through the setting established; the audience is able to see her grow in her social‚ political‚ economic‚ and cultural knowledge. Estrella’s mother‚ Petra‚ was left a long time ago by her husband. Estrella learns from her father’s loss that men cannot be trusted or depended on‚ and that women will usually always be left to take care of the family. Just as Petra has been abandoned physically by Estella’s father‚ and mentally by Perfecto‚ Estella soon will come to be abandoned by Aledo. The fact that Perfecto
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The Chrysalids By John Wyndham Chapter one—A Dream and the Definition (pages 5-14) Glossary a.) germinate: to begin to develop b.) dungarees: heavy cotton pants or overalls usually made of blue denim c.) cleft: a fissure or crack d.) precepts: orders or rules meant to guide one’s conduct e.) rote: fixed routine; repetition of forms or phrases often without attention to meaning f.) cold-poulticed: a poultice is usually a soft mixture made with herbs and organic material‚ usually heated
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community that follows a very rigid code of morality and religious beliefs based on The Bible and another book called Nicholson’s Repentances. The story focuses on the lives of a group of kids who can communicate telepathically. One night‚ David Strorm‚ Petra Strorm‚ and Rosalind were forced to escape Waknuk due to the community finding out about what they believe are satanic abilities. They escape to The Fringes‚ home of the deviations‚ where they meet and are rescued
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communicate to each other with their minds using Thought Pictures. Since this wasn’t visible they live relatively normal lives until David’s mother had a girl called Petra. Six years after Petra was born was when people started to grow suspicious. The first incident was when Petra was six and was in danger of drowning. Petra was also able to use Thought Pictures but hers were more powerful but she had little control over them. She ended up causing the others to act in a way that caused suspicion
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BSBPMG510A Assessment 2 Petra Novotna Student No: 2236 PROJECT “The End Of The Year AAC Boat Party” INTRODUCTION The Theme of the project is Boat party to get everyone from college together and celebrate great year to past and even beter to come. The idea is to create a project that will take place every year for students to know each other better and have little fun. It will include live music‚ finger food‚ bar with alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks and games to win few exciting prices. Of course
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may be broken....’ I felt like I knew exactly what she was talking about. In our society‚ children also do suffer cruelty because of superficial things. This passage is an eye-opener to how terrible both societies are‚ the author places the birth of Petra to the birth of Aunt Harriet’s baby to extensively express his point. The timing of Petra’s birth and her cousin expresses the point that while some are in the highest of heights others are in the lowest of lows. It seems extremely unfair how two people
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Introduction of Special Interest Tourism The tourism industry has changed over the years along with the socio-economic situations in many countries. Therefore‚ tourism markets that were popular twenty years ago are now in deterioration as travellers look for some kind of fulfilment and meaning at the destination. Special interest tourism (SIT) can be defined as a form of tourism that provides an enriching experience that is of special interest to visitors in addition to other leisure activities
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This phrase was enough and those three events jumped immediately to my mind‚ that school trip to Petra in 2009 was un forgettable one‚ yet that incident when I lost my passport in De Gaulle airport Paris was terrifying and recently my oldest brother’s wedding back home in Jordan‚ was a real family celebration. It was 2009 and our school had organized a trip to Petra‚ I used to live in the north and Petra is located in the south of Jordan‚ so the bus road trip would take most of the trip‚ that however
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her cry on my shoulder. There was little I could do to comfort her. Nothing‚ but assure her‚ as Michael had‚ that what she had done had been absolutely necessary. After a little time we walked slowly back. She sat down beside the still-sleeping Petra. It occurred to me to ask: ’What about his horse‚ Rosalind? Did that get away?’ She shook her head. ’ I don’t know. I suppose he must have had one‚ but he was following our tracks on foot when I saw
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himself. He could see thought pictures sent by others‚ such as his cousin Rosalind. This expresses that David is not normal. From here on‚ David became strong. Once his sister Petra was born‚ he started to go through another stage of change. While on the run away from Waknuk‚ David had a parent-like relationship with Petra and his love for Rosalind was developing. He had to protect them from the people pursuing them from Waknuk and the people from the Fringes. Especially‚ David needs to protect
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