After seeing his father brutally murdered by the leader of the native gang‚ Amsterdam Vallon makes it his mission to avenge his father’s death. He comes back to the Five Points district in New York and joins an old friend‚ Johnny Sirocco‚ to learn the ropes of the area. While doing so‚ Vallon gains the trust of his father’s assassin‚ William “The Butcher” Cutting‚ and is taken under his wing. Young Amsterdam falls in love with the local beauty and pickpocket Jenny Everdeane‚ but in doing so angers
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Jonathan Doyle 523 words 9100 St. Charles Rock Road St. Louis‚ MO 63114 (314) 493-6100 doylej008@ritenourschools.org The Vanderburg Trial by Jonathan Doyle No one knows when their character will be tested. Hell‚ I didn’t expect it. I was always a drifter. From the time my mom died to when I ran away from my dad who beat me whenever he felt like it to when I went to New York to blend in
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COMMENTARY COVERSHEET • Name: Johanna Troedsson • School: Söderportgymnasiet School #: 1216 • Commentary #: 1 • Referring to section 2 of the syllabus • Date written: 3rd of February 2011 • Date of article: 18th of January 2011 • Source: http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/brant-stigande-matpriser-globalt-hot‚ 1/18/2011‚ 14.30 • Wordcount: 731 words Commentary Number 1 The food prices in our world are on their way up to a level almost impossible to manage. As we try to
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Thinking about everything I have learned from reading “Monique‚” I would say it is one of the greatest books I have read. Kris Holloway did an awesome job with how she made you feel about Monique and Mali. I liked everything from when she spoke about child birthing to the culture status for women in Mali. (Question #1) After reading the book‚ I would say that I know a lot more about childbirth and childrearing practices in Mali then I did before. Starting with chapter 1 I knew this was going to
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Comparative commentary Both poems are written by William Shakespeare. They originate from two different sources. One is part of a play‚ Two Gentlemen of Verona. The other is a poem found in a bundle with various other poems written by Shakespeare. The poems have the same theme‚ as love and infatuation are the main topics. Their purpose is to portray a person in such a way that the reader can visualize the topic and enter into the writer’s experience. The song ‘Why is Sylvia’ is organized into three
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_SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT BY GEORGE ORWELL:_ _Commentary_ Political‚ social & ethical issues raised in Orwell’s essay "Shooting an Elephant" create a controversial storyline in which the events metaphorically symbolize the colonial imperialism of the time. Set in Burma‚ 1936‚ the context is based around the anti-European attitudes existent post the Anglo-Burmese Wars. Orwell’s positions‚ as police officer for the despotic British governments‚ required him to hold authority over the Burmese‚ consequently
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Literature Between Wars Critical Commentary of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’ The very first sentence in this extract gives an insight into how Woolf has set to present her main character‚ Clarissa as someone who is lighthearted and somewhat pretentious‚ as she concerns herself with such a trivial matter as buying flowers for her upcoming party. Claiming that she will buy the flowers herself and alleviate the burden of her servant Lucy who has enough to do‚ it is also ironic
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Caged Bird by Maya Angelou explores themes of Social injustice‚ Lack of freedom/choice and Shattered dreams in six stanzas of varying length. There is no set rhyme scheme to the poem but there are noticeable rhymes in stanzas two‚ three‚ four and five. Stanza six is a repetition of stanza three. There are half rhymes throughout. Vocabulary and sentence structure is very straightforward. The stanzas alternate between the free bird’s perspective and that of the caged bird with regularity: two stanzas
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‘Fire and Ice’ - Robert Frost In the poem ‘Fire and Ice’ Robert Frost explains how the world will end by either fire or ice. The poet uses these two primal elements to serve as a metaphor for the destructive powers of the universal human emotions. ‘Desire’ which he associates with fire‚ and ‘hate’ which he associates with ice. The poet uses the first person singular and concludes that from personal experience he sides with
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The poem In Mrs. Tilscher’s Class’ written by Carol Ann Duffy‚ is written in free verses and includes four stanzas. The poem illustrates the perspective of a carefree‚ innocent and happy young girl going through the first stages of life‚ primary to high school. The poem examines the rites of passage and the change that is taken place between childhood and adolescence. This essay will outline the areas in which Duffy uses different literary terms to define the theme of growing up. The first two
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