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At the outbreak of World War I, Lucy Paignton-Fox enlists in the Australian Army Nursing Service and leaves her family’s cattle station in the Northern Territory to join the war effort. During the Gallipoli campaign she serves in hospitals in Egypt, but when the Anzacs are posted to France she moves with them. A talented and spirited nurse, with dreams of one day becoming a doctor, Lucy finds more opportunities than she ever imagined: working alongside doctors and surgeons, sharing the soldiers’ dangers, helping them through their pain, and making lifelong friends. But with war comes suffering.
In The book An American Plague Chapter 2 All Was Not Right there are a lot of reasons on why we can tell it is not all right. Catherine LeMaigre was dying, The doctors discovered what was going around. First, “ On Monday, August 19 it was clear that thirtythree year old Catherine LeMaigre was dying and dying horribly and painfully”. She felt that her stomach was going to explode. Her husband called in two neighborhood doctors.
Lucy Flucker Knox….. By Annika Heieie Lucy Flucker Knox helped with her own time and resources when ever possible. "I hope you will consider yourself as commander in chief of your own house,but be convinced, that there is such a thing as equal command.” By Lucy Flucker Knox. This quote means that everyone has an equal say.
In Legend by Marie Lu flashbacks to add insight on Day. At this point in the story Day is going to bed, a few days before he is supposed to be killed. He is dreaming about events that have happened to him in the past. In one of his dreams he recalls the events when he hit a policeman on accident with a ball. Police man over reacted and beat him brutally.
The novel “Ella Minnow Pea” written by Mark Dunn, describes the tragic story of Nollop Island. Mr. Nevin Nollop – the man for whom this Island named. At the center of Nollop Island is pedestal upon which his sculpture and words: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"(2). He invented the sentence which obtaining all the letters of the alphabet. All its inhabitants live by the rules established by the five-man council.
Character Essay Quote: “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it”. Margaret Thatcher (first female British prime minister, 1925-2013) In order to win any fight, battle or war, it may have to be fought more than once. It may even have to be fought more than two, three or four times.
heard a metallic click, and I froze.”” (Butler,36) Dana also shows the same feelings in her second visit as well. While she’s hiding in the bushes, she experienced the white men whipped a black man. As she quotes, The white men, “hustled the man to a tree so close to me that I lay flat on the ground, stiff with fear. With just a little bad luck, one of the whites could spot me, or, in the darkness, fail to spot me and to step on me.
“ The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” This quote is by Moliere and it is one of Abigail Fernihough’s favorite quotes. Fernihough is 15 years old; she is on the high school volleyball team. In her free time, she enjoys reading and participating in art. Abigail Fernihough is a freshman at Bryan High School who has diabetes and has a very important story to tell.
At the start of the novel, Lutie Johnson is portrayed as a hard working women who is looking to turn her life around to improve her current situation. She buys this house on the street as a step in an upward movement for a place for her and her son Bub to live. From there she has a bright plan to find a job and earn enough money to eventually find a nicer and more permanent house. At this point she has the ambition and will, but unfortunately from here on out the racism and sexism gets to her head and we only see a downward trend. Throughout Luties experiences on the street we see her initial motivation begin to deteriorate; the incidents with Jones and Bub quickly build up and eventually force her to make poor decisions.
Abandoning one’s family could be devastating for some people, but for Mattia Pascal, it was a dream. In The Late Mattia Pascal, the main character, Mattia had lost everything from family to family fortunes multiple times. He went from having a large inheritance from his parent’s passing, to losing it all. He was the father of two daughters that passed away within seconds of each other, which occured on the same day as his mother’s passing. After this, Mattia’s remarries and finds that he is miserable in his new life because of his living environment with his wife and demanding mother in law.
Ever wonder what it would be like to suddenly lose your memory with no recollection who or what you are? That is what the girl called Isabelle experiences one day in the book called Stolen by Vivian Vande Velde. Isabelle realizes she is running blindly in the woods with the moon as her only light. She runs but doesn't know why. She begins to question her existence and stops only to hear something behind her.
“People say that it can’t work, black and white. Well, here, we make it work everyday. We have our disagreements, of course, but before we reach for hate, always, always we remember the Titans.” - Sheryl Yoast. The message behind this quote is very valuable and has something that everyone can learn from.
With these rude remarks towards Heathcliff it appears as if no one wants him. Even the housekeeper is afraid of him, but when everybody gets used to him, Heathcliff is washed and tucked into bed with Hindley and Catherine, the Earnshaw children, as if he had been there all along. Later the reader can see Heathcliff’s character mature when the reader sees how he responds to the ill-treatment from Hindley. Heathcliff would not cry or speak up when being harassed. This reaction can relate back to the hints of menace the reader gets in the beginning of the
Firstly the obsessive love between Catherine and Heathcliff. Catherine claims that her love for Heathcliff “resembles the eternal rocks beneath –a source of little visible delight, but necessary” (73). She tells her housekeeper “Nelly, I am Heathcliff –he’s always, always in my
Isabella is depressed during most of the book because of her abusive marriage. During the book Wuthering Heights their is an chapter that is a letter written by Isabella and how her time at Wuthering Heights is. “ Is Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad?