In my Language class‚ I choose to read‚ Nancy Drew and the Mystery of Mirror Bay: by Carolyn Keene‚ for my mystery book report. I choose to read this book because I heard that the Nancy Drew books were a good read. As I continued to read it‚ I found out otherwise. This book is about a girl detective‚ Nancy Drew‚ and her best friends George and Bess‚ as they head to Cooperstown‚ NY to solve three mysteries. The mysteries were a girl walking across the bay‚ a green mountain “sorcerer” that scared away
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SLYVIA PLATH AND CONFESSIONAL POETRY Slyvia Plath is an American poet‚ short story writer and novelist who lived between 1932-1963. Plath’s childhood and adolescence had a number of academic achievements. She is well known for her novel The Bell Jar‚ and for her poetry collections The Colossus and Ariel. Plath was clinically depressed. The previous onset of depression‚ at the age of 20‚ was associated with overwork and failure to get into a Harvard writing class. She had psychological treatment for
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addicted to cigarettes and changes his whole life s he can adjust himself to make the accessibility of cigarettes easier. Many people who become addicted to cigarettes change their life styles to accommodate their needs. By incorporating‚ similes‚ personification and satire; Sedaris hyperbolizes the idea of being addicted to cigarettes changes the way someone runs their life. Sedaris recalls memories of his addiction to cigarettes and how it all began. He uses many rhetorical elements to express his
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Sylvia Plath; What Was Behind the Mirror Perhaps the first thought to mind when the name Sylvia Plath is mentioned is pure ironic tragedy. What a destructive death for a woman with a seemingly jubilant life. It is know to most that she was a poet and author beyond her time‚ beaming with creativity and writing poetry in her early teen years. However‚ with longing for fame struck the bittersweet reality of holding the title for the most unfortunate life. How can it be‚ that a woman struck by dire
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Self-hatred can ruin your life if you let it control your thoughts and actions. This is one of the many themes in “Mirror Image” and I think it is the most important. Humans have a tendency to dislike themselves and only see their faults. The first sentence‚ “If only there were no mirrors” talks about how she doesn’t actually want to see how she looks and that life would be easier without seeing how you look all the time. Alice had a brain transplant and since she has a different body she has started
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Emily Dickinson uses personification to similate how death is a gentleman that stopped to give someone a pleasant ride to their destination. The gentleman (Death) waits for her is the way the poet conveyed in the poem. As if death is a person waiting for her to join him. Another personification is when the writer compares death to someone having good manners‚ although this is not possible‚ they travel together at no certain speed with no time limit. As they pass through the town the sun sets
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I can honestly say that Hillary Clinton’s political ad‚ “Mirrors”‚ works very well in that it clearly expresses the message that Donald Trump does not have the highest respect for women. This ad features many young women looking at themselves in the mirror while demeaning comments play in the background and it ends with an interviewer asking Trump‚ "Do you treat women with respect?" and him answering with‚ " I can’t say that either." I don’t support either side‚ as they’re both drastically flawed
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[Setting: Doug’s room in the hospital- a mirror] [Doug is standing away from the mirror‚ muttering somewhat nonsensically] Doug: Dunno why; I’m not a poof- why would I wanna talk about my feelings‚ and my repressed emotions? [Whilst saying the two reasons in a mocking manner‚ Doug makes air quotations to reinforce how against the idea he is] Doug: Bloody useless shrinks just wanna turn everyone into pussies- that’s the only reason ya stressing about a pissy little poem; don’t wanna be a wimp. Coz
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Description Nevelson’s Mirror Image stands tall and has many different shapes all over it. He uses only wood to create this masterpiece‚ which looks like a very hard and time consuming piece of art. Instead of making the woods multiple colors he decides to keep them all the same‚ and the color he painted works perfectly fine. The artworks looks like a shelf‚ but covered up. It features many different lines and shapes‚ which are mostly simple lines with some curves. The artwork was landscape against
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minutes in‚ the two best friends were split apart and on their own. Ben was looking for Quinn‚ but eventually wandered into the “Mazes of Mirrors”. It was so dark‚ Ben could barely see his own reflection. Ben could feel someone breathing on his neck. Too many thoughts went through his head‚ terrifying thoughts. Suddenly he vaguely saw a masked man behind him in all mirrors. Ben turned around scarcely‚ but saw no one. He continued to find his way around the maze. Ben was then out of the blue taken. No one
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