Looking in the mirror- English Assessment task- Term 1 Part A-Mum Ahoy By Kent McMahon Q1. Write about the article’s content- explain in your own words what has happened? A.This articles is about a young female career sailor of the Royal Australian Army who has been separated from her three-year-old daughter for six months due to her tour of duty in the Middle- East. Zanda Furnell-Hall‚ 26-year-old single mother‚ is an electronic warfare director with the Royal
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can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end‚ and so it cannot fail.” John Green‚ Looking for Alaska. This is when Miles realizes and decides how he can accurately explain his friends and how he learns to understand Alaska’s behavior especially. In a way‚ he is somehow describing
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LOOKING FOR ALASKA The novel “looking for Alaska”‚ is written by a famous author John Green. It’s a story of a teenage boy named Miles Halter‚ and how he leaves his home in Florida to attend Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama. All the chapters leave you something to think about. This novel is very engaging and shows a lot of maturity. Not only does this novel leave you surprised with a few twists but it teaches you life lessons like love‚ loss‚ grief and forgiveness. I was really shocked
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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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Looking at Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas‚ the artist depicted the royal family of Philip IV in 1656. This oil painting has a sophisticated composition‚ which contains six layers in positioning all objective content in complex but explicit silhouettes. The front most stands the enormous canvas‚ a mighty hound resting on the floor‚ and a playmate stepping on its back. The second layer is the spotlight‚ where the young princess stands in the center surrounded by two maids of honor and a governess; then
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Throughout history women and men have been treated differently. The movie‚ Alice Through the Looking Glass is based on the book written by Lewis Carroll in 1871‚ and takes place in male dominated England. This story follows a young woman‚ Alice‚ who wants to be a strong captain like her father before her. Unfortunately‚ her society attempts to force her into the image they have for women: pretty and complacent. This is not the image for a captain. In order to escape the oppression of the real world
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different from the ones on television. He would realize that “people didn’t watch those shows to see their own lives reflected back at them. They watched them to see how families were supposed to live.” (Stephanie Coontz‚ 39) With so many people looking at the nuclear family as a model
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article‚ John Green Fights Back Against Banning of Looking for Alaska‚ explains how associations are fighting back against the banning of books in public libraries and how a well known‚ award winning author feels about the prohibiting of his book in school libraries. The author‚ John Green‚ published his first novel Looking for Alaska in 2005. At that time‚ the novel was not very popular because Green was just beginning his career. Within a decade‚ Looking for Alaska became the most complained about book
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Through the Looking Glass was written as the sequel to Alice in Wonderland. They are both by Lewis Carroll‚ Alice is the main character in both‚ and both are set in fantastic realms where the usual laws of physics do not apply. The writing style is the same in both books‚ and both are full of puns‚ word play‚ poems‚ and nonsense. The basic plot line is the same for both books‚ each starts with Alice entering another world by some unusual means and awakening at the end to discover that her adventure
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lived in a place with no problems or conflicts? There would be almost no harm or controversy‚ but their would also be no ideas or turn of events. However‚ in the world we live in there are conflicts that present ideas and common solutions. In The Looking Glass Wars‚ Beddor uses conflicts and descriptive details to reveal how Alyss changes throughout the novel. (title) Alyss in the beginning of the novel is characterized as troublesome‚ powerful‚ and arrogant. As the narrator states in the novel
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