At the beginning of a Christmas Carol a greedy old man hated Christmas‚ but at the end he changes ways when he is shown his future. In class we read the play version of a Christmas Carol and listened to the audio version of the book. A Christmas Carol is about a greedy old man named scrooge. He is rude and hate Christmas. He is soon visited by three spirits‚ the ghost of Christmas past‚ present‚ and future. In his future Scrooge’s life is horrible and he dies all alone and nobody cares‚ in fact people
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Right now‚ I’d say that most of the homogeneity appeal for Carol has faded away and been replaced by a misattribution of arousal. The cause of this is an increasing involvement of Carol in action-packed‚ gripping moments of the show and a diminishing resemblance of Carol to her audience. In season 1‚ Carol was a demure‚ middle-aged woman. She was a survivor of domestic violence‚ appealing to those who suffered be it through direct victimization‚ being a bystander‚ or knowing someone who was either
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KING MIDAS AND HIS GOLDEN TOUCH "…Monsters are real‚ and ghosts are real too. They live inside us‚ and sometimes‚ they win." ~ Stephan King Have you ever asked for something even though you had plenty? Why do we always ask for more stuff? This is a deadly monster called greed and it lives inside of everyone. It ’s a never-satisfied monster that always wants to become wealthier‚ like King Midas. Greed can cause people to think of you very badly‚ just like I do towards King Midas. He ’s greedy‚
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Deanna Graves AP Literature Period 3 Ms. Guy October 4‚ 2010 The Street In the novel The Street by Ann Petry‚ there is an antagonist relationship between the main character‚ Ludie Johnson‚ and the wind that is terrorizing the city. Petry establishes the wind as an antagonist in the novel to show how the environment is affecting the daily lives of the residents of 116th Street by use of literary devices. The conflict with the wind is a daily occurrence in which every resident of 116th Street
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The novel‚ A Christmas Carol‚ uses the supernatural to change a man’s view over life dramatically. Scrooge seemed to be a pleasant man up until his business partner died. Scrooge and Jacob Marley owned somewhat of a large business that consisted of a counting house. Jacob Marley died on a Christmas eve which reminds Scrooge of his death every Christmas. Although Scrooge’s attitude couldn’t be changed by the average person‚ it would require a few ghosts to “save” him. Charles Dickens shows within
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Throughout the poem ’In Mrs Tilscher’s Class’ by Carol Ann Duffy‚ the themes of innocence‚ happiness and fragility in childhood overlap with those of confusion‚ growing up and the threats of adult knowledge. The poem evokes feelings of nostalgia through its use of language and presents the classroom as a sanctuary. It is set out in four stanzas‚ the first two consisting of eight lines and the last two of seven. This change in form could be representative of the changes that children undergo when
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Carol of the bells was constructed to be a cheerful and merry Christmas song. It’s fast paced and has many rhymes. The rhyming makes the fast pacing make the song more cheerful and overall a better song. Literary devices used to create this song included personification‚ repetition‚ and rhyme. Rhyme played a big part in this song. Again‚ Carol of the bells is fast paced and rhyming made the song sound better than non rhyming words would. An example of a rhyme is “All seem to say‚ throw cares
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Every parent desires to have a child who will be successful in life. As a child my parents wanted the same for me. When we have a thought in our mind about article “Brainology”‚ the author‚ Carol Dweck explains that there are consequences of praising children for their work‚ they are also different types of mindsets that enable a person’s development. She focuses on two types of mindsets. The first mindset is fixed where a person believes that if she or he is smart‚ they don’t need to put effort
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edit clearly in pen‚ not pencil. Examiners cannot assess what they cannot read. • Ensure spelling is accurate‚ especially of characters’ names in order to show fundamental knowledge of the text. A Christmas Carol is more a moral tale than a social commentary. Discuss. In A Christmas Carol‚ Dickens deliberately and unapologetically comments on the society which was 19thCentury England. As his own life gives context to his commentary‚ Dickens discusses what he sees as the moral and social imperatives
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A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol is written by Charles Dickens. The book was published in 1843 in the Victorian era. The book was based around a self absorbed‚ miserable and bitter character named Scrooge‚ who detest Christmas and although wealthy he is also miserly. The book’s storyline is that‚ Scrooge is visited by ghosts‚ who reveal to him his future life and death. The horror of finding out that his demise is perilous. This book also shows how poor Victorians suffer and the treatment
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