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    protagonists Bridie and Sheila describe their first sightings of each other as they desperately float at sea‚ Bridie describes her multiple attempts of saving Sheilas life as she “nods off”‚ Bridie hits her with her shoe-horn‚ as Sheila describes “whack‚ whack‚ whack” and “tap‚ tap‚ tap”. Through the use of repetitive hyperbolized onomatopoeia and the heroic symbolism of the shoe-horn‚ Misto has cleverly juxtaposed these characters to show such heroism as Bridie realistically saves Sheila by such an emblematic

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    Horn Sonata‚ John Misto highlights the horrific ordeals sheila had to experience in order for her to keep Bridie alive. Survival is a sustained theme throughout this scene which is demonstrated when Sheila states “ Every night when I fall asleep lipstick Larry is waiting. He calls to me and I go to him and no one can change that not even you”. Misto utilises truncated sentences and stage directions to emphasise the traumatic experience sheila went through to save her friends life. Subsequently this

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    Good evening year 12 of Model Farm High. My name is sunny and I am going to briefy discuss about the play Shoe Horn Sonata by John Misto in relation to distinctively visual. The Shoe Horn Sonata is a play that shows distinctively visual narratives of female prisoners of war. Misto convey ideas of female survivors who live through war in Japanese camps suffering brutality from their violent Japanese oppressors. He does this by using visual techniques including photographs displaying humiliation

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    Teenage Love Stupid or Not “Catch the Moon” and “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant” are fictional stories based on the topic of teenage love. “Catch the Moon” was written by Judith Ortiz Cofer in 1995‚ the setting takes place in a city‚ mainly in a junkyard. The main character is Luis Cintron. “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant” was written by W.D Wetherell‚ in 1983‚ the setting is on and around a river. The main character is a 14 year old boy. These two stories are about teenage love.

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    the studied text “One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest with the analysis of Chief Bromden. Secondly I will analyze the physical and mental behavior of the Chief through out the studied text. The same analytical structure will succeed for the Protagonist Sheila Birling in the studied text “An Inspector calls” by John Boynton Priestley. At the beginning of the studied text‚ the Chief hallucinates the fog machine and Air Raids‚ which represent his mental instability. The mental issues occur when

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    and Sheila are two characters that are expected to get marries. Throughout the first pages the audience starts to realize that Mr. birling has climbed up the social ladder himself through marrying Mrs. Birling‚ his “social superior”. This suggests that every act he makes- even acts of love- are ways to propel himself further up the ranks of society as he probably married into Mrs. Birling’s family for the social benefits. Mr. Birling highly encourages the marriage between Gerald and Sheila and

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    there are issues that center on interpersonal conflict. This type of conflict is a disagreement between individuals that are connected and explains how what one person does has an impact or effect of the other. 1A PERSONS INVOLVED Sheila (my assistant for 14 years) Valerie (hired as Customer Community Relations Representative) The relationship between these two individuals was great; for 2 years they commonly worked on events together and wouldn’t perceive them as interfering on

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    The Inspector had a huge effect on the whole Birling family‚ however I think the two characters that he had the biggest impact on were Sheila and Eric. Sheila starts out in the play as a very spoilt girl‚ and also seems rather shallow. Several things give us this impression in the first scene‚ for example her reaction to her engagement ring: “Oh Mummy – isn’t it a beauty?!” She also appears quite naive‚ despite her curiosity as to where her fiancé Gerald spent his summer last year. However‚ as soon

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    loss of a loved one. It is also apparent that a large amount of the homeless population was evicted from their housing due to it being condemned from hoarding. For instance‚ my neighbor Sheila was evicted from her house due to her unfortunate hoarding problem and is now what society considers as homeless. Sheila‚ before her unfortunate turnout‚ was a kind spirited woman and was very optimistic about how her life was going. She was almost a sister to me and my family was often invited over to her

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    leads them to the process of implementing harmony back into their friendship. After 50years of being apart Bridie and Sheila have their first reunion. Upon Sheila’s arrival to the hotel there is immediate friction as Misto makes slight indications to the audience towards the end of Act One‚ Scene Two. An example of this is seen through the technique of stage directions‚ “Sheila looks at Bridie with surprising intensity-but not with affection. Bridie

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