OLD STORY TIME This book tells about a mother who was enslaved by her past. She grew up in a society‚ which she was taught‚ "any thing that was black wasn’t good" and also that black signifies failure and hard ship‚ while white signifies prosperity and advancement. This belief was passed down as a result of slavery and has followed her through out her life. The story tells of a single mother by the name of Miss Aggy also called mama‚ who lived alone with her son Len and beside her lived her
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Alex’s POV I wake up feeling different. I don’t know what’s going on but I fell like someone else. I look over and see Tobin is still asleep. I stretch in bed and get ready to go to breakfast. I start making my way to the bathroom when I notice it. "Ahhhhhhh‚" I scream so loud I swear the mirror just moved. "How does this- What is going -Why am I Tobin?" I walk out of the bathroom and see Tobin looking at me. "I’m you‚" Tobin said. "And I’m you‚" I shake my head thinking this is a dream
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He came like a child to the mass‚ and left like a baby. The boy was the only person that did not attempt to pull the sword from the stone. “Come on son try it‚” his father pleaded. Yet still he would not move. Our strongest people tried first‚ then our weakest tried. Neither group was successful. So it stood there gleaming like a star‚ untouched by nature and untouched by man. Our governors met quickly to decided on the fate of the sword‚ ¨We shall hold a tournament‚ the winner of this tournament
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Tiago reaches out to his phone as the song ends. He stares down at the background‚ a picture of him and his girlfriend and their dog. He puts the phone down‚ moves to sit down at a desk. Tiago in front of his monitor watches‚ in shock‚ news footage: An assault of gruesome images of chaos‚ death and
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Ah summer 93’. My older brother and I were getting home from a Grateful Dead show. That’s me wearing the t-shirt turban. I had just finished being the bottom half of a human totem pole somewhere between a stoned man’s greased dungarees and a roach littered general admission mud pit. You can tell I was feeling good about it. Some say smoking that many blunts out in the open as a five year old could have serious repercussions for my irresponsible copulaters back home‚ but if my parents taught me anything
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I’m submerged; submerged under the frigid water. I scan my surroundings and find an abundance of nothing. I’m stunned by the scene. The water‚ vividly clear blue‚ was motionless and breathe taking; but not a fish‚ plant or rock in site. ’How did I get here?’ I thought. Panic erupts and rises inside of me. My body acts on its owns out of fear. Immediately‚ I began swimming in hopes to escape this agony. I don’t recall how I ended up here. Actually‚ I don’t recall anything at all‚ but my name. Keith
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especially about someone else’s future we have to put ourselves in the other persons shoe’s. I believe in the movie “A Time to Kill” ‚ Jake the lawyer’s closing argument would have allowed me to put myself in the shoes of the father of the girl that was rapped. I think the big contradiction in this case was the fact that the two boys that rapped the girl where white‚ and the girl they rapped was black. And at this point in time especially in the southern states racism was a really big issue. So this
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The Old Time Story The author Old Story Time‚ Trevor Rhone uses strategies for his readers to understand his play. The following will be considered in this essay: How the writer enables the readers to understand the culture of the play/Caribbean people‚ How mama’s view of black people in the play and how does racism affect the life of two characters. In this play there are a lot of culture the writer makes us understand about the Caribbean. Such as the game ’touch’ that was played by peal and
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The story Emma based from the book “A World of Prose” and published by the author Carolyn Cole is about a woman named Emma who is a very beautiful lady of leisure‚ she has stepped down from an active social life after giving birth to Dorian in order to spend more time with her daughter Maria. Her husband Jack is a notorious cheater and he is not faithful to Emma. The setting of the story occurs in three places the York Residence‚ an unknown mall and at the old train station where the death of Emma
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Creative Writing: A Dream Come True Chad Jay Yr.11 There I was‚ sitting on my bed at 2:30 am. Wondering about the dream I just had. Not only was it stupid‚ but I have never had such a weird dream. It was really different. The dream was about a little dog. The dog was walking on my chest‚ while I was lying on something soft. I think it was a mattress. The puppy walked towards y waist. I knew that it was going to bite. "Get lost". I yelled. The dog remained calm. Now it was standing on my waist
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