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    Treasure Island

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    Log One- Treasure Island starts with a narrative of a young boy‚ Jim. Jim is the son of a tavern keeper. The story begins with a mysterious grumpy pirate named Billy Bones. Billy refuses to pay rent‚ and Jim’s father takes little to no action. Taking this into account‚ it can be deduced that there no law. Jim has been hired by Billy as a look out for a one legged man. Eventually‚ Jim finds someone‚ who‚ although is not the one-legged man of Jim’s nightmares‚ is searching for Billy Bones.

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    Collectors of Treasures

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    Collectors of Treasures Ziyan Pei In The Collector of Treasures‚ Bessie Head depicts the life in Botswana village‚ which provides a window for readers to learn about daily lives in Africa. Since 1960s‚ a lot of African countries had won the independence. People got their freedom suddenly from the colonization. However‚ although men in the book had been free from the external world‚ lots of men did not have any resources in their internal world‚ which means men did not own their personal identity

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    treasure island

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    Treasure Island In the very first sentence of the novel‚ Jim tells us that he is recounting the story of Treasure Island because Squire Trelawney‚ Dr. Livesey‚ and other gentlemen have asked him to write it down. Stevenson’s choice of Jim as a narrator is noteworthy and unexpected‚ since the adult men have greater life experience‚ education‚ and verbal skills than this young boy has‚ and would seem to be able to bring more perspective to the narrative

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    Бикбаева Вика АН-112 “A little adventure in the forest”. (after H.G. Wells’ short story tale “The treasure in the forest”). I remember when I was a kid my friends and I quite often went to the forest. There was fresh air‚ we could hear songs of the birds or the rush of water. There we had a clear space among the trees where we fried potatoes and sausages. It was the end of august. It was exactly the fish season. My best friend and I went to our favorite place which was near the road. There were

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    Mulligan Trash Analysis

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    Mulligan‚ the author of the novel ‘Trash’‚ uses multiple techniques to bring the reader into the perspective of disadvantaged dumpsite dwellers. His text is in the form of a first person narrative and this helps to make the text more personal. Also‚ the use of descriptive writing and familiarity appeals to a reader’s sensibilities and invites them to look at the story from a different position. Moreover‚ he creates issues that represent common dilemmas - the trash boys face. Firstly‚ there is the

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    Treasure Island

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    Squire Trelawney. Excited‚ they recognize it as a map for a huge treasure that the infamous pirate Captain Flint has buried on a distant island. Trelawney immediately starts planning an expedition. Naïve in his negotiations to outfit his ship‚ the Hispaniola‚ Trelawney is tricked into hiring one of Flint’s former mates‚ Long John Silver‚ and many of Flint’s crew. Only the captain‚ Smollett‚ is trustworthy. The ship sets sail for Treasure Island with nothing amiss‚ until Jim overhears Silver’s plans

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    Lost Treasure

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    Taylor Darden October 18‚ 2010 AP Language Arts Essay Lost Treasure There are a countless number of times when I heard that everyone should appreciate what they have. I never listened. I was young and naïve and now know that I should have listened. A person never knows what they have until they have lost it. They don’t know how valuable it is until it is out of their grasp. I have lost a lot of things I considered valuable‚ mostly material things that I could always replace. The person

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    Throwing Away Trash

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    and Throwing Away Trash Social loafing occurs when people work together and when their “output” is combined leaving no one to feel solely accountable for the completed task. Social loafing occurs on many different types of tasks including ones requiring physical effort (Szymanski & Harkins‚ 1987). Due to social loafing effect we hypothesized that people in groups would leave behind more trash then groups of one to two people. We wanted to see if larger groups left more trash thinking that either

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    Trash Dance Analysis

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    Trash Dance was such an inspiring film created by Allison Orr and Andrew Garrison. While watching this film it changed how I view dance as a whole. Looking at the film a recurring question kept popping into my head‚ what is dance? There is already a preexisting meaning for dance‚ but little do people know is that it is so much more than what people give it credit for. For me‚ this film broke all barriers of my knowledge in a good way. In the beginning of the film‚ she took it upon herself to

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    A Treasure Chest

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    Pose. Click. Post. This is how we do pictures in the digital world now. Gone are the days when we have those film strips and have them developed and placed in photo albums. But I have one‚ which compiles pictures I had in high school and recent pictures in college. I started to keep this album since third year high school but I started compiling since grade school. When we transferred to San Fernando in La Union‚ I lost most of my pictures. I became frustrated and from there I stopped. It was in

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