An Extract from “George’s Marvelous Medicine” By Roald Dahl GRANDMA Now you heard what your mother said‚ George. Don’t forget my medicine. And just try to behave yourself for once while she’s away. You can make me a nice cup of tea for a start .That’ll keep you out of mischief for a few minutes. One spoon sugar and no milk. It’s not sweet enough. Put more sugar in. Where’s the saucer? I won’t have a cup without a saucer. And what about a teaspoon‚ if you please? I’ll stir my own
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create vivid images in the readers mind. i do agree with this statement. Roald Dahl has used many narrative techniques such as imagery‚ vocabulary and humours illustrations. Georges Marvellous Medicine should be read by all students‚ because of all the techniques and key features used. Georges Marvellous Medicine is a story about a young boy who’s tempted to do “something” about his so called “grandmother”‚ and by something he means searching around the house collecting all kinds of horrible ingredients
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Good Morning/Afternoon Mrs. Heerschop and 7.3. Today I Will be presenting my poem about George’s Marvellous Medicine. This story is a about a boy named George who wants to create a medicine to change his Grandma into a better person. George starts searching in the kitchen to find the right kind of saucepan that he can use to start his medicine off in. He finally finds the saucepan that’s he needs until he hears Grandma’s voice‚ he then tells her that he is doing nothing and then it goes silent. He
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1. (Extract Text from Image) Available Options There is great demand for extracting text from image files‚ and various procedures exist for such extraction. Apart from commonly available OCR software‚ there are several open source options available‚ and even free online websites. You can upload your image file to these sites‚ they extract the text and send the file back to you in your chosen format. Of course‚ you can also write your own customized OCR in programming languages such as C or Perl.
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How does Cormier create impact and atmosphere in this extract? Cormier creates atmosphere and impacts upon the audience in this extract. He does this predominantly through the language he uses‚ but also the sentence structure. This extract is a flashback to a war scene which Francis is involved in. The war is a vital part in this novel‚ since Cormier was inspired to write this novel by the 50th anniversary celebrations of the D-Day landings. The Americans were drawn to war after the bombing of
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Stylistic analysis of the extract from “HARD TIMES” by Ch. Dickens. 1. The extract under consideration comes from “Hard Times” written by Charles Dickens. The author was the well-loved and prolific British author of numerous works that are now considered classics. In a whimsical and unique fashion‚ Dickens pointed out society’s flaws in terms of its blinding greed for money and its neglect of the lower classes of society. Through his books‚ we come to understand the virtues of a loving heart and
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Medicine from the Sea Derek Bunkofske Conservation Ecology ENVS 201 Charles Cole Sea Changes: Medicine from the Sea This was truly an amazing video that really made me realize just how amazing this planet really is‚ along with the special human beings that inhabit it. I know that sounds a little corny‚ but I don’t really know any other way of putting it. So many questions start to creep into my head after seeing something so incredible come from something that has been on this earth for
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Postmodernism involves not only a continuation‚ sometimes carried to an extreme‚ of the coutntertraditional experiments of modernism. Art became a form of expressing ideas‚ political context was very strong in few cases. A movement (in novels) away from the apparent objectivity provided by such features as : omniscient external narration‚ fixed narrative points of view and clear- cut moral positions. It was a time when new liking for fragmented forms‚ discontinuous narratives and random-seeming collages
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Analysis of the extract from “Heartbreak House” by Bernard Shaw The text under review is the extract from the play “Heartbreak House” by B.Shaw. The author is the greatest satirical dramatist‚ who marked the beginning of a new period in the history of English drama and revolutionized English drama in content and form‚ where he exposed the vices of the society he lived in and condemned the hypocrisy of bourgeois marality. The functional style of the text can be defined as belles-lettres
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Section A: Fiction Assignment This is an extract from the‚ Midnight’s Children‚ by Salman Rushdie. In this extract‚ the protagonist‚ Saleem Sinai shares the history about his birth and the significance of why his birth is considered as a historical event. He explains how on the 15th of August 11947‚ he was born but at the very time of his entrance into the world‚ India gained its independence from the British. The rest of the extract is focused on his concerns and feelings about sharing his monumental
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