The cassette is almost 30 years old and has been replaced by iPods and CDs. However‚ in 13 Reasons Why‚ 17-year-old Hannah Baker uses cassette tapes to reveal the reasons of her suicide. After her death‚ Hannah sends the tapes to the 13 people who are the reasons so they can hear her story. As you get farther and farther into the book and you “hear” all of her reasons‚ you can start to see a deeper message. Hannah highlights three hidden messages in her tapes. She states that the smallest things
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The book Grendel by John Gardner is about a lonely‚ nihilistic beast that spends the story suffering through life and feeding its blood lust. Yes it is hilarious. If you don’t think my first two sentences go together‚ then you didn’t read Grendel. Despite the obvious drama and suffering that he story’s main character‚ Grendel‚ goes through John Gardner finds a way to put comedy into his work. Gardner‚ however‚ very rarely uses this comedy as a form of comic relief to lighten the story‚ if anything
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Why was Beowulf the Great considered a hero in other’s eyes? Back in the Danes their live many joyful citizens. Those citizens partied almost every night making the moment unforgettable. But there was one creature name Grendel who hated other’s excitement‚ so Grendel began torturing the people of the Danes. Grendel tortured them day in and day out until they feared him. Beowulf the text book version and movie is an emotional theme that is consist of violent content‚ standing along above all odds
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Grendel Grendel is a tale about a monster created to be man’s enemy. The story has been told for many years passed down and most likely altered due to lack of recorded events. Now there are town main recorded stories of Grendel used today and Grendel is portrayed a bit different in both stories. Grendel in the novel Grendel and Grendel in the short story Beowulf are two very different characters‚ the way they are portrayed and the amount of insight we get is vastly distant. Grendel in the novel
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There are several reasons I am in need of financial assistance to attend Gateway. I am a non-traditional student‚ living below the poverty level while raising two children under age 12 as a single Mom. I have the financial burdens of keeping a roof over our heads‚ the lights on‚ and the house warm in the winter. I am working two part-time jobs in my field of study while attending college to make ends meet. I have taken out student loans to ease my financial burden‚ but I do not want to keep increasing
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Bored by the isolation of the Wild West‚ Grendel begins to pick up a drinking habit to kill time. It all started when he went out to hunt for food. He found an old woman living outside the town. After killing and eating her‚ Grendel found multiple jars with the word “XXX Granny’s Moonshine” written across it. Disgust by the spleen taste of the old woman in his mouth‚ Grendel decided to drink down the liquid to clean up his taste butt. He was hooked. On the weary night‚ a shadowy beast wandered into
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beast‚ Grendel. But the book never specifies those details. In the epic poem‚ Grendel‚ the great beast‚ slays the Danes in the night‚ when everyone is asleep‚ so that none have a chance to challenge him. However‚ in the movie Grendel bursts into Heorot in the night‚ but the Danes are fully awake witnessing the slaughter Grendel delivers. The poem describes Grendel’s defeat by Beowulf using his only his bare hands and his might to rip off Grendel’s arm. The movie shows Beowulf grappling Grendel‚ and
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Nov 22 2013 Why humans are unique? Our human have made so many amazing achievements in the earth’s history. We pass laws‚ fight for poor and stand for what was right; we sacrifice‚ care about our families and cherish friendship; we build great thing，explore the universe‚ cure diseases and make ungodly technological advances; we reach for stars‚ act like men; we aspire on intelligence‚ but don’t belittle it. Why it is only human beings dominate the earth and make those amazing
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EFFECTS 1 Traits of Prions and Their Effects on Human Beings Dennis Wei Saint Joseph High School TRAITS OF PRIONS AND THEIR EFFECTS 2 CONTENTS Abstract 3 Discovery 4 What’s a Prion 5 How Prions Replicate 6 How Prions kill 6 A List of Prion Diseases 7 Human Prion Diseases 7 Animal Prion Diseases 7 About BSE 8 Human Prion Diseases in the United States 8 What is the treatment for prion diseases
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Learning achievement is the result obtained by the students after going through some process of learning at school and it is the desire of each parent to child. Good performance would be gained by good learning and bad performance will be obtained with the process of bad learning. Learning is a process of something that has not been able to be able‚ from old behaviors to new behaviors‚ from old understandings to new understandings. In the process of learning‚ it should come first is how the child
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