No Characters How many characters are involved in the action? Four. Clara‚ her mother‚ Stan and the head mistress. Who are they and what do we learn about them? (age‚ appearance‚ family‚ situation‚ background‚ education‚ feelings‚ thoughts and so on) Clara: Clara is a teenager who went to the high school. I don’t think that she have many friends‚ I do not even know if she has. Often she hangs out with two girls from her class. But are they real friends? Her parents are divorced and she lives
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Clara Josephine Wieck was born on September 13th‚ 1819 in Leipzig‚ Germany. She was born into music‚ as her whole family growing up played an instrument. Her father Friedrich Wieck made a living as a first-rate piano teacher‚ and it was he who taught Clara and her mother Marianne. He even gave lessons to Clara’s future husband‚ Robert Schumann. After Clara’s parents divorced after eight years of marriage‚ she went to live with her father at the age of five. Friedrich Wieck saw the talent his daughter
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Dani Gardner AP English October 4‚ 2009 Morning in the Burned House Margaret Atwood is a contemporary Canadian poet‚ story writer‚ and essayist whose Canadian background is present in her writings. “February” is a poem in which death is discussed and pondered. Despair‚ death‚ and destruction seem to be the theme of this poem. The poem opens with a single word in the first sentence: “Winter.” With this being the first thought in the poem it gives the delusion of cold but happy times for many
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GOLDEN GOBLET SUMMARY Chapter 1: 1.) Ranofer dreams of his father Thuthra‚ a great goldsmith who had died. 2.) Ranofer had hoped to become his father’s pupil one day but instead he now had to live with his half- brother Gebu who starves and beats him. 3.) He is forced to work-k as a porter‚ to sweep out the goldsmith shop instead of working as an apprentice. 4.) Ranofer makes friends with Heqet a new apprentice. 5.) Ibni‚ a Babylonian porter has Ranofer delivering wine to Gebu and Ranofer
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Clara Barton Clara Barton was a true pioneer and humanitarian. She is a well known woman in American history due to her participation in the Civil War and her founding of the American Red Cross. She became a teacher at a time where most teacher’s were men. She was one of the first woman to ever be hired by the Federal government and was an inspiration for all women during her lifetime and forever after NATURE Clara Barton loved nature through her natural ability to nurture. As a very caring and
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Understanding Poems‚ Prose and Plays: TMA02 Analyse a passage from A View from A Bridge that runs from “Eddie‚ moving up steps into doorway: Well‚ I’ll see ya‚ fellas” on page 5 to “Beatrice – her hands clasp at her breast; she seems half in fear‚ half in unutterable joy: They’re alright?” on page 8 of your edition of the play. The extract took place in the beginning of the play in the first act before the arrival of Beatrice’s cousins. In this part of the development of the play‚ we are about
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Section A: Fiction Assignment This is an extract from the‚ Midnight’s Children‚ by Salman Rushdie. In this extract‚ the protagonist‚ Saleem Sinai shares the history about his birth and the significance of why his birth is considered as a historical event. He explains how on the 15th of August 11947‚ he was born but at the very time of his entrance into the world‚ India gained its independence from the British. The rest of the extract is focused on his concerns and feelings about sharing his monumental
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construction. More insula was put between the apartment buildings to prevent future fires from spreading quickly. Nero also instituted new regulations for how buildings needed to be built to prevent future tragedies. A big part of Nero’s restoration and rebuilding project was to build himself a brand new palace which he named Domus Aurea‚ “The Golden House.” Plans for this 200-acre Greek style palace stretching from Palatine to Esquiline Hill included architectural feats and a 120 Roman foot high bronze
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Reading: Extracts from Kant’s Critique of Judgment Throughout Critique of Judgment‚ Kant (1888) analyses the four reflective judgments. These are the good‚ the agreeable‚ the beautiful and the sublime. The agreeable is a subjective‚ personal form of pleasure‚ whilst the good is an objective judgment. For Kant‚ an act is either moral or immoral‚ nothing in between. Furthermore‚ the agreeable is not a universal force‚ unlike the beautiful. Yet the sublime‚ as opposed to the beautiful‚ can not
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Character drawing The text under analysis is an extract from the novel "The passionate year" by James Hilton. It concerns the problems a new teacher faces in his class. The protagonist of the extract is a new Master at school for boys‚ Mr. Speed‚ who in fact represents the generalized image of all young teachers. The antagonists are the boys united by the author into the assembly which acts as a whole. Hilton singles out only two pupils‚ “a bright‚ rather pleasant-faced boy” and “a lean‚ rather
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