------------------------------------------------- “A Journey” English Assignment 2p. Everyone and everything must die to make room for new people and other things. Destruction is after all is a form of creation. The circle of life is one of the themes Colm Tóibín is dealing with in his short story about the protagonist‚ Mary “A Journey” from 2006. The story takes place in the protagonists‚ Mary’s car. She is driving home from the hospital with her depressed son‚ David. Before the reader hears
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In the book “Under the Rice Moon” by Rhiannon Puck‚ the little swallow is sad. It was sad because all of the people that had bought it said that they would take care of it. None of the people understood the little swallow. The swallow just wanted to fly and be free “Under the Rice Moon”. That was the only way you could take care of it. The last person to receive the swallow was a little girl. The girl was sick‚ she knew what it was like not being able to get out of a small space
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A Hero’s Journey is about a character who lives as an ordinary life then an event happen that makes the character leave his normal life and go into an adventure. According to the book “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” by Joseph Campbell. The hero must pass trial in his adventure. He or she must achieve his goal to get a reward or go back to his ordinary life. In the movie “Wanted” by Michael Brandt highlights the Hero’s journey because the hero got rid of his old life and goes on an adventure to avenge
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A Cultural Journey A Cultural Journey The American comedy-drama film Outsourced was directed by John Jeffcoat in 2006. In this movie‚ the main Todd Anderson grudgingly traveled to India to train his replacement because his job and whole department were outsourced. In this foreign land‚ Todd started his new work; saw dingy but distinctive scenery; got a new name‚ Toad; met new people. Beside the living aspect‚ he also have an assignment needed to complete‚ which is to decrease the time of the
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Moon Landing 1969 “Ignition sequence starts‚ three‚ two‚ one‚ all engine running‚ zero‚ lift off.” On July 16th 9:32 a.m.‚ Apollo 11 was successfully launched as millions watched. Indeed‚ the lunar mission of the Apollo 11 was a new break through in the field of space exploration. Soon after‚ however‚ many controversies were raised on the authenticity of this event. Many critics of the lunar landing believe that this event was a hoax perpetuated to deceive the society. The debate‚ whether the moon
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The moon landing‚ was it real or was it fake? The first moon landing was back in July of 1969 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on the moon. For many people it was a fantastic achievement for others a terrible fraud. From the first day to now there has always been conspiracy theories about the moon landing. Some believe that it never happened‚ that it was a big hoax. Some believe that we have never went to the moon. And others believe that the first moon landing was fake but the many after
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Nepal- Kathryn Lingley 12083.56 Kilometres away from home‚ eight thousand dollars later and an adventure of a life time. Would you do it? Bridgette Morley from Hauraki Plains College chose to take this leap. Kathryn Lingley investigates what Bridgette journey was like? How it has affected her? In the end was it all worth it? ‘Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.’ - Andre Gide ‘When the plane touched down in Nepal I first noticed the mountains. They were so
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Sun and the Moon Many‚ many years ago before humans walked the Earth; the Earth would stay dark all twenty four hours of the day. The moon and stars being lovers would flourish in the sky all day and night long. Back then‚ the sun would never come out from behind the moon. Those reasons were unknown‚ but one day the sun had enough and became enraged in jealousy. Being clever and witty the sun devised a plan to kick the moon’s lover out of the sky and have the moon for him. The moons lover‚ Mahigan
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Supervising the activities on Earth‚ the only natural satellite on the Water Planet is perceived differently amongst the Homo sapiens roaming on it. Silver by Walter de la Mare and The Moon by P.B. Shelley are two insights on the character of the moon. Despite Silver and The Moon both powerfully describing the nature of the moon‚ the two poems depicts distinct images. ’Silver’ by Walter de la Mare is a bravura and meaningful poem with vivid imagery. In this innovated sonnet (with 14 lines‚ 7 couplets that
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Mystical Journeys Ending in Death The Tragedy of Macbeth and Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark were both written in the 1600’s by William Shakespeare. Both of these plays are one of the most famous works of art in English Literature. With these plays being very similar in the fact of mystical journeys‚ they are also different in many ways. Mystical events‚ insanity‚ and tragic death are all included in these two plays. Both Macbeth and Hamlet encounter mystical events in their plays. In Act
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