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Characters Enemy Book
429 wordsJohn Marsden's A Killing Frost passes all three of my tests (and please forgive my purposefully hazy focus on "good writing", but I must have some quirks as a book reviewer! ). Sensory detail pervades this novel of war, told from the point of view of a teenager who, with her friends, becomes a partisan against an intractable enemy that has invaded her homeland. The homeland in question is Australia, and we are treated to a gorgeous anthology of landscapes and how they affect the characters, from...
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Gene Therapy Clinical Trial
793 wordsIn 1990, a three-year-old Cleveland, Ohio, girl named Ashanti De Silva made history when doctors infused her with genes to produce an infection-fighting enzyme called ADA that she lacked. A decade later, the ashes of Jesse Gelsinger were scattered on an Arizona mountaintop after the 18 -year-old died of respiratory distress -- essentially, his lungs shut down -- after getting a massive dose of a modified cold virus intended to carry a gene to his cells. Somewhere in between, the promise of gene ...
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Urban Legends Religious Beliefs
1,458 wordsURBAN LEGENDS Generally speaking, an urban legend is any modern, fictional story, told as truth that reaches a wide audience by being passed from person to person. Urban legends are often false, but not always. A few turn out to be largely true, and a lot of them were inspired by an actual event but evolved into something different in their passage from person to person. More often than not, it isn't possible to trace an urban legend back to its original source -- they seem to come from nowhere....
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Darkness Be My Friend Leader Of The Group
1,448 wordsTitle: Darkness Be My Friend Author: John Marsden Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Publishing Date: 1996 Setting: This book is set in fairly modern times about 1990. I know this because the teenagers speak the same way my friends and I do and dress just like people do now. I also know this because of the way they describe the country town they live in. It sounds just like the average country town in our time. I think it is set is in a country town in Australia away from the cities. I think th...
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Darkness Be My Friend Zealand Soldiers
658 wordsDarkness, Be my Friend Review Darkness, Be My Friend is the fourth book in John Marsden s series consisting of Tomorrow, When the War Began, In the Dead of the Night and The Third Day, The Frost, in which seven young people are thrown into the middle of a violent war zone. Ellie, Fi, Kevin, Lee, Homer, Robyn and Corrie set out on a camping trip to a remote part of their district. They find their way into a remote basin surrounded by dangerous cliffs and difficult terrain, where they are complete...
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Maastricht Treaty Labour Markets
2,747 wordsHow Important In Building European Unity Was How Important In Building European Unity Was The Maastricht Treaty? The first foundations of a common social policy within the European Community were set down in the treaty of Rome, first signed by the six original member states of the Community in 1957 and subsequently by each new member state upon joining, with the UK signing in 1973. One of the major social provisions of this treaty was freedom of labour movement between EC nations, seen as a prer...
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