(Aldiss 445). The above passage encapsulates both the setting and the main point of Brian Aldiss’ short story “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long.” The story is set in the future‚ in a society characterized by the debilitation of the nuclear family‚ human intimacy‚ the prevalence of loneliness‚ and a sense of timelessness and futility. This paper will explore the development of these themes throughout the story‚ and analyze the way they are reflected in the selected passage. The story opens with the
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In many American’s eyes‚ leisure is very important. People mix the relaxation and worry-free times of earlier generations. The speaker longs for the “Old Leisure” and the older ways of living (Eliot). The author’s techniques used in the passage from George Eliot’s Adam Bede display the upsetting aspects of the techniques and technologies of the present. In Adam Bede‚ the tones of eagerness and idleness rush through the sluggish leisure of life. The author’s detail reflects the speaker’s
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a mermaid with a Cellophane tail‚ a gingerbread house all icing and gilded cardboard‚ a witch in the doorway...." Seeing that most of us have matured with the impression that fairy tales are magic- blissful‚ bright and fantastic‚ as we read this passage we can see how Vianne try’s to keep magic alive in Anouk as well as in herself. Their itinerant from town to town represents this
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AMERICAN STUDIES 301 MIDTERM Please include a title for the midterm‚ TA name‚ and staple Description of assignment: Compose an anthology of thirteen quotations drawn from the materials assigned for the first three sections of this course (Parts I‚ II and III). The anthology will consist of a preface‚ short commentaries on each quotation‚ and a conclusion. The anthology should be governed by a theme (or a set of two topics aligned to the concerns of the first four sections of the syllabus)
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Holland !1 ! Emily Holland Mr. Stewart APLC 14 April 2014 Coordination Exercises Exercise One 1. Chocolate ice cream is delicious. Vanilla is tasty too. 2. Preparing for your English final is important‚ and so is preparing for your math exam. 3. I would love to go out with you this evening‚ but I have to wash my hair. 4. I am lying about why I do not want to go out with him. It’s wrong to do that. 5. Cousins Matthew‚ Nicholas‚ and Aidan were are born during the same year; so‚ they
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hobbies from them. These small differences are usually rather contradictory to one another and can cause a slight tension between adult and youngin. This statement is in fact proven true in both Jennifer Cervantes’ nonfiction passage Tortilla Sun and in Diana López’s nonfiction passage Confetti Girl. In both of these stories‚ a strong tension is formed when each narrator‚ and their remaining parent‚ is faced with a large disagreement of interests. In Tortilla Sun‚ the narrator and their mother argue over
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island are thinking. It isn’t until you look in depth to what the other characters say do you realize what they are actually trying to do to Danny. 1.3 Passage Analysis Choose one key passage. Re-write it in the space below. Discuss the importance of your chosen passage with respect to character‚ plot development‚ symbol and/or theme. Passage: "Trouble always comes in threes. Maybe you didn’t notice it on the mainland because things are so complicated. On the island you can see it because it’s
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2012 年 12 月大学英语四级听力真题 MP3 下载(含文本) Section B Passage 1 Since I started working part-time at a grocery store‚ I have learned that a customer is more than someone who buy something. To me‚ a customer is a person whose memory fails entirely once he or she starts to push a shopping card. One of the first things customers forget is how to count. There is no other way to explain how so many people get in their express line‚ which is clearly marked 15 items or less‚ with 20‚ 25 or even a cart load
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Okefenokee Swamp The author two passages are informative about Florida’s Okefenokee Swamp. The author in Passage 1 supports this claim by using simple sentences to describe the swamp then finally using the last sentence as the negative thing about the swamp. Passage 1’s purpose is to inform tourists so they would want to visit‚ creating an inviting tone for the audience. The author in passage 2 supports this claim by informing about the smallest to biggest negative things about the swamp‚ then
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which is currently setting up in Kuantan. In this case 7.1‚ it shows quite a lot of technical words of environmentalist which we don’t really understand although we have gone through the passage a few times. We reject this case because‚ if we choose this case‚ we may miss out some important points in the passage because we don’t understand
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