I came to choose it because I heard it is about a boy who is around my age. ... The theme of this novel is how innocence is corrupted by society. ... The style of this book is unusual because it is told by a sixteen-year-old boy who appears to be sympathetic since he is so amusing. However, one of the problems with this style is that some of the things he observes might not be true, but somewhat exaggerated and biased. ... Despite these things, this style is highly effective because it makes us very involved with him and sympathetic to him. ...

• Word Count: 859
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• Grade Level: High School

The alternation in style and mood was most likely due to his immigration to America in 1939. ... Shortly after in the eighth stanza Time begins to also represent aging and death. In addition, the twelfth stanza Auden alludes to nursery rhyme, "Jack and Jill," to refer to a loss of innocence and offer an insinuation towards Heaven. ... Auden uses his characteristic style to intertwine the theme within imagery and metaphors. ... For example, " The years shall run like rabbits, for in my arms I hold the Flower of the Ages ." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

They revolted against the artificial declamatory speeches and formal language of the neoclassical age. ... Another way in which these writers rebelled in their writing styles was their lack of conventions and rules, such as the three unities, in their works. ... Wordsworth saw the purity and innocence in children and illustrated it in lines 63 through 67. ... Wordsworth also saw, however, how this innocence and purity was corrupted by civilization. ... Stanza VII continues illustrating this corruption and loss of innocence by describing some of the roles that the child will play throughout lif...

• Word Count: 956
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• Grade Level: High School

He sees a boy from Baltimore about his age staring at him. ... It was a shame that someone at his tender age of eight had to encounter such discrimination. The boy's innocence and naive ness is what makes readers feel sorry for him. ... It opened a window to how people were treated back then in a very original style. ...

• Word Count: 617
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• Grade Level: High School

He can not note Hero's flesh and blood humanity and, later, he can not note her innocence. ... During the dramatic denunciation scene, only Friar Francis, Beatrice and Benedict correctly perceive Hero's innocence. ... I have marked A thousand blushing apparitions ...trust not my age, My reverence, calling nor divinity, If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here, Under some biting error 4.1. 150-162 Leonato, however, can not perceive the innocence of his own daughter. ... He is able to perceive Hero's innocence and suspect Don Jon's involvement because he exists...

• Word Count: 1163
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• Grade Level: High School

His fortune continues to grow and as he comes of age, he develops a passion for newspaper publishing, and purchases a newspaper of his own. ... This style broke new ground, including fades, dissolves and camera angles to highlight, or in some cases, lowlight elements of the film. ... He desired the love of people, but in his quest he sacrificed his once loving marriage and all throughout, he misses the innocence of his childhood. ...

• Word Count: 542
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• Grade Level: High School

"Beauty", style and elegance was something they couldn't allow. ... I believe that war is the perfect example to understand human behaviour, and how ideologies or interests may lead to fights, battles, and the constant look for evolution and change whereas terrible consequences can be suffered by anyone, no matter their innocence and age (like the boys did). ...

• Word Count: 602
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• Grade Level: High School

Staci Sabarsky gave Stellas' character the innocence and hopefulness the character needed. ... Robyne Parrish made sure the costumes fit the era and style of the time. ... The downcast lighting played well with Blanches desire to hide her real age and play to her sense of never being truly seen in the spotlight. ... Everything from the costumes, hair styles, props and decorations felt like it belonged. ...

• Word Count: 670
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• Grade Level: High School

America produced many renown authors during the age of American romanticism. ... These included "youth (or childlike qualities); innocence; a love of nature and a distrust of town life, [and] a corresponding uneasiness with women (Arpin, et al 120.)" ... The Romantic period celebrated man's freedom with nature, virtue found in innocence, and intuitiveness over the rational. ... Critics of Cooper often lambaste him by his unperfected writing style, use of words, unrealistic situations, etc. ... His achievements include: the first successful American historical romance in the ...

• Word Count: 941
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• Grade Level: High School

This national book award winner is an epic tale and the launch of a new style for the author focusing on a matured young man with a passion for horses joining with his friends to overcome loss and betrayal. ... "All The Pretty Horses details a journey that is both literal and, at least to some extent, a bildungsroman, a movement from innocence to experience, from purity to knowledge, from the known world into the unknown world--and the unknown world in this novel is Mexico-(Blair 1). ... John Grady at the age of 16 is already quite mature for his age and because of his maturity he does no...

• Word Count: 1189
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• Grade Level: High School

Holden's ten year-old sister Phoebe, has the innocence that Holden wishes the rest of the world has. ... By leaving, Holden will destroy Phoebe's innocence and no one will be there to take care of her. ... When a sibling dies, the surviving child is forced to deal with the reality of death at a very young age with the realization that it could happen to them as well (Fitzgerald 66). ... The second theme deals with Holden's view on innocence. He believes that in a world full of so much hypocrisy and ugliness, innocence can only be found in children. ...

• Word Count: 2498
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Each of the five poems is written in a different style; however, they each have something in common. ... In five different styles the poets portray this theme very powerfully. ... Witt throws in words to suggest the trust, beliefs, love and innocence of a child; however, the mood is untouched because it is made so clear from the beginning. ... The poem is full of personifications of age and life: "Never fear, Age will catch you, slow down, ere it dispatch you." ... These lines show how eventually age will get the better of you and you will not be able to do the things you can when you ...

• Word Count: 1351
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• Grade Level: High School

The demographic of this magazine is men from the ages of about eighteen to thirty. ... According to the Center for Interactive Advertising, white often stands for purity, union, truth and innocence while black stands for power, sexuality, mystery, sin, and style. ... His style of clothing is entirely different from hers. ... The clothes that she is dressed in gives her a "party girl" or "bar slut" sort of style. ...

• Word Count: 1366
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He uses a dark, poetic writing style to incorporate himself into his stories to expose the evil in him, which is also a reflection of the evil in everyone. ... Two years later, Poe wed his cousin, Virginia Clemm, but kept it secret because of her young age and their relationship. ... He creates a variety in his rhythmic style by adding pauses and he uses consonances and assonances to keep the sound of the poem from becoming boring and monotonous ("The Raven" 207). ... The killer is more concerned with proclaiming his sanity than trying to prove innocence of the crime. ... Poe incorporates h...

• Word Count: 1485
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• Grade Level: High School

This poignantly beautiful story of a group of American and English expatriates on a sojourn from Paris to Pamplona represents a dramatic step forward for Hemingway's evolving style. ... Ernest Hemingway had a different style of writing than the other authors in his time. ... This quote is referring to Hemingway's strong and complex style of writing. "Hemingway writes about the dreariness of everyday life but it is interesting at the emphasis on drinking during the age of prohibition" (3). ... While the characters are realistically drawn, each has a sort of representative ...

• Word Count: 2109
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• Grade Level: High School

In The Picture of Dorian Gray Beauty is connected with Innocence. ... Lord Henry's and Basil's devotion to Dorian's beauty is actually a kind of admiration for his unspoiled goodness and childlike innocence that both of them have already lost. ... "Donning a jacket imaginatively tailored in the shape of a violoncello, he quickly became known for his unconventional style of dress No wonder the satirical magazine Punch mocked him mercilessly. ...

• Word Count: 2278
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• Grade Level: High School

September,11th served as the wakeup call showing that we were not living the utopian style life that it seemed. ... From a young age, citizens are subjected to hypnopaedia, in effect sleep training, where life morals and lessons are taught through unconscious memorization. ... Gone are the old times where innocence and ignorance were a way of life. ...

• Word Count: 1077
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• Grade Level: High School

I will comment on their style of writing and the techniques they use to present their characters. ... A common problem that a child of Paddy's age would have to face is the break up of their parent's marriage. ... This portrays his innocence. ...

• Word Count: 2123
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Plath's use of imagery and the style in her poems have intrigued the thoughts of many critics. ... Plath's unique style is interpreted by Caroline King Barnard Hall in "Sylvia Plath, Revised- as being child-like. ... The style of "Daddy- has consistent end rhyme and rhythmic regularity from beginning to end. ... She's talking about her father and saying how his innocence separated him from everyone else, including her husband. ... At twenty years of age she tried to commit suicide to be with her father, since she couldn't find anyone as trustworthy as him. ...

• Word Count: 2858
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• Grade Level: High School

The Walden book review praises Kozol on his style and storytelling. ... He uses the children brilliantly because their innocence allows them to remain pure and hopeful even though they are in a slum area with little hope for a bright future. ... Also people will feel sympathy toward the youths because of they are innocence. ... (Kozol 101) However, Kozol then reveals that Guliani soon cancels 11,000 jobs for children of their ages, as well as afterschool programs in which children would be safe while families work. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The poem shows the uniqueness of life and the power that is possess, "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees". ... "The spire cranes" is a very fantastical poem with the fantasy style birds coming to life. ...

• Word Count: 2553
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• Grade Level: High School

LMU Munchen - Institut fur englische Philologie - Sommersemester 2002 OS/HS: Australian Cinema Seminarleiter: Prof. Dr. Graham Huggan Autor: M. Endres, Connollystr.3, D 80809 Munchen Abgabetermin: 31.08.2002 Seminararbeit Australian national cinema 1970-2000: A window to the chancing face of Australian national identity and self image Contents 1. National cinema - an introduction S. 04 - 06 1.1 "The Hollywoodisation- phenomenon S. 03 - 04 1.2 Australian national cinema S. 04 1.3 S. 05 - 06 2. ...

• Word Count: 7147
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• Grade Level: High School

Although he tried to write a novel as early as age twelve, his parents urged him to study the natural sciences. ... Golding employs a relatively straightforward writing style in Lord of the Flies, one that avoids highly poetic language, lengthy description, and philosophical interludes. ...

• Word Count: 11237
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• Grade Level: High School

1 Let us go then, you and I, 2 When the evening is spread out against the sky 3 Like a patient etherized upon a table; 4 Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, 5 The muttering retreats 6 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels 7 And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: 8 Streets that follow like a tedious argument 9 Of insidious intent 10 To lead you to an overwhelming question ... 11 Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" 12 Let us go and make our visit. 13 In the room the women come and go 14 Talking of Michelangelo. 15 ...

• Word Count: 6460
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• Grade Level: High School

I was in classroom number 102 with Mr. Harry Gonzalez who taught Bilingual Kindergarten to nineteen students. The day I went to observe one student was absent. The classroom was pretty much split equally between boys and girls and all of the students were of Hispanic descent. Mr. ...

• Word Count: 6745
• Approx Pages: 27
• Grade Level: High School