Diana Bayless Mrs. McGee AP English 1A. 1.Letter to the Reader 2.My Bucket List 3.6 Word Memoir...
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Diana Bayless Mrs. McGee AP English 1A. 1.Letter to the Reader 2.My Bucket List 3.6 Word Memoir 4.First Writing – Oscar Wilde Paragraphs 5.Soul Picture
1.Letter to the Reader 2.My Bucket List 3.6 Word Memoir 4.First
Writing Oscar Wilde Paragraphs 5.Soul Picture 6.Second Writing The
Awakening, Response 7.Third Writing Response to Barbie 8.Option to
1 of 3 Artifacts Favorite Elementary Book 9.Option to 1 of 3
Artifacts Favorite Middle School Book 10.Option to 1 of 3 Artifacts
Favorite High School Book
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Dear Reader, As I look back on the writing from even just this
year and last year, I can honestly say that I have improved so
much. It is really cool to see all the things that I have written
about, and all the stories I have been able to tell through my
writing. I hope only to learn more, and to write even better when I
get to college. I truly believe that both my eleventh and twelfth
grade English classes have prepared me for that. I am really
excited to see what I come up with in the future!
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Have my own personal library with a collection of all the books
Ive read Stick to a workout plan and a diet (stay healthy) Live in
my dream home Visit the Louvre See a Burlesque show Get a Siberian
Husky Plant my own garden and keep up with it Take a photography
class Ride on a train for a long distance Visit Monets home, in
Giverny Bike down the Pacific Coast highway Learn how to ride a
motorcycle My Bucket List Be a witness to Aurora Borealis Eat a
Grand Opulence Sundae at Serendipity in NYGrand Opulence Travel to
Alaska (preferably by cruise ship) Swim with a dolphin Learn to
speak a language, then visit the country its spoken in, and be sure
to use it a lot Ride on a gondola in Italy Hike up the Cascades
Learn to play an acoustic guitar Scuba dive off the coast of
Australia Go to Las Vegas Win something at an art show Fall in love
deep, unconditional, uncontrollable love Get a job I actually enjoy
doing
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AN ENDING DREAM, OR JUST beginni ng ?
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Diana Bayless Mrs. McGee AP English 12 1B February 14th, 2011
Paragraph #1 (Page 22) For nearly ten minutes he stood there,
motionless, with parted lips and eyes strangely bright. He was
dimly conscious that entirely fresh influences were at work within
him. Yet they seemed to him to have come really from himself. The
few words that Basils friend had said to him-words spoken by
chance, no doubt, and with willful paradox in them-had touched some
secret chord that had never been touched before, but that he felt
was now vibrating and throbbing to curious pulses. Paragraph #2
(Page 127) For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the
influence of this book. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say
that he never sought to free himself from it. He procured from
Paris no less than nine large paper copies of the first edition,
and had them bound in different colors, so that they might suit his
various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he
seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control. The hero,
the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the
scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a
kind of prefiguring type of himself. And, indeed, the whole book
seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before
he had lived it. Paragraph #3 (Page 219) A new life! That was what
he wanted. That was what he was waiting for. Surely he had begun it
already. He had spared one innocent thing, at any rate. He would
never again tempt innocence. He would be good. Wilde develops
Dorian Gray throughout these three paragraphs using imagery and
artful diction such like, dimly conscious, throbbing to curious
pulses, prefiguring type of himself, and tempt innocence. The
diction in the first paragraph is clean, like Wilde is wiping down
Dorians slate, and starting him off new, to experience new things,
and open up to the world that Lord Henry had laid out for him. The
diction in the second and third paragraph is following the
obsession of that world that Dorian had thrown himself into, and
ultimately the one that he is trying to undo and get himself out of
as well. Imagery in the paragraphs is used to depict the situation,
for instance, the changing fancies of a nature over which he
seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control. This is
like watching a train wreck happen. The reader slowly starts to see
Dorian unravel at the seam, Wilde begins to tear apart the main
character with his own Hedonistic obsession. By the third
paragraph, the reader sees a cry of desperation and for sympathy
from Dorian. He would be good, he tells himself. Dorian makes
promises as to hope that they will give him a second chance for
falling into deception and sin for so many years, and the diction
portrayed makes Dorian look innocent again, like his current
appearance.