo been fighting? 4. What does King Duncan tell Ross to do? Act I scene iii 1. As the scene begins‚ how does the conversation of the Witches strike you? 2. When Macbeth says‚ “So foul and fair a day I have not seen‚” to what is he referring? What
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th Macbeth controlled assessment draft Intro: Lady Macbeth‚ Miss Havisham and the persona in the laboratory are all perfect examples of disturbed women‚ whose minds and thoughts have been flung out of reality‚ warped and twisted by the psychotic ambitions and desires they hold. Their psychoses‚ how ever‚ manifest themselves in different ways. In the play ‘Macbeth’‚ Lady Macbeth degenerates from a sturdy‚ supreme character that influences her husband‚ Macbeth‚ into doing wicked deeds‚ into
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In this story‚ two desperate men‚ Bill and Sam need 2000 dollars for their business. They search for ways to get it‚ and eventually think of kidnapping a child from the town called Summit‚ and get ransom of 2000 dollars. Fulfilling their plan‚ they kidnap a ten- year old boy who is a son of a respectable and tight mortgage fancier. However‚ they come to face unexpected problems. Quite contrary from what Bill and Sam expected‚ the child never wants to go back to his home. Instead‚ he names himself
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deceased leaving 9 children. That upon his death two administrators were appointed‚ that is Duncan Wanderi Njari and Eshiton Njari Karonji the wife to the deceased and son respectively. However this process did not proceed as expected as some of the children of the deceased especially the daughters were not amiable to the arrangements the two had. They did not conquer with the wishes of deceased that Duncan Wanderi Njari was to retain the LR Parcel NO. KIRIMUKUYU/MBOGOINI/837 and that the said parcel
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searching‚ tearing itself apart before adapting and becoming numb to the feelings and moments from the past. This is the case for the numerous communities in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. By masterfully twisting together the idea of the the community’s lack of wisdom‚ the suffering of the Giver and his trainee‚ Jonas‚ and finally the lack of human bonds‚ Lois Lowry writes a tale of loneliness and heartache. Through words‚ she proves to the reader that memories are meant to be shared. Humans are constantly making
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age‚ with ghastly and grim thing’s such as death‚ causing them view the whole idea of growing up to be one of a ‘gut-wrenching’ experience” (REFERENCE). This theme is evident in the poems On Turning Ten by Billy Collins‚ Janet Waking by John Crowe Ransom‚ in the book Montana 1948 by Larry Watson and can even be found in the book It’s Kind Of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini‚ which has since been made into a movie. At the beginning of the poem On Turning Ten‚ Collin’s makes it easy for
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activity is controlled by a single political party. Along with communism‚ comes dictatorship. This is the complete power or authority of a dictator. It is a form of government‚ mostly ruled by one upper class person. Throughout Gathering Blue‚ written by Lois Lowry and published in 2000‚ they lived in a community where freedom of speech was not accepted. The society Kira‚ her family and friends live in is a communist dictatorship which in the end‚ does not work out for them. 3 points: - prove how society
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