Connor Gallagher Mr. Dalton English Honors Freshmen 12 February 2013 The Romeo and Juliet Story Romeo and Juliet is a play created by Shakespeare a very long time ago‚ but this play has been adopted into many other movies‚ plays‚ songs‚ and even phrases. In class we watched Romeo and Juliet‚ West side story‚ and Princess Bride. These are all renditions of the original and are unique in their own way‚ West Side Story is a musical‚ Princess Bride is a medieval story‚ and Romeo and Juliet is a
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This Charming Man May 22nd‚ 1959. Steven Patrick Morrissey was given to us by the lord himself. Placed into Manchester‚ England. A man who could express the disdain feelings of a 1980’s world youth through his lyrics‚ and his gravity defying ducktail hair. Mostly being known as the frontman of the Smiths; he truly defined indie/new wave music permanently‚ As it still affects the interests of others to this day. Morrissey
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Geek charming is high school movie about a teen named Josh who made a documentary about the most popular student named Dylan. This movie does help with the struggles that students face in high school. Geek charming does play stereotypes‚ but also weakens these stereotypes. Dylan was outgoing‚ successful‚ and popular. She had nothing but positives out looks on her life and treated everyone good as well. Many students admired Dylan and yet she still had enemies as well due to the running for blossom
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Synopsis Feeling dissatisfied from the traditional approaches‚ I found shelter in Reader Response theory‚ which acknowledged not only my role as a reader in giving meaning to the text but also considered me a scholar who had the right and duty to stand in judgement on the text. In the first chapter the rise of English is traced‚ in order to approach the methods in the teaching of English which were employed when English was established as an academic subject in the universities of England‚ which
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n part II‚ chapter eight of Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader‚ the first-person narrator Michael describes reading the account written by a concentration camp who had survived along with her mother‚ the soul survivors in a large group of women who were being marched away from the camp. He says‚ "the book...creates distance. It does not invite one to identify with it and makes no one sympathetic..." The same could be said of The Reader. The book is written in such a way as to distance one from the characters
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Reader Response to "They’re Made Out of Meat" "They’re Made Out of Meat"‚ written by Terry Bisson‚ is a breathtaking short story. The level of fluidity achieved by this unique author is unbelievable given the facts of the plot. The narrative‚ which consists entirely of dialogue between two characters‚ was written with such an artistic approach that it made the text relatively unputdownable. During the entire story‚ the author brilliantly succeeds in masking the elusive reality of the storyline
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with the reader; a statement that the school of Russian Formalism would disagree with. Eichenbaum‚ Schlovsky and other scholars would argue that the audience has little to no relation with the text and therefore‚ cannot be a vessel of meaning for a literary work. For formalists‚ the form of the literary work creates the meaning that readers desperately seek. However‚ there is another school of literary theory that would argue against the Formalist thought; the school of reader-response theory.
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these actions seep into an individualfs psyche unknowingly. In effect this passes through memory and becomes sub-consciously buried within a personfs behavioural patterns generally. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink explores the concept of a young mans subconscious desire for a woman whom he gcanft remember to forgeth (1Memento) as she is so deeply inlaid within his soul. Critically acclaimed as gA formally beautiful‚ disturbing‚ and finally morally devastating novel. From the first pagec [it]
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SUMMARY OF FORGET ME NOT The movie starts with a teen‚ named Jenny‚ an arrogant‚ egotistic‚ stuck up mademoiselle who has absolutely no respect for her mother. She is with Karla‚ her schoolmate‚ the friendliest in their school‚ the most acquainted of all of them. She (Karla) is presuming her (Jenny) faith in the far future using gambling cards‚ which to my surprise; they are not using Tarot cards. Karla said that Jenny will marry a fine‚ rich man‚ and they will have five kids. Jenny responded
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Reader Response 1: Mother Tongue by Amy Tan Discusses the way she and her mother use English to communicate. Give specific examples from the reading to explain their interactions in English. The main purpose of this paper is to focus on the linguistic differences and the challenges of cultural translation as a barrier‚ on the other hand the power of storytelling as a bridge. Amy Tan wants to let the reader know that languages influence our lives. Tan discuses in the story the difference between the
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