It is my belief that the way to achieve this is by giving students a voice in the learning process, and by assisting them in finding connections in the curriculum with their own life and interests. ... The practical problem we faced in terms of choosing short stories by writers of Europe, England and America is enormous. ... Once again, as is the case with short story selection, I came up with my own selection of topics that they found exclusionary. ... One day I got them read excerpts from a short story while explaining them following their turns. ... It is nearly impossible on the part of an...

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Heller and De Bernieres uses the same background theme; However, though contrasts are apparent in their portrayal of war, their use of humour is employed differently also. ... The bombing of their own air base by Milo, Natley's whore attempting to murder Yossarian for bringing bad news, and his conversation in chapter 2 with Clevinger: "They"re trying to kill me." ... "Then why are they shooting at me?" ... However, in Catch-22, the situations that the characters are put through are more outrageously bizarre, which in turn lead to the illogical arguments that plague the story thr...

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Aside from Marty's references to Joseph Smith's revelations, he tells Smith's story as he challenges the facts. ... Joseph Smith may have told and preached his true experiences, yet we will never know, and the fact that his story is so controversial, yet his practice still lives on today, is a highlighting reason to my choice of this person. 2. ... The ministries questioned his viewpoints and stand on being reborn, and he was soon not welcomed into towns that did not give into his preaching's. ... The central and uniting principle of the Quakers was the theme of priesthood ...

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Bless Me, Ultima At the beginning of the Book, The author associates Antonio's concern about the changes in his life to his culture. ... Her approach gives Antonio the freedom to apply his understanding to his own decisions. ... The dream could mean that Antonio is reluctant to give up his innocent, childish idea that his brothers are infallible and unchanging. ... The legend of the golden carp contains the same kind of moral themes contained in Catholic theology. The story involves sin, punishment, and forgiveness. ...

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At the end of the conference, a skeptical journalist, Beckworth, remains unconvinced and tells Colonel Kirby, "Your brainwashed sergeant didn't sell me," to which Colonel Kirby replies by asking if the journalist has ever been to Southeast Asia. ... The Green Berets give aid to and protect the villagers while fighting for democracy. ... As The Deer Hunter progresses, the story focuses on the disillusioned and shattered communities the three men face. ... Cimino gives the Vietnamese two roles in the movie; they are either savages participating in Russian roulette matches or refugees fleein...

• Word Count: 3681
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The variety of passionately displayed themes, interactions, and events presented in The Bluest Eye provide an understanding of Toni Morrison's inner thoughts and beliefs which were highly impacted by her various life experiences. ... Often, her stories discuss a character trying to understand the truth about the world they live in. She writes about several different themes including good and evil, love and hate, beauty and ugliness, friendship, and death. ... Morrison is careful to explain her story. ... It opens our eyes to the challenges of the past while allowing us to experience an ab...

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His explicit accounts and recollection and details from other prisoners give an in depth scope to let the reader know what life really is like in the system. ... But the largest theme of this book by Santos was that the documentation of his life inside the wall of prison with the largest theme of prison existence being survival. ... You, the reader, can't tell me that they aren't money hungry and I'm sure those numbers have risen since this book as been published). ...

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In the second chapter, Freud deduces that a man forgetting the world "aliquis" – more specifically his attempt to recall the word from a foreign language – can be attributed to a line of accompanying thoughts that are all themed by a woman's menstrual cycle, further exemplifying the unconscious' role in the retrieval of a forgotten word. ... Freud furthers his view by pointing to dreams, and giving a glimpse into the main premise for Interpretation of Dreams. Freud discusses errors in speech, and gives them the same attributions as the previous errors. ... Stayi...

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There are two dominant themes that play an important role in the book. The first theme is the structural conditions that impact and marginalize these women and men on a daily basis. The second theme is the search for respect and the reclaiming of dignity by these men and women. Through these themes Bourgois (2002:17) portrays that the people living in El Barrio are known to blame the victim for their misfortune of being the underclass of the United States population and "living in the inferno" due to their inability to compete with the classes above them who are more able of succeeding sinc...

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The Crown wanted the Maori to give the right to purchase their land in return for their own property being guaranteed to them and having the same rights as any of the British migrants. ... Williams owned over 11,000 acres of New Zealand land and wanted to protect this land (Basset, Sinclair, Stenson - The Story of NZ, 1998) which could be a motive as to mistranslating the Treaty of Waitangi. ... He continues to say " On inquiring Turoa whether he understood what he had signed, he repeated to me, that my Queen had sent him a blanket and that he had been told to make a mark in order to sho...

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Soon, a personal interest developed as he would read stories or play games with her to a point where he would feel emptiness with Clara's absence. ... During this time Friedrich would lie to his daughter about Schumann, deliberately feeding stories to her to dampen her spirits. ... If you wanted my life today, I would give it up."" ... I prayed fervently that He would preserve my Robert to me for many, many years. Indeed, the thought that I might one day lose him is enough to send me out of my mind. ...

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Soon, a personal interest developed as he would read stories or play games with her to a point where he would feel emptiness with Clara's absence. ... During this time Friedrich would lie to his daughter about Schumann, deliberately feeding stories to her to dampen her spirits. ... If you wanted my life today, I would give it up."" ... I prayed fervently that He would preserve my Robert to me for many, many years. Indeed, the thought that I might one day lose him is enough to send me out of my mind. ...

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Given this groundwork, it is apparent that memory can have a paramount and considerable effect on how events, stories, information and more importantly, history is written and passed on from generation to generation. ... The story of the internment of Japanese-Americans in the United States during World War II is an example of a memory and piece of history that has been effectively preserved and subsequently, transferred from generation to generation. ... Unfortunately, one piece of the story that is sometimes overlooked and lost in the history of Pearl Harbor and World War II is the series of...

• Word Count: 2746
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Charles Baudelaire sums up the idea of beauty and aesthetics for me, he said: All beauties contain, like all possible phenomena, something eternal and something transitory,- -something absolute and something particular. ... Human figures blend in with the natural background, the whole scene is serene, this is one of Constables artistic themes. ... Constable aims for realism and accuracy, and by doing so the theme of unity between man and nature is portrayed. ... In this context thus we can see that Constable using natures beautiful setting to address the theme of tranquil harmony between human...

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The scenery of this island reflects the theme of savagery. ... Philocetetes says as they are trying to drive him onto the ship, "are you going to herd me like a wild animal?... Heaney creates his own version: "oh ahhhhhhh8" and even refers to himself as being like an animal, "I know I look like a wild animal, don't let me scare you9". ... Odysseus tells Neoptolemus, "You are going to work out some way of deceiving Philocetetes with a story12" and persuades him to tell this story, here we can see the "play within the play13" where Odysseus has...

• Word Count: 2877
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Anderson expected to spend quality time with her newborn after giving birth to Peter; however, this was not the case as Anderson "would have liked nothing more than six months at least, not two weeks, to get accustomed to the profound changes in life." ... In 1971, the unemployment insurance program was introduced through which the federal government compensated women sixty-six percent of their total salary for duration of fifteen weeks after giving birth. ... Anderson compares the service that women provide a country when they give birth to a child with the service that men give in war, stati...

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Students waving American flags, chanting, and pulsing together, occupied every table, grill, and second story window. ... By demonizing terrorists, we give ourselves permission to dismiss their perspective completely. ...

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There is no doubt that Loti presented Morocco as an extremely exotic, mysterious, wild country, and Loti even almost apologized in the story for his overuse of the adjective, ˜old', but said that it was justified since everything in Fez was just that. He would comment on the dirtiness of his surroundings, compare royal cavalry-men to monkeys, and at one point in the story even refused to enter the Jewish quarter of Fez as he detailed the ugliness of not only the streets of this quarter, but of the people residing there. ...

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Research and Critical Reflection In 2010, OFSTED produced a report about creative approaches to teaching and learning with a focus on raising standards. They visited 44 schools, 19 of which were secondary schools that had received good or outstanding from their most recent inspection. Where creative...

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The Role of the Media in Australia Select one of the three major themes in Australian thinking about media,communication and information identified by Osborne & Lewis (1995) and explore the ideas that underpin it. ... Osborne and Lewis state that "[a] preeminent theme in Australian thinking about the use of communication is the extent to which it has been viewed as a form of control." ... One aim of the alternative press, aside from providing another view on current political and social news items, is to give a voice to minorities, such as Indigenous and Aboriginal peoples, women,...

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J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looki...

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The use of the repetition of the 's' sound, sibilance, of the words 'ice' and 'freezingly' gives a sinister air to the situation and also adds to the already cold tense atmosphere between the two women and reminds us of other evil fictional characters such as 'The White Witch' for example or Cinderella's evil stepmother. ... This first person narration shows Jeanette's childlike naivety and endears the reader towards her and her story. ...

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(Eco, 1984) Eco explains how the historical fiction writer must become immersed in historical evidence: to tell a story, "you must first of all construct a world, furnished as much as possible, down to the slightest detail." ... As he remarks, he gives his audience, "Latin, practically no women, [and] lots of theology," partially rewarding their attention by also providing "gallons of blood in Grand Guignol style" (Eco, 1983). ... Discussing the "mannerist," or hierarchical, labyrinth that he constructs in his novel, Eco in his "Postscript" says the following about the far more complex und...

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Very few exceptionally tall buildings are located in this area; mostly five or six story, narrow brick buildings with a longer east to west diameter than north to south, making each storefront quite narrow and seem as though one is intimately connected to the other. ... As I am enjoying this beautiful spring day in 2014, it is very hard for me to imagine what life was like for the people who lived in this area in the 1800's. ...

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The reason why I chose these two people - especially Emma Goldman - is to be found in the extraordinary impression their lives had on me. The dedication with which they tried to spread their point of view, the willpower and strength of character, they called upon to convince others of their beliefs as well as the utter committment to their cause and the way they devoted their lives to the realization of their dream of a better society without being discouraged by harrassment or cruel twists of fate really impressed me. ... I wanted him to love me, but I never knew how to reach his heart. His ...

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