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    Cumpolsory Case : “Toyota : Looking Far into the Future” A Brief History of Toyota 1) Toyota begins work on small car‚ a niche neglected by Detroit a. Toyopet is introduced in 1947. b. Reinvest profits from small cars into research and development 2) In 1957‚ Toyota performs its first American road test a. Modified Toyopet performs poorly‚ failing the road test due to heat and vibration b. Start over and by 1960 Toyota has a new Toyopet

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    being possible‚ with the author making it easy for us to understand Alice’s case. “Three children walked away from the edge of town one day – but only two of them came back…” is the sentence written at the backside of Anne Cassidy’s book called Looking for JJ. This one sentence provides information about what the book is about and the instant we read it‚ it makes us intrigued. While reading the book‚ we gradually learn about Alice’s dangerous past as Jennifer Jones‚ finding out that she killed

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    The before and after approach in Looking for Alaska is vital to the story in multiple ways. Throughout the story‚ Miles undergoes a journey of self-discovery‚ during which he gains his independence; establishing confidence in his social skills and personal relationships. As John Green says in his interview‚ “Humans tend to measure time within the framework of important events.” Though Miles’s confidence has begun to blossom prior to Alaska’s accident‚ her death strikes a dramatic change in his view

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    of Tudor propaganda‚ and Al Pacino’s 1996 docudrama “Looking For Richard” set in contemporary New York‚ have distinctive parallels in what values they concern themselves with despite their markedly different contexts. Our understanding of both texts is advanced through exploring the composers’ contrasting values of free will clashing with Providentialism and the importance of integrity and honesty in the Murder of Clarence scene from “Looking for Richard” as well as its corresponding scene from “King

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    “At the end of Look Both Ways‚ the film-maker convinces viewers that the characters are capable of looking at their lives in different ways.” Do you agree? In the film Look Both Ways‚ director Sarah Watt explores the theme that perspective can determine experience in life. The film demonstrates that life is an unscripted event where no one knows the final outcome and we can often become overwhelmed by how seemingly little control we exert over the navigation of our lives By using main characters

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    Hopefully Looking into the Future “Hope is the thing with feathers /That perches in the soul /And sings the tune without the words /And never stops at all.” - Emily Dickinson In Edwidge Danticat’s anthology‚ The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States‚ different voices of the Haitian dyasporas tell their stories on how they have hope. Whether it be a young child looking for motherly love‚ seeking to win a soccer game or on an even bigger scale‚ or getting

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    Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”‚ Homer Barron is a mixed race man who “passes” himself as white to succeed in society‚ which leads to his demise when his companion Emily Grierson kills him to avoid scandal. What is “passing”? To understand why Homer Barron would want to “pass” one must first understand what it means. Passing is: “an opportunity to gain

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    Looking for Alaska is a fictional book by John Green which tells the story of how one girl greatly impacts four other students lives. This story shows how just one person can completely change the life of others around them. Although Alaska Young feels as if she is not all that special those around her completely disagree. One accident that ends Alaska’s life seems as if it also ends those around her. She changed those around her for the better and everyone admired Alaska Young. This story is set

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    DiffDifferent Ways of Looking at Food The Omnivore’s Dilemma‚ by Michael Pollan‚ attempts to figure out how such a simple question as‚ “What should we have for dinner?” (Pollan 1)‚ turned out to be so complicated such that we need investigative journalists to tell us what is in our food. To do so‚ he went on a journey to follow all three food chains that sustain us today: the industrial‚ the organic‚ and the hunter-gatherer back to their origins. Although these journeys may have led to very different

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    In this sentence from John Green’s Looking for Alaska‚ the speaker’s attitude toward the party is best described as indifferent. The speaker’s tone and diction implies that he lacks interest or concern in the unsuccessful party that was thrown for him. He mentions how “he could feel their pity”‚ but then goes on to say that “they needed more pity than I did”. This shows how although his parents pitied him for not having friends‚ he did not pity himself‚ but instead felt bad for his hopeful parents

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