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    I like the DVD better than the written version of a Christmas Carol. Because I pay more attention to the DVD. When I read a book I read it but I think about a lot more then the book and then I don’t know what it is about. When it is the move I think about other things why I watch it and I can tell you what happened. And the movie mead it so much better because it shows you what is going on and what he sees. Some of the differences I found were. In the movie it didn’t say anything about Marley

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    The story is about Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve. He always sat in his counting-house‚ friendless and alone. He was not generous with his money. The coldness inside him froze his old face. He carried the coldness with him always‚ wherever he went. It made his office cold in the summer‚ and it was even colder in winter. He spent his life in a cold nature. His clerk‚ Bob Cratchit‚ shivers in the anteroom because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating coals for a fire. Scrooge’s nephew‚ Fred

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    The 1977 version of “A Christmas Carol” by BBC is a very accurate rendition of the book it was based on by Charles Dickens written in 1843. This movie comes with its strengths and weaknesses‚ most of its weaknesses coming from the quality of the film production and the movie’s strengths coming from it’s striking resemblance to the earlier made novel. The short movie mirrored the book in so many ways that only really small details were left out such as Scrooge going to the tavern to get his dinner

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    isGabriella Lujan Pamela Lapcevic English 108 February 11‚ 2013 In the realistic story of “Is Sex All That Matters”‚ Joyce Garity talks about a seventeen year old girl named Elaine‚ who is pregnant with her second child. Elaine’s first child was in foster care at the point of time because of her situation. The story also explains how Elaine conceived her two children‚ and how the sexual media had a lot to do with the two births. It also suggests how society can help young people not to make

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    I have not heard of Carol Dweck or the growth mindset before. After reading about her and the idea of growth mindset‚ I am sold on the idea. I really liked the concept of growth mindset. I think it will make future generations more intelligent and hard-working. I do not have growth mindset as it’s more important for me to get an A in a class or an exam rather than enjoy the subject or learn more about those subjects. Sometimes when I do badly on an exam‚ I too look for others who did as badly as

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    In class these past couple days we have been watching a movie called A "Christmas Carol." It is an exhilarating movie also and old one at that. There are many main characters‚ but the main one I am focused on is the elder man named Ebenezer Scrooge. He is the elder man in the movie that is traveling back into his past to see why it is he hates Christmas. This man has three ghosts of Christmas take him back to realize he has been putting blame where it is not needed. In the beginning he still continues

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    hijdsfExplore the ways Shakespeare and Carol Ann Duffy present human weaknesses/ flaws in some of the characters they write about In Shakespeare’s play ‘Much Ado about Nothing’‚ Don John is a very important character. He is an illegitimate son‚ which automatically lowers him in the society of the Elizabethan age. He is isolated‚ ignored and rejected by everyone in his life‚ which is one of the reasons which seem to force him to behave as a villain. People expected this of him as they assumed that

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    In the movie A Christmas Carol‚ Ebeneezer scrooge was on his way to meet Belle who was his girlfriend in the past. When he arrived to where she was waiting Belle told him that she was worried about him‚ that she was worried about him‚ because he took so long. Then Ebenezer tried to explain what happened. Belle told him to be happy with the life he had. Scrooge woke up and realized that he was dreaming. In the play the man in the gown has a green robe and in the movie he has a dark green robe.

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    In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens‚ a reclusive character is portrayed by the grumpy old Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge‚ the main character of the story‚ was an old man living in his own terms. However‚ grave iniquities were naturally overflowing in his veins. Scrooge detested the human kind in general. His misanthropy caused his greediness and lack of interest in life. His selfishness and awful misanthropy‚ however‚ changed with the help of the three ghosts. In the midst of the gleeful Christmas

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    The poem Valentine is written by Carol Ann Duffy. Throughout the Poem she shows the positive and negative sides about love by comparing love to an onion. She does this by using different techniques such as language features such as metaphors‚ simlies‚ Imagery and word structure. All these techniques make it interesting because she uses an onion as a girft to represent love and relationships. In the begining of the poem Duffy starts off with a negative in opening line. "Not a red rose or a satin

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