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    The plot is divided into three acts and it takes place in an apartment. Jimmy Porter is the central character and he represents the disappointed British youth of the 1950s. He is a university graduate who lives in an attic flat in the Midlands and is selling sweets in a kiosk with his friend Cliff, since he has not been employed by the government. Jimmy is married with a daughter of a colonel in British Army in India. Alison. Whom he always scolds and yells at…

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    untidy and dirty background, are keys to make an unpleasant play. In first place, Jimmy Porter represents undesirable attitudes of a real man (working…

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    unpleasant play. In first place, Jimmy Porter represents undesirable attitudes of a real man (working class man) after the war. For a start, a particular mood that is remarkable from Jimmy is his necessity of leadership. He needs to dominate from his untidy throne, reading his…

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    1956, claimed the play to be “the first totally original play of a new generation” (Bond, 1999). The main character, Jimmy Porter, breaks the mold of the “knight in a shining armour” and brings on scene the “angry young man”. Behind Jimmy´s fiery, outshining monologues stands his friend Cliff and his wife, Alison. Many critics define Alison as a passive character, victim of Jimmy´s rage. But this assumption impedes us to discover another reality behind her silence. In this essay I argue that…

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    the book to the actual first story. There were flying horses all around her and everything around looks like magical and brigh world. MIAH “Where am I?” She heard her brother’s voice. JIMMY “Walks through the forest, defeat the lion, and try to save me, I am at the end of the road” MIAH “Where are you Jimmy?” JIMMY “I’ve been kidnapped by the vampires. They are forcing me to help them find the magical source in the Jewelry Island. The source will make them cross the line from this magical…

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    So, nearly forty years later in 1971, the state of Georgia decided to officially name it a state park instead. Governor Jimmy Carter signed this bill into law on June 1 of that year. Georgia's "Little Grand Canyon" is a testament to the power of man's influence on the land. Massive gullies as deep as 150 feet were caused simply by poor farming practices during the…

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    where polar bears and caribou give birth, to the towering Brooks Range where Dall sheep cling to cliffs and wolves howl in the midnight sun.” Here, former President Jimmy Carter is portraying the beauty and diversity in the Arctic National Wildlife refuge. In the Foreword of Subhankar Banerjee’s book “Arctic national wildlife refuge in: seasons of life and gland, a Photographic Journey”, President Jimmy Carter attempts to persuade his audience that the Arctic Wildlife refuge should not be…

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    Do you not love the wonderful odor of nature? As you may already know Georgia has a state park called Providence Canyon that may also be known as the Little Grand Canyon. Where everything is just made all naturally? Nature is full of living plants, rocks, forests, and many other different kinds of animals. They help things form little by little. This is called geology and is the process by which things are formed, moved , or changed .The geology of nature has created a beautiful canyon known…

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    Robert Nesta Marley, better known as Bob Marley, was born February 6, 1945. He is the son of Cedella and Norval. Cedella was young only eighteen when she gave birth to Bob. At a young age, Bob grew up in the rural community of Nine Miles which is a village in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. Nine Miles had many African customs they took from their ancestors. The main one was storytelling. They used it to tell about the past and their traditions, many of these were overlooked in history. These stories…

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    Introduction: The Barrumbi Kids, is an ‘episodic’ book which is the beginning of a series of thrilling, fictional, adventure/action books. The book contains crazy scenes, including a crocodile about to feed on a small, young child, children jumping off a cliff edge, killing animals, stealing a pet snake, stealing eggs, things that unexpectedly disappear and much more. Written by Leonie Norrington, (the book) officially published in 2002. Image of Leonie Norrington. Leonie Norrington…

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