Looking for Alaska 1.) Discuss a major conflict in the text. -One night‚ Alaska Young (the protagonist) becomes very depressed due to her forgetting that it was the anniversary of her mother’s death. She decides to leave campus in the middle of the night. To make matters worse‚ she has been drinking alcohol beforehand. This results to her dying in a terrible car crash. The book centers around her‚ before and after the crash. 2.) Explain the significance of the book’s title. -Following Alaska’s death
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One day‚ two boys‚ Jamal and Todd‚ went walking through the “Mystery Woods”. No one would ever go into‚ or think about going into those woods. Rumor has it‚ that there was a little boy‚ maybe seven‚ went into the woods and never came out. People sent airplanes and claimed there were pools of blood and trees covered in flies. There were bugs bigger than the rotting bodies that were everywhere! After hearing about this story‚ the boys were DYING to go into the woods‚ so one Saturday… they did‚ and
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Lost and Found It’s a story that many people have lived through‚ from one side or the other. You’re a child in a busy department store‚ tethered to your mother’s side by her firm grip on your hand‚ your eyes constantly drawn left and right by the colorful displays. She lets go to grab something or talk to a salesperson‚ and you see an exciting toy or stuffed animal and run to it. After playing with it for a few minutes you try to walk back‚ but your mother is gone. First a wave of confusion hits
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The Hurt Man In a town with a graveyard far more populous than the town itself lives Mat in the suburb to civilization. Even though his mother’s black mourning dresses reminds Mat that there were other children before him‚ they were never anything but small monuments; at least until The Hurt Man one day runs up to the house in seek of help. The consequence from this leads to the greatest realization in Mat’s life: That death will come to us all. The Hurt Man takes place in the fictional
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1. Everybody is liable to error‚ aren’t they? 2. Very few students are devoted to studies‚ are they? 3. Please‚ don’t waste your time‚ will you? 4. Let us go for a walk‚ shall we? 5. Fire burns‚ doesn’t it? 6. Trees are our best friends‚ aren’t they? 7. We should plant more trees‚ shouldn’t we? 8. Nobody phoned me that day‚ did they? 9. The spot is quite far from here‚ isn’t it? 10. What a pity‚ isn’t it? 11. None of you went there‚ did you? 12. Let us
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My Back Yard My back yard isn’t big; it’s not any place special‚ although it is to me. It’s a place where I can go for peace and quit. Having 4 sisters and 2 brothers it’s hard to find somewhere you can be left alone. When I go in my back yard I see ratchet‚ it’s not neat‚ there’s crap all over. Like I said it’s diffidently not perfect but the noises and the things I see back there aren’t going to be seen or heard anywhere else. I share my back yard with other creatures; there are my 2 dogs
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Mrs. Dolores Diño‚ a 67 year old woman is currently living in Parañaque City‚ together with his husband‚ two children‚ and six grandchildren. She graduated Bachelor of Science in Commerce Major in Accounting as Cum Laude from the University of the East in 1969. The school recommended her to Central Bank. She worked there as a clerk‚ which is her first ever job. Then‚ she also worked for SGV & Co. And finally‚ a comptroller from De La Salle University offered to double her salary from her current
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May 6‚ 1902 Dear Simon‚ My beloved Patroclus‚ I am writing to you in the hope that I can inspire in you a sentimentality towards my person‚ such as it is‚ and in the knowledge that the longer I remain here‚ the more I am evolving into a person I do not recognize‚ but I would like you to know me‚ the me that I am becoming‚ very much.‚ Amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus‚ remember? Well here is your venom. At 1:30 the general gave me a memorandum with regards to sending out a Tennessee battalion
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I chose to observe The Quad at The University of Alabama on Monday‚ March 6‚ 2017 from 12 o’clock to 2 o’clock in the afternoon. I thought The Quad would be a particularly interesting place to examine because of its transformative nature. Considering how The Quad morphs to fulfill the needs of certain individuals‚ groups‚ and events was one of my main focuses. I also wondered how material and non-material traces worked together to create the distinct culture that presents itself in The Quad. During
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“Life is a pit full of pitfalls designed by a devious deity for our conscious evolution.” -- Wavy Gravy Linda: When we engage in the process of making room for it all‚ there is likely to be some things that need to let go of so that we are not cramped‚ and there is space for the new to flow in. This may feel like a sacrifice‚ but what we are letting go of may just be confining images of who we think are‚ and also of who we see our partner to be. It is so easy to get caught in the notion of the
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