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What is a personal narrative? |
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true story about a memorable person, event, or situation in the writer's life |
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reference to a well-known person, place, event. literary work ,or work of art |
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What is his attitude to the alone, unfortunate MIdget? |
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He wants to be with him... He identifies with him |
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number of persons or things moving forward in an orderly or formal way |
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perfectly clear; transparent |
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Vladamir birth and death date |
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novelist, poet, butterfly collector |
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What language did he write in? |
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What have critics said he treated his words like? |
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butterflies, each a rare, colorful specimen pinned to the page |
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What was his family like? |
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He was born into an upper class and politically liberal family |
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How did his family respond to the Russian Revolution? |
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In 1919, they went into exile. In 1940, they moved to the U.S. to escape life in Nazi Germany |
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Name some of Vladamir's novels. |
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Bend Sinister; Pnin; Ada; Speak Memory |
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superficial; done without attention to detail |
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word or phrase substituted for a more unpleasant word or phrase |
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What were Yoshiko Uchida's birth and death dates? |
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When did Yoshiko's ordeal occur |
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1942 - Executive ORder 9066 |
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where did her family move from? |
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Where was her family sent? |
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First to Tanforan Racetrack near San Francisco and later to an internment camp in Utah |
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Where did her family live - specifically |
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What happened to Uchida after teh war |
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she attended Smith College in Massachuestts. She became a teacher wand an award-winning author who wrote more than thrity fiction and nonficition books |
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When was Gerald Ford born? |
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What happened with Ford's career? |
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He turned down an opportunity to place pro football and studied law at Yale University |
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What happened to Ford after his graduating? |
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He studied law for a few years and was then elected to the house of representatives. he served here for nearly 25 yrs |
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What propelled Ford further to presidency |
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1973 - President Richard NIxon chose Ford to replace the present VP Spiro Agnew, who had resigned |
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How did FOrd become president? |
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NIxon resignd 8 yrs after choosing Ford as VP, and Ford became president- 38th to be exact |
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