the Long Distance Runner The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner was written by Alan Sillitoe‚ a writer in the UK (1928-2010)‚ and published in 1958. It has eight stories－The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner‚ Uncle Ernest‚ Mr. Raynor The School Teacher‚ The Fishing Boat Picture‚ Noah’s Ark‚ On Saturday Afternoon‚ The Match‚ The Disgrace of Jim Scarfedale‚ and The Decline and Fall of Frankie Buller. Alan Sillitoe was born in Nottingham in 1928 as working-class. While working in the factory
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Alan Turing: His life and involvement in WW2 Harriet Kaye December 2014 1 Introduction " amazing quote of Turing ". I wonder if those who knew the young Alan Tur- ing thought he would accomplish such great things in his short life time? If he would make us question the boundaries of science like he has and contribute to saving thousands of lives? If they knew they were talking to a man that would change the lives of people in our life time? Alan Turing is a man not many of us can relate to but as
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Sofilda Totoni March 3rd‚ 2011 Lit 216 “The Fire Sermon” Analysis. This section‚ and the longest of Elliot’s “The Waste Land”‚ depicts poor‚ gloomy‚ lethargic scenery in which the themes of lust‚ sexual ambiguity‚ moral degradation‚ spiritual melancholy‚ abound throughout the poem. The poet himself often embodies the role of ancient and mythological figures to which he alludes in order to strike the reader ’s infatuation. He continually reminds
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Could you pull of a guise of love in order to not only save your life but also stop an upcoming rebellion? In this astonishing book‚ Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins‚ this is exactly what Katniss and Peeta have to accomplish with the help of their close friend Haymitch. The failure of this task will lead to an epic adventure through out the land leading to an insane twist ending that nobody could have scene coming. In a post-apocalyptic version of North America known as Panem‚ this entire story
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In Alan Taylor’s book American Colonies‚ he describes how boundaries are important on various levels to explain the past. Taylor refutes the idea of teleology‚ which is the belief that certain events lead to a predetermined outcome‚ and uses contingency with no conclusion and unorganized past. In the introduction of the book we see the environmental‚ ethnohistory‚ and Atlantic perspective being used to interpret every angle of history. I have decided to use chapter 2 “colonizers” to describe how
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Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Naimark‚ Norman. Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century. Cambridge‚ Massachusetts: The President and Fellows of Harvard College‚ 2001. When asked why I chose this book‚ I would normally respond with some answer conjured up from the depths of my lying brain. But I’ll be honest; I chose this book because it didn’t have as many pages as the others on the list of approved readings‚ that way I could read it faster. I would normally
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The novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is story full of adventure‚ action‚ and suspense‚ but only after the first 400 pages. The first part of the book is little more than an account of everyday life in a magical landscape. The story is really slow with nothing very interesting or exiting happening. On the other hand‚ when you finally get to the dramatic climax of the story‚ it is very well told. The movie is totally different. The director decided to add long fight scenes‚ such as the 2o
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Lost legacies- The Desert of Fire Prologue- Lightning was fast asleep in his dirt and rock den when a deep rumbling woke him up. He hopped on his paws immediately and dashed to the entrance‚ listening to the earth as it shook in obvious discomfort. He looked up and saw rocks falling from a nearby cave onto several rattlesnakes and fear flashed through his mind. He leapt back into the burrow and shook his son Willow awake. He hissed urgently to his son “Get up Willow! Come on!” Willow suddenly
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How is racism depicted in ’Life for a Life ’ by Alan Paton? ’Life for a Life ’ is a short story written by a famous white South African author who became involved in the fight against apartheid. It is a story about the murder of a rich white farmer and the revenge killing of a black shepherd. The story was written at the height of apartheid in 1962. Most of Alan Paton ’s work was written to express his views on the injustices in South Africa. His aim was to bring about change. Apartheid lasted
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Wall of Fire Rising The Plot Guy‚ Lili‚ and their son‚ Little Guy‚ are a poor family living in a shanty town. Their life looks hopeful when Guy gets a job at the plantation and Lil Guy gets the part of a revolutionary in the school play. Life for this family takes a drastic turn when Guy lives out his dreams of riding in the plantation’s hot air balloon where at the end of the ride he jumps out killing himself. Little Guy recites the lines from his play over Guy’s dead body. The Characters Guy‚
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