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    character who must step out from behind the curtain and take charge in order to save the ones she loves and get her happily ever after. Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, England (“Jane” 1). Her parents were Cassandra…

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    The Siren by Kiera Cass is a romance novel with forbidden love and mystical happenings. This novella stars Kahlen, a young girl, who was rescued from her terrible fate of drowning in a shipwreck by serving the Ocean for a century instead. She was forced to use her voice to lure people into the water and drown them, thus “feeding” the Ocean. After a hundred years, she would be given her humanity back and forget she was ever siren.There are two rules to being a siren: you can only use your voice…

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    The novel “This Is How You Lose Her” by Junot Diaz is a novel about relationships. The story follow the main character, Yunior, a plain Dominican man living in the suburban area and his relationships with women. The novel also tells the story of Yunior’s father and brother and their relationship with women. Yunior speaks both Spanish and English, and usually speaks with a Spanish slang. Yunior, in the novel, is popular with the women, and Yunior make use of this to sleep with countless women.…

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    Jane Austen, a book writer, does not have a middle name. Isnt that weird. She worked as a writer. Jane’s a Georgian Era Author. She 's best known for social commentary in novels. Her best novels, Sense Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. Austen’s comic novels of love among the landed the popularity of 1869. When she’s writing books her reputation skyrocketed in the 20th century. Jane’s writing and she’s bridging a gap between romance and realism. Jane began to write in bound notebooks.…

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    from the start when Ajax, a Greek warrior raped King Priam’s daughter Cassandra which enraged the goddess Athena, and she was mainly responsible for Odysseus’s late homecoming. Throughout the Odyssey, Odysseus comes across women during his journey who appear in the form of temptresses or seek to destroy him. Athena plays a lead controlling role in the Odyssey. She was furious with Odysseus at first due to what happened to Cassandra in Troy but after seven years she decided to help him get back…

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    I manipulated the air so I cleared the table and collided with Stefan. "YOU'RE DEAD STEFAN!" I screamed. We hit the ground and rolled. "What the hell is your problem? Why the hell would you actually want to go to school? Now Damon's making me go!" I yelled, still wrestling with him. Arms wrapped around my waist and I was yanked off of Stefan. I glared up at Damon. "Let me go!" I yelled. Within the blink of an eye, I was at the other side of the room and Damon was letting me go.…

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    The one thing I hate more than people rating/reviewing books before they have read them, is when people hate on authors for writing in the same universe. Ever since it was announce that Cassandra Clare would be writing more series in the shadowhunter universe (The Dark Artifices and The Last Hours) people have gone mental. I have seen so hate towards her on goodreads and such, that she should not be writing more books in this world – that she is only doing it for the money. As a writer and…

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    Sophia Vietti Ms. Hickey, Latin 4-20-18 2nd Hour, Latin II The oresteia and the Athenian legal system The Oresteia, an Ancient Greek manuscript, is a follow up of the book “The Iphigenia” and follows his wife, Queen Clytemnestra’s, murder of Agamemnon after the Trojan war. The story of the Oresteia is a long Greek play made to explain the new Athenian legal system supposedly made by the goddess Athena in the third act of the play. The main idea of the Oresteia is that injustice and…

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    mean. When Jace was very young, he saw his father murdered in front of him. Then he moved to the institute in New York from his home in Idris. Where he got a new family, a good family. The book is The mortal instruments: City of Bones written by Cassandra Clare. “Because” he said, “we’re about to be in the middle of a war” Here Jace and Clary (the other protagonist) had gotten themselves in a sticky situation. They went into vampire territory to save Clary’s best friend Simon and then the…

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    The Copper Gauntlet HOOK: “No! You can’t go” ,Alastair lunged for Call, grabbing his arm. His Father wasn’t a big man, but he was lean and long and wiry. Call slipped and went down hard on the concrete, landing the wrong way on his leg. Pain shot up his body, making his vision swim. Over Havoc’s barking, Call heard his father saying, “You can’t go back to the Magisterium. I have to fix this. I promise you, i will fix it -” He means he’s going to kill me, Call thought. He means i’ll be…

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