THE CAVE Timothy Eves May 13‚ 1989: I sat in a cave‚ one of a multitude of prisoners. For dinner‚ as for so many other meals‚ we were served steak. Tendrils of steam rose from our plates like beckoning fingers. The aroma penetrated our nostrils; our mouths watered. We took a bite: the meat was so tender that it practically melted on our tongues. We groaned with pleasure. Where the meat came from we didn’t know—and didn’t care. We simply reveled in the flavor‚ the texture‚ the juice dribbling down
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It might seem that “Fly Away Home” by Eve Bunting. and Diary of a wimpy kid seem very different kinds of stories. Diary of a wimpy kid is first person and fly away home is 3 person. But today I am going to tell the similarities. In both stories‚ the teach us that there might be bumps on the road but you have to stay positive. In the story ‘’Fly Away Home” the anther shows us that there might be bumps on the road but you have to stay positive. One similarity is that the bird in fly away home is
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Annelies Marie Frank is one of the superlatively well known Jewish Holocaust victims by virtue of the book that was published called‚ “The Diary of a Young Girl.” This book is a diary that she was writing in during the time when she was hiding from the Nazis with her family and the Van Daan family from 1942 to 1944. There has been a play based off the book called “The Diary of Anne Frank” and at the edge‚ Anne states‚ “In spite of everything‚ I still believe that people are really good at heart.” I believe
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Symptoms of Narcissism in Eve I. Introduction A. “The allusion to pagan fable that most haunts views of Milton’s Eve is her Narcissus-like behavior when‚ fresh from her Creator’s hand‚ she pauses at the verge of the mirror lake attracted by her own reflection and has to be called twice: first by God‚ who leads her to Adam‚ and then‚ as she starts back toward the softer beauty of the face in the lake‚ by Adam himself.” (McColley 63). B. Eve’s scene in which she observes herself
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Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams focuses on the chaos and potential destruction of the Galaxy. Arthur Dent travels from planet to planet in order to find a new life. Ford Prefect fights the corporate regime. Tricia McMillian has an alien encounter. All three lives help decide the fate of the Galaxy. In chapter one‚ the history of the Galaxy is a confusing mess. People try to exceed the speed of light‚ but it is impossible to do. Only bad news travels faster. People continue to try to exceed the speed
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I chose to read a book that sounded really interesting to me. I found out about it last year during one of the Book Festivals. The book is called Zlatas Diary‚ and it is written by Zlata Filipović. It is from the Memoir/Autobiography genre. This is a diary that was published‚ and the author became really famous because of all the things that she had to go through‚ and because of her experiences. She had many journalists coming to interview her. The setting is in Sarajevo‚ Bosnia and Herzegovina during
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Many military families may have their own “deployment diary”‚ as some may know‚ this can be a bit challenging for families. This article gives many challenging situations with being a military wife and trying to raise two young children while the husband is deployed. The couple have been together for ten years. During the full ten years the husband has always been in the military. While enjoying having friends and family around‚ her five year old daughter ask if she could look at pictures while sitting
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Dear Diary‚ Like Macbeth‚ I was a general in King Duncan’s army. People admired my bravery‚ they feared my wisdom. The facade that hid my emotions intimidated people; I wasn’t to be messed with. Macbeth and I were walking back from our victory in the battle when we crossed a heath which seemed unusually misty and foggy. It was as if I could feel the eerie presence of evil‚ and that’s when we saw them; three old looking ladies. We had crept cautiously to investigate the matter; the witches had been
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“..and‚ in the last analysis‚ nothing is any good unless you can look up just before dinner or turn around in bed – and there he is. Without that‚ you’re not a woman” Is this the message of the film? Made in 1950‚ the film ‘All About Eve’ screen written and directed by Joseph Mankiewicz‚ was deliberately engineered to entice women back into their homes after WWII had forced many to assume working roles in the outside world. The film focuses on publicizing the importance of the image of a nuclear
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World Literature Essay 2 The following piece is based on the play written by Henrik Ibsen namely‚ A Doll’s House. This a creative piece of writing in a form of a diary entry written by the protagonist of the story‚ Nora. She is displeased by the life she lives and as an act of despair she runs away to live her life in ‘freedom’ (as she puts it). By making Nora express her feelings in the beginning‚ those emotions will be critically analyzed and the reasons will brought into notice. This piece of
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