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Saturday, June 2, 2012

About Which sixth-form college should i go to

Which sixth-form college should i go to?
This is a two way tie between: Barton Peveril (Eastleigh) and Peter Symonds (Winchester). Hello, I'm currently studying at Toynbee in Chandlers ford and living in Southampton. Im planning to take: English lang, Law, History (late), and critical thinking at AS level; most likely will drop Critical thinking at A2. I am hoping to get into Law, particularly military or criminal law. However im now stuck between either going to Symonds or Barton. Barton is a good college, I know this... However Symonds is one of the best. The only problem is, I live in Shirley - college starts at 8:30, this will mean getting up at an unwelcome time every morning to catch the train. So the question I am asking is, will going to Peter Symonds with its fearsome reputation, give me that little bit of an edge when applying to the "better" universities. Or should i settle for a decent college, where i will know lots of people and not be burdened with having to get up as early to travel?
Higher Education (University +) - 4 Answers
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Answer 1 :
Don't go to 6th form. I went and left after the first year, along with 10 other people. My girlfriend went to a different 6th form and hated every second of it. 6th form teachers give up on you if your not on track for an A* and focus all their attention on the students who are. Go to 6th form if you want 2 more years of school, if you want to go to college... go to a college.
Answer 2 :
hey, Enter: http://AdviceForEducation.info Complete their questions signup You'll get an instant access to their database.It's really free .They offer the largest database of colleges and universities. Really hope that will help you
Answer 3 :
There are many online sites that offer you a list of colleges and universities, but most of them are paid. Here is one web site that offer you to browse schools around the world for totally free . Just complete their questions and they will accept you. Go to: http://AdviceForEducation.info I hope that helps
Answer 4 :
Hello. I faced a similar problem, but I was torn between Brockenhurst and Barton Peveril. I ended up going to Brock because it is pretty much the same quality as BP, but closer to where I live. It really depends on your preferences: yes, Peter Symonds' reputation is very good, and will be good to put on your Personal Statement/CV. However, it has quite an old campus and as you say, is in Winchester. Barton Peveril is still a great college and very nearby (considering the comparison). It is a very modern campus, and will probably have a better student life. At the end of the day, it's up to what you prefer, and what the best college is for your courses. If that is Symonds, then I guess you'll have to get up early for the train. Sorry I couldn't help more. (By the way, I did AS Critical Thinking in Year 11

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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

About Good teen series for 13 year old girl

Good teen series for 13 year old girl?
I read these series already and am waiting for more books to come out so are there any other series like these: Private- Kate Brian Clique Series- Lisi Harrison Gossip Girl- Cecily von Ziegesar The It Girl- Cecily von Ziegesar Pretty Little Liars- Sara Shephard Kissed By An Angel- Elizabeth Chandler Uglies- Scott Westerfield Poseur- Rachel Maude These are books i don't wanna read: The A-list- Zoey Dean Alphas- Lisi Harrison Sisterhood of Traveling Pants (read 1st and 2nd but don't wanna read something like it) Monster High- Lisi Harrison
Books & Authors - 10 Answers
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Answer 1 :
I'm 13 and i read -Harry Potter by J.K rowling And MAXIMUM RIDE BY JAMES PATTERSON<3 best book ever Hope this helped?
Answer 2 :
Percy Jackson Series (Rick Riordan) Redwall Series (Brian Jacques) Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
Answer 3 :
The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot The Mediator series by Meg Cabot The Gallagher Girls Series by Allie Carter -- "I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You" is the first book) Rampant by Diana Peterfreund The Ashleys by Melissa de la Cruz Hope this helps.
Answer 4 :
Heh, Monster High looked interesting... love the dolls. ^_^ But, I'd suggest the Percy Jackson and the Olympians and maybe Harry Potter. :) Good books in my opinion. ^_^
Answer 5 :
The lovely Bones - a girl who is raped and murdered and watches over her family and her murderer. Great ! To kill a mockingbird - a black girl who is raped and tries to get justice Lord of the flies - boys stranded on an island, turn savage like as they turn against each other the catcher in the rye - teenager, teenage life, grows up etc
Answer 6 :
Eragon - Christopher Paolini Inkheart - Cornellia Funke Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling Twilight - Stephanie Meyer (it really is a good book, just ignore the new movie craze) A Series of Unfortunate Events - Idk who its by Hatching Magic - Idk who its by The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Answer 7 :
Suggestions in order of the absolute best books to good: Hunger Games--Book 1: Hunger Games Harry Potter--Book 1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, though I **highly** suggest you skip the first book and go back to it later. It'll turn you off the series immediately; the other books are MUCH better. So go to "Chamber of Secrets." Chronicles of Narnia--Book 1: The Magician's Nephew Percy Jackson--Book 1: The Lightning Thief Guardians of Ga'Hoole--Book 1: The Capture Alex Rider--Book 1: Stormbreaker Wolf Brother Spirit Bear
Answer 8 :
Harry Potter-J.K. Rowling. The Hunger Games Trilogy_ Suzanne Collins.
Answer 9 :
Lorien Legacies (I Am Number Four is the first book) by Pittacus Lore (second book, The Power of Six, is supposed to be released August 23, 2011 i believe) Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter (I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You is the first book) Heist Society by Ally Carter (next book is Uncommon Criminals which has not been released) Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing) House of Night series by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay) Blue Bloods series by Melissa de la Cruz
Answer 10 :
I'm a girl and in my 20s, so I don't really know much about what 13 year olds would like to read... BUT I too was young once! Anyways, I believe that's the age I started reading Harry Potter-- and I can honestly say, I LOVE the book series and will love it forever. I've already planned to wear a cloak and read it to my future kids over and over to get them hooked on reading. :P But if you've seen the movies, and are sick of people recommending that, then I recommend you read The Hunger Games. It's definitely the new young-adult book fad, and it's very gripping. It's mainly action/thriller, but there's a little love thrown in, with lots of twists. Even as a 20-something year old, I highly enjoyed it. Happy Readings

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Monday, April 2, 2012

About 100 Books Every High School Student Should Read

100 Books Every High School Student Should Read?
Do you agree with the list? How many books on this list have you read (High school or not)? Are there any books you'd add to this list? I didn't read any of these in high school, read some of them in college, and some I've read on my own. Some are on my to-read list. Atonement is my favorite book of all time. This list comes from the Accredited Online Colleges website. 1 Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien 2 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 3 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore 4 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 5 One Thousand and One Nights Anon 6 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 7 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 8 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre 9 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 10 The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki 11 Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 12 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing 13 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin 14 On the Road by Jack Kerouac 15 Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac 16 The Red and the Black by Stendhal 17 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 18 Germinal by Emile Zola 19 The Stranger by Albert Camus 20 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 21 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey 22 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 23 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 24 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 25 The Trial by Franz Kafka 26 Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee 27 Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan 28 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque 29 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler 30 The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin 31 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 32 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino 33 Crash by JG Ballard 34 A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul 35 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 36 Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 37 The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz 38 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 39 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift 40 My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk 41 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 42 London Fields by Martin Amis 43 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaoo 44 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse 45 The Tin Drum by Gnter Grass 46 Austerlitz by WG Sebald 47 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 48 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 49 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 50 Underworld by Don DeLillo 51 Beloved by Toni Morrison 52 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 53 Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin 54 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 55 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 56 The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet 57 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre 58 The Rabbit books by John Updike 59 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 60 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 61 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 62 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 63 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 64 The Warden by Anthony Trollope 65 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 66 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis: An uncommitted history lecturer clashes with his pompous boss, gets drunk and gets the girl. 67 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 68 Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 69 A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell 70 Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky 71 Atonement by Ian McEwan 72 Life: a User’s Manual by Georges Perec 73 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 74 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 75 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 76 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 77 Ulysses by James Joyce 78 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 79 A Passage to India by EM Forster 80 1984 by George Orwell 81 Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne 82 The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 83 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh 84 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 85 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene 86 The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse 87 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 88 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 89 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 90 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 91 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 92 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 93 Disgrace by JM Coetzee 94 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 95 In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 96 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 97 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 98 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 99 Moby Dick by Herman Melville 100 Middlemarch by George Eliot @Emily - Nope, a quick copy/paste. ;) You'll be surprised what technology can do for you. :D Even though I haven't read it, I'm quite surprised that JRR Tolkien is at the top of her list. Most of these books I'd never read, though. Just not my taste, including the non-fiction books.
Books & Authors - 5 Answers
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Answer 1 :
Yes. I loved the great gatsby! Another book I liked was the crucible.
Answer 2 :
Add East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli Uncle Toms Cabin by Charles Dickens Good books for High school students.
Answer 3 :
LotR is number one? Whaaa? Good series, don't get me wrong, but I don't see the Millennium Trilogy or His Dark Materials on there! Personally, I don't care for Mark Twain.
Answer 4 :
Interesting list. I've read about half the list & some of them BLEAH! I am not a Lord of the Rings fan & Ulysses gave me a headache. No Hemingway, no Shakespeare, no Carson McCullers , no Faulkner. I'd add one work from each. Don Quixote is a masterpiece but long. I much prefer East of Eden & Cannery Row to Grapes of Wrath. Heart of Darkness is wonderful.
Answer 5 :
Interesting list. I've read 8 total...well, maybe 7. Portrait of a Lady was absolute hell for me and I didn't so much read it as I just skimmed over the words. I'm not too surprised LotR is on the list. Its a brilliant series and classic fantasy. I'm a bit surprised by Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, though. Interesting choice. Any high school student should be able to get through that, though, even the ones who hate reading and sleep through class. There's some others on there I plan on reading sometime in my life and some I probably will never read, but its a pretty good list, I think

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Friday, March 2, 2012

About Can someone recommend me books

Can someone recommend me books?
I’ve read so far... “Crank” and also “Glass” By Ellen Hopkins and Also “Burned” and “Impluses” (all by the same person) “Tweak: growing up on methamphetamines” By Nic Sheff “The year she left” By Kerry Kelly “Honey, Baby,Sweetheart” By deb caletti All of Sarah desson’s books that has came out recently “Last Summer” By hailey abbott “Cruel summer” By hailey abbott “Time travels wife” By audrey niffenegger (I haven’t seen the movie yet) “Harry potter” (all of them) “Night world 1-3” By L.j. smith (I’m not interested in the vampire one) “Looking for JJ” By Anne Cassidy “evermore” By Alyson Noel “The awakening” by Kelly Armstrong “Hush Hush” By becca fitzpatrick (wasn’t a fan, To much like twilight for my taste) “Wondrous strange” By Lesley Livingston “Revealers” By Amanda Marrone “Kissed by an Angel” By elizabeth chandler “Twilight series “ By stephanie meyer I think thats all of them, at least from what I remember. I’m more looking for Younger adult then preeteen books. I’m 18, so yea. and I want to try and stay AWAY from the longer series out there, I also am not a big fan of vampires... I liked Night world probably the most because it had a mix of everything, and I’m re-reading Kissed by an Angel because I love that book a lot too. I also really like books like Ellen Hopkins (I need to read the others she has out right now) meaning with struggles in life and such, I don’t want to read “Go ask alice” or “cut” So yea, List away, keep in mind I don’t want anything to do with vampires, like “vampires kisses”... I’d like to read more books with angels. :D Ohh and I like romance. Okay I’ll stop now. haha... anyways thank you. Thanks. Haha I don't want to read books that move slow.. Hush Hush moved slow, I felt like I was going to cawl my eyes out... Haha I dislike painfully slow books. Anyways thank you
Books & Authors - 4 Answers
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Answer 1 :
Try some of these books: Fallen by Lauren Kate (I wasn't the biggest fan because it moved very slowly, but it does have angels.) Looking for Alaska by John Green Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater Lament by Maggie Stiefvater Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Sing Me to Sleep by Angela Morrison Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent The Dark Divine by Bree Despain The Everafter by Amy Huntley (:
Answer 2 :
Expecting Adam, Martha Beck Hope Rising, Kim Meeder The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis Sacred Psychology of Love, Marilyn Barrick Bridge to Terabithia, and Jacob Have I Loved, Paterson West with the Night, Beryl Markham and Momo, Michael Ende Reviews at http://www.amazon.com
Answer 3 :
Nokosee: Rise of the New Seminole by Micco Mann. It has the defiant voice of a 17 year old girl who manages to overcome everything thrown at her in the course of the novel which is a lot-- and she does it in a way that would make all girls proud-- not in a superhuman way or through the assistance of some heroic act of a man but via her own means. http://bit.ly/NokoseeKobo http://bit.ly/Nokosee Cherry by Mary Karr. A memoir about teens, sex, drugs and growing up in rural Texas as told through the gritty, beautiful prose of one of America's best writers. It's a book every teen girl should read. If the opening paragraph doesn't do it for you, nothing will (you can read it on the Amazon link below). http://bit.ly/CherryKarr The Liar's Club by Mary Karr. Another moving memoir recounting her earlier years (you should probably read this one first and then Cherry). http://bit.ly/LiarsClub
Answer 4 :
*The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult *A Certain Age by Rebbecca Ray *She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb *Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles *The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks *A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks *Willow by Julia Hoban *Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho *Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson *The Pact by Jodi Picoult *Such A Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess *Leftovers by Laura Wiess *Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin *The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold *Coffeehouse Angel by Suzanne Selfors *Leslie's Journal by Allan Stratton *Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers

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Thursday, February 2, 2012

About What's your opinion on these books

What's your opinion on these books?
I was planning on reading these and was wondering if they were any good...also I'd like to know if you know of any other good teen books. I love Sarah Dessen's books, The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot, The Clique series by Lisi Harrison, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares. Thanks!! :) - Kissed by an Angel by Elizabeth Chandler - Uglies by Scott Westerfield - Poseur by Rachel Maude - Secrets of My Hollywood Life by Jen Calonite - Private by Kate Brian - Bloom by Elizabeth Scott - Perfect You by Elizabeth Scott - Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott - Girlfriend Material by Melissa Kanter - If I Stay by Gayle Forman - Friend Me by Cathy Hopkins - I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder - Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks by Lauren Myracle - Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson - The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti - The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti - Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti - Wild Roses by Deb Caletti - The Fortunes of Indigo Skye by Deb Caletti - The Queen of Everything by Deb Caletti - Pure by Terra Elan McVoy - Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher - Forever... by Judy Blume
Books & Authors - 3 Answers
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Answer 1 :
The Private Series I found dull, if you're really girly and into popularity you'll like it, and Posuer which I have started is a lot better written than the Private series, but still dull.
Answer 2 :
the uglies series is amazing!
Answer 3 :
Uglies is good, but I haven't read any of the others
 
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