Fourteen-year-old super spy Alex Rider swings back into action in Point Blank‚ the second in the thus-far six-book series written by Anthony Horowitz. This time he’s matched against a South African madman‚ Dr. Grief‚ and his sadistic second-in-command‚ Mrs. Stellenbosch‚ who run an elite school high in the French Alps for trouble-making teenagers. For those who may not know who Alex Rider is‚ he was dragged into the spy business by his uncle’s murder in the first book‚ Stormbreaker. Alex lost
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study on Scorpia I have chosen to analyse chapter 9 of the novel‚ titled Albert Bridge. I will explain how Horowitz uses writing techniques to keep the reader engaged and how he completely shifts the plot in this extremely important section where Alex Rider is shown the video of Albert Bridge. Horowitz starts this chapter by describing the large room Mrs Rothman leads Alex to at the hotel in Positano. “There was no bed‚ just two chairs and a trestle table with a video player and some files”‚ Horowitz
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The Freedom Riders: Terminators of Segregation Picture being on a bus traveling throughout the South in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement‚ knowing that when the bus arrives at the first stop‚ a group of activists against segregation called Freedom Riders will be viciously attacked by mobs of whites. Any advice to stay home and avoid the situation was disregarded by these brave Americans because defending the rights of African Americans was most important. Each rider understood that they
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film’s plot follows the story of Paikea Apirana ("Pai") [In the book‚ her name is Kahu‚ short for Kahutia Te Rangi].The leader should be the first-born grandson – a direct patrilineal descendant of Paikea‚ aka Kahutia Te Rangi in the book‚ the Whale Rider – he who rode on top of a whale from Hawaiki. However‚ Pai is female and technically cannot inherit the leadership. While he does later form an affectionate bond with his granddaughter‚ carrying her to school every day on his bicycle‚ he also condemns
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Comparing and Contrasting Essay the Interlopers and the Story of an Hour In this paper I will compare and contrast the foreshadowing‚ setting‚ and characters in The Interlopers and The Story of An Hour. Setting: the Interlopers and the Story of an Hour have very different settings. The Interlopers Is set in a dark‚ cold‚ forest on a stormy night compared to The Story of an hour which is set in Mrs. Mallard’s house. For most of the story Mrs. Mallard is sitting in her room looking outside at the
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Once upon of time‚ there was a tall‚ big nosed‚ fluffy haired hotdog‚ Rhino Yin. Rhino Yin was not normal‚ he was known as a loner. People would tease him about being a corndog. He would hear people talking about him and smell the food tricks they were doing. Rhino Yin was feeling very used to the bullying. He would always get beat up by some big kids. There was also a unicorn with blue lips‚ pink eyebrows‚ elf ears and a tiny nose and was really cool and his name is Unicorn Gavan. People liked Unicorn
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Why do societies continue to live in a world where animal as well as civilian displacement is widely accepted and encouraged? Unfortunately‚ this situation continues due to the economic benefits provided by stripping away human and animal rights. This type of environment was present in Russia during the 17th to 19th century‚ the time of the Russian Fur trade. The Russian Fur trade‚ also known as the Continental Fur trade‚ was an exchange of expensive Russian fur goods and European gold. During the
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After Nine days of constant grieving for her missing son‚ Michael‚ old Maurya is fallen into a restless sleep. Her daughter‚ Cathleen‚ is busy with household tasks‚ when another daughter‚ Nora‚ slips quietly into the kitchen with a bundle given her by the young priest. It contains part of the clothes taken from the body of a drowned man far in the north. They have been sent to the family for identification‚ since the clothes may belong to her missing brother. The girls go to open the
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Belonging : be rightly placed in a specified position Not belonging: not rightly being placed in a specified position Rainbow’s End 1. The prescribed text that we have been given is Rainbows End the play was written by Jane Harrison the play premiered on the 18th February 2005 at the Melbourne Museum. It was directed by Wesley Enoch. 2. Gladys is caught between two cultural context- her Aboriginality‚ which she is denying and he desire to belong in the white society. Because she doesn’t
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Literary Analysis Tamper with time and the world you know can become a world you do not want to live in. The novel Time Riders the Doomsday Code by Alex Scarrow is a book about three characters who time travel to the future and the past by using this relic to save the future and prevent time travel to destroy history. The plot of the novel Time Riders is filled with mystery‚ confusion‚ and chaos. First off‚ this novel is full of mystery because there’s a manuscript called the Voynich Manuscript
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