Respected Teachers‚ Seniors and my dear Friends. A warm and hearty welcome to all of you present here! Its a day that comes in a year but brings innumerable emotions along with it. I think all of you would be a little sad‚ for you will be leaving behind people that shaped your life and a place that is as much a part of your identity as the name you bear .Every beginning has an end. And every end is a new beginning. It’s a relentless cycle seen in every aspect of our lives. A year starts; a year ends
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Today‚ I stand before you‚ with a lot of emotions; quite similar to those I faced the first day I entered this building. It was not just a building; it was a place that slowly but surely over the next seven years I could call a home.These seven years seem like such a long journey and you wake up one day and realize that suddenly‚ it’s all over... and all you can do is dramatize because as much as they tell you to look ahead‚ you just can’t stop looking back. When writing this speech‚ for the first
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Here’s to all the laughs and here’s to all the tears. Here’s to all the time spent together these last four years. Our high school years have gone by so fast‚ It’s hard to believe that soon‚ they’ll be a part of our past. We came here together‚ most of us unprepared. We were all a little worried‚ we were all a little scared. There were times we felt alone‚ times we felt sad. But it took times like those to realize what we had. We’ve learned how to love‚ we’ve learned how to care. We’ve
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In the morning of December 7‚ 1941‚ Jeanne Wakatsuki has to say goodbye to her father’s sardine ship at San Pedro Harbor in California‚ but when the boat returns sardines are not all it brings back. News that Japanese soldiers have bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. As a result to this George‚ Jeanne’s father‚ burns all his Japanese belongings like the Japanese flag and his identity papers. Unfortunately George is still arrested by the FBI because of his nationality. Rigu‚ Jeanne’s mother‚ moves the
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to understand the complex concept of wisdom. According to the dictionary‚ wisdom is defined as “the quality of having experience‚ knowledge‚ and good judgment” However‚ this definition takes form in many different theories. Ernest Hemingway‚ in A Farewell to Arms‚ explores different perspectives of wisdom as viewed by a young Frederic Henry and elderly Count Greffi. Some of the world’s greatest thinkers have formulated several different theories and perspectives regarding the meaning of wisdom. One
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my Last Farewell” Rizal’s most important poem is “My Last Farewell.” It has 14 5-line rimed stanzas; each stanza has the rime scheme: ABAAB. Charles Derbyshire translated it from the Spanish; the Spanish title is "Mi Ultimo Adios.” Derbyshire kept the original rime scheme when he translated from the original Spanish to English. “Farewell‚ dear Fatherland‚ clime of the sun caress’d” José Rizal was in prison waiting to be executed when he wrote this poem as a final statement to his fellow
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Power What is power? For generations many political leaders have gained and lost power. In the book Lord of the flies‚ children of the island gain power through fear‚ whereas in the novel Farewell to Manzanar‚ power lied in the U.S army keeping japanese americans captive. French revolutionist Maximilien Robespierre‚ struck fear into the hearts of many during the reign of terror‚ and the Estates system held power in different classes. the first and Second estates were the higher
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Trevor Robinson Kanshaw 1st 3/25/13 A Farewell to False Love essay “If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools” In the poem A Farewell to False love‚ Sir Walter Raleigh uses loaded language to prove that false love is hard to notice until you’ve already gone through the relationship. Raleigh uses such quotes as: “A mortal foe and enemy to rest”‚ and “A gilded hook that holds a poisoned bait” to make us as the reader to feel that false love
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Farewell to Manzanar New living environments will affect people in many ways. Different cities‚ different cultures‚ different people around us‚ even different food will affect people mentally and physically. The book Farewell to Manzanar which is written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston‚ is a memoir of the Japanese American family during and after World War II. The story is talking about Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family’s developments during World War II‚ especially concentrating
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A Farewell to Arms To what extent is love an escape from the horrors of war in A Farewell to Arms? In Ernest Hemingway’s novel A Farewell To Arms‚ the love between his two protagonists Catherine Barkley and Frederic Henry begins as merely a shallow distraction and escape from the horrors of war‚ yet develops into mutual and devoted dependence‚ which is much more than a simple avoidance of the chaos and distraction around them. Love is shown to provide meaning in a hollow and empty world where
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