Briar Rose Essay Briar Rose is centred on one woman’s Holocaust experience intermixed with the fairy-tale‚ Sleeping Beauty. Jane Yolen creates a fractured version of the tale through the use of fairy-tale elements such as a prince and the curse of a long sleep which are used to connect the readers to the horrors of the extermination camp Chelmno. The main themes concerning this novel are identity which is reflected through Gemma. Family love and loyalty‚ regards Becca and her family. Journey/Quest
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Can love be seen as something as bad as a disease? Evidently so‚ as depicted in the greek tragedy Phedre. Ironically‚ it is quite interesting how love is portrayed throughout the script as if it was evil and cursed. This‚ I believe‚ is the main theme of the play‚ the forbidden love. From reading the script‚ it was apparent that‚ Phedre‚ is the main character. Phedre‚ married to her sister’s ex-husband Theseus‚ is torn between faith and humility‚ and the lustful love for her stepson Hippolytus.
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The Vikings were people who lived from 800-1100 AD. Most of the lived in Scandinavia‚ but they also had colonies in places such as England‚ Ireland‚ Scotland‚ and many other places in Eastern Europe. The main language that they spoke was called Old Norse‚ and it has become the basis of many languages today‚ including Norwegian‚ Danish‚ and Swedish. The word Viking comes from the Old Norse word vikingr‚ which means "camp"‚ or "dwelling place". They wrote in an alphabet known as Runes. Runes were also
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Skara Brae Skara Brae‚ built approximately between c. 2000 and 1500 BC‚ is a stone-built Neolithic settlement‚ located on the on the west coast of Mainland‚ on the Bay of Skaii‚ which is the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. Many may have questions about this incredible work of art such as‚ “How was the community impacted before Skara Brae? Who inhabited it?” or “Why was it abandoned?” All of the following are very common questions. Skara Brae not only impacted the world in numerous
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My Traveling Adventure The wind hummed past my head‚ and I noticed off to my side that the sky was starting to clear and that the water surrounding me was becoming a brighter shade of blue. The features of my destination were quickly becoming more distinguishable with each second that passed. Only fifteen minutes before‚ the features coming into view had appeared as small white dots across the horizon. Looking at my small digital watch‚ I noticed that the time was 3:45 p.m.‚ five minutes away
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Kauai’s Black Sand Beach Field Trip Report Waimea‚ Kauai Kaua’i is the oldest of the Hawaiian Islands and has some of the most beautiful white sand beaches. However‚ there are a couple of spots on the island that are black sand beaches. The largest one is the beach at Waimea on the West Side of the island. Waimea beach is a long stretch of beach. At one end lies the mouth of the Waimea River and the far end goes out past the pier and towards Kekaha. It had been a few years since I had been
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How does Hunter S. Thompson present the culture of Puerto Rico as well as American Culture in his book The Rum Diary? Hunter S. Thompson’s novel The Rum Diary tells the story of Paul Kemp‚ a journalist working in Puerto Rico in the only English language newspaper in town. The book mainly documents his experiences with the violent locals‚ and possibly even more violent and alcoholic colleagues‚ as well as painting a realistic picture of the Puerto Rico of the 1950’s. The excerpt begins
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and future‚ throughout the poem every talk about death except the children. They talked about their adult lives and how they were going to change the world. “One September night a family had gathered round their hearth‚ and piled it high with the driftwood of mountain streams‚ the dry cones of the pine‚ and the splintered ruins of great trees that had come crashing down the precipice”. (Hawthorne) This quote is the first sentence in the poem it is introducing us to the family’s campfire. The author
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The Book Thief Response “Death and Chocolate” 1. The novel’s point of view switched back and forth between First Person Limited to Third Person Limited. The Prologue of the story is in First Person Limited narrated by Death. He speaks of his so called “job” of collecting souls from corpses‚ and how he distracts himself by the colors of the skies and how the colors vary throughout the day. After introducing himself he begins the story of “the book thief” a young girl named Liesel and her encounters
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Title of Speech: The History of Skateboarding Attention Getter In the 1970s California skateboarders‚ with no skate parks to practice in‚ would drive through neighborhoods in search of empty swimming pools. While pools were easy enough to find‚ however‚ empty ones were not. Many skaters began to cart around hoses‚ pumps‚ brooms and other gear so that an unattended pool could be emptied in a hurry. Skateboarding pioneer Wes Humpston on the Biography Channel (Source 1) once recalled draining
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