In the prologue of The Go-Between how does L.P Hartley present the relationship between memory and history? The first line of the novel introduces how L.P Hartley intertwines history and memory throughout the narrative. “The past is a foreign country‚ they do things differently there.” in a literal sense‚ Hartley suggests that the past‚ like a foreign country‚ has different customs to present day. A recurring motif throughout the novel‚ the Boer war‚ can historically be connected to this opening
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You tackled some really thought-provoking themes in your poems‚ and I think were largely successful in doing so. I think if you just revisit some specific aspects of each piece‚ they could be even stronger. In “L’appel du vide”‚ I thought your poem perfectly captured the feelings associated with the phrase “l’appel du vide”‚ itself. At the beginning‚ your word choices of “shattering”‚ “cut”‚ and “jagged”‚ all of which have negative connotations‚ started to create a darker‚ ominous tone. However
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John Calvert Mr. Kirkpatrick English 102 September 3‚ 2013 The Winners and the Losers When an event happens in someone’s life‚ it is certain that their lives will change no matter what. Maybe not in the long run but after a certain event happens‚ the experience will live with them forever. They can deny the fact that something major just happened in their life and will either change to try and avoid another similar situation or will deny the fact that they have to change. In the two stories
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Why is it that some women have to fight to defend their right to achieve an education in a safe‚ inclusive environment? On December 6th‚ 1989‚ in Montreal‚ Quebec‚ it appeared that gender equality meant nothing. Known as the Montréal Massacre‚ this tragic mass shooting of 14 young female engineering students at L’Ecole Polytechnique had an impact on many Canadians by bringing attention to the perceived safety of all Canadian women. It brought to the forefront the reality that women trying to better
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BUSML 4202 Midterm 1 review What is marketing? The process of planning and executing the conception‚ pricing‚ promotion‚ and distribution of ideas‚ goods‚ and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives. Marketing is the activity‚ set of institutions‚ and processes for creating‚ communicating‚ delivering‚ and exchanging offerings that have value for customers‚ clients‚ partners‚ and society at large. (AMA) Marketing Research: a means to implement
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Love in L.A. Abstract Traditional love stories have honest‚ generous‚ and sometimes wealthy men who show up on white horses to sweep women off their feet. These stories demonstrate how two strangers can meet unexpectedly‚ fall in love and live happily ever after. Most romantic associations these days don’t follow this pattern and the only time you can see it nowadays is in movies. This story goes against the tradition from the beginning when Gilb defines Jake as a self-absorbed‚ unemployed playboy
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Born in East L.A. We watched Born in East L.A. for our in class movie. I enjoyed it a lot. I’ve never seen this movie‚ which is surprising because I’ve seen most movies with Cheech in it. Although the movie was humorous‚ there were a lot of political issues embedded within and some of the issues are even present today‚ even though the movie was made in 1987. I thought the situation when Rudy gets deported is kind of shocking actually. I know it’s meant to be funny‚ but things like this happen
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Red Butterfly by A.L. Sonnichsen‚ told in a lyrical‚ moving verse‚ spins the tale of a young orphaned girl with a deformed hand living in China. Kara was abandoned as an infant and taken in by and elderly American woman illegally taking up residence in the city of Tianjin. For eleven years‚ she lives with the woman‚ her ‘mother‚’ who hides her face in public to avoid imprisonment. willing to be released from insolation. All of a sudden‚ Kara finds the authorities sending her to an orphanage after
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The name of my book is Curtains by R.L. Stine. This book is about a girl named Rena. She is into plays like Broadway. So in the beginning she is in a play and does good acting in her play. In the play she acts like she has to kill her friend chip. Chip jokes with her about it and a person named Bax comes up to them. Bax is the director of the plays. Bax informs Rena that she will be taking the star role. Rena was excited
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In his essay “The World is Flat”‚ Thomas L. Friedman reckons with the belief of flattening world he realizes in the journey to India. Friedman notes that Columbus’s sea exploration shortened the distance for Spanish monarchy to grow its wealth and power out of the "source of [India’s] untold riches" (633)‚ and discovered "the world was indeed round" (664). Columbus found the hardware source of India’s riches which is the free slavery labor and natural resources‚ and yet Friedman found the software
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