...“Morgiana did you see Hakuryuu?” Alibaba had asked the fanalis girl. You could tell by the way she looked something was bothering her, something had to have happened between her and the Kou prince. Before you could make a move to try to comfort the girl she spoke softly. “..Hakuryu..” she started seemingly trying to put the words together, “..Departed from the city already and is heading alone to the Tenzan plateau.” Glancing at your two male companions it was clear the two were surprised by this news. Of course you were as well, though Alibaba had seemed to take it the worse. Aladdin then continued to question Morgiana about it as Alibaba’s body began to shake a little. All three of you were surprised when he started to walk off towards where Hakuryuu had been heading, saying he needed to talk to the other prince. You tilted your head to one side as he spoke of someone named Cassim, you had only met the trio as well as Hakuryuu when they arrived in Sindria. The air around the former prince of Balbadd had changed. Aladdin and Morgiana must have felt it too as they then began to try to calm him down, while you, the newest member of the group watched on. If you felt you knew how you would have also been trying to calm him down.Morgiana had then grabbed the blond and begged him not to go, this act alone seemed to calm Alibaba down. Aladdin then asked if it was okay for him to go instead, to which the fanalis girl didn’t object. “Aladdin please let me go too,” you said as...
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...10/28/12 English In the story “Girl” there is a variety of things being said and it is easy to tell this is a mother, daughter relationship going on. I say that because most of things being said by the mother are things that usually only a mother would tell her daughter. The speaker in the story is the mother and the listener in the story is the daughter. In the story the mother is giving plenty of advice and telling the daughter what is appropriate and what is not. I can tell that all the information the mother was giving was too much for the daughter to take in because the daughter did not really say much at all while the mother was lecturing her. The life being described in the story “Girl” is really loose and care free which is why the mother is being strict on the daughter. The location is important because that is where most of the things that the mother is warning the daughter about are happening. I somewhat sensed that about the location in the story when the mother said “On Sunday try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming”. This quote showed me that there is something that the mother does not want the daughter to experience in that location. The advice the mother is giving in the story “Girl” is strict and controlling. The mother is not suggesting that the daughter take the advice, she is actually demanding that the daughter listen to her and take the advice than suggesting that she do so. An example would be when the mother says “Wash...
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...English Homework. 19/2/14 During times of great hardship and sadness throughout the U.K, there lived a young 9 year old boy named AJ. He had a rough childhood, growing up on the streets of a depressing and crime-ridden council estate in South London, only having his mother and older sister to take care of him (since unfortunately his father was a victim to a seemingly normal gang murder, with 5 members of the notorious crew named ‘Terror Squad’ being the identified suspects of a reported vengeance attack. After it was confirmed that AJ’ father owed the crew’s kingpin leader £10,000 after losing a bet, in which he fled and tried to evade not paying. But time finally caught up with him and he’s now gone.) However, AJ’ sister (a couple of years later) left the still grieve-stricken family in order to head to university in York and pursue her dreams of becoming a successful nurse for hospitals not just in England but around the world. All in order to hopefully enough gain money to send to her beloved family and rescue them from further painful and suffering times laying ahead of them at the hands of cold-hearted criminals in the rough council estate known as Trey Lane. Due to AJ’ father and now his sister both leaving the Stewart household, AJ’ mum has now resulted to using addictive and life-threating drugs such as cocaine and heroin all in order to supress the pain and worrying of problems her and her family will face such as debt, crime and even death threats Who is there to...
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...Chemistry Part 3: “Toe” [pic] Cite: http://healthinfood.blogspot.ca/2010/09/whati-is-nicotine.html Maida Khalid Ms. Rymal SCH4U1-01 October 26, 2012 Product: Nicotine (C10H14N2) Structural Formula 2-D: [pic] Cite: http://openi.nlm.nih.gov/detailedresult.php?img=2978920 It is a bicyclic (2 fused rings) compound with a pyridine cycle and a pyrrolidine cycle as indicated by the above diagram. Structural Formula in 3-D The following shows a step by step demonstration on how to create the chemical structure for nicotine. The diagrams also include the bond angles between the elements. **Side Note*** The bond angles for a pyridine are all in the 120 - 122 degrees range and the bond angles for a pyrrolidine are all in the 109 - 115 degrees range. [Not all angles are shown, since they are all within the range provided.] Legend: Blue Ball = Nitrogen atom [pic] Grey Ball = Carbon atom [pic] White Ball = Hydrogen atom [pic] 2 sticks joining atoms = double bond 1 stick joining atoms = single bond Angles shown with: Green curve Step 1: Pyridine Ring Structure [pic] Angle: 120.0º between nitrogen, carbon-carbon double bonded. The angle is approximately the same throughout the entire structure [120 - 122 degrees range]. ...
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...The Ministry of Magic denies the existence of extraterrestrial life. It is this “conspiracy”, to which we have devoted our lives to uncovering. Discrepancies are paradoxical and the only thing to trust is magic, when reasoning fails. Though the pitch is littered with skeptics, we still remain dedicated to the search; the fact is however, much is unknown and there are obstacles at every turn. A larger scheme is at work, and maybe not those from other worlds, but someone amongst us. Nevertheless, the truth is out there. The room was dark, filled with unease. A chilled tension that Malfoy couldn’t help but feel in his skin, a sense of foreboding. Curtains drawn painfully shut, casting only menacing slits of light into the office. Silhouettes of assembly danced behind the desk, but only a red butt of light was to be seen as he was seated into the only available chair. As to which side was more apprehensive for the meeting remained to be seen. After the war the strain between relations had lessoned but that Death Eater stigma still remained. The harsh lighting wasn’t assisting the matter either, casting dark shadows and sharp flittering light about the space, highlighting the dark mark on his pale arm. He’d stopped hiding it at this point, what was the use? Everyone one knew what he’d done and trying to deny that would seem cowardly. No. Let them look. A desk lamp adorned the cherry stained desk, the only concentrated source of light, making this meeting feel more as if an...
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...Married Woman’s Complex In 2012, the University of Chicago conducted a “well being” study and it was found that 97% of married people are “happily married”. If this study were conducted a century ago, 97% probably would have reported being unhappy in their marriage, the majority being women. These dutiful wives and repressed mothers were not allowed any personal or intellectual freedom. These oppressed, married women are the types of characters feminist author, Kate Chopin, revels in. During the production of “Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening” at Emory University, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese said Chopin was “nonetheless a woman who took women extremely seriously, she never doubted women’s ability to be strong.” The characters in Chopin’s short stories’, “The Story of An Hour” and “The Storm”, are unfulfilled and desire more in their marriage. They have no validation in life and may have husbands that love and provide for them yet they are still unhappy. They are all invested in their marriages and families yet at some point realize that they ultimately yearn for a single and free life. Louisa Mallard ironically felt more liberated when she learned of her husband’s death and Calixta and Clarisse are involved with the same man yet want different things from him. In such few words, Kate Chopin is able to illustrate the oppressiveness women of the late 1800s felt in their marriages. Louisa felt more obligations in her marriage than love. Chopin describes her as, “young, with a fair, calm face...
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...The poem, “Elena”, by Pat Mora and the story, “No speak English”, by Sandra Cisneros show how immigrants that move to the United States suffer emotional problem. First of all, in the poem Elena, Pat Mora talks about how a Spanish mother feels undereducated because she is not able to understand or speak English. The mother feels upset because she cannot communicate with her children. The story no speaks English by Sandra Cisneros, talks about a lady moving to America and having trouble communicating with others. She feels embarrassed because her baby boy learned how to speak English and she could not. She starts crying because she is unable to speak English. Second, she tries to learn English by herself. She feels embarrassed, but she knows it is more important for her to learn English. She spends most of her time listening to Spanish radio. “She sits all day by the window and plays the Spanish radio show and sings all the homesick songs about her country in a voice that sounds like a seagull Cisneros, no speak English”. Finally “Embarrassed at mispronouncing words, embarrassed at the laughter of my children, the grocery, the mailman. Mora, Elena”. She fells embarrassed about her pronunciations so she locks herself in the bathroom and study’s the thick words. Even though it is hard she will not give up learning. She does not come of the house and, she fells lonely because she does not speak English very well. In conclusion; the poem and story talks about how person from other countries...
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...families move to a new country, they are often confronted with a new culture. For the grown-ups this can be exciting to meet a new alternative world other than the one they are used to. But the children on the other hand, often experience the upheaval to be much harder than their parents. Where the parents have a strong anchorage in their old culture and religion, the children have not learnt much about their culture and their religion, which makes it more likely for them to be manipulated. When they are growing up in a society which teaches them one culture with one set of norms and at home they learn another where they have to behave and appear different. This is what the story pictures is about: The story is written by a Pakistani woman; Rahina Khan, and it takes place in the 50’s in a town in England. The story is about the girl Amina. Amina goes to a school where there appears to be mostly British students. This conclusion comes from the fact that they draw pictures from the Christian bible, and that the teacher does not know that Amina is not allowed to draw pictures from the bible. Amina is a young Muslim girl. A guess is that she is around eight years old, based on the facts that she does not know that she is not allowed to draw the Jesus child and they apparently spend a lot of time drawing in her school, so she is probably going in 2’nd grade or so. Amina lives with both her parents in the back room of their shop, where she spends most of her time alone with...
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...to have a better life. My dad was a surgeon in Germany , he studied about 7 years not including the studies he did in his home land. Coming to Canada he had to start all his studies all over again since he had a German medical license not a Canadian medical license. These stories below are written by the authors what they had to face coming to Canada. The first story was by Isabel Vincent “ finding a nationality that fits” Isabel write a story about how their Portuguese family who tried to become “Canadianize” in order to be accepted in society. We often are left on our own to find ourselves in Canada. After a period of time living in Canada, may lose his/her family traditions, beliefs and values and it changes a person. Now, I see more young teens that came here with such innocence being involved in things that they shouldn't be, just because they want to take part in the “in-crowd” like bad habits like smoking, drinking and most of all drugs. Second story is by Mehri Yalfani “ Newcomer” is the story about a girl who was client in class because she didn’t know how to speak English. All she would say is Yes or No to every question her classmate would ask her since that was the only word she knew in English. This...
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...Journal, Part 2 Number 2, 2009 Readability (based on noun frequency) 8.5–9.5 years Overview “Monsoon Flood” tells the dramatic fictional story of a young boy who is swept away in a flood and then rescued by an elephant. Told in the present tense and the first person, with vivid use of language, this is a story you may want to read aloud (or have students read aloud) for enjoyment and to prompt creative responses before doing any detailed examination of the text. This text includes: • some compound and complex sentences, which may consist of two or three clauses; • some words and phrases that are ambiguous or unfamiliar to the students, the meaning of which is supported by the context or clarified by photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and/or written explanations; • a straightforward text structure; • figurative language, such as metaphors, similes, or personification; • some abstract ideas that are clearly supported by concrete examples in the text or easily linked to the students’ prior knowledge; • some places where information and ideas are implicit and where students need to make inferences based on information that is easy to find because it is nearby in the text and there is little or no competing information. Reading standard, end of year 4 Options for curriculum contexts English (level 2, language features) • Show some understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts. The arts (level...
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...Tiffany Scott English 1020 Dr. Hall 5/10/2015 The House on Mango Street The house on Mango Street was based on the life of a little girl named Sandra Cisneros. She wrote the book based on her life growing up. She was born in Chicago in 1954 where she had six brothers and was the only daughter. Growing up, her mother and father moved Cisneros and her brother around a lot. “Because we moved so much, and always in neighborhoods that appeared like France after World War II, empty lots and burned out buildings, I retreated inside myself” Cisneros said when explaining all her moves as painful experiences. She found a way to deal with her life by writing. This led her to writing the book, The House on Mango Street. As the story began the writer explained why she had her name. That girl’s name was Esperanza. She was named after her great-grandma. She never knew her great-grandma but she would have really like to have known her. She never liked her named but it did have some meaning to it. Other than it being the name of her great-grandma it also means hope in English and sadness in Spanish. She then explained how they didn’t always live on Mango Street. Before that they lived on Loomis and before that they lived on Keeler Street. But even before that they lived on Paulina Street and that’s all she can remember. This book is written in a very different manner, it seems a lot like a personal diary. The technique of the book is according to a story told from a girl's point of view...
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...Analysis The text I am going to comment on is a story by William Somerset Maugham. He was a prominent English writer, and he is best known by his short stories. When Maugham described people and places in his stories, he did it mostly from his personal experience. The text under consideration is an individual story «A friend in need». The plot of the story is concerned with situation when Burton the Young was down and out, and he asked Burton the Elder to give him a job. The action takes place in one English office, where Burton the Elder was a prosperous businessman. Such is the plot of the extract. The story is first person narration. The main idea reveals that every person does his own fade. The author lays particular stress on the fact that everybody must achieve good life. The opening paragraph presents appearance of one of the main heroes in this story. All the details of his appearance speak of Burton the Young’s temperament and style of life. In this story we can observe the conventional sequence of compositional elements: an exposition, a gradual mounting of tension with final climax, denouement. Exposition presents the time, the place of the action and the circumstances which influence on the action as « he came to see in my office one day and asked me for a job». We found gradation as « he didn’t move. He went rather pale. He hesitated for a moment. He was down and out. If he couldn’t get something to do he would have to commit suicide». And repetition presents...
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...Theme Shapes a Story By Trina Carr English 125 Instructor: Clifton Edwards Running Head: Theme page 1 Like many people who haven’t studied literature, if someone asked me what the theme of a story was, I would have given a synopsis of the story detailing the actions and characters in it. As I have come to learn, theme is much more than a distilled retelling of a story. Theme gives a story a deeper meaning. The theme focuses the story and is the behind the scenes force that propels the story forward. In other words it gives the story purpose and shape. “Theme will attempt to hold all the elements of your story in place. It is like a cup. A vessel. A goblet”(Bain, T 2010). In this paper will attempt to explore how literary elements like symbolism and character build and affect the narrative of theme in a story. One element of a story’s theme is symbolism. Symbolism according to our text is something that has a literal identity but also stands for something else (Clugston, R 2010). For an example the five interlocking ring of the Olympic symbol. Clearly they can be identified as ring, but when they are colored blue, yellow, black, green and red, they become much more. They are a symbol of the pinicle of atheletic compition and excellence. Symbolism in literature gives the writer’s work texture. It is one element that is used to provide the reader with a deeper meaning of the story. It is what makes...
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...Compass and torch The story is written by, the English writer Elisabeth Baines. Elisabeth lives in Manchester and have been a teacher for some years back. The story was published in 2003 in a book, with many other stories that she has written. The story is about a boy, who is going on a camping trip with his father, which he has not seen in 4 years. Which parents are divorced. His mother has gotten a new boyfriend who’s name is Jim. And he has moved in with them. But the boys’ father also wants to spend some time with his son. So the boy and his father are going on a camping trip on a mountain. But when the father comes to get his son, he starts to discuss with the boys’ mother, she don’t want her son to go, she think it is too dangerous. And the boy is searching for his torch. And he hears them when he goes down the stairs. But then they are going to camping. And when they start to walk on the mountain, they find’s out that they forgot their compass. And the boy freaks out, but then there is a man who has a compass. And then they continue to walk with the man. And they then reach the top of the mountain. And after that they keep walking. And then they are setting their tent up. In the story we don’t get many details about the boy. We don’t even know his name. What we do know is that he is 8 years old, and that he haven not seen his father for four months. The rest of the characterization is made by reading between the lines, because there are a lot of indirect impressions...
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...Laquedia Kelly English 1102 MWF Professor Wruz 20 March 2014 EVERYDAY USE Alice walker Alice walker’s “Everyday Use” is a story about the differences of a family split between tradition/heritage and the allure of dreaming big. Told in 1st person point of view, the narrator is the matriarch of the family dubbed “mama” throughout the story. The narrator’s name is never revealed because her role as speaker, through lengthy inner monologues, diminishes the “true focus” of the story which is on Maggie and Dee, “Mama’s” two daughters. So, to counteract this problem the author doesn’t give Mama a name thereby shifting focus to the interactions between the daughters. Race plays a major part of this story as the author capitalizes on the idea of heritage; however, she does not let it overwhelm the plot, slowly dropping subtle hints about their appearances/ race using situations of happenstance. She writes when explaining a thought, “Who can even imagine me looking a white man straight in the face” (590) and “Don’t ask me why: in 1927 colored ask fewer questions than they do now.” when explaining her reasons for never having a proper education. We find out over a span of a couple paragraphs that the characters are black. Two worlds clash as the narrator guides us through the lives of her two daughters who are completely different, one living a life of “golden opportunity” the other a life of simplicity. The story opens as Mama is awaiting the arrival of her eldest daughter...
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