In 1995, Nicole's role in a satirical comedy_ To Die For_ won her the first Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress came in 2001 for a musical film, Moulin Rouge. The following year, she received both the Academy as well as The Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress for her outstanding performance as Virginia Wolf in The Hours. She was the first Australian actress to win an Academy Award. The icing on the cake was when Nicole received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003. * how sre the idea arranged

How does this version of "rapunzel" differ from the one you might already know? what archetypes do you see in this story? story will be in the comments

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

On her zoo blog, bindi describes the experience of walking the red carpet with her mum that evening, and the unmatched joy of what happened soon after. “all the categories came up, but then mine did! they said all these top actresses' names then my name! the guy said 'and the winner is . . ’ . . my heart stopped . . ‘bindi irwin! ’ i could not believe it, i won! i was amazed, in tears, i could hardly talk! i’ll never forget that great trip! ” what does the hyperbole in the excerpt the reader understand about bindi? she had a medical problem. she was extremely frightened. she became very excited. she won an important award.