Looking for Alaska is about a boy named Miles Halter who is trying to find his Great Perhaps in a boarding school in Alabama. Miles met new friends in boarding school and a girl named Alaska Young who he then began to like/love her. The most important part of the story has to do when Alaska dies and Miles finds himself in the middle of trying to figure out if Alaska ever liked him like he did. Miles also is caught in figuring out his Great Perhaps after Alaska’s death. Alaska Young is a character
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan ’press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Calvin Coolidge All you need in life is ignorance and confidence‚ and then success is sure. Mark Twain Many of
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The Philippine Stock Exchange‚ Inc Daily Quotations Report July 31 ‚ 2013 Name Symbol Bid Ask Open High Low Close Volume Net Foreign Trade (Peso) Buying (Selling) Value FINANCIALS **** BANKS **** ASIA UNITED AUB 77.3 77.6 78.1 79 77.25 77.6 171‚320 13‚295‚671.5 (6‚953‚413) ASIATRUST BANK PH ISLANDS ASIA BPI 94.1 94.3 95 95.2 93.95 94.1 1‚470‚310 138‚634‚667 37‚928‚885.5 BDO UNIBANK BDO
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I am still trying to figure out what happened in this book. I wonder what happened for them to need to put a wall around the neighborhoods. Why are the people so desperate? Why are the resources‚ such as water‚ so scarce during these times? I feel especially bad for Lauren since she has hyperempathy. The fact that you could feel other people’s pain‚ is probably one of the worst things to experience. Especially in her time‚ where so many people are suffering. I remember when they said in the book
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Other than Sophocles there were 2 other notable writers that lived during the same years as Sophocles. They are contemporaries to Sophocles. The older contemporary was Aeschylus and the younger contemporary of Sophocles was Euripides. They wrote the same genre but incorporated there own styles and unique ideas with in their brilliant plays. They have all impacted to days theatre in their own ways creating diverse genres that today’s authors may choose to use. Aeschylus 525-426 bc. Aeschylus
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“He believed he was being persecuted wherever he went‚ despite his best efforts to win people and God to his side” Miller about Parris and how he doesn’t belong to the community but belongs to religion pg13 “To the European world the whole province was a barbaric frontier inhabited by a sect of fanatics” Belonging to a place – Miller says this about Salem 13 “Their creed forbade anything resembling a theatre or ‘vain enjoyment’.” Miller says what belonging to a community/group can lead
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Rhinoceros There are two main characters in this book‚ Berenger is the one Im gonna focus in‚ I think that he’s the romantic character and Jean is the modern one‚ as Gergen says‚ Berenger is a person that follows his heart and does whatever he believes is right and will benefit everybody‚ he worries about others and will put the common good before his own. On the other hand Jean is like the perfect character‚ or that’s what he wants everyone to think‚ smart‚ good dressed‚ with a lot of money but
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The Renegade (Unit 1 Lesson 7): A. Vocabulary Check 1. Hypocrisy – Practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform. 2. Immaculate – Free from flaws or mistakes. 3. Condescension – Attitude of patronizing superiority. 4. Serene – Calm‚ peaceful‚ untroubled. 5. Trample – Tread on and crush. B. Comprehension Check 1. He looks rich‚ clothes came from the early 80s‚ president of a country. 2. It means that the brother has faith for the master. The
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“As more individuals are produced than can possibly survive‚ there must in every case be a struggle for existence‚ either one individual with another of the same specie‚ or with the individuals of distinct species‚ or with the physical conditions of life.” Chapter 17‚ Home Economics‚ shows the struggles Callie Vee faces with her species: humans‚ and specifically her mother. They have different ideas of what she should be learning to survive and what lifestyle Calpurnia should lead. Calpurnia tries
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In the novel The Pigman‚ Paul Zindel expresses his recipe for a happy life. He is able to achieve this through two teenagers learning about life and an old man who is able to teach the kids. Paul Zindel intended for the novel to be for teens that are going through tough lives and need to change it. Zindel uses John and Lorraine as the teens that need help from their hostile and unfair life they live in. From Zindel’s insight‚ he tries to tell readers to have fun in life‚ making sure you find your
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