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Victoria Escamilla  2/27/19 2 . Like Beowulf, J. R. R. Tolkien’s character Bilbo is “terrified of losing himself” and so rejects exile and embraces the warrior’s heroic code ( Anderson 226). Another work by Tolkien confronts the same issue: the character Frodo is told that he must resist going to a “cave, slowly to forget and to be forgotten” (365) 3 . Magazine covers are often overtly political. Take the example of ( Time 6 Nov. 2017)  Time magazine’s most recent issue, which featured three swinging orange wrecking balls with yellow hair. 4 . In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird , the character Dill is introduced primarily through narration: Dill was from Meridian, Mississippi, was spending the summer with his aunt, Miss Rachel, and would be spending every summer in Maycomb from now on. His family was from Maycomb County originally, his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian, had entered his picture in a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars. She gave the ...

Victoria Escamilla  2/26/19 English  1st Paragraph     1st - B - level 4     2nd- D - level 4     3rd- C- level 2     4th- A- level 1

V ictoria Escamilla  2/25/19 English 9        A way I could apply academic writing to my own writing could be by not just rushing through my writing, and actually take the time to revise over it to see if I described my ideas properly, and didn't just go off, and not get to the point that I'm trying to display through my writing. Another thing I could do is to just not add to many words that are unnecessary to the topic, or add words that aren't needed in my writing. A last way I could apply academic writing to my own writing is by just taking the time to make sure the writing peace is good, displays my ideas the way I want them to, and that it actually makes sense and, it isn't a bunch of nonsense.

Victoria Escamilla  2/11/19 English 9 Questions : What about Ancient Greek culture & values is reflected in their beliefs towards the underworld?  Do you recognize any similarities between the Greek's beliefs towards death and the underworld and those which are held in your own religion? The Journey of the soul is described to be an elaborate process, why do you think that is? Why can't it be more simple? Looking back (to  The Epic of Gilgamesh ) this will be the 2nd text in which the protagonist journey to the underworld to confront death, why do you the hero "needs" to visit the underworld?         1.   The Ancient Greek values and cultures reflect in their beliefs of the underworld because, part of their cultural beliefs is their gods the underworld connects to the gods because the god Hades rules the underworld like the gods Zeus, and Poseidon.          2.   Some similarities ...