In this sentence from John Green’s Looking for Alaska‚ the speaker’s attitude toward the party is best described as indifferent. The speaker’s tone and diction implies that he lacks interest or concern in the unsuccessful party that was thrown for him. He mentions how “he could feel their pity”‚ but then goes on to say that “they needed more pity than I did”. This shows how although his parents pitied him for not having friends‚ he did not pity himself‚ but instead felt bad for his hopeful parents
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OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER’S SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE Looking Ahead: Science Education for the Twenty-First Century A report from the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor April 2011 Science Education for the 21st Century Office of the Prime Minister’s Science Advisory Committee PO Box 108-117‚ Symonds Street‚ Auckland 1150‚ New Zealand Telephone: +64 9 923 1788 Website: www.pmcsa.org.nz Email: csa@pmcsa.org.nz ISBN 978-0-477-10336-7 (paperback) ISBN 978-0-477-10337-4 (PDF) Page
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Looking Out for Number One: Conflicting Cultural Values in Early Seventeenth-Century Virginia By: T.H Breen The main focus of Breen’s essay the focus is on the fact that colonists in Virginia were driven and motivated to come to the New World‚ predominantly for monetary reasons. Virginia’s soil was found to be unusually well suited for growing tobacco‚ which is why it drove such a variety of people to migrate there. The colonists‚ though
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Brand Proposal Submitted by: Razel C. Belleza C27 Submitted to: Mr. Erl Pilla Looking for soda? Try "Mr.Fizzy" ’It refreshes body and mind’ A brief history of soda The term "soft drink" is derived from "soda water"‚ dating as far back as 1798. Joseph Priestly invented carbonated water in 1767‚ when he first discovered a method of infusing water with carbon dioxide (CO2) by suspending a bowl of water over a vat of fermenting beer in a brewery in
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short story‚ “The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection”‚ Virginia Woolf writes of the sad self portrait of a woman who‚ examined from both outside and in‚ finds herself unsatisfactory. By implementing modern features of theme and style‚ Woolf creates a character to reflect on herself and she employs modern ideas of narration and character to illustrate a fuller‚ more complete image of the character. The title and subtitle of the story‚ “The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection” indicates
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perspectives never stay permanent and is always changing. The main reason is most probably due to new experiences encountered in our life‚ knowledge or our level of maturity. This is shown in prose fiction text "Sky High" by Hannah Roberts‚ the film "Looking for Alibrandi" directed by Kate Woods and the poem "My Father Began As A God" by Ian Mudie. In the prose fiction text "Sky High" by Hannah Roberts. This text reflects on a youth persona who turns a simple washing line that is located in a normal back yard
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Looking for Love Throughout the novel Brideshead Revisited‚ by Evelyn Waugh‚ the theme of searching for love becomes clearly apparent through almost all of the characters’ actions. The search for love is of the utmost importance‚ whether the characters realize it or not. This is particularly the case for Charles‚ Julia‚ and Cordelia. As the narrator of the novel‚ the reader gains the most insight into Charles’ search. He is cautiously optimistic that love will be found‚ possibly even in his everyday
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3‚ 2012 Through the Looking Glass In his stories‚ Carroll blurs the boundaries between being awake and being asleep so it becomes difficult to tell when reality ends and a dream begins. Carroll uses vivid description to show the different boundaries between being awake and asleep. Alice‚ being used as a perfect example to prove it with the reality and dream Looking Glass House‚ Carroll uses many other characters in the house showing the boundaries‚ and in the Looking Glass house a lot of what
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Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama‚ leaving his Florida home. Miles grew up in Florida‚ with his parents. He always had a hunger to follow in his father’s footsteps. His father had attended Culver Creek boarding school when he was growing up. Looking For Alaska was written by John Green. Miles‚ leaves behind his few friends and very little social life to begin new friendships and experiences. Miles’s main goal is to discover who he really is. Miles was a quiet young man who just completed high
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being possible‚ with the author making it easy for us to understand Alice’s case. “Three children walked away from the edge of town one day – but only two of them came back…” is the sentence written at the backside of Anne Cassidy’s book called Looking for JJ. This one sentence provides information about what the book is about and the instant we read it‚ it makes us intrigued. While reading the book‚ we gradually learn about Alice’s dangerous past as Jennifer Jones‚ finding out that she killed
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