Looking for Alaska The story opens with Miles Halter‚ the protagonist‚ leaving his home in Florida to attend a preparatory high school named Culver Creek in Alabama for his junior year. When he arrives at Culver Creek‚ Miles meets his roommate‚ Chip Martin. Chip introduces Miles to one of his friends‚ Alaska Young. Alaska is attractive but emotionally unstable and can be very bipolar. Other than Alaska‚ Chip introduces him to Takumi. Chip‚ Alaska and Takumi have been friends since freshman year
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Looking for Home I remember when they kicked us out. It was only a couple of weeks ago. We Indians were minding our own business when the troops first came. They dragged us out of our tents and sent us walking with only the clothes on our back. My family decided to go to the Oklahoma region along with our tribe. And so here we are‚ walking through forests‚ woods‚ and plains on The Trail of Tears‚ looking for our destination. We have been walking since‚ and our clothing can do nothing against the
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Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska is a novel by John Green and is about a young man named Miles Halters. The book is set in Alabama at the boarding school‚ Culver Creek High School. Miles loves memorizing the last words of famous people and is looking to seek his “Great Perhaps” in his life. After moving into his dorm Miles meets Chip‚ or also known as The Colonel. The two moves the Colonels’ furniture into the boys’ dorm. Soon after Miles gets the nickname‚ Pudge‚ just to be ironic since he
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Five Ways of Looking at The Penelopiad CORAL ANN HOWELLS As the lights go down in the great church of St James‚ Piccadilly‚ a voice speaks eerily out of the darkness somewhere off to the side: ‘Now that I’m dead I know everything.’1 And then a single spotlight reveals centre stage a small grey-haired female figure robed in black sitting on a throne; she begins to speak. This is Margaret Atwood‚ doubly imaged here in performance as Penelope‚ for I am describing a staged reading of part of The Penelopiad
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Looking For Alaska Book Report – Eulogy Hello everyone. I would like to thank you all for coming to honor our friend‚ Alaska Young. I am Miles Halter‚ known to most as Pudge. I transferred to Culver Creek Boarding School from Florida to ‘seek a Great Perhaps’‚ to leave behind the insignificant things I was doing‚ to seek something that was perhaps greater. I collect people’s dying words and “I go to seek a Great Perhaps”‚ were the last words of Francois Rabelais‚ but unlike him‚ I did not
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Barber‚ Richard. "Looking For The Holy Grail." History Today 54.3 (2004): 13-19. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Nov. 2016. The grail represents mysticism in Christianity‚ according to Richard Barber; and Troyes account of Perceval seeing the holy object‚ is not a borrowed older idea‚ but the “first appearance of the Holy Grail in literature” (Barber 13). This story is an example of the spiritual journey that many Christians would undertake in the Age of Faith; the experience of the journey focuses
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POLITICS I. Content Summary Introduction “Looking is a social practice.” The authors begin Chapter 1 by reminding us that we do not “look” at anything without participating in a practice formed by a variety of factors‚ including the historical moment‚ social meaning‚ and intent of the creator. Practices of looking are also formed by power relationships; even the act of choosing to look or not to look is an act of power. We engage in the practices of looking every day‚ with an ever-increasing amount
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“Looking at Women” by Scott Sanders was first published in spring of 1989 in the Georgia Review and was later reprinted in Sander’s essay collection titled “Secrets of the Universe” (1991). In this work‚ Sanders tells us his thoughts on how men look at women‚ hence the title; he explains to us that he feels that men turn women into things rather than people by objectifying their bodies. He goes into great detail about how a lot of women feel their role in today’s society is to exist for the pleasure
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be quite competitive. With the unemployment rate at 7.9 %(Fontes‚ 2013)‚ many individuals are going back to school to earn their degree. This is in part from employers requiring potential hires to think critically. ("What Skills Are Employers Looking For?‚" 2013). Employers will appreciate the hard work that goes into earning a degree‚ but if one cannot think critically‚ the chances of landing that job are slim. To determine a definition for critical thinking‚ one must think critically about
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HSC Advanced English‚ Module A: Richard III and Looking For Richard‚ Essay Connections of commonality and dissimilarity may be drawn between a multiplicity of texts through an appreciation of the values and attitudes with which they were composed. Accordingly‚ the values and attitudes of the individual being may be defined as an acute blend of externally induced‚ or contextual and internally triggered‚ or inherent factors. Cultural‚ historical‚ political‚ religious and social influences‚ dictated
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