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    physical, natural world. Similarly, unseen text shows that… Finally, Frost’s Home Burial reveals the limits of communication in creating distance in a relationship, and in doing so, reveals the effects when discovery is inhibited. As a result, discoveries can be both

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    and High class. Those in the lower class don't have advantages as the people in the high class, but then they do have more money to provide the resources needed to help students into getting accepted into a great college. The main character in the novel A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind, Cedric Jennings, lives in a troubling neighborhood and attends a high school where the dropout rate is high. People who try to live in both the world you used to live in and the new world you are living in the present

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    be just enough. What is the best advice for parents to give to their kids? To shoot for the stars or to shoot low? I believe that parents should tell their kids to try to reach for their dreams, no matter how impossible they seem. In A Hope in the Unseen, Phillip’s father advises his kids to set attainable goals so they can have some security. The advice that Phillip’s father gives him and his siblings does have it strengths. As his father says, it does allow for some security in knowing their future

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    Race and racism are two of the most discussed topics in the book “A Hope in the Unseen”. When Cedric Jennings went to the MIT program during the summer, he was seen as the only “ghetto” student among the other minority students going through the same experience has him. This was mainly because of his ethnicity and his personal background. While he was at Brown University, he was having trouble with his roommate, Rob, because they “didn’t have anything in common,”. One of Cedric’s friends, Chiniqua

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    Susan Glaspell, the central character remains unseen for the entirety of the piece. “The central character - the person whose actions are to be understood - is absent, thus rendering her all the more a figurative blank space” (Keetley 342). The audience never sees or hears Minnie Wright throughout the piece, and therefor cannot develop an accurate opinion of the outcome of the play, as they are missing vital information about Minnie’s personality. The audience and characters instead make several assumptions

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    Click. The tape recorder started up. “It was dirty that’s for sure. The rats ate at your toes and the smell was horrible.” Ed paused and wiped a tear from his eye, staring right across the table at his grandson, who preceded to ask the age-old question. “What really happened that day Grandad?” The grey sky hung close to 16-year-old Ed and the other soldiers as they stood, lined up in the trench. Rain poured heavily over their helmets, draining into the mud. The French sun hid hazily in the smog-covered

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    thought-provoking. How do humans view the natural world? Throughout the section on page 47, “Shadows of Carcosa,” Bierce shatters the quintessential monster archetype, by creating a beast that the human eye cannot see. Through the use of descriptive language, characters, setting, style and tone, Bierce produces a piece of work that goes against the normative horror story. On page 47, there is extensive detail of everything but the creature. “I was

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    Ros Suskind: A hope in the Unseen A typical high school student like Cedric Jennings in the novel ‘A hope in the Unseen’ would never prefer to write on the style and voice of a novel over a mathematical derivation of two pages. Style is very difficult to determine in a novel, but what is more difficult is to find the thin and blurred line between style and voice. Theoretically, while style is the way by which an author chooses words, makes decisions on sentence structures; whether long or short,

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    “The Mouse” is a short story written by H.H Munro. The main characters are Theodoric, the mouse, and the blind lady. The author Munro writes the story in third person and uses an omniscient view. The setting of the story takes part in the vicarage, the stable, and the ends in train compartment. The tone used by the author to engage his readers is an exciting, thrilling fast paced tone that bring the characters to life. To strengthen the thrilling exciting tone, the author uses phrases such as: “he

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    With a strong set of characters, where I actually liked the majority of, and an engaging story that will make you become an addict of television, The 100 is definitely one to keep a look out for. Being described as a mix between The Hunger Games and The Lord of the Flies how can you possibly go wrong with a purchase like that. Will it didn't hook me straight away, with a pretty laughable script for the Pilot episode, you quickly begin to get to know and care for the characters and get involved in

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