Prompt: ‘We cannot always be ourselves in the company of others’ Statement of Intention This expository piece draws upon the context ‘Identity and Belonging’ in conjunction with personal memoirs from Alice Pung’s ‘Growing up Asian in Australia’. The purpose of this piece is to explore and invite my audience to experience what it is like to be the subject of isolation due to differences in appearance‚ language and culture and to point out the internal struggles people have while trying to discover
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Malú Buil Think Piece Identify There’s a disorder called mythomaniac disorder that’s when people go on lying forever until they are indeed living in a lie. These people actually believe the lies they say. Sometimes when I listen to a song that has nothing to do with my life I adapt it to my life and get really angry if the singer is feeling that way or romantic if that’s the case. It happens to me so often that I thought that I was somehow a mythomaniac‚ but just lying to myself not to the world
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A Piece of String Guy de Maupassant It was just midnight. Somewhere near the center of a cloud of tobacco smoke‚ which hovered over one corner of the long editorial room‚ Hutchinson Hatch‚ reporter‚ was writing. The rapid click-click of his type writer went on and on‚ broken only when he laid aside one sheet to put in another. The finished pages were seized upon one at a time by an office boy and rushed off to the city editor. That astute person glanced at them for information and sent them on
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EXPOSITORY PIECE “Our identity is influenced by how others see us” Monica Ung 11B A person’s identity is the essence of who they really are. However‚ the way an individual is viewed can shape their identity but only slightly. Identity usually comes through from an individual’s beliefs‚ opinions and experiences nevertheless; appearance and social status can also play a role. In today’s society‚ perception and the way someone is seen tends
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go to as World War II affects the world all around them. Although the two of them are complete opposites‚ they become “best friends” very quickly. As the novel progresses their friendship develops problems‚ one of which is jealousy. In A Separate Piece Gene and Finny show that jealousy can destroy friendships. The boys are jealous of each other all throughout the story and this jealousy eventually puts one of the characters in an awful situation. While Gene Forrester is a hardworking scholar who
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Thought Piece: Mnemonics As a student‚ it is always my mother’s interest to know how to help me achieve higher results by remembering more information related to exams. When it comes to the ability to remember‚ we should talk about ‘memory’. Memory is the nervous system’s capacity to retain and receive knowledge and skills; this system includes three main stages‚ which are encoding‚ storage and retrieval (Gazzaniga ‚ Heatherton. & Halpern‚ 2013). Actually‚ there are three types of memory
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DESCRIBING A HANDSOME MAN BLOND HAIR LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3 LEVEL 4 LEVEL 5 OTHERS Viking-gold hair Nordic-gold hair Aryan-gold hair lions mane-gold hair Achilles-gold hair Hercules-gold hair Scandinavian-gold hair Teutonic-gold hair mother lode-gold hair Apollo-gold hair 1. He had wavy‚ Hercules-gold hair. 2. He had mussed‚ Nordic-gold hair. 3. He had twirling‚ Aryan-gold hair. 4. He had a swirling‚ lion’s mane of gold hair. 5. He had whisked‚ Apollo-gold
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Pieces of April Opening scene: Acoustic steel guitar sound track Close up of April in bed= implies not ready to get up “This is your big day we don’t want to miss this opportunity” Bobby drags April from the bed‚ shoves her in the shower “No Bobby” Bobby starts making the food while April sits on the toilet saying “I’m coming” Costume- black eyeliner -black nail polish -tattoos -black boyfriend
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“The Philippine Revolution” The revolution would begin at midnight‚ Saturday‚ 29 August. Aguedo del Rosario‚ Ramon Bernardo‚ Vicente Fernandez‚ and Gregorio Coronel were named brigadier-generals. Route for the tree commanders to take in the attack on manila were assigned. Philippine Revolution (1896-1898)‚ called the “Tagalog War” by the Spanish‚ was an armed military battle between the people of the Philippines and the Spanish colonial authorities that lead in the resignation of the Philippine
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and O Brother‚ Where Art Thou: Two Relevant Pieces? Time has not become the conqueror for the classical epic poem The Odyssey. For the past 2‚500 years it has been turning its pages for many people all around the world‚ classifying it as the Western literary tradition. Even in the 21st century The Odyssey is still depicting its prominence when the film O Brother‚ Where Art Thou was directed in 2000 by loosely portraying the epic. The Coen Brothers’ film O Brother‚ Where Art Thou mirrors themes‚
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