This was essentially a Book Report assignment that my grade 8 teacher gave me. It basically summarizes the first 5 chapters of the book Underground to Canada‚ by Barbara Smucker via Book Report format. This should be quite use full for students under TDSB Scarborough area. ==============================Novel Studies Danish KhanNovember 20th/2007Julilly: Life of a SlaveMy name is Julilly. I am a slave. I worked in the Virginia plantation‚ owned by Massa Hensen and his wife Missy Hensen‚ until I was
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How might you use the strategies for applying creativity to problems and issues in addressing this topic? The article I wrote about was about a man who shot his daughter and her mother and killed a 79 year old woman on the steps of a court house in Beaumont‚ TX. Based on the details of this article gun control would be the national political issue that could possibly be discussed. The strategy for improving things would be the best strategy to use to improve and make changes in the laws of gun control
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throughout time. History and memory are independent concepts‚ but largely rely on each other to interpret the full meaning behind a certain event. History can be anything that has helped shaped the world we live in today‚ and is generally based upon factual evidence and recordings. However‚ memories are the opinions created by each person and are normally subject to our own personal bias . The Smithsonian National Museum of American History September 11 Website is specifically designed to represent
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particular topic Interested people Information Non-narrative text type designed to document‚ organize and store factual information. Knowledgeable people to people with no or little information about a topic learners Examples Encyclopedia Dictionary References Leaflets/Brochures Those wishing to be informed Explanation Instruction Exposition Recount Narrative Explains a process or procedure; how and why something works‚ or how a procedure is carried out
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literature must provide more than factual accuracy or vivid physical reality... it must tell us more than we already know"‚ he was saying that it’s not enough for a story to seem real or be true to what we know. He was saying that it’s more important that a book or piece of literature make us think in new ways‚ experience a new perspective on life‚ or look at things from another angle. I agree with E. M Foster. We all know that a work of literature must provide more than factual accuracy or vivid physical
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emphasis which shape and define the meaning we derive from a text. The importance of the Smithsonian’s Bearing Witness to History site as both a historical and American representation causes a divergence in its purpose‚ between its obligation for factual accuracy and intrinsic support of specific cultural values. Deepa Mehta’s film Earth (1996) demonstrates the manipulation of texts to shape the meaning we derive from the past‚ influenced by our memory of the past‚ distorted by personal context. Despite
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personal stories from the events of September 11 for the public to view at any time on the internet. Loose change is a documentary by Dylan Avery which has an opposing perspective to that of the terrorists attacking America. Both texts provide a recount of an event in history. Within history there is scope for challenging the disputable facts that we have been presented with. The Smithsonian website was designed to show the American perspective and what the Americans think happened on the day
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experience by the event of the holocaust. STATEMENT→ Memory of ones past event can be expressed in various ways to highlight the emotions of that time‚ Sonia Schreiber Weitz does this in the video of her reciting a poem with a formal factual introduction. The use of the factual introduction in contrast to her poem
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is very easy to stumble upon misinformation. Opinionated websites‚ for-profit websites‚ and others may provide only one side of a given story or event. An unbiased‚ responsible source is much better to use. Say for example that I was going to recount the history of any given war. I would need a variety of sources to fully support my paper. This would allow me to get reactions from both sides of the war. I could obtain information as to what led up to it and the causes that made it begin. I could
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personal stories are written by individual people that have memories of the events that took place on that day. These memories can be very biased depending on the individual self‚ religion or culture. This bias recount of an individual’s memory of the event is published and considered to be factual history. Memory can affect history and change the way it is perceived by other people which is distortion of the truth. An example of this is “when the public institution of the Australian War Memorial tries
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