early in the book of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. One may not truly understand the importance of this one line until the book is complete. How can one person change and mold a group of girls alone? Is it brain washing? Or is it something much more dangerous? Miss Jean Brodie was an educator‚ someone that was in a profession to be trusted and help children gain knowledge and grow into individuals who could make a difference in the world. However‚ Miss Jean Brodie was a different type of teacher
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Do you think that Sandy’s ‘betrayal’ of Miss Jean Brodie is justified? Discuss with reference to the text. I do think that Sandy’s betrayal of Miss Jean Brodie is justified because Miss Brodie used fascist views to educate the girls in the school which should be stopped. However it could be said that it is not justified for Sandy to betray Miss Brodie because it is mostly due to jealousy and revenge. Miss Brodie teaches how she likes in the school. She does not like how you are supposed to
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The History Boys and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Character Connections Name of Characters Similarities Quotes to Illustrate Similarities Hector and Miss Brodie Both are teachers who display somewhat extravert and unusual teaching methods‚ which may be deemed as inappropriate by some. HISTORY BOYS JEAN BRODIE “I would call these lessons A Waste of Time”- doesn’t follow/agree with the school curriculum. “The hitting never hurt. It was a joke. None of us cared. We lapped it
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From early on in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie‚ the level of influence that Miss Brodie has over the lives of the ‘[girls] who formed the Brodie set’ is revealed through the use of the collective noun ‘set’ as this implies that rather than being individuals‚ they become‚ as Sandy later comments‚ ‘a body with Miss Brodie as the head’. Throughout the course of the novel Miss Brodie repeatedly displays admiration for Adolf Hitler‚ who she likens to a ‘prophet figure’‚ while her treatment of the girls
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Although Sula is arranged in chronological order‚ it does not construct a linear story with the causes of each new plot event clearly visible in the preceding chapter. Instead‚ Sula uses "juxtaposition‚" the technique through which collages are put together. The effects of a collage on the viewer depend on unusual combinations of pictures‚ or on unusual arrangements such as overlapping. The pictures of a collage don’t fit smoothly together‚ yet they create a unified effect. The "pictures" of Sula’s
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"Isn’t this great?" my dad asked excitedly. "It’s the last night you and your sister will be twin prime ages until you’re 11 and she’s 13--six more years!" I was trying to sleep‚ but my dad dragged me back to the world of the living. "Sam‚ can you tell me how many times you two will be twin primes before you turn 21?" Dad was tempting me. He knew I wanted to go to bed‚ but the urge to be right and earn his smile was too great. In my mind I made a number line and crossed off every even number
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she cant‚ she lives in an orphanage along with 20 other girls from babies to 17 year olds‚ her Matron name was Miss Fannigan she hates kids or maybe dispises them‚ Miss Fannigan woke up the girls at 3 am to make them clean so all the girls got up got dressed and brushed their teeth while they were cleaning Annie starts a song named “its a had not life” so they began to sing and then Miss Fannigan came in and yelled at them for singing‚ later that day a young woman came to take an orphan to ‘Daddy’
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All through the season‚ I did a technique called the glide. That was the normal high school technique. For a freshman and a new thrower‚ I did very well. That summer I went to a camp and I learned a new technique called rotational that many college throwers do. I found it to be very fun‚ so I thought that I’d try it during the school season. I practiced it
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My father William is a short man‚ whose patience is shorter than dynamite when lit. He is a stocky man‚ with an appearance consisting of a sharp rounded nose‚ beady brown eyes‚ and a rounded scarred face. He is caring‚ funny‚ and wise and has always been supportive of me. The traits he possesses motivated me to become who I am today. On the date of August 13‚ 2007‚ he decided to take my brothers and me to Borrego Springs to ride quads. Once we arrived the smell of the scorching sand forced its
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The Narrative Techniques in Wuthering Heights Although Wuthering Heights was Emily Bronte’s only novel‚ it is notable for the narrative technique she employed and the level of craftsmanship involved in it. Although there are only two obvious narrators‚ Lockwood and Nelly Dean‚ a variety of other narratives are interspersed throughout the novel. The reasons for this are that the whole action of Wuthering Heights is presented in the form of eyewitness narrations by people who have played some part
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