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    Count of Monte Cristo

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    King of Victory Alexander Dumas‚ was born and raised in France when he wrote the book The Count of Monte Cristo. He compares and contrast‚ the events in his story using chess pieces. For example‚ a pony resembles a knight‚ a whistle is similar to a bishop‚ a count is turik‚ and a king has all the power. The movie suggest life is about strategy‚ may the best man win. The introduction of the movie shows Edmond and with his best friend‚ Fernand ‚ returning from the sea. Edmonds fiancée‚ Mercedes

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    Expository Piece

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    Prompt: ‘We cannot always be ourselves in the company of others’ Statement of Intention This expository piece draws upon the context ‘Identity and Belonging’ in conjunction with personal memoirs from Alice Pung’s ‘Growing up Asian in Australia’. The purpose of this piece is to explore and invite my audience to experience what it is like to be the subject of isolation due to differences in appearance‚ language and culture and to point out the internal struggles people have while trying to discover

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    Think Piece

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    Malú Buil Think Piece Identify There’s a disorder called mythomaniac disorder that’s when people go on lying forever until they are indeed living in a lie. These people actually believe the lies they say. Sometimes when I listen to a song that has nothing to do with my life I adapt it to my life and get really angry if the singer is feeling that way or romantic if that’s the case. It happens to me so often that I thought that I was somehow a mythomaniac‚ but just lying to myself not to the world

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    My Favourite Manga

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    action-adventure‚ romance‚ sports and games‚ historical drama‚ comedy‚ science fiction fantasy‚ mystery‚ suspense‚ detective‚ horror‚ and business/commerce. So far I’ve read 60 or more mangas since 7th grade. I really enjoy reading Fairy tail‚ One piece‚ Naruto‚ Kuroshitsuji. Fairy tail’s summary: Lucy Heartfilia‚ a traveling Mage‚ meets Natsu Dragneel‚ a Mage looking for his foster parent‚ a Dragon named Igneel‚ with his best friend‚ Happy‚ a talking and flying cat. Shortly after their meeting

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    A Piece of String

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    A Piece of String Guy de Maupassant It was just midnight. Somewhere near the center of a cloud of tobacco smoke‚ which hovered over one corner of the long editorial room‚ Hutchinson Hatch‚ reporter‚ was writing. The rapid click-click of his type writer went on and on‚ broken only when he laid aside one sheet to put in another. The finished pages were seized upon one at a time by an office boy and rushed off to the city editor. That astute person glanced at them for information and sent them on

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    Elements Of Prose

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    the town. All of the people gathered at 10:00‚ with stones with them. Mr. Summers has a box with pieces of paper. Everyone’s family is written on those papers. He calls up all the men of each family to draw a piece of paper. After drawing it‚ it turns out the Hutchinson family have picked the marked piece of paper so they put more pieces of paper in the box. Afterwards‚ the Hutchinson family picks a piece of paper out of the box. Tess Hutchinson‚ one of the Hutchinson families‚ picked the paper with

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    transition to the adult world is complete. That’s when we see the chess piece for the first time: it represents the beginning of the social game. The man who was controlling the chess game at first is a representation of the paternal figure. He is the one who controls our place in this world until we’re old enough. When she reaches the board‚ she’s not only a viewers‚ as she were as kids‚ but now she’s active on this board. The pieces move without anyone touching them‚ because we can never have full control

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    MEN AND WOMEN ARE MERELY PLAYERS – ROBERT GREENE 1. TOPIC: The article‚ “Men and Women are merely players” is an exposure of human being are just like a piece of chess that follow the roles that has been pointed out by certain dominator. The excerpt by Robert Greene advocates that in a society there will be a social idea that would drive a person to follow the scripted roles. If we never realize such game from the beginning‚ then the tendency for us to be manipulated by mastermind that mad

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    Life as a Sweatshop Worker: Testimonial Review by Christopher Lucas After reading “Story of a Sweatshop Girl”‚ I could not help but feel good. This was one of those surprise stories that you would never expect to come from a sweatshop worker. Sadie Frowne was obviously an educated woman who had ambition. To read this document from her perspective was a very enlightening experience. Sadie was very intelligent and independent. She wanted to take full advantage of everything that America had

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    save your own” (474). Selfishness screams anger in any matter‚ especially in a crisis of love. It may leave the question‚ is it right for one to leave another hanging alone for your own concerns? According to White‚ Guenever “was not an insensate piece of property‚ to be taken up or laid down

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