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    Bridesmaids – Personal Response. ’Bridesmaids’ directed by Paul Feig‚ is my all time favourite comedy. It’s the type of funny that makes your muscles ache from laughing so hard. I found the characters and the lines to be totally hilarious. The protagonist is Annie‚ a middle aged women who’s cake business failed‚ and currently works at a jewelers thanks to her mother. Annie’s best friend is engaged to be married and she wants Annie to be her maid of honour. The bridal party consists of 4 others:

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    “Night” by Elie Wiesel – Personal Responses Chapter 1 • Moché the Beadle’s story is very disturbing. He had experienced horrible atrocities and risked his life to warn his fellow townspeople. However‚ the latter did not believe him yet alone listen to him. They called him the madman. This passage is hard for the reader‚ who knows what is going to happen to the Jews later on (situational irony). Moché was also foreshadowing what was going to happen to the Jews. This warning also brings about the

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    Elephant Inspiration is the most important factor when you write. You have to have the motivation to write and tell a story. You can get writer’s blockage when you write and become in desperate need of an interesting subject to get the work done. In the short story “Elephant” by Polly Clark we hear about William who is a writer. He writes short biographies of pop stars‚ that you can buy for only £1.99. William is not interested in pop stars‚ and really wants to write biographies of male film stars

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    Comparative essay on Orwell’s Suppressed Preface and Shooting an ElephantShooting an elephant” is autobiography of Orwell’s life and the duty he experienced as a police officer in a British colony in Burma. In this story‚ the writer tells us about how the British were viewed as intruders and how it felt to execute orders without wanting to do so. In the preface of “Animal farm”‚ we can see more obvious and relevant fact about how hard it was to publish the book and the amount and the gravity

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    Cruelty To Circus Elephants Cruelty to elephants as well as other circus animals has been a global issue for over a hundred years‚ and we are just now recognizing the severity of it all. Millions of charges have been pressed against different circuses in the United States for the abuse and death of the circus elephants. With the rise in charges and complaints of animal cruelty‚ eyebrows have begun to rise and activists have taken notice and taken a stand. Circus elephants have been said to

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    Name: Navitha Asohan Intake: April 2013 Qeustion: In the story titled Elephant‚ how does Raymond Carver focus on the elephant literally and figuratively? “The writing style of Raymond Carver’s short story entitled “Elephant” represent a simplistic‚ yet strong style of writing that is reminiscent of the great work of Earnest Hemmingway. There are several ways in which the writing style within Elephant harkens back to the stylistics of Hemmingway. Carver always goes straight to the point; like

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    Elephants Attention Getter: What’s big‚ grey and stands in the rain but doesn’t get wet? Elephants!! Background info: It is estimated that there were once more than 350 species of elephants in the world. Today we only have two of them left (well tree) the Asian‚ the Africa and the mix of them. Both of them are at risk of extinction. Between illegal hunting of them for ivory as well as the destruction of their natural habitat things are simply closing in on them at an alarming rate. Specific Purpose

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    Shooting an Elephant Essay Courage is being able to drown out the voices of others and stay true to one’s own morals. In the memoir Shooting An Elephant‚ George Orwell describes his time as a British Colonial police officer in Burma. While he is there he develops hatred for the British Empire and his actions‚ throughout the memoir are contrary to his beliefs. There are several events that take place in Shooting an Elephant that reveal Orwell’s character flaws. He lacks the ability to make decisions

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    Response to ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ by William Wordsworth The speaker in this poem talks about a time when he meandered through the valleys and hills and stumbled across a crowd of daffodils in a field. He describes in detail the seemingly never-ending sight of the daffodils throughout the poem‚ and compares their beauty to that of the glistening lake‚ ultimately deciding that the daffodils win because they are more gleeful in appearance. The poem finishes with the poet describing what he

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    The elephant Make a point-form list of the people‚ actions‚ or events that are “absurd”. 4- zoo director: is not possible to do a rubber elephant and nobody knows that is fake The worker- According the book the workers were old people‚ so is absurd that they tried to inflate the elephant with his their mouth. The children- in the story said‚ after saw the elephant was fake the children never believe in elephants and they turned into hooligans‚ this part is of course absurd‚ how the children turned

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