Noughts and Crosses- Malorie Blackman The book Noughts and Crosses is a sitting on the fence sort of book for me. The writing of it hooked you in and made you think but I absolutely hated what happened in the end. The plot was good but as I said I didn’t like some things that occurred during the novel‚ like the fact Callum dying made me want to scream and rip my hair out (I did restrain myself by the way). But the fact that I did want to do that was because you grew attached to the characters‚ as
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Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s greatest and most intriguing female characters. She is evil‚ loving and witch-like all at the same time. However‚ during the play we see her in two different ways. At the time when we first meet her‚ she is a brutally violent‚ power wanting witch‚ and later on she turns to a shameful suicidal grieving woman. At the beginning of Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth is very vicious. She thinks nothing of killing King Duncan. She has no sense of what is wrong and right‚ and
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PERSONAL RESPONSE TO LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI The novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta (1993)‚ is about a young 16 year old girl named Josephine Alibrandi trying to find herself in her final year of high school. It shows high and lows throughout the novel with Josie finding her father and starting a relationship with him‚ to losing her close friend John Barton from suicide. There are many themes in the novel such as Family‚ Relationships‚ Search for identity and MULTICULTURALISM. The narrative
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What intrigues me most about the poems of T.S Eliot is the subtle delicateness of his writing and yet it is delivered with amazing strength and profound depth. In certain poems‚ I felt that Eliot wrote in a rather impersonal‚ detached dry tone. However a lot of his poetic lines are brimming with attitude. His general tone is quite understated. However this only serves to sharpen the impact on the reader’s feelings. I felt his poetry was a type of aesthetic despair. While registering a despairing
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Chinese Cinderella‚ by Adeline Yen Mah. The secret story of an unwanted daughter. The story‚ set in 1941‚ during the time of the civil war between colonists and nationalists has all the constituents needed to make a good Cinderella story; a girl suffering with inequality within her family‚ a dead mother‚ horrid stepmother‚ careless father & hateful siblings. By now you would have had enough of all the different alterations of the classic Cinderella story‚ from the jealous siblings to the lost shoe
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Cinderella is a famous fairy tale. The original people know it was written by the Grimm brothers. However‚ it is not the only version written. The Ojibwa People wrote a Cinderella story also. There are many similarities and differences between the two stories. Sootface is a better story with a better lesson. Cinderella’s mother died and she was left with two stepsisters and a stepmother. Cinderella’s father was still around but often gone. Sootface mother passed away and left her with her two oldest
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Comparison essay: “Cinderella” stories This assignment requires you to compare (meaning compare or contrast) two versions of the best known and most ubiquitous of all folk tales‚ the story of Cinderella. The two best known European versions of this tale are in your coursepack‚ those of Perrault and the Grimms. The coursepack also includes several other versions of the tale‚ selected from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. You can also locate your own version(s) of the story on the internet‚ in
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On Thursday‚ November 12‚ 2015‚ at approximately 0333 hours. I responded to Waffle House‚ 1170 West Avenue for a disturbance in progress. The caller advised Conyers Communication that a verbal altercation had taken place. They then stayed the subject left in a silver pickup truck towards the Motel 6‚ 1351 Dogwood Drive. As I patrolled the area‚ I noticed a silver Dodge Ram‚ Ga tag CCN8347‚ had left the Waffle House parking lot. The vehicle made a left onto Dogwood Drive and continued towards the
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Flashbulb Memory Flashbulb memory is a thought to involve the recall of very specific details or images surrounding a significant rare or vivid event. It can be a long-lasting memory that can be personal of a shocking event. People can remember almost perceptual clarity details of a context in which they heard about it on the news‚ such as what they was doing‚ with whom they were with and where they were. An example is ten years ago was the worst day for an American people when two plans hit the
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Anass Elwawi ENGL 2290 Dr.Shawn Casey September 16‚ 2016 Mary Rowlandson Response Paper Mary Rowlandson‚ the daughter of a wealthy land holder in the Massachusetts Bay colony‚ was a victim of the King Philip war. She got married to Joseph Rowlandson at the age of 18‚ they had four children‚ one in which died in infancy. Shortly before the King Philip war ended a group of American Indians attacked the city of Lancaster and captured Mrs. Rowlandson along with her 3 children and a group of settlers
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