The viking tales‚ Jennie Hall The book has two parts‚ the first part is about king Olaf and his son Harald. The second part is about discorverers like discovering Greenland and Wineland (nowadays) America. Men of the country norway were great warriors and discoverers they have discovered Iceland en many more lands‚ but the old sages are the most populair . There are many stories of the old vikings who have live in Norway‚ old tales were told over and over until everbody knew them and loved them
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Osmosis Lab: The Incredible Egg How does the solution a cell is in effect the movement of substances into and out of the cell? Eggs were soaked in vinegar for twenty-four hours before the lab to dissolve the shell‚ then placed them into the distilled water. Then the eggs were taken out and dried by the paper towel to measure their weight on the electronic scale. First egg weighted 78.92g‚ most of the parts of it’s skin was white translucent‚ and was spongy. After the egg was submerged into the
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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale takes place in a post Cold War society plagued by infertility. Atwood presents the reader with “The Republic of Gilead”‚ the Christian theocracy that overthrew the United States government. Narrated by a woman renamed Offred‚ the reader gets an idea of a future in which women are no longer women‚ but are solely needed for reproduction. Atwood uses a system of vocabulary established under the Republic of Gilead in order to manipulate and dehumanize women and
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Number one: The Apparat. In the near future smart-phones evolved into a hand-held device that governs everything in your life from ranking your personality and appearance so that others know what to except of you to telling you all of major news that you absolutely have to know. So important is the device that it is essential that you wear your apparat around your neck at all times and if you are seen without the device or still carrying an older model‚ you are mocked. Shteyngart’s dystopian novel
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Advanced English Assessment 2 A truly valuable novel is not purely based on content‚ but has the ability to challenge and spur readers into reaction based on construction and language of the text. Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale is a true example of such value‚ as her novel not only attracts readers but also warns us of the uncertainties and dangers of the future. She demonstrates how language can be used as a powerful tool for both manipulation and domination as well as how reconstructions of both fiction
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I’m going to give you two quotes and I just want you to think about them while you read this paper. One is quite long and the other is rather short because it’s just a part of the quote. "This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which‚ in fact‚ it intended that you should perish. Let me spell out precisely what I mean by that‚ for the heart of the matter is here‚ and the root of my dispute with my country. You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you
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Throughout Joseph McCarthy’s accusations of communism there was talk of some of his victims possibly being innocent. One of these victims that was allegedly innocent was Arthur Miller. Miller‚ because he was wronged by the law‚ decided to write a similar story to the events of the McCarthy trials in order to make McCarthy’s ideals seem flawed. Miller believed that if he could write a story to prove the accusations incorrect he would be able to re-establish his respectable reputation. This story is
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Marion Jones Marion Jones began her incredible track and field career in high school by winning in the 100 meter sprint at the California State Meet four years in a row. She was also selected to be the Gatorade Player of the Year three years in a row. Because of these amazing accomplishments‚ suspicions arose that she was using performance-enhancing drugs. Rumors and accusations increased when she missed a random school drug test‚ claiming she never received a letter notifying her that she was required
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getting bullied all around the world. Which is worse a bully‚ or a bystander. Bullying is a bad issue all around school‚ and on the internet. A bully is worse because he is the one doing the action to the kid. Let’s try to stop this. According to‚ “Tales of bullying‚” The reason is that bullies are the ones hurting people almost every day. They always push‚ hit‚ kick‚ call names‚ or even curse. This could affect the life of the kid getting bullied. It could start an argument which would lead to
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Ribald sexual content‚ humor‚ cheating wives‚ “arse” kissing‚ “The Millers Tale” and “The Wife of Baths Tale” have it all. However this is only 2 out of the many tales in the Canterbury Tales‚ by Geoffrey Chaucer. This story is about a group of 29 people who are all going on a pilgrimage to Canterbury to see the tomb of St. Tomas Beckett. In the tavern they meet in‚ they decide to have a competition for who can tell the best tale‚ and the winner will receive a free dinner. In this novel‚ Chaucer is trying
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