Ayanna Camara AP English 12 Ms. Brilliant Summer Assignment A Quest for Love Americanah is a novel in which follows two characters‚ Ifemelu and Obinze as they fall in love in Nigeria and are then separated from one another due to their countries political situation. Nigeria‚ at the time‚ was under a military dictatorship. Due to this‚ a vast majority of the community wanted to escape the country and many did‚ including Ifemelu. As she was able to successfully enter America‚ Obinze was not able
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Nevertheless‚ as we kept talking I could only listen in fascination‚ our lives seemed so similar to each others. Our conversations were long‚ and laughter filled. We talked about our family and personal lives. We both became pretty close over the short amount of time that we had been talking. When it came to a more in depth conversation about of family‚ we both fell silent. “I used to have a father and mother‚ but they aren’t in the picture now” she explained as her eyes slowly teared up. After
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Sonically speaking‚ funk’s bass-centric nature and rhythmic backbone reflected an attitude of confrontation and rebellion. Loud horns‚ drums‚ and beats all paralleled the aggressive frustration out of which it came. Its hardcore‚ unrefined sound led many to label “funk [as] the extreme of everything” (Morant 75). In addition to the robust instrumentals‚ pioneers like James
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shelter from all the air raids‚ bombs and bullets. These trenches are strategically designed for all activities‚ with interlinking pathways. Since the weather only consists of rain‚ the mud has become unimaginably thick in the trenches; it has become incredibly difficult to complete simple tasks such as walking. Since all the soldiers have to live in the trenches the wet and thick mud has established its own disease called the trench foot; this is when the foot has a fungal infection. Each day the conditions
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Tigers: The Silent Assassins Armed with razor like teeth and retractile claws in addition to their keen senses‚ tigers are silent assassins on top of the food chain. The magnificent striped panthera tigris‚ originally from Eastern Asia‚ once ranged an enormous span of the earth’s surface. Over the past century‚ it is estimated that the tigers habitat and numbers have been depleted by up to 95%. Having been greatly limited as a result of many factors‚ mainly human impacts‚ the tiger has been driven
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together. This would obviously have made a sound – either loud or quite depending on how hard you hit them together. Take these primitive bones and add on 8 or 9 thousand years of musical evolution and you get the modern day drum kit. In my own opinion; instruments Have come a very long way. In my research drums‚ guitars and pianos has change in the way it looks and sounds. Ask yourself! How far did music come from to now? First close your eyes and picture this‚ even today if you go to
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nice to think that the Sun took time out of its busy schedule of waking up the earth’s inhabitants to give the speaker some words of encouragement and to let him know that his work is appreciated. The opening line‚ “The sun woke me up this morning loud / and clear‚” (1) which was amusing because the sun usually signals the beginning of the day already‚ but this sun took it a step further and vocally woke the speaker. However the speaker reacted much more calmly that I would have. The sun would have
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The Second Season Staged Reading Series: The Rabbit Hole By David Lindsay-Abaire December 3rd at 4:00pm Robert E. Sinclair Black Box Theatre Directed by Dennis Caughlin Ashley Olin G00637292 THEA 100- Boucher Extra Credit Due: Thursday 12/10 In Act I‚ Becca (Ally Salerno) calmly folds and boxes up clothing while her younger sister Izzy (Lisa Cento) hilariously and animatedly recounts her most recent bar fight. “Exactly how do you get fired from an Applebee’s?” Becca asks while
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American Literature Summer Reading List Summer 2014 Belmont High School English Department The following list was complied from the recommendations of the Belmont High School English department and contains some of the best-known works of American literature. Each book addresses the American Dream and/or American identities. All entering 11th graders must read at least one book from the list below over the summer. Students entering English 11 Honors must read at least one contemporary AND one classic
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country are equal to those of Joseph Stalin‚ a Soviet dictator in 1930’s and 40’s. There are many more things they have in common such as the command economy of North Korea and the poor treatment of its malnourished citizens. North Korea has done an extremely good job of secluding itself not only from South Korea but from the rest of the world as a whole.
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