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    Jenny Han is an american author of young adult fiction geared towards high school teens who love romance and drama. Jenny Han is the author of the “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before” series and “The Summer I Turned Pretty” series. She also is in production of the “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before” movie. During her work, she earned a GoodReads Choice Awards nomination for best young adult fiction. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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    Fiction and reality are very similar to each other. Reality is the state in which things happen in a real-world situation. Fiction deals with perception without considering what can happen in a real-life situation. The story “Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain” by Jamil Jan Kochi blurs the lines between reality and fiction through the reliving of the Afghan-Soviet War. Similarly, the story written by Janika Oza, titled, “Fish Stories” depicts the day the main character’s dead brother returns

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    in America, there is a child holding a copy of "Catcher in the Rye" and there is a child holding a gun But only one of these things have been banned by their state government And it's not the one that can rip through flesh It's the one that says "f you" on more pages than one Because we must control what the people say, and how they think and if they want to become the overseer of their own selves, then we'll show them a real one. And somewhere in America, there's a child sitting at his mother's

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    Growth Mindset Essay

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    to think of success as how much money an author makes or how well known they are among the common populace. However, true success should be defined by the quality of the story, regardless of how many people know it, and the satisfaction of having written it, regardless of how much it made. It takes a willingness to grow and to work hard to achieve literary success and notoriety. A successful author develops a growth mindset through the education and life experience they receive from their younger

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    in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. She was born into a loving family to Christian Webb Welty and Chestina Andrews Welty. She inherited a loving of all instruments from her father, and she inherited a love of reading and language from her mother. As a child, she attended Davis Elementary School. She graduated from Jackson Central High School in 1925. She, first, went to college at the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi. She, then, went to the University of Wisconsin and received

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    Truman Capote and Postmodernism

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    obsessed with fame and fortune as with penning great words, was a writer who became as well-known for his late-night talk show appearances as for his prose” (Patterson 1). Capote was a literary pop star at the height of his fame in 1966, after he had written such classic books as, Other Rooms, Other Voices, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and In Cold Blood. Postmodernism was a literary period that began after the Second World War and was a rejection of traditional writing techniques. It used fragmented sentences

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    Rose for Emily” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” are two very similar but at the same time very different. The main characters Emily Grierson, from William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily", and the narrator, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper," are both in the same boat that many women were placed in the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s. Both of these two stories were written in a generation that women were looked downed upon and made to feel less important than males. I feel these two

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    In the story of In Cold Blood, the author, Truman Capote, is able to achieve his goal of creating a non-fiction novel with historical accuracy, at the same time, giving it the qualities of fiction and journalism by building a story that strictly follows the actual four murders while creating other details to attach the plot together. What makes In Cold Blood like a fictional novel is that Capote makes the murder case seem like a story he made up. Capote does this by taking advantage of the fact

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    A Review of Deliver Her by Patricia Perry Donovan In her introductory novel, Deliver Her, Patricia Perry Donovan turns the page in her writing career, moving from journals and a concentration on non-fiction to something more creative and in novel form. As the back cover of the book highlights, this composition is about “A daughter’s grief. A mother’s desperation. An endless highway of deception.” This book is easy to follow and not only entertains but also leaves the reader with food for thought

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    Even as a child, my active imagination manifested into the creative outlet of storytelling. Before I found that calling, however, I followed suit of many my age with an imaginary friend. His name was Brownie, my faithful and loving equestrian companion. I also liked to take all sorts of artistic mediums, crayons and markers and colored pencils, and doodle all over colored paper, creating abstract drawings of animals and family photos. My family has had an impact on my creativity at the very beginning

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