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    The Soldier

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    The soldier IF I should die‚ think only this of me:     That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be     In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore‚ shaped‚ made aware‚     Gave‚ once‚ her flowers to love‚ her ways to roam‚ A body of England’s‚ breathing English air‚     Washed by the rivers‚ blest by the suns of home. And think‚ this heart‚ all evil shed away‚     A pulse in the eternal mind‚ no less         Gives somewhere

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    Our desire to belong is universal‚ but expresses itself in different ways ‘A Long Way Home‚’ written by Saroo Brierley gives a riveting overview of the harsh reality the 5 year old encountered whilst being lost in the slums of India. In this suspenseful Autobiography Brierley takes the readers on his life changing journey from his old life in India to his new life in Tasmania. Throughout the Autobiography Brierley is faced with the difficulties of not belonging and wanting to belong. The idea

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    Driving Memoir

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    Memoir Driving a car is no easy task‚ especially when someone is trying to learn it for the first time. For many people driving is a terrifying experience which they hate. For others‚ driving is more of a duty and want to be over with it as soon as they can. For people like us‚ we drive for the sheer heck of it. Ever since I was a youngster‚ I always wanted to learn how to drive. I loved cars-and I still do to this day‚ this is why part of me wants to become a mechanical engineer. At the age of

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    Memoirs of a Yikpata Camper Blue skies‚ Birds chirping and enough Woof! Woof! Woof! did the trick… No better morning wakeup call than our annoying neighbor’s dogs … Angrily rolling over the bed and curling my hands to my head‚ it was right then I realized I slept without my hair net on… eishhh! My new locks were everywhere * I don’t care face on* Debola! It’s almost 7:00am’ Bunny called from the bathroom… ‘I am already up! I shouted. This wasn’t just any Tuesday morning‚ neither was it just any

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    Child Soldiers

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    Multi Genre Project Child Soldiers By: Ralia Lahlou Ms. Gugel March 2nd‚ 2012 The Beginning of the Change From the first day‚ something about these innocent eyes filled with hatred inspired me to write. These eyes are those of a child soldier. Before starting this project‚ I did not think much of children fighting in wars‚ but as the research got deeper and my understanding of their situation more thorough‚ this project became much more than a simple task I had to accomplish. I felt close

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    Gone

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    Thus far‚ we have spent the beginning of the semester exploring numerous questions concerning the relationship between religion and ethics. For this first paper‚ it will be your job to tie together several of the readings that deal with this relationship. This paper requires you to do several things: 1) Despite the differences that exist between the Dalai Lama’s understanding of the relationship between religion and ethics and Pope John Paul II’s understanding of the relationship between religion

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    The Soldier by Rupert Brooke Versus Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen Thesis: There are several differences between Brooke and his poem and Owen and his poem. 1.) Owen vs. Brooke 2.) Owen’s Poem vs. Brooke’s Poem 3.) Owen’s opinion of the war vs. Brooke’s opinion of the war 4.) Conclusion Both of these poems took place during World War I. This was a very dark and gloomy time period. Though both of these poems are very different they are both true of the war

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    Soldiers

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    piece of it as a cemetery for the soldiers who gave their lives defending our nation. It was wise to dedicate Cemetery Hill to the soldiers‚ and yet it really wasn’t in their to do that to set apart that section as sacred. The brave soldiers who fought in the battle had already done that more than the gathered people ever could‚ simply by fighting for freedom there. No one will remember what is being said here but rather what will be remembered is what the soldiers did there. So instead of dedicating

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    Boys Will Be Boys

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    boys will be boys Barbara Kantrowitz and Claudia Kalb’s‚ “Boys will be Boys” article‚ explains how after years of research on girls‚ boys must also be put under the microscope‚ in efforts to reach a further understanding of the adolescent male. The two authors start their article by pointing out‚ that boys and girls come from two completely different “planets”. They have two different “crisis points”‚ which are stages of emotional and social development‚ where things can go seriously wrong. Kantrowitz

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    The First World War spawned a great variety of war novels and memoirs. German novels such as All Quiet on the Western Front and British memoirs by Robert Graves‚ Siegfried Sassoon‚ and Edmund Blunden helped to create a mythology of "disillusionment." I will survey several German and British memoirs in this essay‚ making comparisons between them with a view to drawing some conclusions as to how German and British soldiers sustained morale. Ernst Jünger’s The Storm of Steel is a unique and interesting

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