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    “The Doll” Once upon a time in Northern Montana ‚ the deep in the haunted woods of QUARRYFALLS were screaming ‚ where the branches were never straight and where the leaves never grow‚ a 16 year old girl was running from nothing and screaming about a red eyed beast. The rest of the 302 POPULATION was asleep and could not hear her. That steals your soul and pierces your heart. She finally stopped in the middle of eight trees that surrounded her like they were alive(simile). It was wearing a pink

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    Lucy Liu was born in New York City on December 2‚ 1968. Lucy Liu is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Lucy attended New York City High School. She enrolled to New York University but after one year she transfer to University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She studied Asian Languages and culture and she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1990. Lucy Liu was an actor she would always got rescued the people were the main part of the movie. She had played mostly in action and for kid’s movies. She was

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    Jamaica Kincaid’s novel “Lucy” is from the point of view of a girl who moves to America for a better life. The main characteristics that stuck out to me were how blunt and to the point she was while narrating‚ but when interacting with others‚ she felt out of place or did not care. If I were to direct a movie based on this book‚ I would cast Rosario Dawson as Lucy‚ but to recall these events. Through out the movie‚ Rosario Dawson would narrate what Lucy is really thinking while the camera shows a

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    Within the excerpt from the novel‚ Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid‚ the narrator is conflicted between two opposing forces‚ the longing for her identity and her familiar childhood‚ against the unfamiliar new environment she believed she would love. The new environment is too new and unfamiliar to adapt to‚ “but at first it was all so new that I had to smile with my mouth turned down at the corners” (Line 11). The narrator also wants to preserve her old self from her new surroundings which complicates her

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    Analysis and interpretation of ”Isolation” Outline for the analysis: Introduction to the story Topic sentence 1 - The family can´t handle the grief. Topic sentence 2 - The theme of the story is grief. Topic sentence 3 - The characters haven´t move on. Conclusion. The story takes place in a bungalow near by the beach at Long Island Sound in the 1980´s. The story is all about a family‚ where the mother/wife get strangled and then the father has to take care of the six children

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    In the passage from Lucy: A Novel‚ by Jamaica Kincaid the narrator dramatizes the conflict between her desire to escape and her fear of the unknown. In the new situation she finds herself in‚ the narrator finds herself confronting an unknown environment‚ an unknown future‚ and unknown emotions. All of these question marks in her life force the narrator to instead reflect inward into her own sense of self and question her most basic perceptions of her place in the world. Ultimately‚ these factors

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    Stolen‚ written by Lucy Christopher‚ was my chosen book for this quarter’s reading. This story is about a young 16 year old female named Gemma finding her way home after getting kidnapped by an old man who went by the name of Ty. While being held captive‚ Gemma and Ty start to develop an unusual relationship that lead them to knowing each other even more. For my visual representation of this book‚ I chose to create a collage based on the novel. I incorporated pictures of places‚ items‚ and characters

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    of having little or no money‚ goods‚ or means of support; condition of being poor. Two motivated authors‚ Muhammad Yunus and Lucy Lameck‚ wrote two different short stories in the book “Reading the World: Ideas that Matter” that have inspired me to write this essay on the poverty and social class in third world countries. The first story is “Africans Are Not Poor” by Lucy Lameck. The reason I chose this particular story is because she goes into detail about how these people live and struggle to survive

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    Lucy was raised by humans‚ through “human” methods. Her adoptive human parents raised her as if she was their human daughter. After living with them‚ Lucy showed multiple signs of basic human abilities. One of them being‚ communication. Lucy was then taught sign language to communicate with her human parents and Janis. Lucy communicated with them and conversed with them. Even after her human parents was no longer capable of caring for her‚ Lucy remained “human.” She was taken to an island and was

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    CHARACTERS LUCY BECK A young seventeen year old lady who got a job as a secretary at Ross and Banister’s Characteristics: She is a young‚ shy‚ a low achiever‚ not competent and highly qualified and insecure graduate of secretarial studies. Textual evidence: Lucy Beck was young and small and mouse-coloured‚ easily overlooked. She had a lonely ‘O’ level and a typing speed that would make a tortoise laugh. Characteristics: She has a very low self esteem‚ inferior complex‚ no

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