approximately 6-8 weeks. This type of thematic approach allows teachers to expose their ELL students to grade level academic content while maintaining their motivation to explore topics that are of interest and relatable to them. This textbook is part of a grade level series from the Santillana’s Spotlight on English curriculum which offers ESL textbooks from grades K-8. B. Intended Audience The intended audience for Santillana’s Spotlight on English textbook are ELL students who are entering Kindergarten
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Defamation Of Character: Sara Jones v. TheDirty.Com By: Yolandia Bond Park University Abstract This research paper will explore some of the ins and outs of what “defamation of character” is and what legal liabilities can come from defaming a person or persons. We will also explore the Communications Decency Act (CDA) as it comes to what responsibility, if any, is held by proprietors and curators of websites that allow/encourage slanderous conversation. We will be examining Sarah Jones v. Dirty
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make a contribution, some small and some large, to the resistance. In Children of the New World, Assia Djebar explores the actions taken by various women in the hopes of aiding the nationals in their fight against colonization. Her “choice of female characters range from traditional housewives like Amna and Cherifa to educated, more seemingly ‘modern’ women’” like Hassiba. Such characters contribute to “ what Djebar sees as the more fundamental revolution of undoing patriarchal norms” (Channah 1)
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Duffy's poem "Standing Female Nude" is an ambiguous dramatic monologue of an unfulfilled proletarian woman. The poem explores the fight for power between the two characters, the ‘nude’ woman and the male artist. It emphasises the issues of social and gender separation (objectification of women) in France and explores Marxist philosophies. The model prostitute tries to “make a few francs”, which suggests that is all she is worth, while the painter tries to create a piece of art to become a great, “serious”
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meaning of facing death is explored in The Fault in Our Stars in the lives of Hazel and Augustus throughout the book; in a way to push them forward to live, and make a meaning out of it. In the book both Hazel and Augusts were trying to find a reason to live. For Hazel, she could have easily just given up and waited to die; instead she let herself live and fall in love with Augusts which was really hard for her. In the book Augustus told Hazel “I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying
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of life for people for the better or worse. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury gives a story to the reader which explores the life of Guy Montag - the protagonist, whose nature and way of life was altered by several characters that he encounters throughout the course of the novel, most notably- Clarisse McClellan. As brief as her appearance in the novel was, she proves to be one of the major characters to have a disruptive effect on Montag throughout her direct interaction with
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modern fiction in which fabulous and fantastical events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains the 'reliable' tone of objective realistic report, designating a tendency of the modern novel to reach beyond the confines of realism and draw upon the energies of fable, folk tale, and myth while maintaining a strong contemporary social relevance * When a character in the story continues to be alive beyond the normal length of life and this is subtly depicted by the character being present
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the relative merits of the directorial decisions as regards characterization, setting, costume, and dialogue. The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an 'objective correlative'; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked. (Eliot, 1919) William Shakespeare’s
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identifies how one who feels powerless enjoys in turn having control over others. It is up to an individual to take the time to recognize the cases of repression that occur daily around them. Two such pieces of media, “The Matrix” and George Orwell’s 1984 explore instances of governmental oppression. They use victimized groups, dreary settings and thought control to convey a strong sense of persecution. Overall, an immoral government illustrates the effect of oppression on its citizens. Firstly, victimized
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The use of back lighting made the focus on Belle clearer which gives me the impression that the director wanted to show the dissimilar of dead and living highlights to detail features of Bella’s rosy cheekbone. By using low-key lighting, this allows the film to have huge amounts of shadow which create a lot of intensity in the overall storyline of the film. The director’s choices of lighting create depth in the structure giving each character a mysterious appearance that was noticeable (Goodykoontz
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