Historical Fiction Narrative My name is Elizabeth‚ I’m 15 and I’m moving to the West with my family. We are going there for something called the Homestead Act. The Homestead Act is when you get 160 acres of land for free for 5 years. During the 5 years‚ you must grow crops. But my father is going to the West for mining gold. It’s May 8th‚ 1861. Tomorrow my family and I leave for the West. We are going by railroad. It will be my first time going on the railroad. I’m so excited yet nervous. I
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girl‚ Clarisse‚ he must hide and run from a government that hunts him down “So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected‚ and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous”(42).. They are both works of dystopian fiction where controls are used to keep their inhabitants ignorant and “civilized”. However when it comes to contrasting the types of controls used‚ we can say “Minority Report” uses more technology to limit civilian’s everyday life by inserting machines
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Fiction: Pulp or No Pulp? Directed by Quentin Tarantino‚ Pulp Fiction (1994) follows the stories of four groups of people associated with the mob‚ led by Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames)‚ and their struggles with faith‚ loyalty‚ and morality. As Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) do the dirty work for the mob‚ they come across all sorts of moral dilemmas. The story‚ told in four different points of view‚ is about the characters everyday lives‚ leading up to each of
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Nicole Nick Mr.Burlingame AP LA 3 4th hour October 30‚ 2014 Non-Fiction Essay #1 Rhetorical strategies are everywhere especially in the book As the Caged Bird Sings By: Maya Angelo. There are several examples of repetition‚ rhetorical questions‚ dialect‚ and similes but there are three that really stood out to me allusions‚ alliteration and parallelism. Just by knowing and understanding what these three rhetorical strategies were it made the book a lot clearer and I could understand it more. By
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Elements of Fiction 1. Settings * Place and time where the story takes place * It sets the mood of the story 2. Characters * Elements that move in the story *Classifications of Characters* * Protagonist – good guys * Antagonist – bad guys * Round – complex‚ many sided * Flat – one to two traits only * Static – sake sort of person from the beginning till the end * Dynamic/developing – undergoes permanent change * Major – main roles * Minor – supporting
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GENRE: New Journalism & Creative non-fiction Definitions from The Free Dictionary: New Journalism “Journalism that is characterized by the reporter’s subjective interpretations and often features fictional dramatized elements to emphasize personal involvement.” “A style of journalism originating in the US in the 1960s‚ which uses techniques borrowed from fiction to portray a situation or event as vividly as possible.” Creative non-fiction For a text to be considered creative nonfiction
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ENGL/101 Liberty University Online 10/14/2013 Introduction The environment has always been a major problem for the entire world. This is a problem is because of the excessive abuse of mankind to the planet by exploiting‚ wasting and draining the natural resources this planet has have to offer. Mankind has s have taken for granted what the earth has to offer us and which God gave to this planet to take care of for all the generation to come. As‚ the whole world can see now that this
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There had been a long term rivalry with them because they wanted to be famous for taking down a non-human guild. They had attacked and challenged them to PVP many times. He sneaked into their guild base and disable most of their traps for his guild mates. Then while his guild mates were spawn killing their guild back to level one they he broke into
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Prologue The dense undergrowth gifted comfort to the pads under her auburn tinted paws as light shone from the stars of silverpelt onto a freshly wept tear‚ which caught the light briefly and rejected it moments later. It trickled down a broad white face struck with the dead song of pure and utter sorrow. Thick‚ once exuberant fur ran in the breeze like the tawny-furred rabbits on the moorland. Claws were unsheathed to assist the brawny feline in coming to an instantaneous halt. A bundle of fur
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“Fatty? ARIANA!” She was just standing there frozen in a gaze‚ as if she was trapped in a different dimension. I put my put hand on her shoulder and she jumped in shock. “Yes!” That was a strange reaction. Then again… “What do you want this early in the morning?” “I came to see you‚ silly‚” she smiled‚ taking a step closer to the doorway. “May I come in?” Can you come in? There’s a few unanswered questions here before we get to the discussion on why I don’t want you in my house. “How do you know
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