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    Into the Great Wide Open ¨The papers said Ed always played from the Heart¨. This is a quote from the poem ¨Into the Great Wide Open¨ by Tom Petty the character‚ Eddie‚ moves to Hollywood to pursue his music career. ¨Into the Great Wide Open¨‚ by Tom Petty‚ a young man travels to Hollywood to become a famous musician. The story is told using a shifting tone in a realistic fashion. ¨Into the Great Wide Open¨ explains the rise and fall of Eddie‚ a man with dreams of fame. Eddie waited until he finished

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    Quotes from George Orwell’s Animal Farm 1) Old Major warns‚ "Your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest....we must not come to resemble him...No animal must ever live in a house or sleep in a bed‚ or wear clothes‚ or drink alcohol‚ or smoke tobacco‚ or touch money‚ or engage in trade." 2) Orwell narrates‚ "Nobody stole‚ nobody grumbled over his rations‚ the quarreling and biting

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    English External: 91098- Analyze specified aspects(s) of studied written text(s) supported by evidence. Quotes to be used Bath: • “Difficulty arise as it had last time she bathed she would have some way of rescuing herself” • “Now seemed more like the edge of a cliff with a deep drop below into the sea.” • “She leaned forward feeling the pain in her back shoulder.” • “Faster‚ her breath came more quickly‚ her mouth war dry.” • “She began to call out but as she had predicted there was

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    The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Quotations: “The young man felt that his fate was sealed: for the rest of his life he would go up every evening between the cast-iron railings of that greenish-yellow doorstep‚ and pass through a Pompeian vestibule into a hall with a wainscoting of varnished yellow wood. But beyond that his imagination could not travel.” (Book One‚ Chapter 9‚ p. 63) “I want somehow get away with you into a world where words like that – categories like that – won’t exist

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    Top Ten Quotes 1. “On the day they were going to kill him‚ Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on.” (Chapter 1‚ page 3) In the opening line of the book‚ García Márquez reveals the ending of the story: Santiago Nasar is killed. The rest of the story unfolds in reverse‚ as readers learn more of the details of how and why Santiago is killed. This tantalizing sentence provides a good example of García Márquez’s baroque writing style. Three

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    called leader‚ and ignores most of things that other people say about him because he does not care which effects the novel positively. Ralph’s leadership starts of with the belief‚ “If this isn’t an island we might get rescued” (Golding 30). This quote seems important because what

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    The most controversial aspect of Gone With the Wind is the film’s depiction of race relations. Though freed from the novel’s positive portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan‚ Gone With the Wind’s depiction of slavery remains decidedly simplistic. Adopting historian U. B. Phillip’s “plantation school” view of the institution‚ the film shows slaves as well-treated‚ blindly cheerful “darkies” loyal to their benevolent masters. Slaves are portrayed as normal employees‚ are rewarded with presents like the master’s

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    levels‚ the paragraph beginning‚ “The earth seemed unearthly...” is a rich site for the mining of meaning. Read the paragraph and deconstruct the argument that is being developed. Then write an essay that presents that argument and its support. Quote liberally from the text. You have 40 minutes.The earth seemed unearthly. We are used to looking at it like a chained-up monster‚ but there it was monstrous and free. It was unearthly‚ and the men were . . . no‚ not inhuman. That was the worst part‚ knowing

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    Bergeron Wendy Wang Sep‚ 23/2013 Quotes: (w/pg#s) or paraphrased summaries w/pg#s quotes Response: question‚ comments-opinions‚ connection‚ prediction (2-5 sentences each) 1. ……said Hazel‚ “I’d have chimes on Sunday-just chimes. Kind of in honor of religion” I don’t know what does this line mean‚ but why would she only have chimes on Sunday? This quote is a T-W quote. This quote means that what Hazel will do when she was the handicap general in Harrison

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    David has just been delivered from all of his enemies. Afterwards‚ He writes a song to the Lord praising Him and thanking Him for delivering him out of the hands of his enemies. Sometimes it is easy to forget that God is the one that has taken care of me. This passage reminds me that I need to thank Him and give Him the praise that He deserves. David was a valiant man. However‚ He knew that His strength came from the Lord. Especially as a college student I need to remember

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