The Second Summer of the Sisiterhood is the sequal to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, its about four girls, Lena, Bridget, Carmen, and Tibby, sharing a pair of magical pants with each other while they are apart over the summer. Lena stays home this summer she has broken up with her boyfriend Kostos who she met in Greece last summer. he comes and visits her and tells her that he loves her. ... Tibby goes away this summer to a college class on photography and art. ... Throughout the summer each gurl takes turns with the pants and at the end of teh summer they all met up and exchanged ...

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Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one like to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box. ... Summers began talking about a new box, but every year the subject was allowed to fade off without anything's being done. ... It is very important while reading that you picked up the word allowed because this proves that the people wanted the thought to go away. ...

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My Reading Experience I find this assignment extremely difficult because I have very few memories of reading. ... We did most of our reading in class but light reading at night. ... I enjoyed reading for that class. ... I didn't enjoy recreational reading until the summer of my sophomore year in college. I really got into science-fiction books and read nearly six books that summer. ...

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Assignment If you want to know a literary character more fully, ask yourself, "What does this 'person' want?" Choose a character from one of your Summer Reading books and discuss how his/her desires affect his/her choices and actions. Response Dick Hickock is a very interesting man. Dick i...

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These memories made reading and writing so much fun until I hit my 5th grade year. ... In the summer of my 6th grade year I was gloating to my parents about how well I have always done on my benchmark, so they decided to make a deal with my brother and I that if we made an advanced score on benchmark in the next year that they would take us on a trip anywhere we wanted the following summer. ... This not only affected my writing but also my reading too. ... This also occurred in reading too. ... In result reading and writing has a special place in my life unlike most people. ...

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The Lottery takes place on a warm summer's day in June. ... Summers instructs everyone to hurry up. ... Summers" (Jackson, Pg. 1). ... Summers, Tessie Hutchinson fails to be on time. ... In this short story by Shirley Jackson, she writes a great deal of irony throughout the reading, in many different ways, it many examples as to what was and why. ...

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I have decided to write about 3 books I read this summer. ... So finally this summer I decided to read the Harry Potter books because since the fifth book released this summer and had some amazing sales and reviews I decided to read them. ... I will not give this away just incase you feel like reading the book. That's all I read this summer excluding the summer reading assignment. ... I recommend reading it. ...

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Hoban's "Summer Recorded" C.D. ... Whereas "Summer Recorded" remembers beautiful times now lost, and how R. ... "Summer Recorded" sends the reader more pictures in pieces than a full story. Reading the poem, you imagine yourself in a wood filled with the wonderful sounds "of a piano lingering honeyed on the air, guitars as musky fruit from an enchanted wood, and flutes a tremulous sad maidens bright with golden hair" (L2-5). ... " Summer Recorded" is a happy memory " of noon and all summer spinning slowly on it's reel" (B ....

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By including such bitter word choice Roland successfully conveys a negative attitude towards immigrants and a reading from a modern Australian would now see this racist community as rare and absolutely archaic. ... Lawler acquired success through his play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll which Biddy Allen stated in the Argus "[Lawler] has written a play so superbly true to Australian thought and the Australian stage that theatrical conventions disappear." (29th,November 1955) Lawler uses strong imagery such as "bronzed gods" ...

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Summers, the official of the lottery) but they are not successful because the conservatism of other villagers does not allow them any changes. ... Summers who has enough time and energy to devote to civic activities. ... Summers has a different attitude to this tradition than Old Man Warner but on the other side and in a certain way their opinions about the lottery are much more similar than a reader can realise after the first reading of the story. ... Summers was willing to make some changes in this ritual and to modify some elemnts of it in order to modernize the whole tradition, he would ...

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I worked with my mom who is a pediatrician for the past three summers, and I got to observe her interact with her patients. ... In addition, I worked at Kumon Math and Reading Program, a program designed for children to improve their math and reading skills through completion of assignments, that I corrected. ... The summer has always been a time of relaxation for me, but this year it serves a more important purpose. ... This summer I have the chance to see the same things I saw as a camper, but through the eyes of a counselor. ...

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My kids: Summer, Jessie, and Will have always been and will always be the crowning achievement of my life. ... The year when Summer started junior high school, she was so frightened the first day; she refused to get off the bus. ... All that came so suddenly in the technology world, I was too caught up in reading about the new gadgets, it seemed as though a teenager could do the computer diagnostics and even programming that only professionals like myself would have done 30 years ago. ... My peak was the age of 28, I had just finished the summer games for the Conroe Athletic Commission, and...

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He is reading to an older woman, who has senile dementia. ... During the summer holidays, Allie and her family would go down to their summer house. ... They fall in love that summer, and spend memorable times together. ... The older man is Noah, and that woman he's reading to is Allie. ... Usually summer romances don't last. ...

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"The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth...Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation." " - David McCullough, 1776 Some things I learned about US History that I had no knowledge about before reading the book "1776,"by David McCullough were: 1. ... Before reading 1776, my knowledge of King George III was pretty slim, so anything read about him was something learned. ... Chapter 4 McCullough's Title: Fateful Summer My Title: The Importance of New York Throughout chapter 4, it continuously stresses the state of New York. ... Therefore, the rest of the chapter is...

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I was very excited about reading this book, more so than the rest of the assignments, because I consider myself a huge baseball fan. ... We scheduled a trade series with a Dominican Republic team that our coach saw in a tournament the summer before. ... They handed us our first loss during that summer, but playing fundamental baseball. ... After reading Sugarball, I am very disappointed that I didn't get to see the Dominican fans of this game, and how they love their teams. ... Some might relate the community spirit of the Dominicans to the Cape Cod summer league in New England. ...

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I have no idea what I was doing in the summer holiday. In this essay, I am going to analysis the work I did in the summer, the experience that I try to correct through mark scheme, and thought that I read my peer work and peer did for me. First of all, I want to go back to the time that I was doing my summer assignment. ... Firstly, I marked my own summer assignment. When I were reading the mark scheme, I felt like I lost most parts of the answer or I answered the question from different perspectives. ...

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After reading that part, we're asking ourselves why are the boys collecting stones and guarding it? ... After reading that part, the question that comes to our mind is "Why are the women afraid of the pile of stones?". ... Like for Mr.Summers, we could notice that "Summers" refer to the season of Summer, which is usually considered by many a season of hapiness, energy, sun, birds...etc. ... ]", "a round-faced man" seems to be refering to the sun (round and circular), which is the first thing that we think about in Summer. ...

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When Lincoln leaves San Francisco to spend their summer in Japan, he was thinking that he was going to spend all of his summer practicing Shōrinji Kenpō (A martial art). But once he arrived in Japan and meets his host family, he discovers that won't just be spending his summer practicing Kenpō. ... One of the strategies that helped my comprehension was summarizing because it helped me think of what I was reading, it also made me make sure that I actually understood what I was reading. ...

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While,Summer recorded plays the happy memories of a time now long lost in the past. ?... Summer Recorded? ... Summer Recorded" sends the reader more pictures in pieces than a full story. ... Summer Recorded? is a happy memory of noon and all summer spinning slowly on it's reel? ...

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Book Report - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Introduction: I was standing in a bookstore in Los Angeles, browsing the shelves for a book that was required for my summer course in. ... My summer course teacher discuss the book with us during the lesson which really helped me to get through the book easier. ... Most people stopped reading books long before they were ever burned. ... I've always appreciated books, but after reading Fahrenheit 451, I cherish them. ... I had to read this as a summer school assignment and I honestly enjoyed reading it. ...

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Reading the book "Into the Wild " by Jon Krakauer, a story about Chris Mccandless who goes off into the wild and decides to live his life according to the what the world dishes out at him comes across many tribulations that test his strengths and encouragement to continue his journey across amerce and eventually to Alaska, and then after reading this book as a class we watched the movie "Grizzly Man"" which was a story about Timothy Treadwell, a man who decides to spend his summers by going off and living in harmony with bears in Alaska to express his feelings on why bears are not our enemies...

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During the first summer at Shiz, Elphaba begins to work as an assistant for a talking goat, known as Doctor Dillimad, a professor at Shiz, as he is obsessed with studying the evolution, "inner-purpose" and flesh of Animals and humans, in an attempt to prove to the Wizard that they are equally the same deep down inside and put an end to the currently segregated Oz. ... At the end of the summer, Elphaba receives a letter from Galinda, which we later learn is forged as a sick joke, inviting her to come stay at her lake house for the last few days of summer break. ... The play gave me a...

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In order to gain an understanding of independence and responsibility, I have held summer jobs in the preceding three years. ... My first summer job was at the Moonlite Drive In Theater. My second was at McDonalds, and my past summer job was at Dairy Queen. ... I hope that by reading this you will also see that I am prepared to embark on my journey to a new world, the world of Berea College. ...

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I also enjoyed reading in elementary school. I didn't like reading on my own because I was always self-conscious about reading aloud all throughout elementary. ... After reading a couple of books she recommended I got more interested in reading and finding books on my own. ... Today, I really enjoy reading. ... The last book I read was this summer, about a teenage girl who got herself into a bad situation. ...

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He uses the season of summer as a basis of comparison to the person he is writing about. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? ... Shakespeare states that this person is even more beautiful than a summer day. ... Shakespeare also says that summer goes by too quickly. ... When reading this poem, it initially does not come across as flattering as the other sonnets. ...

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