Sick of It All

EXTRACT 6 THE ELECTRIC CHAIR Chapter 30 from p.239’Melvina was sweeping off…’ down to p.241’ she Felt sick already’. 1*INTRODUCE THE EXTRACT 1On the morning before Jefferson’s execution, a black truck with a gray tarpaulin cover drives into town. The townspeople are all struck by this strange truck which parks by the courthouse. The night before, Grant and Vivian drink at the Rainbow Club but find they cannot talk. Grant goes Home slightly drunk wishing he could sleep but not dream

Book 1: The Shimerdas Chapter 7 MUCH AS I LIKED Antonia, I hated a superior tone that she sometimes took with me. She was four years older than I, to be sure, and had seen more of the world; but I was a boy and she was a girl, and I resented her protecting manner. Before the autumn was over, she began to treat me more like an equal and to defer to me in other things than reading lessons. This change came about from an adventure we had together. One day when I rode over to the Shimerdas'

anything, made it clear that | | |my responsibility was to tell you the truth, that your own child, is homosexual. [ ... ] | | |I'm sorry, Mama. Not for what I am, but for how you must feel at this moment. I know what that feeling is for I felt it for most of my life. Revulsion, shame, | | |disbelief - rejection through fear of something I knew, even as a child was as basic to my nature as the color of my eyes.

CLOSE ANALYSIS 2 BOOK1 CH VII P.24-26 I. Childhood vs. Adulthood: a rite of passage 1. Sexual awakening a) The symbolic meaning of the snake and the hole Jim and Antonia re examining are the male and female sex organs. A sexual awakening. b) - Jim desire to prove himself as a man and not a boy. (l.3 p.24) “I was a boy and she was a girl, and I resented her protecting manner”. - Jim’s crouching position as if he were involved in a sexual relationship (l.3 p.25) “I was walking

Enchanted Hunters, after having given Lo a sleeping “purple pill”; he opens the door to discover an aesthetically striking scene, all dim lights and shadow: 128, 1-15 (pay attention to the vocabulary of light and shadow) l.35 “ ‘gracious living’ and all that stuff.” H dismissing advertisement as deceptive; noise emphasized by his fear that Lo should awake? l.36 “northeast of my head” as though they were outside, which could be, so loud the place is; 130, 1 “the banging and booming” imitative alliteration;

built on a campus : it is fully integrated into the surrounding area ; there are private houses and shops on the hill, and the main road through the hill is a normal public highway and indeed a bus route. The school is made up of some 400 acres (160ha) of playing fields, tennis courts, golf course, woodland and gardens. Harrow mottoe is : Latin : Stet Fortuna Domus ("Let the Fortune of the House Stand") & Donorum Dei Dispensatio Fidelis ("The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God"). Harrow School

On the first day of school, I was so nervous that I felt sick. The thought of having a class that, not only speaks french all the time, but also that had already been together the previous year terrified me. I expected to be left out and lost, mostly because I couldn’t speak french like them. But here I am, more than five months later, and actually enjoy being with these same people every day. Being surrounded with these smiling, happy faces and their everyday jokes makes all of the hardships seem

Describe the Enlightenment movement of the 17th and 18th centuries. What ideas did Enlightenment thinkers have in common? In what ways did their views differ? What differing effects did Enlightenment ideas have across Europe? The Enlightenment movement of the 17th and 18th centuries was a period of great thought, ideas and questioning, which would precipitate later effects that reflected these enlightened concepts in government, the arts, religion, education, and the economy. Those that embodied

assistance, new federal programs (economy + healthcare for all). OBAMA intervening in healthcare and economy problem. French healthcare ≠ American healthcare: American want «can do spirit», they want independence, little state intervention. Different : Democrats : MORE intervention; OBAMA ; ROOSEVELT ; 1929/2008 : economy crisis, great depression, credit crunch, state assistance, new federal programs (economy + healthcare for all the population) Republicans : LESS intervention; Sarah

something very important », said he shyly. « What? » said he frowning upon. « I don't know how to tell you that. It's very delicate for me. Say it. What is it? Whether you like it or not, I've decided to stop boxing because I want to do dance. », said he anxiously. His father gaped at. « You must be jocking! I don't agree at all. » Billy retorted: « Why can't I dance? This sport is my passion and boxing doesn't attract me. Why do you say that? You like boxing? No? No