SUMMARY Log Entry 2 Many have seen the movie "The Notebook‚" based on Nicholas Sparks’ novel. Regardless‚ you have to read the book. It’s one of the best I’ve read recently. It’s filled with many scenes the movie didn’t include. The story‚ set in the ’40s‚ follows Noah and Allie‚ two people once in love. It starts off with Noah and Allie being in a Nursing home and Noah reading to Allie from a notebook‚ little did Allie know that‚ the story Noah is reading is actually about them... During
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Tensions in Relationships: The Dialectical Perspective Name Fundamentals of Speech Professor Date The relational dialectics perspective is useful for understanding the ups and downs and sometimes illogical nature of interpersonal relationships. Developed by communication scholars Leslie Baxter‚ Barbara Montgomery and their colleagues‚ the dialectical perspective assumes that relationships keep changing. They are not maintained‚ but rather sustained through changing statuses. There are
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The Hobbit Writing Prompt: Three way that Bilbo becomes a hero.There is when Bilbo saved the elves from the dwarves.There is also when Bilbo saved them from the cave.Last but not least when Bilbo saved the elves from the dwarves.How Bilbo became a hero. First is when Bilbo saved the elves from the trolls.They were fighting and would not stop and so the trolls were right around the corner and got themselves caught.Some how Bilbo ran away before they saw him.So he followed them to their homes
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In the book‚ The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien‚ Bilbo is a hobbit that is just trying to live his life in tranquility when a wizard named Gandalf comes around and shakes his whole world. Gandalf’s goal in coming to Bilbo’s house is to convince Bilbo to join the expedition. The expedition that he joins will span across the land. However‚ there is a slight notch in Gandalf’s plan. Hobbits hate expeditions. So naturally at first Bilbo refuses to come.Therefore Gandalf will keep trying and eventually Bilbo
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Claude McKay & Dialectical Analysis In Claude McKay’s‚ “Old England” and “Quashie to Buccra” McKay uses dialect as a way to give poems multiple meanings. What may be seen as a simplistic or naïve poem about Jamaican life may actually be full of double meanings that only a select audience would be able to identify. In his poem’s‚ McKay ultimately gives Negros who work under white colonists the underlying message of black resistance by revolution. Perhaps what makes this interpretation so
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personality flaws and the patient may be stigmatized as chronically difficult. Until recent studies began to show an increase in successful treatments from Dialectical Behavior Therapy‚ medications were often and still are prescribed to control symptoms of BPD. Music therapy‚ canine therapy‚ and recreational therapies are all excellent inclusions to Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Stephanie Fitzgerald uses a case study of a teen named Abby to outline examples of symptoms. Fitzgerald states‚ “people with BPD
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Thesis - The Hobbit‚ By J.R.R. Tolkien and Ready Player One‚ By Ernest Cline may be different in the way the Author writes and the world they take place in‚ but their themes are very similar. The books The Hobbit and Ready Player One are very different. One takes place in a dystopian America and the other in a fantasy middle aged kingdom. But under the surface of the text‚ the books are much more similar than one might expect. The themes of each book are very similar along with the main Characters
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Questions: Is this taking place during a war? What war? World War II? “the site of the last bomb of the first blitz” What do you think is the significance of this quote‚ “destruction after all is a form of creation.” The quote is saying destruction is a form of creation because when you destroy one thing‚ you create something else. One example of this in the story was when Blackie’s gang was destroyed. When this occurred‚ T’s gang was able to be created. The destruction of Blackie’s gang was the
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The air was thick with the stink of sweat‚ piss and stale tobacco that clung to Hector’s clothes. The taste of his last cigarette still lingered on his tongue‚ and he ached for another‚ but the driver had taken his whole pack. “Can’t have you smoking in the truck‚” Joe said as he stuck one of Hector’s prized cigarettes between his lips. “Might catch on fire.” Hector had bit the inside of his cheek. He couldn’t afford to make Joe mad. Hector’s five hundred dollars was in Joe’s pocket‚ and Hector
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Ryley Emslander Due Tuesday Oct. 27 Journal 5 First‚ I am reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ and I finished the book. Chapters 24-30 are about Aunt Alexandra’s attempt to make scout more feminine‚ Helen Robinson’s reaction to Tom’s death‚ Cecil’s current event about Hitler‚ Scout and Jem’s pageant‚ and Mr. Ewell attacking Jem and Scout on their way home. Dill leaves to go back to the Meridian and school starts. Jem gets frustrated easily now because he is going through tough times
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