Brenna Hattler October 4‚1012 Summer Reading Writing Assignment Rewrite Block 3 1. How would you characterize Melinda’s relationship with her family? “My family has a good system. We communicate with notes on the kitchen counter” –pg. 14 Anderson. In Speak by Laurie Anderson Melinda’s family is not very close. They each have privacy and there isn’t much communication with each other. Eventually Melinda completely stops talking to her parents‚ but by the end of the novel they learn that they
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Advanced Placement Literature and Composition Outside Reading Books (ORBs) & Summer Reading Instructions- 2010-2011 Patrice Norris- Instructor Email: elwyn.norris@mnps.org READ THIS HANDOUT VERY CAREFULLY BECAUSE THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE QUITE SPECIFIC Part I. All AP Literature students are required to read How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. You will refer to this book throughout the year. The book is very entertaining and very informative as an introduction to
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what is perfect. Too many woman try to fit this ideal of what we should be based on media and society in an imperfect world. Marge Piercy is criticizing this in her poem “Barbie doll”. The poem shows how ridiculous it is the way we try to conform to what society’s ideals are for the perfect woman. “And presented dolls that did pee-pee/ miniature GE stoves and irons/ and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy” (2-4). These are all traditional toys for girls but also things that have an influence
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On Summer of Betrayal by Hong Ying I was first attracted by this book for its brief introduction----“A graphic‚ sensuous and surprising novel about the aftermath of Tiananmen Square----by a young woman who was there.” It is also said that this book was published in Taiwan in 1992; though banned in the inland of China‚ it circulated there. And what I am reading is the first publication in the West. Man‚ more often than not‚ is inclined to be drawn by an unknown and mysterious world‚ and
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AP UNITED STATES HISTORY‚ 2013-14 EUGENIA LANGAN‚ TEACHER SUMMER ASSIGNMENT This summer assignment is due on the first day of class of the 2013-14 school year. It will count as a test grade. Failure to turn the assignment in on time may result in your being booted out of AP.Your answers must be typed.Be sure to read the questions carefully and answer all subquestions within each question. 1. Read 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann‚ then write the answers
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Summer Internship 2010 Project Report Prepared For Luthra Dyeing and Printing Mill Under partial fulfilment of Post Graduate Programme in Master of Business Administration (2009-2011) Submitted to:- Prof. Nina Muncherji Prof. Hairsmita Trivedi Chairman – MBA-FT Faculty Mentor IMNU‚ Ahmedabad IMNU‚ Ahmedabad Prepared by:- Dipesh Jain C-091312 Batch of 2009-2011 Institute of Management‚ Nirma University‚ Ahmedabad. Name of the Report: Summer Internship 2010‚ Project
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Ray Bradbury is an American sci-fi writer who was born in 1920. He has written many famous and intriguing books and stories during his lifetime. One of his short stories is “All Summer in a Day” in which there is a civilization of rocketmen set on Venus. Underground the jungleland with extreme weather there is a school which Margot attends. She is a frail 9-year old girl who is much different than the other children. Margot had came to Venus only 5 years ago while the other kids had lived there their
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Men often entrap females into oppressive roles in society. In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House‚ Torvald Helmer treats his wife Nora as a doll; whereas in Ghosts‚ Pastor Manders believes Mrs. Alving should be a trophy wife and protect her dead husband’s reputation. Both Torvald and Manders brainwash Nora and Mrs. Alving‚ respectively‚ to behave according to what their own expectations. Because Nora and Mrs. Alving are afraid to cross the expectations of Torvald and Manders‚ they both hide their true feelings
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Advanced Placement United States Summer 2012 Assignments: Due Thursday‚ September 6th. Welcome to AP. US History! The following is a summer assignment to get you started for the new school year. Part I: Textbook Assignment. (Use the textbook if you received it in June or download the PDF files or use the dropbox link) Part II: Free Response Question Essay Part I: Use your American Passages textbook if you have‚ or Download the pdf files titled “AP US CH 1” and “AP US Chapter 2 excerpts” Read
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By ‚ William Shake Spear A MIDNIGHT SUMMER DREAMS William Shake Spear quotes The Lunatic‚ the lover‚ and the poet‚ are of imagination all compact. Are you sure/that we are a wake? it seems to me/ That yet we sleep‚ We dream “Though she be but little‚ she is fierce Lord‚ what fools these mortals be! “And yet‚to say the truth‚ reason and love keep little company together nowadays.” “Lovers and madmen have such seething brains‚ Such shaping fantasies‚ that apprehend More than
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