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A Canadian Family Portrait: The Gares
In Canadian literature the family is handled quite differently. If in England the family is a mansion you live in, and if in America it’s a skin you shed, then in Canada it’s a trap in which you’re caught. The Canadian protagonist often feels just as trapped inside his family as his American counterpart; he…
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ELA 30 Midterm
ELA 30-1 Discuss the idea(s) developed by Elie Wiesel in Night about the role adversity plays in shaping an individual’s identity. You must carefully consider your controlling idea and how you will create a strong unifying effect in your response develop your ideas and support them with appropriate, relevant, and meaningful examples from Night. ELA…
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ELA 10 Final Essay Topics
English Language Arts 10 Final Essay Topics ELA 10-1 Your response can be in the form of a narrative or essay. In Julius Caesar, we have many people working together for various reasons and with varying degrees of success. Most of the relationships have tension in them and all are marked with conflicting pressures, values,…
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ELA 10 Midterm Assignment
When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice. -William James Read carefully the two short stories, The Sniper by O’Flaherty and Araby by James Joyce. Write a post in response to one of these stories in which you discuss the idea(s) the author suggests to you…
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Same Circus, New Clowns, … and New Clown Pants
I was thinking this morning I had better push out a list of some items new and returning students should have or soon add to their sites: update choice of themes, revised site titles and tag lines. check profile and update any details – especially your password and email details (must be your active @ecacs16.ab.ca…
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ELA 30 Writing Assignments: Modernism
First and second assignments: 30-1, 30-2, and 30-4 do the following: Introduction to Modernism Alienation and Helplessness Third assignment: 30-1 do the following: Separation from a Loved One 30-2 do the following: The Artist in Society – Alone, Isolated, and Alienated 30-4 do the following: Employability Skills Fourth assignment: 30-1, 30-2, and 30-4 do the…
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Hamlet and the Human Condition
“Hamlet is a name; his speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet’s brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader’s mind. It is we who are Hamlet.” – William Hazlitt (1817) Write an essay about what Hamlet (the play…
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Why is the Night Sky Dark?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxJ4M7tyLRE&rel=0&w=480] I’ve watched this video more than once, and I still do not know why the sky at night is dark. I only know that it is.
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Gender Equality
TED video: Sheryl Sandberg: COO, Facebook “Why we have too few women leaders”(2010) [ted id=1040] “Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. Ask yourself some of these focus questions on equality or some of these questions on feminist criticism specifically. Identify Sheryl Sandberg’s core messages about equality. Think carefully.…
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ELA 20 Written Assignment
ELA 20-2 Advice to a Panicky Friend One of your friends has shared some of his/her problems with you. Your friend wants advice on how to handle these difficulties because things seem to be going from bad to worse. In fact, your friend is becoming panicky. Write a post/comment/letter to your friend, giving both your…