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    90 Miles to Havana

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    Unit Plan Noda English II TOPIC: Understanding the Immigrant Experience and Memoir Through Multimodal Texts 4th Quarter April – May 2013 1. Common Core Anchor Standards Reading Literature Key Ideas and Details Craft and Structure Range of Reading and Text Complexity Reading Informational Texts Key Ideas and Details Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Writing Text Types and Purposes Production and Distribution of Writing Speaking and Listening Comprehension and Collaboration Language

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    The Dark Side

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    The Dark Side Do good and evil really exist? Are they just concepts or reality? We all have our own opinions. I consider good and evil to just be concepts. What constitutes as good or evil? What is suffering‚ and what causes it? What does the Bible have to say about it‚ and how do we know God only wants us to be happy? I’ll be talking about all of these items in this essay. Where do ‘evil’ and ‘goodness’ come from? Everything comes from God. Whether it is what you consider bad or good. God obviously

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    A Dark Mirror

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    Ledezma‚ Beatriz Prof. Ileana Molina LM- 1358 Mystery and Suspense Literature June 14‚ 2011 A Dark Mirror Criticism of Victorian notion of women’s sexuality is a remarkable theme of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella “Carmilla.” Even though sexuality is seen as an essential element in an individual’s life‚ throughout history‚ it has continually been conceived as a taboo topic; indeed‚ for many conservative cultures around the world‚ to talk openly about it is still considered offensive. Therefore

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    Green Mile Sparknotes

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    The Green Mile‚ March 1999 Stephen King‚ 1947-? Summary: John Coffey is brought to Cold Mountain accused of rape and murder. It becomes known that he has a healing touch. Paul Edgecombe‚ the superintendent‚ has sympathy for Coffey and later finds out that Coffey is indeed innocent‚ but can find no way to stop the execution. Coffey proclaimed that he “wanted to go” and thus allowed Paul to accept Coffey’s fate as he must‚ and go on with his life. Central Characters: Paul

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    Dickinson’s poem “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” illustrates the concept that depression is a scarring battle that brings similar individuals together in the hope of overcoming it; however‚ in Robert Frost’s poem “Acquainted with the Night” depicts depression as a lone ballet to be fought by the individual themselves. Both poems use personification‚ metaphors‚ and opposite points of view to illustrate their points. Dickinson writes in a third person point of view by using “we” constantly‚ and phrases

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    Diego Rodrigues Mendes Alves Course: Paper or plastic Paper or Plastic? Can we answer the question? Why should we be worried about the kind of bag we use to carry our purchases? We have to make so many decisions when we are shopping that we should not have to be worried about how we will carry our things home. However‚ if you want to help the environment and our society to decrease the wasting of materials and pollutants‚ and as a consequence improve our quality of life‚ you should be concerned about

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    Night

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    Elie Wiesel’s Night is a vivid account of the horrors of the Holocaust. Describing in his memoirs the extent of the horrendous atrocities he both witnessed and experienced‚ Wiesel tells of a boy who is stripped forever of the world he has know. Night tells of not only Wiesel’s stolen innocence‚ but also of the darkness that forever extinguishes the light in both his soul as well as the soul of all those who are touched by this event. His witnessing of good people turned into brutes through atrocities

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    muffled sky moved like the sea on a silent day.” In the very first sentence it is established that there is a smoggy‚ perhaps suffocating quality in the air. Smoke is a hazardous‚ cancer causing gas that is also an agent of concealment; these attributes can also apply to the effects of apartheid. Like cancer‚ racial tension spread rampantly through South Africa and concealed a person’s character by his skin color. Even in the morning the “air was like smoke” as if to almost say‚ no matter how early you

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    Spirited Away

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    Today marks ten whole years since Studio Ghibli first shared Spirited Away with the world. Thus far it is the only foreign film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature‚ which says a lot about it and its success with foreign audiences. Spirited Away is one of my favourite films for the simple reason that it has a lot going for it. A great coming-of-age story‚ a quirky yet layered set of characters‚ fantastic animation that stays true to traditional methods while incorporating digital technology

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    Dark secrets

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    Dr. Velvet Pearson English 801A 9/30/13 The Dark Secrets We Keep From One Another Everyone‚ no matter who you are or how perfect you think you may be‚ lie on a daily basis. We all tell lies whether it’s to protect someone’s feelings or oneself. Lying on a justified standard can be the dark secrets we all tend to keep from one another. Everyone has them‚ so we keep telling these lies to not only ourselves‚ but our friends and loved ones as well. If we were ever to tell these secrets to one

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