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San Francisco Mental Hospital
1,432 words1. Alice, the writer of the diary. She's 15 years old when the story begins. Her real name is not known. Mom, her mother, and Dad, her father, a university professor. Gran, her grandmother, and Gramps, her grandfather. Roger, a schoolmate with who she is in love for some time. Jill Peters, a schoolmate at her first school. Gerta, Beth, Fawn, friends she meet at her new school. Jan, Marcie, drug-users at her new school. Bill, Joe, Lane, Jacky, drug-users. Chris, a girl with who Alice goes to San ...
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Social Standing Love Triangle
1,182 wordsIt is the aim of this paper to bring forth an interpretation of the "poor people" as portrayed by three different examples of Russian literature. The Diary of a Madman, The Overcoat, and Taman serve as the sources for any assumptions and conclusions drawn out in this paper. All three of these works lead the reader to draw assumptions about the "poor person's" social status, desires, and weaknesses. In Gogol's short story, The Diary of a Madman we are entranced by the diary entries of one man. Th...
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Mary Chestnut Civil War
1,172 words... lesson, where Chesnut joined her husband. There she became caught up in the excitement of preparing for war: "Minutemen arming with immense blue cockades and red sashes soon with swords and gun marching and drilling" (Chesnut continued her diary during these hectic times, although some of the war years are not included in the records that remain. Chesnut wrote in longhand at least fifty volumes of her diary, which became a source of valuable information for future generations" (The diary was...
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Miss Prism Lady Bracknell
2,481 words... us as a worthy suitor for her Gwendolen. He just doesn't make the cut of the upper class bachelors. He isn't on the roster of the best choice for mothers to make for their daughters. Quote: "I feel bound to tell you that you are not on my list of eligible young men... "Curmudgeon" [Lady Bracknell to jack 13 ] Lady Bracknell is interviewing Jack. She asked him what he knows. He knows nothing. She is glad to hear that. Lady Bracknell is speaking to Jack of her view of education. She thinks it ...
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World War Ii Bergen Belsen
1,287 wordsOn June 12, 1929, at 7: 30 A. M. a baby girl was born in Frankfurt, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the worlds most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank, and her parents were Edith Frank Holland and Otto Frank. She had one sister, Margot, who was three years older than she was. Anne led a happy and normal childhood, and on her 13 th birthday she received a diary from her parents. It became special to her as years went by...
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Div Class Sub Title Makes Him Feel
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Bridget Jones's Diary Bridget John Diary's heroine
has first appeared in novel by Helene Fielding. In
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1. Go Ask Alice 2. 188 pages, Date of Publication:
1971, Published by Prenitce-Hall Inc. 3. There
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read it. I knew it had been a diary of teenage
girl, Alice, who was a drug addict. Many of my
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On a good day, Bridget Jones weighs no more than
120 pounds, smokes no more than five cigarettes,
imbibes no more than three alcohol units, comes up
with one or two clever ideas at the office
meeting, and checks her voice mail maybe two or
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The Diary of Anne Frank Journeying back to the
early nineteenth century, when Nazi forces
occupied Germany during World War II, the lives of
those living in this territory was spent in
constant fear and anxiety. The Diary of Anne Frank
leads readers through the harsh times of a family
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This book is a diary that goes through the last
two years of a young teenage girl? s life, who got
infected with the HIV virus after being date
raped. The girl in the book is named Nancy and she
is important enough to have her diary published
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February 2 nd, 1945 Dear Diary, I have only
several minutes to spare writing, as I am much in
need of sleep and will be awakened at 2: 00 AM to
board The Sacred Cow, the airplane that will
transport me from here to Yalta. A seven-hour
flight they tell me, much of it over undesirable
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Summary Chapter 1 and 2 We are introduced to
Winston Smith the main character of the story.
Works at Ministry of truth. Ministry of truth is
one of four government buildings in destroyed
London, the main city of Airstrip One, a province
of Oceania. Year is 1984 and three countries are
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Belinda Norman Yr 12 English Essay 12 / 02 / 01 Is
there such a thing as history which is more
objective than memory? For many years now there
has been a strong debate, as regarding wether or
not there is such a thing as history that is more
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Author: Oscar Wilde Setting: Begins in a flat in
London then proceeds to a manor house in the
countryside in the late 1800 s. Plot: Two men,
John Jack Earnest Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff,
use the deception [a Bunbury] that both their
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Mary Rowlandson? s Puritan beliefs help her endure
her captivity, which lasts eleven weeks, at the
hands of the Wampanoag Indians. These beliefs, are
often referred as tenets, reflect the fanatical
belief of the Puritans that they are god? s chosen
people. Rowlandson watches firsthand the horror of
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Narcissism in America Out of anger, Timothy
McVeigh decided he would take his frustration out
on others to give the country a wake-up call.
Unfortunately, it was a deadly one (Diary 18.
Freedom Writers Diary. 14). Acts of devastations
such as this have been suggested to be a result of
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Observer Review: The Hidden Life Of Otto Observer
Review: The Hidden Life Of Otto Frank By Carol Ann
Lee Answers from the attic The Hidden Life of Otto
Frank Carol Ann Lee Viking? 17. 99, pp 384 Until
the start of the Second World War, Otto Franks
life was as soothing and wrinkle-free as freshly
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Only the children count The Hidden Life of Otto
Frank Carol Ann Lee 384 pp, Viking As he himself
said, Otto Frank had a unique part to play in
life. It is a strange role, he said in the 1970 s.
In the normal family relationship, it is the child
of the famous parents who has the honour and the
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Social Conditions Affect Writing by Anthony
Meszaros Advanced European societies cant support
long wars. That was thought prior to World War I.
The truth was that the Europeans could not support
a long war unchanged. The First World War left no
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