How are guns presented to us in ‘Revolver’ By Marcus Sedgwick? Revolver is a novel from Marcus Sedgwick about guns for teenagers. Revolver is set in 1910 in a place mysteriously cold and desolate. How sig Anderson thought turn more and more towards a colt revolver‚ waiting to be used! Although it’s set in 1910 and 1899 it’s written in 2009 to show its still relevant today because of the mass shooting and major gun issues in the United States of America. There are numerous figurative descriptions
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Year 8 Speech Structure Sheet: Introduction: Attention grabber: You need to start in an interesting way to engage your audience. Possibilities include a famous quote‚ a rhetorical question‚ an interesting fact‚ an anecdote or personal experience. The attention grabber must relate to your topic. (1 sentence) Acknowledge your audience: You must acknowledge who you’re speaking to‚ whether it be classmates‚ ladies and gentlemen or UNESCO committee members. The audience is outlined on your task sheet
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Costs and budgets Types of costs Fixed Fixed costs do not change in the business e.g. expenses‚ bills‚ rent etc. fixed costs are costs that do not change‚ nevertheless of the number of goods that are sold. These costs include insurance‚ salaries‚ and insurance. Weather they make 100 or 1000 products these costs must be paid. Variable Variable costs do change in the business. Variable costs are costs that do change but depends to the output. E.g. Frankie’s furniture producing chairs will have
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Juxtaposition * Lenie and Curley‚ Lennie and Crooks‚ George and Lennie‚ and Lennie and Curley’s Wife Lennie and Curley = Lennie‚ being big and gentle‚ is juxtaposed with Curley‚ being small and mean and nasty‚ to show how these two clash because of their differences. With Curley being the mean guy in the book it makes Lennie look more innocent than he already is. For example when Curley was beating up Lennie‚ your anger towards Curley and your sympathy for Lennie both increased. Why?
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Cesar Otamendi The Catcher in the Rye Maxims -Chapter 1 M: “It’s important to say goodbye.” CD: Holden is leaving Pency and remembers chucking a football around with some guys. The memory makes him feel better about being kicked out. -Chapter 2 M: “Life is a game.” CD: Holden is talking to Spencer‚ who tells him that life is a game and that you need to follow the rules in order to succeed in it. -Chapter 3 M: “Everyone has at least one good quality.” CD: When Holden is speaking with
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Every day‚ Mike Hawk rolls out of the left side of his queen sized bed and tiredly shuffles to his dresser to turn off his alarm clock. His wife won’t get up for another 2 hours‚ so Mike throws on his Carhartt overalls and plaid shirt then heads downstairs for breakfast. Mike was never allowed sweets and rarely received milk as a child so his breakfast consists of: unfrosted cornflakes with no milk‚ for energy and muscle building he drinks a glass of createne and water‚ and a Viagra because it in
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Place Darwin • Mr. Crabbe first regards Darwin with suspicion as ‘A city of booze‚ blow‚ and blasphemy’ (p.9). • Paul’s initial reaction is much more positive: ‘I loved the town of booze and blow at first sight’ (p.9). • Every thing in Darwin is different. “An unnatural greenness‚ as if the leaves were a kind of plastic. Huge parrots yattered in the dripping fruit trees. Butterflies of brilliant colours – bright rainbow colours‚ chemistry set colours‚ coffee-table book colours-filled the air”(p
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This story begins in the springtime of Folly Beach‚ a fairly peaceful and beautiful town in South Carolina. Thomas Fowl‚ your average seventeen year old teenager is at the bay watch alone with no one around to be seen. Suddenly‚ a tornado grows before his eyes could blink and becomes large enough to wipe the entire city and turn it into a dust-pile. As the lighthouse was about to fall on him he wakes up and realizes it was nothing but a nightmare‚ or was it. His teacher yells at him then asks “So
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Area of study 1: Reading and responding Set texts: novels Life of Pi (Yann Martel) Overview Piscine Molitor Patel is the narrator and main character of this unusual story that begins in Pondicherry‚ India. The son of a zoo keeper‚ Pi‚ as he comes to be known‚ has an extensive knowledge of the animals that inhabit his own backyard‚ as well as an interest in stories of all kinds and a fascination with the spiritual. He practices not only his native Hinduism‚ but also Christianity and Islam
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1. Essential Element | Quote | Sentences | Symbolism | “This was the tree‚ and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men‚ the giants of your childhood‚ whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth‚ but that they are…shrunken by age.” Ch. 1‚ Pg. 14 | The tree is symbolized to represent something grown up from. The tree is the past‚ and it was so much more meaningful before rather than now. The change in importance is due to Gene
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