What happened when people die? Some people say that they go to heaven or hell‚ others say that they enter the reincarnation circle and others say that there’s nothing after we die. Honestly‚ I was never a religious person but I still somewhat believed in God‚ I really liked reading lots of fantasy books about other worlds‚ and somehow I came to accept that there has to be something after we die‚ but I didn’t know what‚ until now. The day started fairly normal‚ I woke up to the sound of my annoying
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My Antonia by Willa Cather Author: Willa Sibert Cather‚ Nebraska’s most noted author was born in Virginia. At the age of ten she moved with her family to Webster County‚ Nebraska. Many of Cather’s acquaintances and Red Cloud area scenes can be recognized in her writings. Cather wrote poetry‚ short stories‚ essays and novels‚ winning many awards. In 1920 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Ours‚ about a Nebraska farm boy who went off to World War I. Willa Cather’s reputation
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Passage | Interpretation | Page # | “My husband’s not home‚ sir. Can I do anything?” -Antonia | Ántonia doesn’t recognize Jim. He has changed due to the business life and wondering away from his home‚ even though he wanted to keep things the same. Ántonia on the other hand did changed and grow‚ just like the land she lives on. It shows almost an Irony (diction trope) because he leaves Antonia saying he’ll return and she anticipates it‚ yet she’s the one that forgets him. | 214 | “You ought to
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Willa Cather’s My Ántonia narrates childhood stories from the perspective of Jim Burden‚ and focuses on his relationship with his close childhood friend Ántonia. Both of the characters move to Nebraska at the same time‚ and influence each other’s lives greatly. Jim Burden grows up to have a deep connection and longing for his past and repeatedly renews the relationships between close friends and hometown. My Ántonia shows the stages of life for a character around the 1900s‚ starting at 10 years
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admire Antonia Shimerda. Antonia is a young girl with great strength and courage. Her family having moved to a foreign land‚ without knowing anyone and barley being able to speak the language‚ speaks of the courage of the entire family. When her father can’t take the stresses put before him‚ he commits suicide. This leaves Antonia and the rest of the family to deal with the problems that he couldn’t. "Ántonia is a natural born mother"‚ I feel that Cather admires Antonia from this respect. Antonia stepped
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Why Transformation Efforts Fail by John P Kotter . • Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail 10 Further Reading A list of related materials‚ with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Reprint R0701J BEST OF HBR Leading Change Why Transformation Efforts Fail The Idea
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The most common advice given to novice writers is to ‘write what you know’. Although cliche‚ and sometimes unappealing to authors who want to expand and diversify their writing‚ this tip holds its credibility. When an author draws from personal experience‚ it not only makes her writing more genuine and convincing‚ but also allows gives her an outlet to express her unique struggles‚ desires‚ and beliefs. Willa Cather’s My Antonia is a poignant romantic novel about westward expansion‚ following the
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In the novel My Ántonia‚ there are two main characters. There are many other characters who are related to one another in some way. The characters connect to the story and tie the novel all together so that the novel makes sense throughout. The main characters are Jim Burden who is the author‚ and Antonia Shimerda. Jim is very interested in academics and spending time on his own rather than playing with other boys his age. Jim is married and works in New York City. Jim developes a very strong friendship
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It all started when I was still in high school. It was an exam week and I was afraid that I would get a bad result. So I used most of my time to study hoping that I could get good results. Sometimes‚ I even skipped lunch to catch up with my studies. After 2 weeks‚ exams are over and the result has been released. When my teacher was starting to passing out the grades‚ I was afraid that my results would be bad and I was trembling the whole time. When my name was called‚ I stood up and walk towards
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The Nebraska Landscape Humankind’s relationship to its environment is one of the strongest bonds people can make. In Willa Cather’s My Ántonia‚ this relationship is shown through many of the characters want to return to their hometown of Black Hawk‚ Nebraska. What they find they miss is a lost setting‚ a vanished world of people‚ places‚ and natural surroundings. They all develop a strong attachment to the Nebraska landscape‚ which never seems to leave them. Part of the reason for this connection
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