English 10 HP October 25‚ 2013 Rough Draft Compare and Contrast Essay Holden Caulfield and Jay Gatsby external appearance would lead one to believe that they are just ordinary. Holden is the protagonist from J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and his outward features would suggest that he is a typical sixteen year old boy‚ but in reality there is much more than meets the eye. He deceitful‚ reserved‚ and a critical human being with a complicated past that explains why he became this way. Gatsby
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Critiquing Mean Girls The film industry into one of the highest grossing within the larger entertainment sector with companies investing millions of dollars on single releases. As a result‚ there is a need for the production firms to create a trailer that intrigues the intended audience into buying cinema tickets or the DVDs for entertainment. For example‚ an investigation on how a trailer of one of the most popular movies in 2004‚ Mean Girls‚ applied art and cultural values can show how a film can
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First of all‚ a similar representation of the group of ‘popular kids’ is evident in Mean Girls and Destroying Avalon. The popular kids are known to us as the ‘A group’ from the novel and as the ‘Plastics’ from the movie. To begin with‚ the people from the Plastics and the A group are represented in both texts as the cliché or stereotypical bunch of popular people. By saying this‚ it is being implied that they demonstrate the hackneyed qualities of people with popularity. Both groups are stereotypically
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Girl in translation is a book that tell us the story of a girl name Kimberly and her mom which immigrated from China. They decide move because her aunt lives in Unites States years ago. Unfortunly they had too many difficult to beggin a new life. They live in a very bad conditions. The apartment which her sister give for shelter is dirty and old. Kimberly’s mom works for a clothing factory which the owner is her sister. Meanwhile Kimberly is a smart girl‚ she always effort too much for learn the
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morning class‚ The topic I have chosen for my PIP is the impact of sexualisation on girls. This means I’m looking at how the media and society sexualises young girls and by association‚ women‚ and how this affects girls. This topic interested me because I’ve begun to notice how quickly girls are growing up and whether it’s detrimental to their GROWTH(?). My topic question is if the sexualisation of young girls affects their socialisation. I’m also interested in looking at the sexualisation in dance
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Cowgirl Creamery makes high-quality organic and artisanal cheeses. The company both makes its own and sells other imported and domestic cheeses. Cowgirl Creamery was established by Sue Conley and Peggy Smith‚ Peggy and Sue are devoted to promoting local farmers‚ artisan cheese-makers‚ and other local businesses. In the video we could see that the company had a lot of success in the past but at the present time the company has some problems. The company has concerns with sales‚ government regulations
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When I originally saw the title of the article‚ I immediately had an idea that the selection was going to be a sob story about how someone became a dumpster diver. To my surprise‚ there was so much more to this than I thought. Lars Eighner‚ to me‚ had a sense of adventure to “scavenging”. It was fascinating to him to “acquire many things from the dumpsters.” He categorized things in an advanced system that reminded me of a computer filing system. No matter how sophisticated a system is‚ there is
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In Glaspell’s drama Trifles‚ she conveys a theme that relationships can be oppressive. Three symbols used to convey the theme are the cage‚ the rope‚ and the bird. In the drama Trifles‚ Glaspell uses the cage as a symbol to represent the marriage. About half way into the drama Mrs. Hale begins to make comments about the house‚ Mrs. Hale. It never seemed a very cheerful place. This shows a relationship between the marriage and the setting. It resembles an unhappy place‚ much like a prison; furthermore
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during this period. From the way that people are wed to the trade of human being‚ almost every aspect of igbo life is affected by the europeans. Religion is one of the more noticeable ways in which igbo society changes. At the beginning of The Slave Girl‚ every member of Ojebeta’s village is what is referred to in the book as “pagan.” As British control of Nigeria strengthens many locals begin adopting christianity. The first people to adopt christianity are those town dwellers who are relatively more
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Throughout Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok‚ the main character‚ Kimberly Chang‚ has a struggle to either assimilate or acculturate to American culture. The novel displays the benefits of both assimilation and acculturation. Kim is often bullied at school by her classmates and teacher in the beginning of the book because of her inability to speak complete english such as on pages 25-27‚ in which Mr. Bogart accused her of copying off another student just because she didn’t understand the directions
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