1928 Winner Take Nothing 1933 “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” The Snows of Kilimanjaro 1935 To Have and to Have Not 1937 The Green Hills of Africa 1938 “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber” For whom the Bell Tolls 1940 The Old Man and the Sea 1952 awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 A Moveable Feast 1964 posthumous C. Themes – driven by action expressed through minimalism and realism Fighting against the odds or against difficult forces Struggling against mighty
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Dream Chaser Ferdinand Once upon a time, in a gear city lived a young gear called Ferdinand. He was made by the best material in the world, his body was strong, shining and in a perfect shape of a circle. Therefore he could trundle so fast that no one in the country was faster than him. Like most of the good runners in the gear world, Ferdinand began to look forward to going to the gear haven, where people said that there lived all the best runners in the world. The only way he could reach
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accumulation of experience, distinguishes man from the animal which has to rely on instinct. Yet, for most people 'science' means a number of abstract subject such as physics, chemistry, biology and mechanics, to quote a few, which HAVE TO be learnt as part of 'education', yet which seem to have little bearing on everyday living. How wrong this is. Our way o life is completely dependent on science and its fruits surround us on all sides. The Renaissance first taught man to realize the value of scientific
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to convey through the words he very carefully chose in the writing of this poem. The first eight lines take on a very slow laborious tone which actually physically slows the reader down and sets the mood. Using a phrase like ‘Bent double like old beggars’ in his description of young men in their prime, really gives you a proper idea of the effect this battle has had on the soldiers. ‘Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge’ allit eration of the letter ‘k’ gives the line
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Answer keys LEVEL 5 PENGUIN READERS Teacher Support Programme The Mayor of Casterbridge Book key 1 2 a carriage, wagon b cottage, barn c donkey, bull d landlady, mayor, stepdaughter, magistrate e affection, relief, grief a False: When he is young, Michael Henchard sells his wife to a sailor. b False: Henchard stops drinking because of what he did when he was drunk. c True d False: Henchard can be kind but he has a dark, dangerous side to his character. e
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created he can clearly see that as God created the heavens and the earth all that was need was His mighty breath and His bold and authoritative voice. God spoke and things came into existence. Ed Hindson and Gary Yates (2012) states “the fact that man is the pinnacle of God’s creative work is evidence from His designation as God’s image bearer” (Ed Hindson, 2012). God is the creator of all things therefore making Him “The Source”. When one seek to discover the nature of God “Genesis portrays the
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to prove that all Americans didn’t receive its blessings. Frederick Douglass mentioned in the beginning of the saying how proud he was of America. “I am glad, fellow-citizens, that your nation is so young. Seventy-six years, though a good old age for a man, is but a mere speck in the life of a nation. Three score years and ten is the allotted time for individual men; but nations number their years by thousands (Douglass 462).” Before he start expressing how he really felt, he still spoke about
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all heroes are strength, courage and loyalty, but add the superhuman strength and lineage and you get the epic hero. Beowulf, from the very beginning of the poem, is seen to be super human, and is known by Hrothgar, the King of the Danes, and the man Beowulf has come to help (Helterman 2; Sharma 251). It is understood that Beowulf is of noble lineage, and his father Ecgtheow had come to the aid and sworn allegiance to Hrothgar when Beowulf was but a child (Beowulf 372-373). It is because of this
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“Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image according to likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish in the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth’” (Gen. 1:26). Which was the last thing created on the 6 days of creation. In Chapter 2, God creates man before everything else. “In the Day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet
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One afternoon in the stifling August heat, forty year old artist James Clarence Withencroft begins to draw and sketch. James states, “the room, though door and windows were open, was oppressively hot, and I had just made up my mind that the coolest and most comfortable place in the neighborhood would be the deep end of the public swimming bath, when the idea came”(Page 92, line 17-20). James sketches an image of an extremely obese man, just after his court sentencing. James rolled up the sketch
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