So what was the best part of Blair Waldorf’s 17th-birthday party? The fun Asian theme? No. The Guitar Hero smackdown between Serena and Vanessa? Not quite. Any scene between Blair and Chuck? Most definitely yes. As cute as Dan and Serena are‚ Blair and Chuck are my new favorite couple. And they’re not even officially a couple... yet. Or possibly ever. Now we know for certain what some of you suspected last week: Chuck likes Blair. As in‚ really likes her. To the point where he can’t sleep‚ he
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Big Surprise Have you ever done something no one has ever expected? Like surprised someone that cried? I have surprised my whole family in America when I moved here. No one was expecting us to come; especially my aunt. When my family and I were moving here from Poland‚ we planned to surprise everyone. Our goal was to fly here and surprise my aunt‚ my dad’s sister‚ for her birthday which is exactly on April Fools’ Day. So it makes it the perfect day to surprise someone. The only people that knew
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Katharine Brush’s short story “Birthday Party” contains many literary elements that make the story unique and memorable. Brush’s purpose for writing this piece is to teach two valuable lessons: things are not always what they seem and every action has its consequence. To achieve her purpose‚ Brush uses literary devices such as irony‚ tone‚ point of view‚ etc. to make readers feel as though they are living in this captured moment along with the characters. Situational irony plays a big role in this
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Female author Katherine Bush composes a short story “The Birthday Party”‚ exposing the vices behind a generation of women who were emphatically conformed to the velocity of men’s chauvinistic lifestyle. The text does not go far enough to explain it; however her descriptions‚ perspective‚ diction and syntax portray the husband’s insolence so well that its purpose to induce the reader’s disgust is utterly achieved. Initiating the short story by introducing her subjects immediately the author describes
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century the SAAB 9000S. I hope to inform my audience well enough that I won’t need to tell anyone when my birthday is ever again they will already be well aware. First of all the front page of the New York Times had some very fascinating stories such as Israeli Army Ending 24-hour Incursion in South Lebanon in which Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah‚ spiritual mentor of the pro-Iranian Party of God‚ said in a sermon today that “Muslim fighters had resorted to firing missiles into Israel only after
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19 million other people share a birthday on the same day as you. When 22 football players and a coach are playing in the field‚ even though there are 365 possible birthdays‚ the possibility‚ that two people have a birthday on the same day‚ is 50% !!! More people are born in period from September 22 to October 5 in the United States than any other days. It holds a not-so-surprising significance‚ as conception would have fallen on Christmas holiday and New Year’s Eve. The early Christians
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Anxious and Excited. Those words describe me on the day of my 6th birthday party. Excitement can come in 2 ways: inside or out; mine was shown in both ways! So many people had come to celebrate with me and the fact that people cared enough to come celebrate is something that is very special to me. It was the day of my party‚ a day I would never forget. I had so much excitement I could hardly contain it. Yet still‚ there were things to be done. The moonwalk we had requested had arrived and
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“The Surprise Ending” Assignment 1: Essay Humanities 112: World Cultures II “A Modest Proposal for Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland‚ from Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country‚ and For Making Them Beneficial to The Publick‚” is a story about the author Jonathan Swift‚ who reveals the life in his country. Swift explains that the streets are filled with begging women and unattended children lurking the streets. The women in the streets have many children and cannot
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In the poem‚ “A Birthday”‚ Christina Rossetti uses extensive and positive imagery‚ mostly pertaining to natural descriptions. In fact‚ the whole poem is composed of imagery‚ that are all solely for the purpose of relaying the sense of pure joy the speaker is feeling. The first line starts off with “My heart is like a singing bird” which gives the impression that her heart feels as elated as a bird does when singing. Another example is‚ “My heart is like an apple tree whose boughs are bent with thick-set
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Birthday by Christina Rossetti Everything in the first stanza speaks of the happiness Rossetti sees around her‚ and the repeated expression ‘My heart is like . . .’ stresses this joy‚ but she says at the end of the first stanza that her “heart is gladder than all these” which implies that what the poet is feeling is more than she can put in words. The persona compares her heart to the “singing bird” to bring out how overjoyed she felt. This may imply that the author’s heart had the same energetic
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