Through The Tunnel: Third Person Point Of View
.... rocks lay like discolored monsters under the surface, and then he was in the real sea - a warm sea where irregular cold currents from the deep water shocked his limbs" clearly describes the beach where the boy is swimming and how it is seen by him. With the addition of words like "discoloured monsters" and "real sea" we can tell what the boy's feeling are toward his beach which he considers scary but at the same time challenging.
By using the third person omniscient point of view, the narrator is able .....
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Epic Heroes In Time
.... time and in any form. Epic heroes are not always flawless. They occasionally commit a crime, lie, or do something of questionable moral action. Though married to faithful Penelope, Odysseus continually rapes and pillages, has affairs and even sacrifices his own men. Similarly, young Moses killed an Egyptian who was pestering a Jewish man (Exodus, 45) and Jacob forced his starving brother out of his birthright by giving him some food. These actions do not tarnish the hero, but they are necessary for .....
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Love Lessons
.... wallflower. No one noticed me, or took the time to care about me. I coped with this by not taking the initiative to talk with people. I was introverted to an extreme. Michael helped me come out of my shell and yet, he did not push me. I was able to develop a part of me I had never gotten to explore before. I find it easier to say hello to a person on the street now, or tell a friend how I am really feeling, or share a joke with someone. In opening up, the loneliness as faded and it has been replace .....
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Writing With Mechanics
.... of her trunk. "Her old trunk that stood against the wall was open just a crack; from the crack came this tiny pinpoint of reflected light to prick the cellar's gloom…She went toward it like a woman hypnotized…her old trunk had held the curled-up body of a woman." Thus, the readers can relate to the character's feelings of fear and anticipation making them more drawn to the story and its outcome.
Making the difference between whether or not a piece of literature makes an impact on the reader, a main .....
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The Politics Of Education Reform
.... to choose. Students will Desmarais 2 gain insight to certain occupations; students will gain exposer to other groups; students will gain self confidence. Students will gain and so will the community. Nevertheless, the "community involvement activities" requirement does present questions that the Ministry of Education has yet to address.
The first question: Why did the Ministry feel that making community involvement mandatory was necessary? One possible answer is economics. With budget cuts to th .....
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Increase Of The Human Life Span
.... to have. The world is already overpopulated as it is. If the average life span were to increase, it would take careful planning to handle it.
Along with overpopulation, there would be an increased interest in health and fitness. If life spans were to increase, people would want to live for as long as they could. I’m certain that is the way most people feel today, but I would definitely do more sit-ups if I knew I would be alive for my great-great-great-grandchildren. People will always wish they were .....
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Christian Elements In Beowulf
.... believed in gods, goddesses, and monsters. It’s significance lies in an oral history where people memorized long, dense lines of tedious verse. Later, when a written tradition was introduced they began to write the story down on tablets.
The old tale was not first told or invented by the commonly known, Beowulf poet. This is clear from investigations of the folk lore analogues. The manuscript was written by two scribes around AD 1000 in late West Saxon, the literary dialect of that period. It i .....
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America's Bad Choice In Leaders
.... for who could build the biggest bomb? How immature is that?
Can you believe they want to put this morons face on Mount Rushmore to be remembered as a great president? This has got to be a joke. I mean Reagan, their fearless leader, also catered to the paranoia factor that so many fascist dickheads live off of, therefore fueling the fires of fascism in the U.S. And for some reason the country loves this guy for doing all this? I bet there are hundreds more things that this guy did that people don’t eve .....
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Response Paper For “Sweat”
.... give her version of the story the same credibility he gives that of an outside narrator. It also makes the reader more sympathetic toward her. This can clearly be seen through the addition of the other woman in Sykes life. What happens to her seems truthful and real which directs the reader’s expected reaction to the story.
In 1926 the deep south was a place of racial division and gross inequality. It was a time that black men and women, although by law free, were not even considered to be human be .....
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The Illiad
.... he or the rest of the soldiers should be punished for the brashness of their commander. So, as the epic starts to unwind, Achilles is described as a strong-willed, though a bit hot tempered, man.
It is in the following books that Achilles shows some of his not to desirable qualities, yet in these qualities the character of Achilles is ultimately developed. Homer describes the plot of Achilles to avenge his disgrace at the hand of Agamemnon. He has his mother, the goddess Thetis, ask Zeus to punish .....
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Greek Mythology
.... answer relevant questions and make
contributions in small or large group discussion.
4. The students will analyze characters, including their traits, relationships,
and changes.
C. Ongoing Projects:
1. Daily Journal Entries: Students will write daily in their journals on related
topics that also integrate other subjects, and students can also record
information and responses from activities done in class. Students may
write in their journals during the Social Studies, Writin .....
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She Works Hard For Her Money
.... Delores Dante has been waiting tables in the same restaurant for twenty-three years (Terkel 279). After her marriage broke up, she started waiting tables because she needed fast money and didn't want to work an office job (Terkel 294). She feels that she learns a lot about people in her line of work, and enjoys talking to her customers. She invents ways to keep her job interesting, and likes to converse with her customers about a great number of topics. Dante says that giving service and bei .....
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The Epic Of Gilgamesh
.... this world. He is not content with what he has, good looks, money, and power, and desires more in life. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a story that we, as people, can relate to. There are similarities between Gilgamesh’s journey and our own journey through life. Some of the texts that will be compared with The Epic of Gilgamesh, are the Bible, and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The characters of these stories are all have that burning desire to be successful in life, which we can relate to .....
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Political Correctness: The Teddy Bear Massacre
.... is how PC proponents try to please everyone at the same time. The burning of the bruin was just one of many activities held during the week before the big UCLA game. The idea being that everyone could find something that they could identify with and rally around their school. If the burning was intentionally created to represent or oppress the offended students, the event would have been banned long ago. However, as Matt Hutaff stated in his editorial in the Daily Trojan:
"It’s about school pride. .....
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Let's Really Reform Our Schools
.... the windows would be similar to those in the juvenile hall. Students would attend these schools from 8 a.m. until 2p.m., the same as a traditional school.
The second way is a work-placement program that can help these troublemakers to find work in the community when they are no longer able to attend or wish to be at these special schools. These programs would be designed to help these students get a job in what they are most interested in doing. By offering these worst troublemakers alternatives of .....
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