This passage taken from Book 1 Chapter 5‚ describes the scramble after a wine cask breaks outside Defarge’s wine shop. This chapter opens the novel’s view of Paris and acts as a convincing representation of the peasants’ hunger to end their suffering. In this passage‚ Charles Dickens uses irony‚ sarcasm‚ and anaphora to refer to the desperate quality of the people’s hunger for food‚ as well as‚ freedom for suffering. Chapter 5 introduces themes that involve extreme misery and filth‚ in the dark
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Anna Burton 1/27/12 period 2A 1984 Close Read 1984‚ a novel by George Orwell‚ shows how terrifying a totalitarian government can be. In this passage‚ Winston doubts himself as a reliable source of reality‚ displaying the Party’s ability to control others. He thinks‚ “If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind‚ and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?” Winston is able to identify the reason mind control is possible and is afraid that he himself has been controlled
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September 9‚ 2013 Traditional Rites of Passage I remember feeling like a porcelain doll dressed up in a very expensive wedding gown that was too big for my own body standing in the middle of a ballroom inside a Hilton Hotel. I could feel the thick straps of the corset dig into the skin on the back of my neck‚ but I was not allowed to show any sign of discomfort. The bottom portion of the dress had one too many layers of the underskirt which was made out of tulle; a heavy and sand-paper like material
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overcome. In these two passages "The Way the Mop Flops’ and "The Choice"‚ there were two kids with obstacles they had to overcome but I think Katies obstacle was bigger than Andrews. To begin with‚ in passage one "The Way the Mop Flops "‚ There was a kid named Andrew‚ his obstacles was trying to speak in front of the school without a problem. In passage two "the Choice "‚ there was a girl named Katie and she had to make a choice that was best for her team. Also‚ in passage 1 ’The Way the Mop Flops’’
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scene to set the atmosphere or create tension is a close-up. Example ( An example of this is when the two main characters are talking through their headsets to each other while flying towards the alien ship. We see the close-up of their faces in order to show their emotions prior to the seeing the alien ship for the first time. Their emotions show shock in response to the shire size of their enemy. The effect of the viewer seeing their faces close-up foreshadows intensity and gives the impression
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You are looking at Chuck Close. Close is a post-modern‚ American artist who exhibited during the 1970s. Technically‚ you are looking at Big Self Portrait (1968) a painted self-portrait of the artist. The original version of the picture measures just less than nine square metres‚ and in it Close’s eyelashes and pores are individually visible. Close worked in a technique that came to be known as photorealism’‚ in which artists produced astoundingly life-like paintings‚ that presented reality’ as
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In the passage from Lord Of The Flies‚ by William Golding‚ explains how a character name Simon wanders around in the forest by himself due to his poison‚ which is curiosity ‚ just before it was about to turn dark. This passage occurs right after when Jack and Ralph gets into a fight about hunting and building shelter. As Ralph brings up Simon’s name several times about how only Simon helps him‚ Simon walks away from the argument and goes into the forest all by himself. As he walks toward the forest
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Passage 2 In the novel‚ “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee‚ this passage is a description of the Ewell’s that Scout provides during the Tom Robinson Trial‚ describing their household as well as a perception of the Ewell’s in general. We‚ as readers are able to understand what kind of a father Mr. Ewell truly is‚ and how his daughter wants to make a change. Moreover‚ near the end of the passage‚ we can see how the white people of Maycomb cruelly discriminate Negroes‚ even though they have a more
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The Cambodian Genocide was a terrible atrocity that took place in the late 1900’s. Nearly 2 million people died from executions‚ starvation‚ overwork and disease‚ because of the 3 political regimes that took place (Prince Norodom Sihanouk‚ Lon Nol‚ Prime Minister Pol Pot) The Last Regime was lead by Pol Pot‚ his goal was to turn the Southeast Asia into a Agrarian Utopia. On April 17th 1975 Khmer Rouge soldiers marched into Phnom Penh (The Capital of Cambodia) and seized control forcing millions of
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cognitive and affective belief. Moreover‚ I will use Arnold van Gennep’s theory of the rites of passage to illustrate the creation and meaning of Frodo’s friendships. I will also use Jacques Derrida theory of “text” to analyze how “text” was used by Frodo’s friends to help him during his journey. In the first portion of the film Frodo went through the three stages of Arnold van Derrida’s theory of rites of passage.
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