Based on what I read it sounds like to me that Scrooge is very grumpy. I say this because in the text I spotted the words, “Anyway, Scrooge turns out to be the grumpiest grumper that ever grumped.” Another thing I spotted in the text were the words, “And also he's pretty greedy.” One way out of a million ways I would describe Scrooge is that he is pretty sluggish and selfish, he, Scrooge only cares about himself and not others. He is an unpleasant friend to be around because of his attitude. According
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happy, I have no doubt!’... The mention of his name cast a dark shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes.”(Dickens 30). Mrs. Cratchit saw no importance in toating for Scrooge’s happiness because of how he treated Bob Cratchit, but Bob was still thankful to be payed and showed Scrooge grace. Meanwhile, Scrooge realized that the Cratchit’s are very grateful to have food on their table even if it is not much. overtime , scrooge hears how much of a shadow he casts upon the family
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Tiny Tim, for example, is the son of Bob Cratchit, who works for Scrooge. The family is poor and Tiny Tim uses a crutch. Tiny Tim’s disability is not known, however it is known that whatever it is can be fatal if not treated. Another misconception of disability displayed by Tiny Tim is that
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The Lorax and “Easter’s End” are both examples of how societal decisions and structures can destroy the environment. In The Lorax, Dr. Seuss creates a world in which the decisions made by an entrepreneur sends the environment past the point of reparability, meanwhile in “Easter’s End”, a scientist examines the possible cause of Easter Island's decline in population due to lack of food and resources caused by the over-farming of the land. The Lorax and “Easter’s End”, while both dealing with the destruction
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Watergate Scandal (The Alienation of the Youth from Government) We have had forty-three different presidents. Almost all of the presidents had done something to blemish their presidency, by accident or not. Richard Nixon’s presidency was blemished from the beginning, but this blemish may have saved the Republican party for the future to come. This incident was known as the Watergate Scandal. The scandal revolves around a place known as the Watergate Hotel. This was where the Democratic party’s
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Through the writing of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, the reader experiences the transformation of a man who once was gloomy and sad but then finds his meaning in life. Scrooge travels to view his past, present, and future self with the help of three ghosts. The red mansion described is a symbol for the inner workings of Scrooge’s character. Without delay the description of Scrooge’s morality is prominent as Dickens writes, “They left the high-road, by a well remembered lane”(Dickens,20). First
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Mr. Scrooge was thought as through the text as the grinch of Christmas. He was very stingy when it came to money even for charity. This miserly old man needed to see the errors in his ways. He is met with 3 ghosts to help and sees three major events. These events include his co-worker Cratchit, nephew Fred, and his own death. In many stories, the character usually goes from an unfriendly antisocial character to a kind person you want to be around. That is exactly what happens to scrooge and these
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a renowned novel about an old stingy man changing for the better with help from 3 supernatural beings. If I was creating a flag based off of A Christmas Carol the most important element of the flag would be the earth with a circle around it. At the end of stave 3 when two children come out of the Spirit of Christmas Present’s robe he says on page 77 “ This boy is Ignorance… beware this boy, for on his brow I see written which is doom, unless the writing be
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We find that many songs have a rhythmic poetry. Many ways this lives today is through indie and rock bands. These songs represent today’s popular topics, feelings, and emotions of the songwriter’s life. The songwriter represents his life and situations by his use of metaphors, idioms, and similes. The band, The 1975, is an indie rock band started in 2002 from Manchester, England. This band combines the dark yet youthful themes of sex, love, and fear with indie rock and pop rock music. This band took
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music, dance, invention and politics. From this generation birthed some of the greatest musical artists of all time among them is Bob Dylan. However, Bob Dylan was not born an idol in fact, his success can be credited to changes in society that influenced Dylan to write music that would in turn induce changes within society itself. Robert Allen Zimmerman, later known as Bob Dylan, was born on May 24, 1941 to Abraham Zimmerman and Beatty Stone Zimmerman. He was born in Duluth, Minnesota; however, at
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