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    Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770-1827 Beethoven, a very well known composer and musician. He was baptized on the 17th of december 1770. No one really knows when he was born but it is assumed because of when he was baptized it was on the 16th of December. He came from a musical family, his father was a court tenor. His mother found that he was a different child and found it hard to relate to him. His father on the other hand knew he had very full potential for being a great musician. His father was rather

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    Genre: The genre of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’engle is fiction. This book is fiction because the events that occur in the story can’t ever happen in real life. For example, a human being can never turn into a flying horse that takes the children to an unknown planet. Point of View: The point of view in the story is third person. It is third person because none of the characters were telling the story. The author was the one telling in the story. There was no I, me, us, you and we included

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    the one who had Mr. Murry, and was left behind. Meg is forced to go back to Camazotz alone to save her brother, using something that she has the IT can’t fight. Using her immense love for her brother she frees him from the control of IT and all four of them make it home safely. I personally would have prefered a more tragic ending, so that’s exactly what I’m going to be writing here. My ending diverges from the original plot line after Meg lands on Camazotz alone to save Charles Wallace:

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    Literary Analysis of Meg Murry In the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle, Meg Murry is a young female character who learns to lead and understands the power of love. In the novel, Meg changes from a girl who has insecurities about her appearance, to a heroine. Meg goes on a journey to save her father, that leads Meg to a whole other universe. There Meg learns how important the power of love can be, as well as learning new things about herself. Meg also does things she did not think she

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    The Underlying Courage in “A Wrinkle in Time” Typically in novels there are many supporting themes to create the storyline in the novel; in “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeline L’Engle a major theme in the novel is courage. It shows in almost every chapter, through Margaret (Meg) Murry and Charles Wallace Murry. The quest the kids go through in the novel corresponds to Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s journey also the type of courage found within the Christian framework. Courage is having the strength to resist

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    Summary Of A Short Story

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    On a dark and stormy night, Meg Murry tosses and turns in her attic bedroom. She is unable to fall asleep because she is preoccupied with all that seems wrong in her life: she doesn't fit in at school; her high school teachers have just threatened to drop her down a grade on account of her poor academic performance; and worst of all, her father has been missing for many years and no one has heard from him. Meg hears her family's big black dog Fortinbras barking downstairs, and she begins to worry

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    A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle, is about Meg Murry’s journey with her brother Charles, and friend Calvin to find Meg’s father. The story begins on a stormy evening when Meg and Charles, who are in bed, are awakened by the sound of thunder. Soon after, there is a knock on the door, and Mrs. Whatsit comes into Meg’s house. Mrs. Whatsit was a lady with magical powers. Mrs. Whatsit tells Meg, Charles, and their mother about something called tesserect, which is a tool used to travel through time

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    Art Angels Analysis

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    After six years of performing under the name Grimes, Claire Boucher is blasting into the stratosphere of mainstream pop; her intergalactic, out-of-this-world beats and drastically softened sound made more palatable for radio on her newest release “Art Angels.” Swapping out her signature dream-pop with thudding, club beats and more confident sounding vocals, Boucher describes the album’s style as ‘genre-less,’ blurring the lines between all styles of pop. The genre-blending album covers a lot of

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    Lawrence Durrell was famous for writing the Alexandria Quartet. The first novel in this Quartet is entitled Justine. Durrell writes his novel through the narrator. In this novel, narrator writes about Alexandria while he is in Greece, so he was using his memory of his past experiences in Alexandria. In the novel, it is shown that Durrell sees Alexandria through the Cosmopolitan Alexandria, where different people with different races were able to live peacefully together, the poor “Arab quarters”

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    Sistine Chapel Choir The Sistine Chapel Choir was established in the late 1400’s which makes it one of the oldest choirs in the world. The choir consisted of twenty -four men in total. Six men in soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. Today the choir is made of twenty men who make up the tenor and bass section; meanwhile, the soprano and alto is made up by thirty boy choristers. Before the use of boys in the choir, men were castrated to keep their voices high. The choir members also had to be celibate

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