Birthday Already in the title we know the occasion. The story starts with an introduction of the protagonist and the location. We are at a restaurant where Clara‚ the protagonist‚ is hosting a birthday party. We are now familiar with the settings. As the story continues a conflict is rising‚ coffee or ice cream? The exposition consists mainly of a description of the settings and the stunning things with ice cream and not that big of a descriptions of Clara. I believe the reason for that is‚ that
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“Birthday Box” By Jane Yolen “I was ten years old when my mother died”. This story is about the birthday present that Katie’s mom gave her this is by Jane Yolen called “Birthday Box”. She learns that life is empty if you don’t fill it. The little girl (Katie) and her mom are alone ( because her dad left ) and celebrating her birthday and she get’s to the last present and she asks “Who’s is this?” and then “V. Louise closed mama’s eyes‚ran her hand across mama’s cheek‚and turned
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‘A Birthday’ is an upbeat‚ jubilant poem about love‚ written by Christina Rossetti in 1861. While many believe that this love she is expressing so effusively is about a man‚ I believe that it is about her new-found love for God. Rossetti‚ after all‚ was a very religious person. The poem‚ surprisingly‚ has an exuberant‚ lively tone‚ a great contrast to her other works‚ which almost always give a sense of gloom and bleakness. Rossetti creates a structured arrangement‚ allowing the images to flow
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My Seventieth Birthday Speech “The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and have stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach-unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there.” Mark Twain Good afternoon family and friends‚ I am privileged to be here today to celebrate with you my seventieth birthday. Today is a day I
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This is the fourth year of the great drought and scientists say it will be the worst drought in 1‚200 years. The negative effects of this drought is that fields will go fallow‚ forests will catch fire‚ and wells will come up dry. California is already having some of these effects (maybe). California has underwent a mandatory water rationing for cities in the state. Even though California is going through tough times right now‚ it won’t last forever. Rain and snow from the high Sierra will return
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How to make a birthday cake Usually people enjoy getting better at their talents on new things like trying to make new desserts‚ which allow them to discover new tastes. A cake is one of the most fascinating pastries in the world‚ because it comes in various shapes‚ flavors‚ and tastes. Its original format comes from the chef. Cakes are great to do for someone’s birthday‚ an anniversary‚ a dessert‚ or just to surprise someone with a treat. There are a lot of recipes of cakes. All necessary things
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“under his breath- some punishing thing‚ quick and curt and unkind” after her surprise has lost the attention of others in the restaurant. The husband masks any kindness or gratitude he could have shown to his wife for taking him out to eat on his birthday and instead replaces that kindness and gratitude by indignation and hotness. Too practical for superficial romance‚ the husband can be seen as asserting his position as the head of the household through his obsession with his position in society
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My Worst Vacation Ever The purpose of the first leg of our ill-fated trip was to attend my sister-in-law’s wedding in a tiny suburb of Nuremburg called Weilersbach. Weilersbach is an adorable little town where men push empty wheelbarrows and women stand on their doorsteps sweeping nothing. I assume that the town was bombed during the war‚ but the Germans have restored it to what it looked like when gingerbread men roamed the earth. There are several businesses‚ quite a few homes and a windowless
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One theory in Jared Diamond s Collapse is that soil degradation and erosion leads to insufficient agriculture and a society s demise. In Timothy Egan s The Worst Hard Time‚ he sets forth in specific and excruciating detail exactly what Diamond outlines in Collapse. Only Egan s book isn t theoretical. It isn t a survey of what s happened in other countries. It s about the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. It s about what happens‚ right here in the heart of America‚ when the land is misused‚ mistreated‚ and
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MY WORST JOB I have held a couple of jobs in my short yet young life. I have not so much as hated a one particular job but rather didn’t like a certain conditions or a particular person‚ but at Western Inventory I recall too many things that were unpleasant‚ intolerable and unbearable. The first job I ever had‚ that I recall I hated the most was working at Western Inventory Service where I worked for roughly about three years. It isn’t a classy job and it isn’t the cleanest one either
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