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    Looking for Alaska

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    Madison Davis English 30D Mrs. Reimer February 12‚ 2011 Looking for Alaska The main theme in John Green’s novel “Looking for Alaska” is that there is more to life than can be experienced through any one person or experience‚ and that we will never truly understand everything that happens to us or the ones we love. We just have to accept these things‚ whether they be good or bad‚ and hope for the best. The novel is written in first-person perspective‚ through the eyes of the main character. His

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    Looking Back

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    essays‚ I learned about the complications of representing “truth” and I tried to spread this knowledge to my readers by maintaining a controlled purpose‚ interpreting the two essays‚ and using examples from both essays and explaining them further. My first interpretive essay I chose to write about was‚ “Growing Revolution” an interpretation of Kalman’s “Back to the Land” interpretive essay. While writing that essay I found it very easy to maintain a controlling purpose because I believe that Kalman’s

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    Looking for Answers

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    Help me please. Introduction It is easy to compare two characters—and do a good job of it—if you remember four points: * The Purposes of Comparison * Why * What * How These four points interrelate‚ but let’s start with the most important: the purposes of comparison. You can compare any two things—an apple and an aardvark‚ or a slug and a skyscraper. It’s easy to compare things like that: a slug is ___ whereas a skyscraper is ___. You could fill in the blanks without

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    Looking Forward to!

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    Hanif Technical and Business Writing HU-101 27th April‚ 2013 What I’m looking forward to? This life is full of excitements and no one can imagine spending it without any aim. Everyone has desire to do‚ to be‚ to take or to achieve something. The whole world is looking forward to something that wants. As being a part of this world I’m also looking forward for something but for my goal to be good petroleum engineer. There was a time when I hadn’t even a slight

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    Looking Backward

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    One day when I was nine‚ my family and I visited an apple orchard in the fall to pick to pick our own apples. About halfway through‚ I became hungry‚ so I decided to take snack on one of the many apples I had in my basket. Although once I bit into it‚ I was horrified to see a worm squiggling and squirming around inside of the apple. I spit out what I had already eaten and threw the apple to the ground as I screamed. Dropping my basket‚ I bolted out of the fields‚ not caring that my family was right

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    Looking for alibrandi

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    Chapter One: Q1) Ten words to describe Josephine Alibrandi are: Rebellious‚ Emotional‚ Intelligent‚ Mature‚ Embarrassed (by Nonna)‚ Self conscious‚ Sarcastic‚ Opinionated‚ Friendly and Observant. Q2) Josephine lives in a suburb called Glebe Q3) Josephine attends a school named St. Marthas. This school Is not Co-Ed and has nuns as teachers. It is full of rich‚ white kids. Q4) Her biggest problem is being stuck at a school full o rich kids with rich families. Q5) She is ‘illegitimate’ because

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    Looking for alaska

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    and it is only at life’s end that it ceases and we become static. Alaska raced straight and fast through the labyrinth‚ desperately trying to outrun a change that started when she was eight years old. Instead she became trapped in the now‚ never looking backward or forward‚ never thinking to swerve and leaving everything “to be continued.” Many people don’t realize that our actions can affect the people around us. Alaska acts as a whirlwind in Mile’s life. Changing who he is and dealing with

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    The Looking Glass:

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    Madeline Smith 27th Jan 2013 The Looking Glass: A Tempting Depiction of Feminine Aspiration The poem “The Looking Glass” by Kamala Das is a descriptive poem‚ which elaborates the bold imagery of exploring female sexuality in her quest for love. This poem is composed in a free verse with no specific rules applied: the poet uses figurative devices like alliteration “admit and admiration‚ drab and destitute‚ living and love”‚ simile “as”‚ metonymy “looking glass” for the reflection of image

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    October sky In the novel October Sky by Homer Hickam the character‚ Homer is forced for many obstacles against all odds. Homer Hickam is a 15 yr old boy who wants to build rockets from a poor coal mining town he doesn’t have support. He doesn’t have the materials he needs. He needs to know how to build rockets. Homer Hickam had a lot of problems. He’s trying to make his dad proud. He had trouble writing algebra. Another problem is in school the jocks pick on him and girls didn’t like

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    be a hero? What traits should a hero have? My hero is Odysseus. In The Odyssey by Homer‚ Odysseus proves to be a true epic hero through his intelligence‚ bravery‚ and loyalty. One way that Odysseus uses his intelligence is to help his men. For instance‚ He puts beeswax in all of his crew’s ears when passing the Sirens. The epic states "Going forward I carried wax along the line‚ and laid it thick on their ears” (Homer 706). This helps them get past the Sirens successfully. Also‚ his intelligence helps

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