So Much to Tell You – Exposition The author‚ John Marsden‚ of the novel ‘So Much to Tell You’‚ definitely explores the concepts of growth and change. These concepts are illustrated through the main character‚ Marina‚ who transforms from an antisocial girl suffering from ‘anorexia of speech’ to a more self-assured and happier‚ outgoing character. Marina’s development highlights her growth and change. Her transformation was documented through a journal; a book where she journals her thoughts and
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Lisa Wilson Strick’s article “What’s So Bad about Being So-So?” states that‚ in today’s society‚ people are too serious to the point that no one does things just for fun‚ but only for competition. There are children who are acting like grown adults instead of children because they are so stressed out about being the best in everything that they do. Friendships are being ruined because no one is safe from today’s competitive edge. Strick’s article tries to instill the thought that we need to go back
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So Much to Tell You is Marina’s story of how she is able to heal and develop into a confident young woman. Marina‚ a young teenage girl who is troubled by her father’s traumatising actions‚ now has to recover and overcome her tormenting past. Marina has been severely affected by her history and she stops communicating with others. Throughout the novel‚ Marina becomes more mature as she slowly improves in her behaviour‚ emotions and her relationships with family and friends. The author‚ John Marsden
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Enter Without So Much as Knocking What is the poem about? The Poem follows the journey of a man’s life from birth into society to death. It shows how he and his family conform to society as becomes just like everybody else taking a critical view of modern day society. The signs throughout the poem indicate that we‚ as humans‚ are told how to live. Beginning with the birth of the child in the hospital‚ comes home to hear Bobby Dazzler on the TV‚ where the baby is seen as lucky because he doesn’t understand
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The idea of conformity is present throughout the poem Enter Without So Much as Knocking. How peoples live their lives is predominantly decided by what our parents think is right and wrong. Our belief system cycles around our parents and we learn from a young age that our life has order. We all want to be the same‚ so we try and have the same characteristics as other families. “Like every other…household‚ his included one economy-sized mum... with two other kids straight off the Junior Department
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“So much information is now available on the Internet (even if some of it is inaccurate) that intelligence collection in the traditional sense is now no longer necessary”. Do you agree? What kinds of information might or might not be available? As a decision-maker would you agree to give up intelligence sources? Introduction Governments “run “ on information. They need to be constantly aware of what is occurring around them‚ and how this could affect their interests‚ in order to take
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and it’s disadvantages‚ as do any other personality traits that a person would have. For example‚ a person could be vulgar and uncouth. Many people find this kind of behavior offensive of course‚ but some may find it relieving that a person could be so honest to how they feel by not holding back. In the matter of me being too nice‚ I have found that through high school and my time in college I always have been seen as the "nice guy." Everyone has always seen me as the nice guy. Sometimes it is
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The Impact of Social Networking in Life The article “I’m So Totally‚ Digitally‚ Close To You (Brave New World of Digital Intimacy)” (2002) is written by Clive Thompson‚ who is also a blogger and columnist. The author aims to explain the users’ attraction of Facebook‚ Twitter and other forms of “incessant online contact” through his text. Since social networking has become a nearly ubiquitous aspect of human contemporary life‚ Thomson has effectively illustrated the invasion of the social media into
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Don’t Fit In‚ Stand Out Have you ever tried to be so perfect at something and it ended up going all wrong? I have. In the essay “So What’s So Bad About Being So-So?” by Lisa Wilson Strick (205-207) she makes the point that being perfect doesn’t always turn out the way you hope. I completely concur with her. Perfection can often be a wonderful thing‚ but for me‚ perfection caused me to have a very low confidence and so it became a vice in my life. Rather then being myself‚ I was too concerned
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How do you feel if you work overtime every day? You feel under stress‚ want to go home immediately‚ or exhausted? Nevertheless‚ all of these answers are different for Americans. Many of them prefer to stay at the workplace rather than going home for various reasons: some feel more comfortable at the workplace than at home‚ others like to earn more money‚ but this is causing pain for them and their family. Firstly‚ many Americans feel more comfortable in the workplace. Nowadays‚ most of the employers
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