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    Steven Sharp Mr. Arieas English 10 H p. 3 28 December 2015 Tale Of Two Cities Book 2 Study Guide Chapter 1 1. Dickens suggests that Tellson's bank was quite similar to England in the fact that the citizens of England were punished for trying to improve its laws and customs, which had become more respectable because of this. 2. This implies that he does something malicious outside at night that his wife feels inclined to pray for his sake. 3. Dickens characterizes Jerry and gives the reader a…

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    Arrow follows the story of a young adult called Oliver Queen who is the son of a multi billionaire. Oliver is stranded on an island called Lian yu for 5 years when a boating trip goes horrible wrong. The boat was tampered with and only Oliver, his father Robert and one of the crew make it onto the life raft; the rest of the crew and Oliver’s friend Sarah Lance went down with the boat. Oliver was compelled by his fathers dying wish so he made the promise to one day, right his father’s wrongs. But…

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    Nancy is a young detective in the 1940’s and she has solved many mysteries before. It starts out with Nancy trying to find a birthday present for her dad in an anticic store. As she leaves the store she walks into a women who ask her to take her home. Nancy being a nice young lady help the old women get home. She lived in a mansion and had a maid waiting at the door for her arrival. This old women turned out to a queen who had to run away from her country a long time ago. Nancy went out with…

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    This story takes place on a late Saturday night, on September 23rd, 1989, in Topeka, Kansas. Two patrons, Cindia Cott, and her father enter the nightclub The Peppermint Twist for what I can assume is just a good carefree night of drinking and dancing. However, after ordering some pink shots that are known at the club as watermelon shots, there night will go from great to a complete disaster. After their order is placed at the bar, the waitress makes a few rounds than goes to pick it up.…

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    Anton Chekhov wrote the short story A Problem. The story is about a young man who takes a loan illegally and gets caught, leaving his uncles to decide his future for him. In the story, Anton illustrates 4 characters, which personalities vary greatly. He decided to use both methods of characterization to portrait them to us, direct and indirect characterization. Chekhov does a really got job at it, so we’ll discuss how he displayed each one of the characters. The first character we’ll discuss,…

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    A Christmas Carol is a short novel by Charles Dickens, published for the first time in 1843 that takes place in the Victorian London. The main characters are Scrooge, Jacob Marley, The Ghost of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present, and The Ghost of Christmas Future. But other characters can also be found such as Fred, Scrooge’s nephew; Fezziwig, who was Scrooge’s mentor; Belle, a woman who Scrooge loved; Bob Cratchit; Scrooge’s clerk, and others. The story begins by stating Marley’s…

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    Most people would think that “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens is about Christmas when it was originally written to prevent child labor. The novella tells the story of a wealthy and greedy man named Ebenezer Scrooge. He is not the nicest gentleman and he is mean to his poor servant whose name is Bob Cratchit. This book teaches us that money does not always make us happy. This message can still apply to us today. around the time that ACC was written, children did a lot of work in the mines…

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    Social Class In the novel , Dickens reveals a theme of social class and shows us that social class affects our actions , reputations and how we choose to live our lives overall. In the novel Pip states , "I was haunted by the fear that she would sooner or later find me out , with a black face , and hands , doing the coarsest part of my work and would exult over me and despise me"(page 83). In this quotation Pip is speaking of his hard labor and the shame it would bring him if the girl he loved…

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    Kehinde Wiley: A Twist on Urban Culture Kehinde Wiley’s art work gives a twist to urban culture, and highlights a group of people who is usually persecuted for their beliefs, looks and culture. His exhibit at the Toledo Museum of Art left my mind in “aha,” and in fact, inspired me to dig deeper into his works. My intriguing curiosity led me to his website http://kehindewiley.com/about . The streets of Harlem awakened Wiley’s keen eye to the natural-raw form of the brown skinned man; and…

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    Plot Twist I really wanted to go to Baba and tell him that we had to leave Kabul. Of course it was that or Hassan and Ali leaving Kabul. But I had to do what I had to do, we could not be here together, it was not right. It had to be the perfect time, also when Ali and Hassan were gone. So that day I had waited till they had to go to get food from the market. Than that was the moment I had done something I never had done before, I lied and black mailed my brother ,the person that fed from…

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