The book’s focus is around a 12 year old girl named Melody. She is living with the disease Cerebral Palsy. She can’t walk‚ talk or feed herself. But the disease does not limit it her like everyone thinks it does. She has a photographic memory‚ and is a very intelligent individual. But she has no way to ever show any of this. Her disability stops her from communicating her emotions and thoughts‚ but it does not stop her from learning. Most of all this little girl is simply a girl. She worries what
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The play starts on opening night for Max Bialystock’s latest play‚ and latest flop‚ Funny Boy. Max is devastated as he recounts his previous failures and vows to return as “The King of Broadway”. The next morning‚ his accountant‚ Leo Bloom‚ arrives at Max’s office to audit his books. Just as Leo’s dream of being a producer slips out‚ one of Max’s “Investors” arrives and Leo is forced into a bathroom. They play one of their sex games and Max persuades a check from her‚ before finally‚ she leaves.
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Introduction1. The argument between Sly and the hostess demonstrates the position of power between them. The hostess is in a higher social standing than Sly‚ who is merely a drunken tinker. However‚ Sly refuses to accept this fact and he argues with the hostess because he feels that as a man‚ he should be in a position of power. The theme of female submission is apparent throughout the play. 2. The Lord ’s deception of Sly demonstrates the theme that a person ’s behavior is influenced by his or
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Plot Summary & Critical Review Winston Smith lives in a totalitarian society‚ in which freedom‚ knowledge and truth are abused. In this society‚ all the citizens must adore one common leader called the Big Brother‚which is the embodiment of the party taking hold of the great nation Oceania.The world is divided into three great nations‚Oceania‚Eurasian and Eastasia. Wars between the three giants never stops.People in Oceania are divided into different classes. Winston lives in the middle class
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The Woods Dante’s Inferno opens in the setting on Good Friday in the year 1300. The voyager-narrator‚ Dante Alghieri‚ is lost in a dark forest in the middle of the night. Dante doesn’t recall how he came into the woods and blames it on how he was so full of sleep at the point where he abandoned the right path. Right as he is about to lose hope‚ he sees the sun rising over the mountainside and as he attempts to reach it‚ Dante is stopped by three beasts; a leopard‚ a lion‚ and a she-wolf. Dante
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This story takes place in an unnamed coastal city in India during 1975-1984. This novel is told in third person and is about a chain of circumstances that tosses four very different people together into one small apartment. A college student‚ Maneck Kohlah‚ rents a room in the apartment of Dina Dalal‚ a widowed seamstress in her forties. Dina also has two additional boarders; Ishvar Darji and his nephew Omprakash; tailors fleeing low-caste origins. They do not get along but as a series of unfortunate
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The Nine Guardians �Nine Guardians� takes places in the State of Chiapas‚ in Mexico‚ where from the remains of the Mexican revolution came the presidency of Lazaro Cardenas. His presidency takes places between 1934 and 1940‚ during the time this novel takes place. Cardenas expropriated foreign-held properties‚ distributed land to peasants‚ and instituted reforms to benefit indigenous people and Mexican workers. Cardenas found it unfair for the Indians to not be treated as equals‚ so he demanded
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The backdrop of World War II in A Separate Peace emphasizes the microcosmic war that is occurring in Devon. Military language that is used emphasizes the parallelism of the actual war and Gene’s war throughout the novel. Man’s destructive actions portray man’s inhumanity to man; eradication and killings of the war depict how cruel man can be. Finny’s inability to cope with the cruelty of this world causes him to become oblivious to what’s actually happening. Gene’s constant hatred and envy leads
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themselves and their world. This may or may not have positive outcomes‚ for one or two of the people involved‚ but we must all understand the consequences‚ whether good or bad‚ of changing perspectives. Josephine as a character in Kate Woods’ film “Looking for Alibrandi” highlights the ups and downs of being a teenage girl in turmoil‚ trying to find her own way in a community where she “doesn’t belong”‚ to find a positive outcome in what she feels is a world not made for people like her‚ especially with her
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your own choosing? Belonging is a sense of enlightenment felt when an individual gains an understanding of themselves in relation to others and the wider world. William Shakespeare’s pastoral play ‘As You Like It’ and the bildungsroman ‘Looking For Alibrandi’ written by Melina Marchetta examine not only how our perceptions of belonging are affected by the passage of time‚ but how our interactions with the world around us can shape us. Individuals seek connection in an attempt to find happiness
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