with astonishment. This literary element give a story the ending that it needs in order to be remembered. Irony comes in many forms‚ and some are more surprising than others. In the short stories‚ “The Censors”‚ written by Luisa Valenzuela and “The Gift of the Magi”‚ written by O. Henry ‚ irony is the main literary element and the two stores have similarities and differences. “The Censors” takes place in the country of Argentina‚ where there is a dictatorship. In this dictatorship everybody who sends
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In the article “Grace is A Gift”‚ the author‚ Laura Durham‚ tells a story to the audiences about her childhood and a life lesson that she was learned from it. When Laura is in third grade‚ her teacher plans activities to celebrate the Easter Day. She is very excited and can’t not wait to prepare the eggs for the party. In the day before the Easter Day‚ the teacher says all of the students will celebrate the Easter Day on Friday. Moreover‚ they must bring the spelling tests with their parents signed
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Natida Nivsnanda MACS 100 I believe the message of Black-ish’s “The Gift of Hunger” is that it is easy to lead a life of ignorance if you are absent from struggles. In the episode‚ Rainbow and Dre Johnson have given their four children a very fortunate‚ privileged life. But they soon realize that their children are spoiled when Dre takes his family to an inexpensive restaurant and all they do is whine and complain‚ expressing no gratitude. At home‚ Rainbow and Dre come up with a plan to put
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The Nile River Herodotus‚ a well-known Greek Historian‚ Called Egypt: ‘The Gift of The Nile.’ If it was not for the existence of the Nile River‚ Egypt would have been miles of barren sand with no future. The Nile played such an important role in the development of the Ancient Egyptian civilization that the history of Egypt and the Nile cannot be separated. The Nile is 6650 km long and 2.8 km wide. This makes it the longest river in the world. It has a very large catchment area of more than
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this is something that will just get you started. if you what to make the intro bit better. basically define what belonging is. HOPE IT HELPS In the book ‘the simple gift’ belonging to a group or to anyone has been a struggle to this one young person ‘Billy’‚ this young boy had left home as his father didn’t not support him in anything he did we are able to see this throughout a flashback billy has “when billy was ten years old he was playing soccer in the back yard practicing for the game but
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estimated 20 percent more water than is now available will be needed to supply the needs of the three billion additional human beings who will be alive by 2025” (Geddes). Recently the drought issue is becoming worse. In the article‚ “The Ocean’s Greatest Gift” by Kurt Stehling‚ he claims the world should use the nearby ocean to solve the drought problem. From a broader perspective‚ John Geddes‚ author of the article‚ “Water Wars‚” state water can also be considered a commodity‚ the same as goods for trading
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In each of the stories stated there is quite a predicament. In O.Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi” Della and Jim are both faced with a contradiction: they need to buy each other a Christmas present but do not have the money to do so. Both end up making sacrifices and it turns out that the presents that they got each other were for the sacrifices that they made. In Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace” Mathilde and Loisel also faced with a contradiction: they have lost a necklace that Mathilde borrowed
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In class‚ we have recently been reading the novel‚ The Ultimate Gift by Jim Stovall. Jason‚ the main character learns about the value of dreams and it gave me time to reflect on my own dreams and goals for this next year and for my future. If most people were to go through the process that Jason went through about the value of things I believe the world would be a better place. As well this novel has opened my mind to how I could help make a difference in others lives. My goals and dreams for this
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The two stories‚ “The gift of the Magi” by O Henry and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant shared similar themes and ironies. In the story “The gift of the Magi” both of the characters‚ Della and James‚ sacrifice the most important things they had (Della’s hair and James’s watch) to give the other happiness to find out the gifts were useless in the end while in “The Necklace”‚ Madame Loisel sacrifices both her own and her husband’s youth to pay for her friend’s necklace that she lost just to find
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“America’s Gift to My Generation” From coast to coast‚ from sea to sea‚ the armed forces have given their lives fighting for our rights. In American we have rights beyond the imagination. We can vote‚ we have freedom‚ and most importantly‚ we have a choice. Without the military we wouldn’t have those rights. So‚ we need to thank them‚ and our veterans‚ dead or alive. America’s gift to my generation is wonderful and we might not have those gifts without our armed forces because‚ they fought to keep
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