Assignment 4 3. Farewell‚ My Appetizer‚ by S.J. Perelman My question to the author would be: • When you parody another author’s work‚ are you complimenting or critiquing it or both? Please explain your answer. • When you worked with the Marx Brothers on Monkey Business and Horsefeathers‚ did you find inspiration for any stories that you saved and wrote later? The assignment I would give to the class would be: 4. Choose a favorite film or book noir and identify 3 characteristics that
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Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28th‚ 1856 in Staunton‚ Virginia. He and his siblings grew up in Augusta‚ Georgia and Columbia‚ South Carolina. Two years after his education at Davidson College ended; Woodrow Wilson entered Princeton University and graduated in 1879. After college Wilson became an attorney and in 1883 he changed his profile to a college professor because he was unsuccessful as an attorney. He then enrolled at Johns Hopkins University in a doctoral program to become a college
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When people ask me When people asked me what do you want to study when you finish school? My answer was: I don´t know. This was my answer for a long time‚ until I realised‚ I always wanted to be an artist‚ and it has always been my dream since I was a little boy to be the greatest artist and the greatest inventor the world could have. Like Leonardo Da-Vinci was‚ like my father would want me to be‚ me‚ becoming what I really want to be. So I started to answer that question‚ I want to study art and
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Go Ask Alice Book Written by Anonymous This report is based upon the book Go Ask Alice‚ written by Beatrice Sparks‚ James Jennings and Anonymous. This book was published by Avon Books in 1971. Summary Alice was first introduced to LSD during a party‚ where it was slipped into her drink. She liked the high and was pleased to learn that there was other drugs. Within a couple months she became an addicted. She was sent to a physiatrist‚ which caused her to run away from her home. While away‚ Alice
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Anonymous. "Go Ask Alice." New York: Avon Books‚1982 1. Point of view-the perspective from which the author tells the story. "Alice writes in her undated diary from a hospital. She is unsure how she has ended up here and can only think of the worms she thinks are eating her alive. She has apparently been biting her fingers down to the bone." Undated (July) The book " Go Ask Alice" was written in in first person. This gives the reader an idea of what Alice is thinking and her feelings
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BookRags Literature Study Guide Ask the Dust by John Fante For the online version of BookRags’ Ask the Dust Literature Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-ask-the-dust/ Copyright Information ©2000-2012 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Literature Study Guide is offprint from Gale’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context‚ and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction
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work 2. Hidden lessons III. Break down A. Title B. Lines 1-3 1. Stafford’s meaning 2. Questions IV. Living A. Problems B. Lines 4-7 1. Answering to life 2. Metaphors V. Paraphrasing A. Lines 11-13 1. Inner thought 2. Knowing B. Final Words VI. Conclusion An Explication of William Stafford’s “Ask Me” The poem “Ask Me” is not as it may seem the first time you read it‚ you have to read through it a second maybe even a third
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possibility of bad decision making. Just one bad decision can lead to a lifetime of addiction and struggling. The use of dangerous drugs is a growing issue amongst teens in real life while also depicted in modern works of literature such as Crank and Go Ask Alice. With no prior exposure to them‚ teenagers have no clue how to deal with a situation involving drugs. They get involved with drugs for many different reasons. For one‚ peer pressure can take over their extremely impressionable minds and the
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Basilica de San Martin de Tours Basilica de San Martin de Tours is considered to be the largest church in the Philippines and in Asia. The construction of the church was spearheaded by Father Diego Espinar in 1575. The town of Taal‚ Batangas is located in the Archdiocese of Lipa‚ Batangas. St. Martin de Tours is the patron saint of the said town‚ whose fiesta or feast day is celebrated every November 11. In 1754‚ the church was destroyed along with its neighbouring town‚ Taal‚ in the largest eruption
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In the poem "Ask Me‚" the poet‚ William Stafford‚ gives the reader a strong sense of imagery‚ it describes the river so vividly‚ so creatively. This poem is a very good poem‚ and is actually very mysterious and a little bit almost questionable about the theme of the poem. Basically what I get from the poem is‚ the speaker is not ashamed of who he or she is and you can ask them any questions about their past and they will gladly answer. It’s almost as if it is kind of testing the speaker‚ like will
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