Phoebe The Spy By: Judith Barry Griffin The story‚ Phoebe the spy‚ is all about a 13 year old girl. Her name is Phoebe Fraunces. Her father‚ Samuel Fraunces‚ asks Phoebe to be a spy. Samuel had heard rumors that someone had a plot to kill General George Washington. All that Samuel knew was about the plot and that the killer’s name began with the letter T. So‚ Phoebe travels to General’s home. She posed as a maid. 2 very important people in the story‚ Pompey and the cook‚ greet Phoebe at the
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN * Willy has mental problems * Flicking to reality and illusion * Packed to the rafters – Ted the old man is living with Alzheimer’s his behaviour is becoming erratic – same as willy * Each character has a different reality Willy’s reality * He believes personal accomplishment is possible * A man who knows what he wants will go after it and succeed * Someone has to be well liked – compared with modern notions‚ superficial notions – link to cosmetic
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Tracking a Text: Spies by Michael Frayn 1: Chapter One: pages 3 – 6 The narrator (Stephen) is disturbed by the smell of a certain shrub every June. It triggers his memory and makes him think of the past. Particularly‚ he thinks of Keith and Keith’s mother. He remembers Keith’s mother‚ her eyes sparkling and her laughter. Then he remembers her crying and he not knowing what to do. He remembers that the whole thing started with six words spoken by Keith. He resolves to go back
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I actually enjoyed the movie Bridge of Spies‚ even though I never heard of it. It is funny how on one side we as people wanted to make sure the book was thrown at Mr. Rudolph for being a spy but we send spies out to do the same thing yet when they are caught we want them freed and return home safe and sound. Mr. Donovan was the only person who put his personal believes to the side and focused on the case through the eyes of the law. He know and wanted to address from the beginning that the evidence
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Female Spies of War World I During World War I there were few female spies but the most commonly and famously known ones were Marta Hari the alias of Margaretha Geertruida Zelle and Edith Cavell. Both women were on opposite ends of the spectrum‚ Marta Hari who used her charms and beautiful looks to attract men and obtain information for the Germans was an exotic dancer while Edith Cavell a nurse who was very motherly like‚ helped wounded Allied soldiers and gathered information from them. Sadly
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When you have such a great passion for something‚ you know exactly what to say about it. That’s why I chose the poem called “Dance”. The author is Paul Hayward and he seems to have a passion for not only writing but dance. I really just get what he is saying; It just makes sense to me. This poem is just so meaningful in my eyes. The author just describes everything so thoroughly and everything has a purpose. The way he explains feelings is very similar to how my team and I feel before we perform
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“THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE GO-BETWEEN AND SPIES ARE SOCIALLY OPRRESSED ARE SOCIALLY OPPRESSSED” How far do you agree with this statement? Social Oppression is a main theme explored throughout the two tragic novels‚ The Go-Between and Spies. Throughout the novels‚ L.P. Hartley and Michael Frayn successfully convey the idea‚ through the use of their main characters‚ the effects of social oppression and class divide. Using many techniques they show how class and oppression had power over the people
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jack hayward is a very large school. The school is located in Pioneers loop. Jack Hayward is the largest government school in Grand Bahama. The color of the school is yellow. At the school we have about 60 classrooms in the entire school. In 2010 the school was divided into two divisions the junior high school which ran from grades 7-9 and the senior high school which were from grades 10-12. However‚ the government decided to rejoin the two school back together in 2012. On the school property we
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their children from what they see as a very dangerous world (From Journal call the new tech and world). Whether parents should spy on their kids or not has been a debatable issue for the last ten years. Some argue that parents should spy on their kids because those kids are too young to protect themselves from outside world. While others think that parents should not spy on their kids‚ because children need their own space and private time. As Roy Cooper‚ an attorney general from California‚ said
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18th January 2014 Practice At Examining How A Writer Achieves A Particular Effect Text: ’I Spy’ by Graham Greene What Is The Significance Of The Title? The title (’I Spy’)‚ is significant because it shows the similarities between Charlie Stowe and his father. Also because without it we would never come to assume that Charlie Stowe’s father is in fact a spy‚ who is being arrested for spying for the Germans or the ’Huns’ as his wife calls them. This creates the effect of dramatic irony as Charlie
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