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    Discussion Family has a strong influence on everybody’s lives‚ it often affects the way everyone views themselves and how people view others. How we are raised will also affect our personalities‚ relationships and judgement of others. The novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta comprises all these factors around the characters in the story. Everyone’s persona is based on what our family teaches us. Our persona reflects on how parents raise their children. Josie grew up fatherless which

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    MacKnight is one of the prominent contributors to the topic of ledger art. In her works‚ she devoted much attention to the women and the children (Gussie Fauntleroy). She explained the position of this weak groups within the society in her work titled “Looking Between the Lines”. Her work also focused on the conflict between the government of the

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    CHAPTER -1 NEWS AND CONCEPTS News is one of the best know commodities in today’s world news is selective version of world events with a focus on that which is new and unusual. The concepts of news must have existed even before the beginning of the era of mass media called personal news. The news and interesting information constitute news. News may be defined as any accurate fact or idea that will interest in a large number of readers. News has certain other ingredients

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    In Thuy’s book “The Gangster We Are All Looking For‚” the narrator’s older brother drowned in Vietnam. Later‚ the narrator and her father immigrated to California when she was still a young girl‚ leaving her mother behind in Vietnam. Her mother eventually joined her and her father in the U.S. As the narrator grew older‚ she watched her parents as they faced difficulties adapting to their new lives in America and remained haunted by memories of her dead brother. The narrator’s father was especially

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    An important relationship between two characters in the extended text Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta is the relationship between the main character Josie and her father Michael Andretti. This relationship is important because it helped me to understand how the characters coped with change. As the relationship between father and daughter develops I could understand both of these characters better. This relationship is important because it helps Josie to grow up and cope with change. An

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    ‘’Onelady like looking ‘ like cornrows . of cornrows. shaved heads and side ponytails hair weaves‚ new perms we stay ready to play’’ (2-3)You should imagine being treated differently imagine having to work your way up to become something great.It’s not that easy ‚ when your girl you’re looked down on treated as if you’re not good enough ‚ many have work hard despite the conditions and what people put you thru and what they say to you really learn to overcome it.It’s not fair but it’s life and if

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    he book Looking For Alaska by John Green is a book that brings a lot of mixed emotions and shocking surprises that make it almost impossible to stop reading. In this book there are 3 main character that go by the names of Miles “Pudge” Halter‚ Chip “The Colonel” Martin and of course Alaska Young. Pudge starts off the book as a stranger who has just transferred to the boarding school of Culver Creek which both The Colonel and Alaska attend. He is the story’s protagonist‚ the story is told completely

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    1.) Looking at the skull‚ where are they eyes positions (front‚ side‚ top)? How much of the skull is taken up by the eyes? Does this suggest anything about how/when they live/get food? Pigeon: The position of the bird’s eyes are on the side of it’s head. The eye sockets are also very large taking up roughly one third of the entire skull leading us to assume that vision was a key sense for the pigeon. Bat: the eyes are positioned on on the top of the head and take up a small portion of the skull

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    Gisele LeRoy English Comp. 2 Controversial Issue Capital Punishment: Looking At Both Sides It’s so hard to say where I stand with the death penalty. There are those moments when a person commits a crime so heinous you’re in that state of mind of wanting the death penalty for them. But then you realize this is a human being. I truly do not believe in the death penalty. To me‚ I think executing someone

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    Looking at Hamlet through a Freudian Lens The human mind is one of the world’s greatest mysteries. For generations‚ scientists from many fields have studied the homo-sapien brain to try and solve the age-old mystery. One of the most famous psychologists to delve into the cranial puzzle is Sigmund Freud. Freud developed many theories on the human species according to development and habits. His psychoanalysis has been transferred into literature over the years. When reading William Shakespeare’s

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