The theme of overcoming difficult odds is seen in the short stories The First Day‚ The Circuit‚ and On the Rainy River. In all of these compelling stories our main characters are faced with difficulties in their lives. In The First Day by Edward P Jones our main character‚ a little girl who is just about to start school‚ is on a journey with her illiterate mother who is desperately trying to give her daughter the education she herself never received. In The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez our main character
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My First Day on a New Job The beginning is a place where we all have to start at some point in our lives. It could be the beginning of a marriage‚ a relationship‚ a business‚ a pregnancy‚ or a job. The one thing all these relationships would have in common is that you don’t know what it’s going to be like. We all have our expectations; in courtship‚ before marriage‚ research and planning‚ before starting a business‚ and the interview before starting the job. Not even the interview and the expectations
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Different family traditions show different unique ways to celebrate the special day in fall. Thanksgiving isn’t only a day to prepare and eat food‚ the real meaning of Thanksgiving is to spend time with family and share your thanks and thoughts from the past year with each other. Some families share their highs and lows of the year. An interesting part of this fun filled holiday is how everyone spends it differently. Spending the day with family is surely something to be thankful for. Many people are also
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was yesterday. I was only 6 years old and I remember how excited I felt when my parent tells us about the trip one week to the day of going away. I had heard interesting stories about Canterbury Tales and I was so excited that in a week I would finally get the chance to visit this place. The wait was long for this day seemed longer hours and seemed like months. Then the day came and we were all set to go abroad on this trip‚ after all the preparation. My father‚ my mother‚ my sister and I grabbed
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One of the most memorable firsts that I’ve had happened on May 1‚ 2008. It was the first day of my new life‚ the life that I was going to spend buried in books‚ cramming to meet deadlines and running to class‚ late as ever. As I boarded the bus that fateful day‚ I thought of how this would work out. I wondered how all of my high school friends were doing. They were still having fun‚ sipping the last drips of fun from summer’s cup. I longed for the times we spent together just this past summer
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recalls her mother has always pointed towards Seaton Elementary School‚ and said that she is going to learn about the whole world in that place. (The First Day. Page; 288). Jones try to elaborate how‚ “The First Day” is going to last for the daughter for the rest of her life. How she discovers the truth about her mother and how she’ll carry this day along with
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The first day is always the hardest. You go from being the leaders of the school‚ to the babies of the school. It was the first day and everybody was full of both excitement and fear. I looked around‚ I saw a bunch of crowded newbies all around me‚ anxiously awaiting the bell‚ at the start the only person I could recognise was Chiara. Chiara is one of my best friends; we went through primary school together. Gradually more and more people showed up‚ until I could barely move. A few of them
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After I came to the United States‚ I began to attend North Penn High School on Dec. 6‚ 2000. It was a day that I will never forget. My first day in a foreign school was a especially hard for me. During my first day in a new school‚ I felt nervous‚ lonely‚ and sad. First‚ I was very nervous because my school was huge. There were around three thousand students who were studying in the school; furthermore‚ there were around three hundred staff members in the school. My class schedule was hard for
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First-Year Service Day Reflection I thoroughly enjoyed First-Year Service Day for I have always valued giving back to society in a myriad of ways. I‚ therefore‚ fully support of the idea of Service Day as I feel as though I benefited from it just as much as the community. Service Day benefited me by helping me connect to not only the Rome community‚ but also to my first-year seminar class. I was able to bond with my classmates while taking care of the environment. Conor and I strengthened our
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The ‘First day at School’ takes us through the vast stretch of a child’s mind on his first day of school. It voices the feelings of the child; his unknowing mind of the perplexing new world and how that has aroused a sense of anxiety and insecurity inside him. The poem also lets us delve into the child’s misapprehending of his new phase of life; his misinterpretations and how he had gotten the wrong idea. With that many qualities are conveyed to portray all this. In this poem it proclaims to have
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