Tiffany can tell how the time was passing by looking at how long Mila’s hair is. A beautiful orange-yellow coat of good-looking long straight silky fur. Tiffany runs her fingers through it‚ but they get stuck in the little whorls and eddies of strands. She notices the seasons passing through it. In spring her fur was like a soft fuzz of baby leaves but then it became stubbly and itchy and stiff in the summer. Shiny and glossy it became in the fall‚ with the color of a bright new copper penny‚ and
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Looking For Alaska vs. The Catcher in the Rye Many parallels can be drawn between the main protagonists in John Green’s Looking for Alaska‚ and J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. Although these two coming of age novels differ greatly in setting and in circumstance‚ many of the broader‚ more fundamental themes in each are actually quite similar. John Green was very much influenced by J.D. Salinger‚ and even admitted that Miles "Pudge" Halter in Looking For Alaska‚ was based largely off of Holden
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------------------------------------------------- From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia ------------------------------------------------- On First Looking into Chapman ’s Homer Much have I travell ’d in the realms of gold‚ And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud
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“Looking For Alaska” By John Green. Dutton Books. Fiction. This book is all about the story of Miles “Pudge” Halter‚ a gawky‚ intelligent teen who has a major obsession with famous last words. In search of what Pudge refers to as “a great perhaps‚” he makes new friends‚ enemies and discovers himself. Before Pudge’s adventure at Culver Creek Boarding School began‚ Pudge was just a typical nerd living in a small town in Florida. His studies were most important and he loved reading biographies.
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Herland and Looking Backward are both utopian novels that attempt to portray a perfect society. Herland‚ written by feminist Charlotte Gilman‚ describes a peaceful‚ organized‚ highly efficient society called Herland‚ where competition‚ crime‚ and war are non-existent. Herland is an isolated society composed entirely of women discovered by three men from the real world. In Looking Backward‚ written by Edward Bellamy‚ the main character wakes up in the 21st century to a publicly owned capital where
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Looking for Alaska‚ by John Green‚ is a story about friendship and love. As a new student at Culver Creek (a boarding school)‚ Miles gets a chance to start over and actually get a chance to make friends. When Miles gets to his school for the first time he meets his roommate‚ Chip‚ and they become friends. A little after meeting Chip and Miles go to Chips friend Alaska’s room. Miles automatically started to fall for Alaska by her looks. Without even fully getting to know Miles‚ Alaska starts to gossip
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however men still look at these magazines for enjoyment making them a form of art. In "Looking at Women"‚ by Scott Russell Sanders‚ he looks into his experiences with women throughout his life and asks many questions about the use of their bodies. Whether it I used as art or not and why? He starts the essay out by telling a story from when he was eleven. It was pretty much his first experience looking at girl in a sexual way. Then he tells a story about how when he was in college his roommate
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The texts King Richard III and Looking for Richard both accept the centrality of power and the yearning for it‚ as a central plot driver and an assumed part of the human condition. However‚ each presents a different perspective as to the nature of power; its origins and morality. Discuss this statement with close‚ detailed reference to both texts set for study. Power is defined as the possession of control or command over people and events. In Shakespeare’s play ‘King Richard III’‚ the centrality
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Analysis of "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" "Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird" by Wallace Stevens is a poem about what it means to really know something. In this poem‚ Stevens shows this connection by writing a first person poem about a poet’s observation and contemplation’s when viewing a blackbird. He does this by making each stanza an explanation of a new way he has perceived this blackbird. First‚ he writes about his physical perception of the blackbird as an observer. Then‚ he
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KRII and LFR Essay Draft 1 Changes in context and form offer fresh perspective on the values in texts. How does Pacino’s film “Looking for Richard”‚ reveal his response to the values explored in Shakespeare’s play‚ “King Richard III”? Through changes in context and form a fresh perspective can be offered on the values in texts. Pacino’s film “Looking for Richard” [LFR] reveals his response to values such as; the allure of evil‚ conscience and the artistry of language‚ that are explored in Shakespeare’s
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