The cold was creeping into Jonas’s body. Dampening his spirits and his soul. Hunger infected his body. Gabriel’s wailing screamed at his ears. The wind howled at him‚ preventing Jonas from trespassing into this strange landscape. An enclosing army of snow palpitated down on the two stragglers‚ gnawing into their skin‚ injecting acute pangs of chilliness. A curtain of mist lowered and trapped them in a blizzard. Jonas looked around‚ completely disorientated. A landscape of snow met his sore eyes.
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The Giver Why is their society‚ in The Giver so different than ours? Their society is so different because they think that they can make their world perfect. We all know that no one is perfect so what makes it so different? In Lois Lowry’s book The Giver their family unit interacts with each other on a day-to-day basis and has both similarities and differences in our family unit which is better than theirs because ours does not have a limit of children‚ do not have required time shares‚ and we
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The book I chose is Ransom by Lois Duncan. This is a story about five teenagers‚ Dexter‚ Jesse‚ Bruce‚ Glenn‚ and Marianne‚ that get kidnapped and their parents are contacted to pay a ransom to get them back. The teenagers are from very different backgrounds and have different social statuses at school. They all live in a “rich” known neighborhood called Valley Gardens which is how the kidnappers chose them. Ransom is a crime thriller and the mystery of not knowing what’s going to happen next keeps
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The utopian society described in Lois Lowry’s The Giver is very similar to the form of government described in the Republic by Plato‚ especially The Allegory of the Cave. Both are descriptions of totalitarian dystopic governments included the separation of people by professional class‚ assignment of profession and purpose by the state‚ and the absence of traditional family units‚ replaced by state-organized breeding. If Jonas‚ the leader‚ is the man released from the cave‚ then his obligations as
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Work Summary Lois Lowry’s 1989 novel Number the Stars tells the story of a ten-year-old Christian girl named Annemarie Johansen. Annemarie is living in Copenhagen‚ Denmark in 1943 when the story begins. Annemarie‚ her little sister Kirsti‚ and her best friend Ellen Rosen‚ a Jew‚ are walking home from school when the story begins. They decide to race but are stopped by two stern looking German soldiers. The soldiers question them‚ but let them go. When the girls reach their apartment home‚ they inform
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This essay is to deal with corruption in Ireland. The causes of corruption and two examples of corruption in Ireland. There are six main examples of corruption. These are 1. Historical developments 2. Longevity in power 3. Increased state activity 4. Ethical leadership 5. The financing of public parties 6. Political career patterns This essay will concentrate on Ethical leadership and Increased state activities as two examples that need to be examined. Firstly this essay
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Down a Dark Hall was written by Lois Duncan and is a book about a girl named Kit Gordy‚ going to a boarding school miles away from the closest town‚ which is a small village called Blackwood. So she comes to her new home for the school year with her new step father Dan and her worrying mother‚ who are ready to go on their honeymoon. When they see the boarding school that Kit would be staying at‚ it looked surprisingly different from what they saw in the brochure they were given. The three of them
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Dexter Roberts Prof. Wright MAN 314 Homework # Lois Quam Case 3 Case 3 Lois Quam 1. How does Lois Quam use emotions and moods in her speeches to covey her viewpoint? Cite examples to support your statements. What is emotion and mood? Emotions are a strong set of positive or negative feelings directed towards someone or something. Moods depict positive or negative feelings; moreover‚ a state of mind. In Lois’s quest for green economy it is quite clear that she is a buoyed‚ by a positive approach
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jobs under false names. He eventually infiltrates a scientific discovery of a Kryptonian scout spaceship in the Arctic. Clark enters the alien ship‚ and it allows him to communicate with the preserved consciousness of Jor-El in the form of a hologram. Lois Lane‚ a journalist from the Daily Planet who was sent to write a story on the discovery‚ sneaks inside the ship while following Clark and is rescued by him when she is injured by the ship’s automated defenses. Lois’s editor Perry White rejects her
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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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