The book I am reading is called Flush by Carl Hiaasen. The story is about two kids trying to help out their father that has a temper issue. Before the story started‚ the father was arrested by trying to sink a casino that was on the sea. The reason why he did that was because the owner of the casino was throwing garbage and polluting the sea way too much and not even cleaning it up. When the father was in jail‚ his dad Bobby was taking care of his grandchildren Noah and Abbey. Abbey knew what his
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The renowned Russian Empire that stretches from the Eastern Europe of Poland to the eastern shore of Sea of Okhotsk was once a federation of city-states called Kievan Rus‚ and the greatest literary work done in that period is the Lay of Igor’s Campaign‚ which chronicles an unsuccessful military expedition lunched by Igor Svyatoslavovich‚ against the nomadic tribe of Polovtsy in 1185. In comparison‚ the other piece of Russian literature The Zadonshchina tells a tale of the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380
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The film “The Mask You Live In” directed the Jennifer Siebel Newsom is primarily askes the question what does it mean to be a man and what does it take to be a man? This film has opened my eyes to see what is being expected at a young age for a boy. I was surprised when so many young boys were told this at a young age which have heavily impacted them in the future and shaped them negatively. If you were to show any traits that has to do with feminism you would be teased and get called names like
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Zone‚ written by Marcel Dubé‚ is an important novel in French literature which‚ in the first act‚ presents internal conflicts of love and importance of band. The story unfolds in the early 90’s in Quebec in the fall‚ in a suburb of the city. Based on the introduction; "The beings we see evolving in this sad landscape" (pg 16)‚ it demonstrates the environment vitality and disorder of the social system established in their society‚ which influences adolescents to participate in illegal affairs. This
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12 Years a Slave explores the life of Solomon Northup and his struggles through the slave regime. The movie starts out with Northup as a free man in New York. It is shown that Solomon is a carpenter and musician who is treated almost as equally as the white men. Solomon is then kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. While Solomon’s first owner was benevolent and just to his slaves‚ the second was cruel and malevolent (especially to Solomon). Solomon somehow survives the years of enslavement
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Ten Years of Madness by Fens Jicai is a prime example of rebelling against the rebellion. The narrative of China’s Cultural Revolution (1966 – 1976) is exposed through irony and ambiguity in several personal accounts of what this terrible decade generated. The madness this movement created was engulfed by the constant confusion the populaces endured. The movement gave rise to false nationalist ideologies; in the end creating subjective damage to the masses. There are several personal accounts that
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Between The World and Me Writing Assignment “Between The World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a book of many inspiring themes and messages. However‚ the most overarching message that readers should take away from this reading is the fact that the American “Dream” is merely a myth that attempts to conceal the racist reality of America’s past and present. Throughout the book‚ Coates demonstrated this myth in many ways. Coates points out the underlying lies within various aspects of American history
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" The Kingdom of this World " is one the most relevant works of Alejo Carpentier because it expresses out the realism of the Haitian revolution.The characters of this work are constructed through meticulously research that emphasizes the reality of the Haitian revolution. The most historical characters he describes in this chapter are Pauline Bonaparte’s sister‚ Henri Christophe‚ and Leonard De Messi. Pauline Bonaparte was sent to Saint to Domingue with her husband Charles Leclerk. Leclerc is a
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In this week’s reading "Areopagitica" by John Milton he writes a formal protest against prior censorship. In June of the year 1643‚ English Parliament passed a law known as the Licensing Order which stated that all books were required to be approved by an official censor before they could be published. A little over a year later is when Milton wrote Areopagitica to try to repeal the law. He was not successful in his efforts; however‚ this piece of literature stood as an inspiration for the right
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Thorough and insightful understanding of the ideas‚ characters and themes constructed and presented in the text. Complex discussion and critical analysis of the structures‚ features and conventions used to conduct meaning. Complex analysis of the ways in which social‚ historical and/or cultural values are embodied in the text. Construction of a sophisticated interpretation‚ which demonstrates an understand of ways in which the text is open to different interpretation by different readers. Considered
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