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    Chapter 9: Night Visitors (threat of danger and Clue #3) Begins with Alex going to meet Herod Sayle. Herod is playing snooker with a footstool because he’s so short. Alex bets Herod – 100 dollars a point for Herod and 100 hours of labor for Alex. Alex wins game. Alex eats dinner with Herod. Herod tells them they’re eating goat‚ that he reminds him of Ian Rider and asks What he was doing when he was snooping. Alex wakes up at 1:30. Jumps in back of truck. Stops at beach where submarine

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    Nanking Chapter Summary

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    By 1938‚ the massacre had stopped with over millions of dollars in damage along with human flesh decorated everywhere (Chang‚ 159). Chang described in Chapter seven the damage Japan had done not only in Nanking but also along the villages outside of it. Slowly the city came back to life also the Japanese had not yet finished. Just like described in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich‚ the Japanese opened medical experiments on the Nanking citizens. While the Japanese called the human guinea pigs

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    belong can be seen in the texts‚ Romulus My Father by Raimond Gaita‚ Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin and Fiddler On The Roof by Norman Jewison‚ all which explore potential barriers to affinity. These barriers can be described as the inability to make connections due to a different cultural background‚ physical isolation and conflict caused by differing ideals‚ which frustrate one’s

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    For the Oral History project‚ I decided to interview my uncle‚ Facundo Jardón. He is a middle-aged man who migrated from Mexico years ago and has lived in Southern California for more than half his life. He is a stubborn‚ strong-willed man whose country’s poverty and crime forced him to leave behind his beloved mother‚ as well as adolescent younger brothers and sisters. Despite the drastic change in environment‚ he has come to assimilate and adopted some of the Mainstream culture expressed in the

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    ‘Romulus‚ My Father’ is an autobiography/memoir that’s all about having connections to people: family‚ neighbours‚ and friends. Connection to place is also evident; Romulus to Europe and Raimond to Australia. It is “... an original meditation on life itself: character‚ conversation‚ friendship‚ morality and the terror of insanity.” It is a reasoned‚ calm and sincere recount that has the power to bring one to tears or make them grin or laugh as they read a certain part‚ like the antics of Jack the

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    so I didn’t have to face it. But I knew I had to keep going” (Ty). This is from a survivor of the tragic Cambodian genocide that is explained by Loung Ung in her novel First They Killed My Father. The story goes in depth of her struggles during the genocide being only the age of 5. She puts on a display of strength and perseverance during her journey as a victim of the Khmer Rouge. In the book‚ First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung‚ Ung explores the idea of composure to develop the theme that

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    to save Dimmesdale is seen‚ but over time you will see the leech for its harmful intentions much like how the town sees Chilingsworth turn from the curing miracle angel to a devil like human. The setting in chapter takes place in a widow’s house near a cemetery. Dimmsdales room is full of posters regarding the sin of adultery and its

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    Growing up in the United States‚ my mother’s side of the family would annually host a day to pray for our deceased relatives. They suffered a distressing escape from the Vietnam War in order to integrate back into normal society. Despite some of my relatives say we had the fortune of a red envelope‚ numerous family members told me that the Communists caused us to suffer. At five years old‚ I believed everything they said; especially things from my parents because I was naïve. After all these years

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    Chapter Summaries Children of the Sea: 1) Two narrators in which they do not say their names in the book are in love and write to each other. 2) The female narrator in the book is mad because his father opposes her love for the man. 3) She finds out that he father gave up all his possessions to protect her from the macoutes. 4) The female narrator’s family finds out that their neighbor was killed by the macoutes. 5) The male narrator who was a member of the youth federation fled

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    girl’s accusation‚ mother forces him to apologize to her‚ although Ming is telling her the truth. After they het home‚ he writes her a note that says “I’m deaf‚ but I have my dignity.” Then‚ mother acknowledges that she blamed her son wrongly‚ but does not know how to fix it right.

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