Winter Break Annotation Assignment: The Cruelest Miles 1. “Allan left behind a vivid description of mushing in a blizzard. On the final ninety-mile stretch to Nome during the sweepstakes‚ his team was enveloped in ‘air thick as smoke with whirling snow. Gritty as salt it was‚ and stinging like splinters of steel. It baked into my furs and into the coats of my dogs‚ until we were encased in snow crusts solid as ice. The din deafened me. I couldn’t hear‚ couldn’t see‚ couldn’t breathe. I felt as if
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Looking For Alaska Book Report – Eulogy Hello everyone. I would like to thank you all for coming to honor our friend‚ Alaska Young. I am Miles Halter‚ known to most as Pudge. I transferred to Culver Creek Boarding School from Florida to ‘seek a Great Perhaps’‚ to leave behind the insignificant things I was doing‚ to seek something that was perhaps greater. I collect people’s dying words and “I go to seek a Great Perhaps”‚ were the last words of Francois Rabelais‚ but unlike him‚ I did not
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Text: The Dark Knight Director: Christopher Nolan Text Type: Film Gotham City is rapidly becoming a better place. Under the guard of Batman and with the help of Jim Gordon and Harvey Dent‚ the popular new district attorney‚ organised crime is being eradicated. In desperation the mob turns to a psychotic mastermind called only ‘The Joker’ and Gotham rapidly descends into chaos. As Bruce Wayne tries to deal with his toughest adversary yet he must deal also with his internal conflicts and the horrific
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Summary: The book starts off in a very mellow with of introducing its main character‚ Camara Laye. Laye is challenged right off the bat with a very superstitious background and environment. The black snake is introduced early on in the book. The black snake represents the future and leadership for one of the “chosen” ones. The future maybe told through this black snake. It is through the snake and the conversation where Laye is told that his father is scared that Layes education will cause Laye
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and on self-restraint. We place more value on individualism‚ on self-expression and self-realization‚ and on personal choice" (Galston 4). These changes occurred because people’s principles have changed. We are more accepting of divorce today than we were years ago. Gray believes that many marriages in trouble can be saved and a successful marriage all depends on the husband and wife working together. He also says that sometimes love is easy and other times it needs effort. We shouldn’t expect to always
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Jackelyn Puignau Thurs 6:30-9:00 Film Analysis: 8 Mile The 2009 film‚ 8 Mile‚ parallels the true life story of multi-platinum artist‚ Eminem. Directed by Curtis Hanson‚ the film takes place in 1995‚ a time where hip-hop music was growing and Detroit‚ Michigan had hit an all time low. Eminem (formally referred to as Marshall Mathers) plays Jimmy‚ a wannabe rapper from the poor side of Detroit and stars like Brittany Murphy‚ Kim Basinger‚ and Mekhi Phifer all play key roles in the film. The film
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“We Can Remember It For You Wholesale‚” by Philip K. Dick is a short story about an average gentleman named Douglas Quail who has a fantasy dream of visiting Mars without actually physically going there. Therefore‚ he seeks a company named Rekal Inc.‚ which has the technology to implant a memory of him visiting Mars. Quail eventually decides to go ahead and get the memories of Mars put in his brain. Consequently‚ the Rekal technicians observe Quail has already had a memory implant that erased his
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According to Wikipedia Foundation‚ “”We Can Do It!" is an American wartime propaganda poster produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image to boost worker morale.” During the World Wars the government required most of the population to join the force in order to defeat their enemies. Millions of women were encouraged to join the work force that were previously done by men. This advertisement was directed towards women to come join the work industry in order
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Manipulation‚ Memory Implants and Telepathy The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of future technology in our society‚ namely memory manipulation‚ memory implants‚ and telepathy. The story “We can Remember It For You Wholesale” is used to contrast the different ways by which a technology can be used for both positive and negative actions. Finally‚ because some people believe that such technologies would do more harm than good‚ it is important to refute some of their strongest claims‚ an
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The same cannot be said for How Many Miles to Babylon‚ which ends in a pessimistic and gloomy scene. Alec Moore is awaiting execution‚ as the novel comes full circle. He is given “a pen and paper” because he is an “officer and a gentleman”. He has nothing to do but wait. Alec refused to kill Jerry by firing squad‚ so in a sense‚ he asserted his own humanity in the face of war. However‚ this noble act is detrimental‚ as this act of compassion tragically costs him his life.Johnston’s outlook is in
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