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    Charlie Gordon Monologue

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    People say that life is an adventure‚ filled with strangers and new experiences. But life is an adventure unlike any other because you get to guide it in the direction you wish to go. Along the way‚ problems are faced‚ solutions are put into action‚ and memories are made. Each of these events cause lessons to be learned‚ perspectives to be changed‚ and personalities to be altered. These sorts of life events—major or minor—cause the human identity to change. But the question is not whether or not

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    The Staten Island Ferry

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    The Staten Island Ferry The Staten Island Ferry has been a municipal service since 1905. It carries over 19‚000‚000 people a year. It runs between the St. George Terminal in Staten Island‚ and the Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan. The Staten Island Ferry runs 24 hours a day‚ seven days a week. You can ride it 365 days a year. It is the most reliable form of mass transit in New York City. It is on schedule 96 percent of the time. It is the only direct form of transportation

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    Ghost In America Analysis

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    This is about the shadow that follows this little girl‚ but because she’s so young she only sees the feet so it’s called the feet but it’s almost ghost like so she calls them the ghost feetfgbgf G H Go Go Gun Fun Fy NFC No Yafo Vhf G Yah He My V Yfv Fg Veg No go Han Hv Nh Mh Vgg N Hv Yf NYC NFC V Yum FYI NYC NYC Nhbjbgfkjcf vjkcf bkjcf bkjcf bkjcf fluke dfkhv xfkjv dfkhv xfkjv xfkjv vfdkjv ckjv fx‚ mcfkjb f‚xj dukedom be‚jxb fldj. FKJXBNSFKJ. KUFDNBMC!Xbbkhrd

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    and styles are borrowed to create a new artwork. Gordon Bennett is an indigenous Australian who appropriates art styles and imagery to create his art. He used oil and acrylic paint on canvas to create The Outsider (1988)‚ which was a reflection on his own identity and indigenous issues. Bennett incorporates Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Starry Night (1889) and Bedroom At Arles (1888)‚ Romanesque sculptures and traditional indigenous painting styles. Gordon Bennett appropriated Vincent van Gogh’s post-impressionist

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    “Doctor in the House” by R. Gordon The text under analysis is taken from the book “Doctor in the House” written by Richard Gordon. Richard Gordon was born in 1921. He has been an anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London‚ a ship’s surgeon and an assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. He left medical practice in 1952 and started writing his “Doctor” series. “Doctor in the House” is one of Gordon’s twelve “Doctor” books and is noted for witty description of a medical student’s

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    Island Voices

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    English Essay Island Voices “The use of symbolism is interestingly used to express the theme of ‘seeing’ and the effects of modernism in Tanjong Rhu and Lee” The stories in Island Voices were compiled to highlight the consequences faced by Singaporean as the city transformed from a traditional society to a cosmopolitan Asian city. Many of the authors of these short stories use literary devices to emphasize their message. I feel that Tanjong Rhu and Lee both use symbolisms to emphasize the

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    initially the key motivation. In Warwolf we see however that the peasants fought to preserve their way of life and mercenaries fought for material gain although the motivation of the leadership was religiously based. In Eye Deep in Hell by John Ellis we see a very different type of motivation for the individual soldier. These soldiers are initially inspired to fight because of patriotic duty and the good of their country. Horrific and deplorable conditions in the trenches as well as extraordinary

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    Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

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    No individual has the perfect life and while some people have long given up trying to lead the perfect life‚ others such as Regina Engstrom and Helen Alving in Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen‚ stay in pursuit of the perfect life and have their own individual visions of what they believe to be the ideal life based on their personal experiences and desires. Helen Alving uses the return of her son as well as worldly‚ unconventional forms of literature in order to form beliefs of what she views to be the perfect

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    The Ghost of Duffy's Cut

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    The Ghosts of Duffy’s Cut depicts a period in history in which Irish immigrants migrated to America with the hope of being able to take advantage of the opportunities that living in a new world had to offer. However‚ upon arriving to U.S. shores‚ many immigrants were subject to social inequality‚ exploitation‚ and living in harsh conditions. The tragic deaths of the fifty-seven Irish men on Duffy’s Cut exemplify how the causes and effects of immigration‚ industrialization as well as disease were

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    Schooled by Gordon Korman is about a hippie boy‚ named Cap‚ who transitions to a regular school from a hippie commune. Cap is clueless about everyday objects. He has never watched television‚ he had never tasted pizza‚ and he had never talked on a phone. Korman wrote a lot of deep and wise sayings. At one of the student government meeting considering the Halloween party‚ Cap does something out of the ordinary. Trent Davidoff suggested an awesome deejay to Cap‚ and then Cap assigns him the job of

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