The story "Zaabalwi" by Nagub Mahfouz is about a narrator’s quest for Zaabalwi. The story takes in Cairo and the narrator looks everywhere to find the mysterious character Zaabalwi. The narrator is looking for Zaabalwi because he has a disease‚ which no doctor can cure‚ and he believes Zaabalwi can heal him. The people of Cairo refer to Zaabalwi as a saint‚ who possess physical healing‚ and religious salvation. The narrator first hears about Zaabalwi from his father. His father says "he’s a true
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once said "I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend." In the short story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury‚ the students treat Margot - the main character who comes from Earth - cruelly because they were jealous of her and wanted attention. Since she was from Earth‚ she experienced feeling and seeing the sun more recently. The theme of this story is that people are mean
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likes sardines? The word sardines for me sounds unpleasant because is not something most people enjoy eating. Bearman’s childhood sounded rough because in his school years‚ his lunch consisted of just sardines. The reading‚ My Half-Baked Bubble made me think back in the days‚ when I was in elementary school. Our lunch at our school was not the best‚ except on fridays was where we got excited for pizza. I had no sort of reaction after reading the story because all Bearman wanted to do was to create
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Darry is a character on the Outsiders‚ a book by S.E. Hinton. The outsiders is about two gangs‚ the Socs and the Greasers. It focuses on the many challenges between the two gangs. Darrel‚ aka Darry is a strong and responsible young man. Darry is a twenty year old brother of Ponyboy and Sodapop. “Darry is six-feet-two‚ and broad-shouldered and muscular” (6). Darry has cold green-blue eyes‚ and dark brown hair like his dad. He also looks like his father. “He doesn’t understand anything that is not
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Earth Day Earth Day is an annual event‚ celebrated on April 22‚ on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. “Earth day is every day”‚ as the saying goes‚ but it is acknowledged and celebrated every year on April 22nd. Earth Day’s history is rooted in 1960’s activism. Earth issues where the least of the government’s concern during this time and this angered Senator Gaylord Nelson. By 1969‚ Nelson had an idea of environmental protest modeled after anti-Vietnam
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Character Analysis In Runaway Girl by Carissa Phelps the reader knows from the beginning that the main character‚ Carissa‚ can’t stand discipline and runs away when authority steps in her way. Nevertheless‚ she creates friendships with people she thinks she can trust‚ but only ends up getting hurt by their dishonesty and greediness. Carissa is a rebellious‚ stubborn‚ independent child who grows into something amazing after all the dramatic tragedies that took part in her life. Carissa is
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I had a difficult time with all of these stories‚ especially the first two. I’m not sure if it completely had to do with the dialect‚ as it reminded me of one of my favorite books‚ A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing‚ which is written in fragments of heavy Irish dialect. I found nothing particularly intriguing. The stories seemed to begin out of nowhere and then end without any resolution or concrete statement. Ambiguous endings are very powerful in certain cases‚ but not so much if the story doesn’t offer
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One day‚ the story says‚ America’s great essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson saw a farmer trying to pull a reluctant calf into a barn. The farmer had a rope halter on the calf and was pulling with all his strength‚ but the calf had all four hooves dug into the barnyard mud and wouldn’t budge. To be helpful‚ Emerson got behind the calf‚ put his shoulder to its rump‚ and began pushing with all his might while the farmer continued to pull at the other end. The calf only planted itself more firmly. As these
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Burns 1 Warren Burns March 8‚ 2013 Mrs. Miller Character Analysis The story that I chose to do my character analysis was Everyday use and the character that was chose was Dee. She was the jealous and confrontational one among her family members‚ while as an individual she searches for special meaning and a stronger sense of self. Dee’s judgmental nature has affected Mama and Maggie‚ and desire for Dee’s approval runs deep in both of them—it even appears in Mama’s daydreams about a televised
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Character Analysis Essay One of the main characters is Katniss Everdeen. She is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem‚ the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms‚ each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called‚ "The Hunger Games." The terrain‚ rules‚ and level of audience participation may
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