Life of a Slave in the Middle Passage Dear Diary‚ My name is Emem Okeke and I am 13 years old. I have just come off of a train transporting me to a plantation in America. I have been separated from all of my family (my mother‚ father‚ my brother and my sister) and I am most likely going to a different plantation. I was living in Sierra Leone when I got kidnapped. My tribe was a peaceful one‚ and we weren’t in any wars at the time‚ but while all of our tribe was asleep‚ another tribe ambushed us
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Motorcycle Diaries and Life of Pi Future is a mystery‚ is like a baby that is still in her/his mother belly‚ you know is there but you don’t know how he/she looks like. Motorcycle Diaries and Life of Pi teach us that there is a world out there that we don’t know about and sometimes we have to break the rules of life‚ family and even religion to survive and make things happen. Someone once said "the worst things in life come for free to us". "You gotta fight for every breath and tell death
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SLEEP DIARY Date _______________ Complete after awakening: Time you went to bed _______________ Time you fell asleep _______________ Time you woke up _______________ Number of times awakened during the night _______________ Amount of time awake during the night _______________ Total Nighttime Sleep _______________ Comments on quality of night’s sleep: ____________________________________________________________ Did you feel groggy after getting up in the morning? Yes _____ If yes‚ for how long?
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Diary Entry 1 We Africans had everything we had possibly wanted: Shelter‚ food‚ and family & friends to rely on. But we were all lacking something as a continent‚ and that was ‘freedom’. Now I’m going to explain how I was captured and brought up to be a slave. It was a typical day in Ghana when my mother asked me to go and milk the cow at our farm that was just before the woods. I had always been an exploratory person and this time I wanted to go and discover the woods. I had always been told
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while November 27th describes the initial excavation of this room and identifying it as Tutankhamen’s tomb. Howard Carter’s passion for Egypt and archeology is prominent in his careful description of the excavation of this tomb. While written in a diary format‚ it is obvious that he intends to later share his findings with his academic community (which was indeed later published.) His use of exacting language and in-depth description of what he experiences‚ down to a laundry list of items the ante-chamber
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Dear Diary Today I went to the Globe theatre for the first time. The journey there was very entertaining and picturesque‚ instead of going by ferry as many people usually do I decided to save my money and do a bit of exercise by walking instead across the London Bridge which was also good. As I came by the Globe theatre I passed the pits where bear baiting and cockfightings were taking place. The streets were full of people‚ some were pushing to get through others were shouting and quite a
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6 Diary Entries Alex is fourteen years old when he learns that his Uncle has died in a car accident. He finds this odd as he knows his Uncle to be a predictable character who is generally very careful. Alex’s Uncle is a banker and he therefore feels very suspicious of his death. As he is the only living relative‚ he cannot talk to any other family about the way he is feeling. As Alex is unable to talk to anyone about the way he is feeling‚ he needs to find out further information for himself
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Civil Rights Diary: The Assassination of Malcom X Alicia Hammonds January 28‚ 2015 HIS/145 Danny Mullen Assassination of Malcom X Diary Feb 21‚ 1965 I will never forget today. It is unbelievable how much things have changed in only a small matter of time. The grief that consumes me is much like the loss of a family member‚ although me and Brother Malcom have no ties other than our religious and political standpoints. Still‚ I can not explain this overwhelming feeling
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"Sunday 3rd January Dear Diary‚ Today is a good day. The aid workers came. They dropped off a food box and some blankets. They gave me a pair of brown leather boots. I have never had leather boots. Apparently the boots were donated by a little girl in America. I wish I could thank her and give her a big hug. We also had a stove given to us‚ so Auntie Ola can cook for us. Mother had always talked about a day like this. I dreamed about her last night. She was standing in front of a mirror brushing
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A REFLECTIVE DIARY ON THE FIRST SESSION 1. Main points of the session 1. MAIN POINTS OF SESSION The first session was an introductory session of the course. It highlighted some very important aspects which will hopefully help to create a healthy‚ beneficial and positive learning environment during the course period. The session was very systematically divided in different parts with specific time allotted to each part. * It began with an Ice breaker which made the trainees a
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