Genre: Mystery and historical Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Summary: Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood is the first novel in the Phryne Fisher mystery series. If that name sounds familiar‚ it’s because the novels have become a rather successful television show that can be streamed on Netflix. I will attempt to not make this a compare and contrast between the novel and the show‚ but I highly suggest giving Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries a try if you have a Netflix account. The plot of the story
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Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer Evelyn V. Johnson Grade Levels and Audience: Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence (1994) edited by Marion Dane Bauer presents issues of adolescence and homosexuality in a valuable anthology of short stories. Christine Jenkins (1994‚ June)‚ reviewing the book for the School Library Journal congratulates the authors for successfully conveying “the very mixed emotions that accompany the acceptance of sexual difference at any age that
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“Am I Blue?” In the essay‚ “Am I Blue?” from Living by the Word in 1986 by Alice Walker‚ Walker explains how animals can display similar emotions to that of humans. She brings attention to her readers on how to understand that an animal can experience the same emotions as humans do. Walker compares her emotions to a horse by the name of Blue. Feeling ‘blue’ is also known as feeling sad‚ which is one of the emotions Walker recognizes in Blue. Walker tells a story of how this horse goes through an
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BLUE COLLAR BRILLANCE Are blue collar jobs less appreciated? Mike rose‚ thinks there are no fair share of recognition among people in the working class society. Rose was stressing his point to say that‚ in as much as the white collar job (workers) are perceived in the society as higher educated people it brings conflict among us. Also making the minimal jobs look less valuable and cripple our ability to talk across cultural divides. Blue collar jobs
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A Patch of Blue Elizabeth Kata 5/2/06 145 pages A. This story takes place in the nineteen-sixties. It is an urban setting. The story takes about two weeks. B. The point of view in this story is third person. It is third person because it say worlds like me‚ my‚ and I. C. The story starts out by telling us what has happen to Sileena. Sileena is the main character‚ she is 18 years old and she is blind. She is blind because about thirteen years ago her father had come inexpediently
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Sharon M. Draper captures the life of an average teen through the realest form of unreality exceptionally well. November Blues tells the story of November Nelson and Jericho Prescott after a horrible accident at their school. November Nelson is an average 16-year-old social butterfly in high school; she had a “perfect” life‚ a devoted boyfriend‚ a caring mother‚ and was well on her way with her “perfect” plans after high school‚ when her life took a turn for the worst. Her father died when she
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The main theme of the documentary “ The Blue Planet” was basically survival of the animals of the ocean. In the film they showed all the different environments and how these animals live in them. They showed what the animals eat and how they live and survive in their habitat. The film was separated in to seven different videos. Each video was about a different ocean environment. The ocean world‚ the arctic‚ the open ocean‚ the deep ocean‚ the coral reefs‚ the tides‚ and the coasts. A portion of
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People want to be successful in their business‚ and they use different marketing strategies to improve their business. In chapter 15‚ the author of The Blue Sweater Jacqueline Novogratz talked about A to Z Textiles in Arusha‚ Tanzania‚ and how they sold their product. In chapter 11‚12‚ and 13 our business book‚ Contemporary Business‚ explain about marketing and how it works. A to Z Textiles used several marketing strategies to sell their net. The first strategy that A to Z Textiles used is product
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The Blues is a musical form and genre‚ which originated in South America within the African-American communities. It originated near the end of the 19th century‚ and was rooted from spirituals‚ work songs‚ field hollers (which are very similar to work songs‚ but some do not have lyrics)‚ shouts and rhymes. The blues form in jazz‚ rhythm and blues and rock and roll; and each is characterised by a specific chord progression‚ the most common being the twelve bar blues. The blues notes‚ are played or
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This response letter belongs to Courtney Zampino and her story “Blue Eyes”. The story is about a seventeen year old‚ London girl name Estee who is excited for Halloween and prepares to go trick or treat with his little cousin‚ but she has a strange encounter with a blue eye‚ possible vampire guy. What the story is trying to say is the dangers of curiosity‚ as Estee had the impulse to take a picture of the blue eye guy‚ endangering her life by what she revealed in the picture. Now let’s begin talking
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