A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO THE SIGNET CLASSIC EDITION OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S AS YOU LIKE IT By JEANNE M. McGLINN‚ Ph.D.‚ AND JAMES E. McGLINN‚ Ed.D. S E R I E S E D I T O R S : W. GEIGER ELLIS‚ ED.D.‚ ARTHEA J. S. REED‚ PH.D.‚ UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA‚ EMERITUS and UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA‚ RETIRED A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It 2 INTRODUCTION Shakespeare seems to be everywhere these days. Romeo and Juliet and
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fiction and nonfiction books has begun to decline. However‚ literature needs to be kept alive for a multitude of reasons. Lessons‚ opinions‚ and information lie throughout hundreds of books that cannot be found by simply surfing the web. The works Flowers for Algernon‚ by Daniel Keyes and Romeo and Juliet‚ by William Shakespeare‚ as well as the short stories “Young Goodman Brown‚” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Necklace‚” by Guy de Maupassant‚
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IDS Documentary: No More Tears Sister 1) Explain Historical‚ Political‚ Cultural and Socioeconomic factors that caused a civil war‚ killing more than 75000 people‚ between the Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka. Paul Collier outlines four reasons for what causes and attributes to civil wars in his book the Bottom Billion. Out of his four reasons there are two that I will compare the Civil war in Sri Lanka to. The conflict was started in 1983 by a group called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
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Sharon Ji Professor Cato English 1102 29 April 2013 Myop in “The Flowers” by Alice Walker Short stories are known to have two very distinct characteristics which are interrelated: they are compressed and concentrated. By compressed‚ they mean that the writer squeezes as much information as possible so that it is still considered a short story. When it comes to the story being concentrated‚ they typically mean taking out anything that is not essential to the conflict and how the protagonist
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Imagine a world where not a single soul is limited by their mental capacity‚ and everyone has an equal chance to achieve brilliance. The short story‚ “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes‚ is a tale about a learning delayed adult named Charlie Gordon who is given the opportunity to increase his intelligence through a science fictional medical procedure. It is through this character’s journey of intellectual development that one is able to see the awe-inspiring bestowment it is to be given a second
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believes in the child impressive physical capability. Moreover the word ‘’fabulous’’ highlights the fact that the reader thinks that whatever the child has made and put together is worthy of praise. This shows that the speaker is very proud of the boy. In the first stanza alliteration is used to emphasise key points: sighing and shaking his head like an old man‚ it encourage the readers to think of shivering‚ as if the boy gets confronted with reading‚ he shivers with fear. When she describes him
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Technology in the policing field has revolutionized the way police officers go about their job on a daily bases. It is constantly changing for both the good and the bad‚ and helps to create a safer and better environment for citizens to live in. Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is just one of the many technologies that have been discovered‚ and put into place throughout the policing community. Automatic Number Plate Recognition is means of surveillance that uses optical character recognition
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“Flowers” Robin Jenkins effectively conveys loss of innocence and ant war through sophisticated symbolism in the short story “Flowers”. It tells the story of a young girl‚ Margaret‚ who was evacuated from the city of Glasgow to the highlands of Scotland in an attempt to avoid the inhumanity of war‚ but it is in the highlands where she truly witnessed the brutality of war. The character of Miss Laing is used to show the glamour of war. At the beginning of the story Miss Laing is portrayed
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Flowers for Algernon is a novel written by Daniel Keyes and first published in 1966. It was originally a short story and‚ in the year 2000‚ was adapted into a film of the same name. There are no direct references to the time period in which the story takes place‚ but it’s safe to assume that the events take place around the time the novel was written; the mid-1960s. In this novel‚ there are two primary settings‚ the main character’s room‚ where he writes in his journal‚ and the hospital
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Poetry Across Time: Relationships Sister Maude Content Before we analyse the poem in detail‚ it is important to understand what the poem is about i.e. the main content of the poem. General summary A sibling complains that her sister Maude has revealed details about a private relationship to their parents and has caused the death of the relationship. The speaker is bitter and resentful. Detailed summary Stanza one: The speaker asks who has informed her mother of her ‘shame’
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