Lorna Sage

experiences have an irreversible effect on us, we still tend to forget these precious memories, as they are simply too embarrassing and painful to remember. In the extract from “Bad blood” by Lorna Sage, the author shows how the incident on the school playground has impacted her as an adult and her own personality. Lorna Sage highlights the hardships and challenges of childhood and their importance in future life. The author has displayed this theme throughout the text by using interesting characters, a unique

Commentary on Lorna Sage, Bad Blood (2000) This passage revolves around a young girl's life, how it has changed and what it has become. It is ironically, how a friendship has evolved into something that the two girls who are exposed in this passage have never thought it would become. Sage introduces us to what we can conclude to be herself in the first paragraph of this passage, whilst introducing us to her dear friend (or shall we say greatest enemy?) in the second paragraph. The relationship

Commentary on Lorna Sage’s Bad Blood This passage, consisting of three paragraphs, out of Lorna Sage’s Bad Blood, is presented by an all-knowing first-person narrator. It revolves around a young girl’s, the narrator’s, school life and childhood experiences. It follows the evolution of a friendship between the narrator and her dear friend, or shall we say her “sworn enemy”(l 11), who is first introduced in the second paragraph, “Gail…had hair in ringlets, green-hazel

Good Girl Bad Gurl is a story detailing the lifestyle of a young woman called Mya Brown from her early teenage years to young adulthood. The author, Sunrize Jackson has written this book in hopes that it will help teenagers learn to avoid making bad decisions in life. Mya was one of the most beautiful and confident girls in her high school. Being very eager to prove she knows exactly what she wants out of relationships, just like a lot of teenagers she hardly ever asked for her parents' advice or

A Life Lesson for the Unfriendly Talia Underdown Unfriendly Competition is a spectacular book, volume 12 from the Canterwood Crest series. This book has been written by a horse lover, Jessica Burkhart. The book was published when she was at the age of 24, she was born on the 29 of January 1987, now aged 29. Unfriendly Competition has many different plots in the one book. This book is set at a boarding school with stables in the United States called Canterwood Crest Academy. The main characters

“The Sound of Silence” “The Sound of Silence” was originally a poem, written in 1963, by Paul Simon. Simon had a friend by the name of Art Garfunkel. Simon and Garfunkel both worked in the music industry which lead them an opportunity to perform a duet for Columbia Records. The song was later recorded at Columbia Records studio in New York City, in 1964. Simon and Garfunkel later split, and went their separate ways, until the song was re-recorded with electric instruments that became a huge hit and

Lucille Clifton’s and William Faulkner’s characters in “Forgiving my Father” and “A Rose for Emily” demonstrate sections of the authors personal lives and their past experiences, and the works give insight into the styles along with the flow that the authors use when they write pieces like these. The authors characters in the stories are also similarly written, being that some of the problems that they face in the stories. The way that Clifton and Faulkner write pieces like these can often leave

The sound of silence The sound of silence was originally composed by Simon and Garfunkel in 1964 and it was number one on billboard 's hot 100 for a week. Originally this song falls under the folk rock and soft rock genres. The two covers I have choose are by Disturbed (2015) and Touch of Glass (2016). While many older people have heard of the song sound of silence by Simon and Garfunkel most of the younger generation have only heard of the song by Disturbed with many people believing that

There are many ways to write a literary essay on a text, choosing the most effective method depends on what the writer is trying to accomplish. What is most important is understanding what one is writing about and effectively delivering it. In the sample essay, "Tossing Metaphors Together in Robert Francis 's 'Catch '" by Chris Leggett, Leggett writes an analysis paper in which he analyzes the extended metaphor of the poem. While in the sample essay, "How William Faulkner 's Narrator Cultivates

Another example of an unsuccessful merger involves internet giant America Online (AOL) and media conglomerate Time Warner. The merger deal occurred in 2000 and is still known as the largest and worst merger deal in American business history at $165 billion. The deal was presented as an equal merger but AOL, holding more valuable stock, essentially acquired Time Warner which resulted in AOL owning 55% of the new company. The proposed vision of the merger was that combining the businesses would benefit