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    Former Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley, believed to have died over 15 years ago, is back from the dead…or did he ever die in the first place? Layne Staley was born in Kirkland, Washington, August 22nd, 1967. He is most well known for being the lead vocalist of 90’s band Alice in Chains, but was also a member of the band Mad Season. Alice In Chains was an alternative metal band that started in the late 80’s in Seattle, Washington. Band members included lead singer, Layne Staley, guitarist…

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    Chef Fineberg Alice Waters Chef Alice Waters was born on April 28, 1944, in Chatham New Jersey. In her early years she attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated in 1967 with a degree in French cultural studies. While she was attending Berkeley she made a trip to Paris, France were she broaden her tasting palate. After, when she graduated from Berkeley she started her training as a chef in Montessori school in London and learned French cooking technique. Alice waters, is…

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    personality. To many people, embracing their indifferences may seem difficult. Through the art of film-making, Tim Burton makes his creative yet unique stories into movies. Burton’s charisma is portrayed through his movies, such as Edward Scissorhands and Alice in Wonderland. The main characters in the movies have the appearance and aspects of an outcast; therefore, they stand out in their society. Tim Burton uses misfit characters to show that people should embrace their unique attributes.…

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    "I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have." Alice Walker is one author that isn't afraid to be blunt with the readers, an author that doesn't sugar coat things that happened or things that can still happen even in today's world. Most people find her novel The Color Purple quiet awkward and disturbing. Alice Walker wasn't always good at writing or anything along those lines, until one of her many brothers had shot her in the eye with a BB gun causing her to go blind in that eye.…

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    Still Alice Book Report

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    wants to know the ending before they are even finished no matter what the story, right? This book gives you that, but there is more to the story than you could expect. Still Alice is an amazing journal-like book that let’s you see inside of what Alzheimer's is really like, and how the caregivers have to go through. Alice was a Harvard professor with three children, Tom, Anna, and Lydia, a husband, John, who is a scientist at Harvard as well. She has completed and reached goals that only one…

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    Alice is trying to conform to Victorian societal norms and expectations. Although she is only seven, she blames herself when she doesn’t have an explanation for a problem when in reality she shouldn’t expect herself (nor should anyone else) expect her to know about of what is going on in Wonderland. Alice has developed neurosis and she is consistently punishes herself for behaving in an undesirable manner and continue to accept the societal norms as her own expectations of herself. Alice has to…

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    the great puzzle!” Alice asks herself this shortly after entering Wonderland, although this line would not be at all out of place in any adolescent’s head (Carroll 15). Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is a novel that deals heavily with many aspects of identity, including finding and growing an identity as a child. Alice goes through many trials in the novel, and readers watch her change and adapt to get through all of these. Disney’s 1951 adaptation Alice in Wonderland has Alice go through…

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    Alice Walker, in full Alice Malsenior Walker was born on 9th February 1944 in Eatonton Georgia U.S. and is now one of the country’s best-selling writers of literary fiction. Alice walker’s life was life of any African American in 1940s. She was deprived of all the basic amenities and discrimination was rampant all around, which Alice later started expressing through her short stories, novel, poems etc. More than ten million copies of her books are in print." Walker has now become a focal…

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    made for white, or women created for men." A quote by Alice Walker conveying her strong belief in feminism and racial equality. The author 's life had an impact on her writing. Between attending segregated schools, poor family and a victim of bullying, Alice Walker converted her struggles and beliefs into award winning writing. She worked as a social worker and civil rights activist. Another groundbreaking section of her writing explored what Alice Walker refers to as "womanism", a social theory…

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    Book Summary: Go Ask Alice

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    Go ask Alice is book written in diary form. The author is unknown. The main character is Alice, which is the one who write the diary. Throughout the diary, Alice talks about the challenges with she faces and how she copes with them. Alice’s dad, who is a college professor, takes an offer to teach at a different college. Alice and her family have to move to a new town at the beginning of the next year. Alice has problems fitting in at her new school, but soon makes a new friend, Beth. Alice…

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