Is it possible for people to make comments about me for who I am as a person and not my outer appearance? This is the question I constantly asked myself everyday because most of the time I am bombarded with criticisms on how I looked. To put it bluntly‚ I‚ myself‚ have not met the body figure standard of what a Vietnamese woman should be. My family and relatives have always been saying that a Vietnamese girl should have a slim figure. Since I was small‚ I was that chubby girl‚ who loved to eat delicious
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In the book “Looking for Alaska” it showed the developments and growth of a characters which changes throughout the story. This book showed how a role of a character changes in just a matter of time. Influences throughout the story changes the person personality and makes him a completely different person. Sometimes when you don’t expected it‚ it turn out to be a big twist in life. This booked showed how people can change in a matter of time. The developments and growth of the character name Miles
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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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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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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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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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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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