Red From Green Malie Maloy, 2009 The summer she turned fifteen, Sam Turner took her last float trip down the river with her father. It was July, and hot, and the water was low. Hardly anyone was on the river but them. They had two inflatable Avon rafts with oaring frames—Sam and her father in one, her uncle Harry and a client from Harry’s new law firm in the other. In the fall, she would be a sophomore, which sounded very old to her. She’d been offered a scholarship to a boarding school back East
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Leah Smooth 10/11/12 1st period Short Memoir The Park Tragedy One hot summer day, I was left at Delaware Park, in New York. It all started when my family and I decided to have a picnic. They were having fun, talking, laughing, and eating. I was having fun eating ice cream, playing with my cousins, and my favorite thing to do was swing on the swing sets. At the time I was 5 years old, so swinging on a swing set, was like a teenager riding on
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Literary Devices and Terms Literary devices are specific language techniques which writers use to create text that is clear, interesting, and memorable. Alliteration - repeated consonant sound at the beginning of words or within words; used to establish mood and rhythm in a story; true alliteration has three words beginning with the same sound (two words beginning with the same sound would be called alliterative) Examples: bucking bronco; miserable morning; Bed, Bath, and Beyond Allusion
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the sun and escape into space. Solar energy is sometimes called radiant energy. These are different kinds of radiant energy emitted by sun. The most important are light infrared rays. Ultra violet rays, and X- Rays. The sun is a large sphere of very hot gases. Its diameter is 1.39x106KM. While that of the earth is 1.27x104 KM. The mean distance between the two is 1.5x108KM. The beam radiation received from the sun on the earth is reflected in to space, another 15% is absorbed by the earth atmosphere
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neighborhood is called Prospect Street. Only 2 kids live in the block, Allison and the narrator, so they have to be friends whether they like it or not. Allison is 10 years old while the narrator is only 8, so Allison is a kind of role model to him. A day like any other, where they almost crash, the narrator hears a laugh and turns his head to find a small girl. They smile at each other, though the peace soon being disturbed by Allison. She calls the girl nigger and scares her away. The girl tries explaining
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and I finally arrived in Durango, Colorado. After two everlasting days we were about twenty minutes from our final destination where we were setting up camp. I had never seen anything this majestic. Once we got settled into the RV park, my family and I decided we wanted to take the trolley to town. All the little hometown stores, side by side with variety of old stores to new. We walked around in the 75 degree weather, it wasn’t hot and humid, it was cool and breezy, something Texans weren’t used
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fresco BzzCampaign Brand Evangelists Drive Trial, Sales of Growing Brand BzzAgent Copyright © 2004 BzzAgent Inc. 273 Summer Street 4th Floor Boston, MA 02210 Ph 617.451.2280 Fx 617.451.9922 1 CASE STUDY New Brand Enjoys “Ripple Effects” of Targeted Word-of-Mouth K ayem Foods, Inc., the New England company founded in 1909, offers eight leading brands of hot dogs and sausages. In response to healthconscious consumers who were looking for high quality alternatives to traditional
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” I screamed as loud as I could, running through the house heading towards the backdoor. I stopped in the kitchen, just long enough to throw my black rubber boots back on again, still muddy from cleaning out the duck pens in the barn, earlier that day in the rain. I threw on my old, raggedy, dirty raincoat and reached up on the top shelf near the back door, to grab a flashlight with one hand, and more importantly, to grab dad’s 22-caliber, long-nose pistol with the other hand. We always keep the
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expresses the desire to be youthful and be with his lover Maud Gonne. The enjambment quickens the pace; hastening the inevitability of the truth that Maud Gonne wont return his love and be with him in his old age. Yeats wonders why he still has the ‘hot blood of youth crossed long ago;’ and why he has not moved on in his old age. The assonance emphasises the outpour of Yeats’s emotions and grief and shows how Yeats
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purpose of location as a symbol (displays social class, conflict between locations, similarities and differences between characters) III. Symbol Two: Weather a. Introduce the symbol of weather. b. Explain importance of the hot summer days, rainy visit with Daisy, and the heat again during the drunken feud. c. Analyze the purpose of weather as a symbol (parallel to emotions and turn of events: heat held conflict, rain held disappointment or renewal). IV. Symbol Three:
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