I think an important event in the novel Red Sky In The Morning by Elizabeth Laird is Ben’s birth. This is an important event because Ben is handicapped‚ which teaches Anna and her family how different life can be and how to cope when you have a disabled child in the family. Ben’s birth triggered a lot of other important events in the novel‚ such as Anna being scared to tell her classmates about her brother and Miranda finding out about Ben. Firstly‚ Ben is a handicapped child. Even though he is
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Oedipus is the King of Thebes‚ he was cursed and abandoned at birth; he meets with the priests of Thebes because of a plague that has fallen upon the city. Oedipus sends Creon to the oracle Delphi for instructions from the gods to see how to end the plague. Creon tells Oedipus and the priests that in order to end the plague the murder of the form king of Thebes Laius must be avenged. Oedipus then goes on to say that anyone who with holds information about the murder will be banished from Thebes
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Scarlet Letter Analysis Form‚ Structure and Plot: The structure that Hawthorne puts the Scarlet Letter is very tight‚ and is in essentially three parts‚ each revolving around the scaffold. The first scaffold scene‚ Hester confesses her sin of adultery to the crowd in the light of day. The second scaffold scene takes place in the middle of the book at night; it is the climax of the plot. Dimmesdale climbs onto the scaffold‚ and asks for Hester and Pearl to join him. This is not a confession‚ as there
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The ’Excel 3D Scatter Plot’ macro – The Manual Copyleft by Gabor Doka‚ Switzerland‚ © 2006 – 2012 reach the author under: scaplo {at} doka {dot} ch A very quick introduction: A first chart 1. Open the workbook "3Dscatterplot.xls" that contains the necessary macros. 2. In a trial workbook enter some data you want to display in three columns (x‚y‚z). 3. Optionally you can enter a header column containing text labels for each point. 4. Leave 10 empty rows above the data range and one empty column
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The book April Morning by Howard Fast is a dramatic story of the bloody battle of Lexington set up with a one day structure from the view of a fifteen year old boy turning into a man. In the book we see the life of Adam Cooper changing from child to man in the matter of one day. Each chapter is a different time period of the day telling us what has happened and what the effects were on his life. Adam Cooper is a fifteen-year-old boy living in colonial Lexington‚ Massachusetts with his family. He
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Plot summary “A Rose for Emily” is a short story divided into five sections: Section one opens with a description of the Grierson home and its setting in Jefferson. The narrator mentions that over the past 25 years Miss Emily’s home has fallen into despair and become “an eyesore among eyesores.” The first sentence of the story sets the tone of how the citizens of Jefferson felt about Emily: “When Miss Emily Grierson died‚ our whole town went to the funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection
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resembled the fragile and psychologically disturbed Laura Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie." His mother resembled Laura’s mother‚ Amanda. Williams himself resembled Laura’s brother‚ Tom Wingfield. Williams was even nicknamed Tom in his youth. Plot Summary Tom begins by introducing the play as a memory play of his own memory of his past. He introduces the character. The start of the play shows the Wingfield family eating dinner. Amanda keeps telling Tom to chew is food‚ and Tom gets thoroughly
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A Man with Morals How would you fare in a war you are not prepared to fight? The book‚ April Morning‚ by Howard Fast‚ is about Adam Cooper and the challenges that he must endure through the first battles of The Revolutionary War. Joseph Simmons is Adam’s cousin and a complex character who is simple‚ brave‚ and father-like. Joseph Simmons is a simple man and is both a major and minor character in this book. He is very close knit with Adam’s family and is good friends with Moses Cooper. Adam states
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Death and Plots Morgan E. Collier Professor Melinda Hernandez ENGL1302.20150120.428724 January 30‚ 2015 Morgan E. Collier Professor Melinda Hernandez ENGL1302.20150120.428724 January 30‚ 2015 Death and Plots Margaret Atwood’s “Happy Endings” is sly‚ sophisticated‚ and delightful. With a coy ease that feels so natural‚ she threads her story along‚ revealing her characters‚ drawing the audience into something that isn’t at all what it appears. Slowly yet intensely‚ she reveals the principal
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Phung Thi Thuy Dung K49 Porfolio Entry: Plot development of a story or a movie you like A Rose for Emily William Faulkner A Rose for Emily is one of stories in The Collected Stories of William Faulkner (1950). This story is about the life of Emily Grierson‚ a woman who presents for the last generation of traditional Southern America noble families. The tragic life and death of Miss Emily demonstrates how family’s autocracy and society’s prejudice could ruin a woman’s life who only
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