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Chocolate fever
From eating too much chocolate, Henry breaks out in brown bumps that help him foil some hijackers and teach him a valuable lesson about self-indulgence.
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A Recipe for Discourse
Slender and yet panoramic in scope, historical and yet relevant to current-day concerns, Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate has provoked from the outset a divergent range of critical opinions. The essays in A Recipe for Discourse: Perspectives on Like Water for Chocolate represent the novel's problematic nature in their many diverse approaches, perspectives that are certain to awaken in the reader new ways of approaching the text while challenging old ones. This volume's 'dialogue' format, in which essays are grouped thematically, is particularly effective in presenting such a diverse range of viewpoints. The reader will find herein lively discussion on LWFC as it relates to such themes as gastronomy, superstition, mythology, folklore, the Mexican Revolution, magical realism, female identity, alteration, and matriarchy/ patriarchy. It is the editor's hope that a diverse readership, from undergraduate students to seasoned scholars, will find this volume engaging and enlightening.
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Love Monster and the last chocolate
When Love Monster receives a box of chocolates as a gift, he has second thoughts about sharing them with all of his friends.
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Reading Willy Wonka in the ERA of Anti-Thinking
Whether encountered as a movie or novel, Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a childhood staple of postwar Anglophone culture. Originally published in 1964, Dahl's story of “Willie Wonka” is a morality tale for our times addressed by the present essay in relation to the precariousness, violence, intergenerational faith, and materialist fantasies reflective of contemporary life in the early twenty-first century. Compensating for the precarity of contemporary life's impoverishment as assumptions of societal stability are overthrown, this chronicle of the Bucket family details: envious desire validated by large group chosen trauma; authoritarian enslavement of inferior, colonized peoples with murderous, industrial-level human experimentation; toward gratification of the greedy fantasy of unlimited sweetness under the sway of lethal identification with the aggressor.
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Pairing Fiction and Nonfiction Texts to Promote Literacy and Language Development of Adolescent English Learners
Based on the relevant research that highlights the impact of pairing fiction and nonfiction texts around a specific theme or a topic for enhanced motivation and reading comprehension for English learners (ELs), this article describes ways to combine texts of various genres to promote ELs' language and literacy development. A middle school example of a lesson on chocolate exemplifies how pairing a number of fiction and nonfiction texts supports differentiation and multiple opportunities for writing.
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Hooey Higgins and the shark
Hooey Higgins and his best friend Twig plan to capture a shark and charge people to see it in order to raise money to buy a large chocolate egg in Mr. Danson's store window and end up finding something amazing.
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This book is not good for you
Cass's mom is kidnapped by sinister, blind chocolatier Seنnor Hugo. The ransom? the legendary Tuning Fork.
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The Offenses of Blasphemy: Messages in and through Art
In 2007, Bill Donohue, president of the United States of America Catholic League, objected to a plan to exhibit My Sweet Lord, a sculpture of a crucied Christ gure depicted naked and made from chocolate by the Canadian artist Cosimo Cavallaro, at a New York art gallery in the week before Easter, likening it to hate speech. He added that it was one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever and that to to choose Holy Week is astounding. Interpreting blasphemy as a form of hate speech is common. Understanding blasphemy has become increasingly important in a globalized world in which works of art, such as the Satanic Verses or the Danish cartoons, can cause violent occurrences internationally, as well as within multicultural states. In 1996, the European Court of Human Rights found that the right to freedom of speech included the duty to avoid expression that, in regard to objects of veneration, is gratuitously offensive to others. Moreover, in 2008 the United Nations adopted a resolution against religious vilication, specically mentioning Islam. But it is unclear how an artwork can be blasphemous, or whether all blasphemy should be understood as hate speech. The objection of religious groups that works of art may be blasphemous is often dismissed as nave. In In Good Faith, Salman Rushdie claimed that the people accusing him of blasphemy had made a fundamental error in their interpretation of the book, Fiction uses facts as a starting-point and then spirals away to explore its real concerns. Not to see this, to treat ction as if it were fact, is to make a serious mistake of categories. The case of The Satanic Verses may be one of the biggest category mistakes in literary history.
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