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    Fitzgerald‚ F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Britain: Penguin‚ 1926. 1. Point of view – the view or perspective of how the story is narrated (i.e first person) “Only Gatsby‚ the man who gives his name to this book‚ was exempt from my reaction – Gatsby‚ who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.” (pg. 8) • This novel is narrated from a first person point of view. Nick Carraway is both a narrator and a character participant in the story. Seen that this novel

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    Beware the Ides of March!” (I‚ ii‚ 23) The Tragedy of Julius Caesar was written by William Shakespeare in 1623. Like many other plays written by Shakespeare‚ there was always a message hidden in it. He wanted you to learn a lesson from his plays. Three topics that show the theme of the story are Caesar’s death causing Rome to revenge‚ Antony’s goodness winning over Brutus’s cruelness‚ and Brutus being defeated by the people of Rome. In this piece I believe the theme was good always outweighs evil

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    “A calm murder in cold blood” .Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the DIn "Lamb to the Slaughter"‚ Roald Dahl employs characters and symbolism well to discuss the theme that things are not always what they appear to be. The story’s main character‚ Mary Maloney‚ who is a pregnant wife of Patrick Maloney. The Maloney household is located in a large city and the event happened within a day. Mary is a content housewife whose whole life centers around her husband. Patrick arrives home one evening and tells her

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    Middleton’s Women Beware Women is a Jacobean tragedy‚ which has a complex plot and deals with corrupted characters. This tragedy is about corruption in the court and life in general‚ love by money and how women can lead other women to destruction. As Tricomi states about the characters‚ they ‘are not wholly the product of their circumstances‚ but their circumstances condition their choices and propel them toward their destiny’.[1] Middleton‚ as other Jacobean playwrights before him‚ has managed to

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    The movie version of the hunger games tries to show a dystopian society in various ways‚ for example‚ costumes‚ Setting‚ Props‚ Lighting‚ makeup‚ the location where the movie was filmed and more. The directors used different styles of costumes to show a dystopian society. They played with colours of the costumes to express the character’s life. The cast who played the role of citizens living in district 12‚ were dressed in different shades of the colour gray‚ to show the audience that the districts

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    Reflective Analysis: Roald Dahl’s The BFG. When given this assignment‚ I found it challenging to try and remember a book I had read at least twenty years ago. Fortunately‚ my mum told me that I enjoyed The BFG. Instantly‚ I remembered that it was written by Roald Dahl‚ “one of England’s most famous children’s authors” (Wheeler‚ 2007:4). When I looked back at The BFG‚ I saw the giant on the front cover‚ and remembered how my imagination would come to light every time my mum would read it to me. I

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    hardest to understand about suicides‚ are why the happiest people are the ones who commit suicide. Through the story that theme is explained vividly‚ even the happiest of people are struggling to conquer demons within. The main literary tools I used were: conflict and dialogue. The narrative goes between Averie’s suicide letter to Elena’s‚ describing how both battled depression and hid it with fake

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    energy systems the body uses to create ATP. They are the ATP-PC system‚ the lactic acid system and the Aerobic energy system. Both the ATP-PC and lactic acid systems are anaerobic and therefore do not use oxygen‚ and the aerobic system does use oxygen. When we begin to exercise the first system we would use to create ATP is the ATP-PC system. This system acts by creating ATP from phosphocreatine‚ making use specificially of the phosphate molecule. When energy is used or expended it becomes ADP (Adenosine

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    in vitro to conceive a child has started to become popular throughout the past few years. Not as it did in the book‚ but a woman who can’t have children use in vitro and possibly a surrogate to carry their child for them. In Brave New World‚ they used the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre for in vitro. There were multiple test tubes in the incubators that would start off all the people they would produce. It’s a little different than that in real life‚ though. Doctors don’t completely generate the

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    thanks the gods for the soul that he has. The lesson he teaches in this poem is to basically go through all the hell everyone decides to put you through‚ and not let any of it get you down. Just live life with your chin up. The literary devices used in William’s poem is alternated rhyme‚ for example he writes‚ “Beyond this place of wrath and tears‚” and then the third line down he rhymes with the line‚ “And yet the menace of the years.” He uses simile when he writes‚ “Black as the pit

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