Cassandra´s dream

Most Teachers know what the word hero means Not from reference books but from sheer class manegement experience. Battlefields are less frightening than some classes. Everybody knows, even blind and dumb people know. Avoid toxic people, avoid toxic people!!! Take care of your health we only live once. "Heroes"" I, I will be king And you, you will be queen Though nothing will drive them away We can beat them, just for one day We can be Heroes, just for one day And you, you can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, and that is a fact Yes we're lovers, and that is that Though nothing, will keep us together We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say? I, I wish you could swim Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim Though nothing, nothing will keep us together We can beat them, for ever and ever Oh we can be Heroes, just for one day I, I will

    Undivided Attention by Taylor Mali  A grand piano wrapped in quilted pads by movers, tied up with canvas straps - like classical music's birthday gift to the insane - is gently nudged without its legs out an eighth-floor window on 62nd street. It dangles in April air from the neck of the movers' crane, Chopin-shiny black lacquer squares and dirty white crisscross patterns hanging like the second-to-last note of a concerto played on the edge of the seat, the edge of tears, the edge of eight stories up going over, and I'm trying to teach math in the building across the street.

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MAIN CHARACTHERS Erik Disfigured composer who lives in the cellars beneath the Paris Opera House, frequently referred to as “the Opera Ghost” Christine Daaé Budding young opera star, Erik’s student and Raoul’s love interest  Raoul  Phillipe’s younger brother and Christine’s childhood friend Phillipe The Comte de Chagny  a handsome and wealthy aristocrat Debienne and Poligny  Managers of the Paris Opera House who sell the institution early in the novel Montcharmin and Richard  New managers of the Paris Opera House, both initially skeptical of the existence of the Opera Ghost Madame (Mame) Giry The Opera House boxkeeper (similar to contemporary ushers) Carlotta A prima donna,  a renowned singer at the Paris Opera House Joseph Buquet A popular scene shifter responsible for moving and adjusting sets during the opera’s productions Professor and Mme. Valerius Christine’s benefactors who raise her after her father dies The Persian Mysterious Opera House res

Katniss's character conflicts are the most immediate, since she is the story's narrator. She narrates in the present tense, an effective choice since that leaves the reader uncertain whether she will survive the Games intact. Were the story narrated in past tense, it would indicate to us that she must have survived since she is telling the tale. The narration is also effective in providing dramatic irony throughout the novel, as we can infer much about Katniss both from what she chooses to tell us and how she chooses to tell it. Katniss is an example of a stoic hero – she is well aware of the unfairness of the world around her, having had to grow up so quickly to provide for her mother and Prim. However, she has quashed both her emotional responses to her totalitarian society as well as her childish identity so that she can maintain the hardness necessary to be an effective hunter and provider. A contemporary definition of a stoic is one who does not show his or her em