A place that I have always wanted to go but have never been to is Peking University. It has always been a dream of mine of living here and getting me enlightened on my life. (我们tutor说dream这个词其实不怎么好，就中国人乱用。你可以改成goal或aim)(那个应该是me，不是myself) Life in Peking University is consequential (这个小词儿太拽了，你确定它主要的常用的那个意思是你要表达的意思么？) and delightful. (这个地方把形容词变成名词就学术啦，就像of great delight) First‚ I have an access to numerous learning resources: learned professors‚ a tons of books and documents‚ many of lectures for
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Banned Books According to DoSomething.org‚ more than 60% of teens are doing or have done drugs at one time. Go Ask Alice should be banned from middle school and elementary libraries and only permitted at the high school level because of the use of vulgar language‚ the use of illegal substances‚ and the explicit descriptions of the activities being done throughout the book. One reason this book should be banned is the use of vulgar language. The foul language used in this book is not appropriate
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The book Go Ask Alice‚ originally written by an anonymous person‚ but then later discovered to be Beatrice Sparks‚ is a commonly challenged book that educates young adults about the effects of drug abuse. Go Ask Alice follows the life of a common teenage girl and her struggle with addiction and mental diseases. Therefore‚ it is a very educational book for teens for teens to learn the reality of drugs. Because Go Ask Alice does involve drugs‚ alcohol‚ and sexual content‚ it should be banned for specific
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Daddy" Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” elicits the realistic anecdote of a tattered woman’s attempt to salvage her own reality. The poem begins with a description of the conditions of which the speaker suffered throughout her maimed childhood. It also goes into detail about the relationship between the speaker and her father and how his demanding presence affected her maturation. The speaker not only explains the situation‚ but also relates it to that of World War II. She feels as if she
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In George W. Bush’s Columbia Speech the speaker uses tone and a pathos appeal to accomplish in soothing the country after a terrible accident. The president’s tone throughout his speech is very somber and very sad for the majority of the speech. “Our entire nation grieves with you. And those you loved will have the respect and gratitude of this country.” He is very sad that the astronauts on the Columbia died. The president also appeals the nation’s pathos ideals by taking verses out of the bible
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Pamella Ribeiro English 2 Mrs. Sutherland December 21 2012 How Ruth Portrays Herself In the novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Ruth wants to portray her as being better than other clones. Ruth portrays herself in this matter because she does not want to be a typical clone. This is because a clones’ only purpose is to donate organs. For example in the text it states “what you’ve got to realize‚” she said to Chrissie‚ “is that even though Tommy was at Hailsham he isn’t like
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Independent Novel Study In Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro the major themes in this book is hope‚ and free will. Hope plays as a symbol and feeling of freedom for the characters. Their curiosity is what causes their confidence to one day be free‚ but then is let down when having to face the truth that their life is set for them and that they must accept it. Free will is shown that clones are unable to change their fates as organ donors‚ but their lack of free will affects many other elements of
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perspective‚ and it alters a path than they would have expected to be on. Both Go Ask Alice by Anonymous and You Before Me by Jojo Moyes are two perfect pieces of literature that illustrate how one event can change a being’s chores in life and kill them. Once any hopes and dreams prove to be unattainable‚ life becomes an unfortunate slippery slope of self-loaf and pain; it is up to this person to get themselves out of this new
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Never Let Me Go Essay People believe that we can control our lives‚ but the fate of our lives cannot be completely controlled by us. In Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro‚ Tommy and Kathy think they can control their lives‚ until they realize that there is no deferral. Never Let Me Go is set in the late 1900’s‚ in the epigraph states of Britain‚ where humans are cloned in order to provide donor transplants. The main character‚ Kathy H and all of her schoolmates have been designed in order to
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Never Let Me Go: Reflection It is impossible to talk about the novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro in a straightforward manner. This novel though cryptic and rather dark is full of hidden meanings and powerful messages. The novel is written in a slow paced‚ carefully thought out manner that reveals a parallel world much like our own within the boundaries of modern England. The author‚ Mr. Kazuo Ishiguro has crept into the world of
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