Patricia Smiley is an American author best known for writing the Tucker Sinclair series of novels. The Tucker Sinclair series features Tucker Sinclair a management consultant who finds herself embroiled in murder mysteries necessitating that she become an amateur sleuth. Her other series of novels is the Pacific Homicide series of novels that is still ongoing. Smiley was born in a Washington‚ in a small agricultural town where her mother taught her to love books. It was during her childhood that
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INTRODUCTION “Heroism is endurance for one moment more.” This quote by George F. Kennan describes a key character in the book Sold‚ created by Patricia McCormick. The character I’m referring to is Lakmishi‚ our protagonist in Patricia McCormick’s book Sold‚ and she goes through very traumatizing experiences but lives up to her endurance. She is a 13 year old girl who is sold into prostitution in an abusive patriarchal society who is dehumanized in many terrible ways. Lakamashi teaches the reader
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In the excerpt The First Betrayal‚ Patricia Bray uses figurative language in different tenses because it builds a connection which is an objective for Patricia Bray so that her story has a better setting. Patricia Bray uses diction‚ personification‚ etc‚ so that her mood of suspense can lead to a better climax later in the story Patricia Bray’s style of writing leads to suspenseful events which can lead to a state of anxiety for example‚ “He wondered if the ocean would eventually release its prize
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Dr. Patricia E. Bath 1 Dr. Patricia E. Bath Jaiel Omari Kaplan University PU120: Introduction to Public Health Professor Christina Robinson 03/08/11 Dr. Patricia E. Bath 2
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Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals‚ as well as those African-American women outside. She provides the work of Black feminist thinkers‚ Angela Davis who was an American political activist‚ Alice Walker who wrote the book “The Colour Purple‚” and Audre Lorde an American writer and civil rights activist. Although the book focused on the black feminist thought of intellectuals and activists‚ the author believed‚ that those experiences and perspectives of
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The Gun Debate written by Patricia Smith illustrates the opinions on gun control and how it relates to the second amendment. Due to the amount of gun deaths and mass shootings in our country stronger gun laws are needed to be put in order. “In 2014‚ there were more than 33‚000 firearm-related deaths in the U.S.” (Smith) The United States has the most gun violence compared to any other developed country. Another reason is that people who are small scale gun sellers can claim to be hobbyists and
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1 100 Days- A Screenplay Written by Eric Goren and Inspired by Patricia Goren INT: APARTMENT-MORNING A messy one bedroom apartment located in Manhattan. The room is sparse except for a large television‚ stereo system with speakers‚ a beat up couch and table‚ and clothing‚ bottles‚ and empty cartons of Chinese food and pizza boxes are strung around the apartment. RICHIE DEUSCH is a late 20 something single guy who is of average height and build. He is sleeping in his messy bed in
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The title of the poem firstly brings to the mind the idea of traditional Chinese practice of binding the feet of young Chinese girls. As such this is closely associated with immense suffering tortune and pain. This is carries outnumber the belief that small feet appear more attractive to prospective husband and as a result of this the women have to have her feet binded and her bones crushed to stunt growth. Another insight which can be gain from the title is the loss of freedom and feelings of entrapment
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DEALING WITH DRAGONS In the story Dealing With Dragons‚ Patricia Wrede tells the tale of an unsatisfactory princess who ignores the regular social norms of the day. In this fictional story set in medieval times‚ it is expected to marry whomever her dad tells her to marry. First‚ Cimorene is justified in ignoring her expected social norms of her day.For example ”All in all Linderwall was a very prosperous and pleasant place.Cimorene hated it”(Wrede 1). This shows that cimorene hated
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Rhetorical Analysis Essay "Other People’s Secrets" by Patricia Hampl is a reading about the publishing of her first collection of poems being published and the dark secret her mother kept hidden that is realeased in one of those poems. In the reading‚ the main point made by Patricia Hampl is whether or not it is someone else’s right to tell someone else’s secrets. In the reading‚ her mother does not want her to publish a certain poem because it releases the secret that her mother has epilepsy
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