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    Skilled readers are able to employ the cueing systems in order to make meaning of what they are reading. As readers, when we come across a word or sentence that we do not understand, if we grasp the concepts of the phonological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic systems, we will be able to successfully use our knowledge to uncover the meaning of the word and comprehend the task at hand, whether it be during reading, writing, speaking, or listening. Having a solid understanding of these cueing…

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    in sparkly confetti. After the episode was over, our meal was prepared, so we took it back to the living room and turned on, “Alice in Wonderland”, The one that came out in 2010, not the cartoon version. By the time we watched Alice killed the jabberwocky, it had already reached eight. Jasper decided he was going to pick what we watched next, and that was Game of Thrones, starting at the beginning. While I was getting the tv set up, Jasper went and made popcorn. We ate a majority of it. We made…

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    He also loved to draw as a child. Carroll also wrote poetry. He invented the “Carroll diagram”. It is a 2 way table used for grouping things in a yes or no order. He was very good at chess. Carroll invented a few words that he used in his poem Jabberwocky. They are ‘chortle’ and ‘galumph’. He also came up with the term ‘portmanteau word’ for words like brunch, which uses two existing words to make a new word. At age 20 he was awarded a scholarship to Christ College. He won academic prizes from a…

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    Emma Was Sad Analysis

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    I also need to use specific details for my whole essay. Specific details contain HOW, WHY, and the feelings of the writers. In the side quest problem, I gradually understood how to write a good quest with specific details. When wrote the side quest two and three, I wrote a story about my childhood. I needed to add more specific details. For my first draft, I wrote Emma was sad directly. I wrote, “Emma was sad”. You can see that this sentence narrates Emma directly, and it did not express how sad…

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    How do rites of passages change a person and their life? Rites of passages are what changes a person or even make them more wise, therefore, it can help find a person’s real self. In literature, many authors use these to demonstrate how a person changes through a novel. Through the novel, The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, also used this technique. In The Looking Glass Wars, he uses rites of passages to portray how Alyss Heart’s character changes throughout the book. In the beginning of…

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    As an established and well-respected director, Tim Burton has been credited for his unique filming style evident in his many movies. Born on August 25th, 1958 in Burbank, California, Burton was always known as an ‘odd’ child, spending most of his time drawing, painting, and watching horror films. After graduating from high school, he attended the California Institute of the Arts, after which he became an apprentice animator at the Walt Disney Studios. This was the beginning of what would become…

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    Introduction:- Lewis Carroll, a pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was born on January 27, 1832, in the parsonage of Daresbury, Cheshire, England. He was the third child and eldest son of reverend Charles Dodgson and Francis Jane Lutwidge. From his parents Carroll inherited a very old tradition of service to the church and the monarchy of England. Familhy legend has it that King James I actually ‘knighted’ a lion of beef or mutton at the table of Sir Richard Houghton, one of Carroll’s…

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