Through its eye opening events‚ Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” suggest everyone can reach a breaking point and stand up. Honesty and integrity pitted against posturing and artificiality can result in positive change. Mama showed how things can happen in life‚ and can change your whole perspective on many things. In “Everyday Use” Dee was mamas daughter that was never satisfied. She had always been favored by everyone based on her looks and her whit’s compared to her sister Maggie. Dee felt like no
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MERDEKA Merdeka is a word in the Indonesian and Malay language meaning Independence or freedom. It is derived from the Sanskrit Maharddhika meaning "rich‚ prosperous and powerful". In the Malay archipelago‚ this term had acquired the meaning of a freed slave. The term Mardijker is a Dutch corruption of the Portuguese version of the original Sanskrit words and was used to designate former Portuguese and Dutch slaves from India in the East Indies‚ known as Mardijkers‚ whence the Malay meaning of "free(dom)"
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Alice Munro The Found Boat 1974 At the end of Bell Street‚ McKay Street‚ Mayo Street‚ there was the Flood. It was the Wawanash River‚ which every spring overflowed its banks. Some springs‚ say one in every five‚ it covered the roads on that side of town and washed over the fields‚ creating a shallow choppy take. Light reflected off the water made every- thing bright and cold‚ as it is in a lakeside town‚ and woke or revived in people certain vague hopes of disaster. Mostly during the late afternoon
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"Paradise Found and Lost" from Daniel J. Boorstin’s The Discoverers‚ embodies Columbus’ emotions‚ ideas‚ and hopes. Boorstin‚ a former Librarian of Congress‚ leads the reader through one man’s struggles as he tries to find a Western Passage to the wealth of the East. After reading "Paradise Found and Lost‚" I was enlightened about Columbus’ tenacious spirit as he repeatedly fails to find the passage to Asia. Boorstin title of this essay is quite apropos because Columbus discovers
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One Culture in Two Ways A short story written in the early 1970s by author Alice Walker‚ “Everyday Use” is about the conflict between two sisters. When Dee returns home to visit her mother and sister‚ a conflict arises involving who will keep the family quilts. The sisters grew up together and share the same mother‚ but in contrast to other children who were raised similarly‚ Dee and Maggie are complete opposites. Although Dee and Maggie both are appreciative of their culture and heritage‚ it is
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La Rue 1 Rob La Rue Give Back America A great man once said “ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country.” That great man was John F. Kennedy‚ our thirty-fifth President. Personal freedoms‚ along with democracy and other American traditions‚ require more than just knowledge of the latter. Freedom is not free; every person who calls themself an “American” should‚ and have‚ an obligation to reciprocate a small portion of themself back to society. American individualism
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Never give up At some point in the various journeys we embark on in our lives‚ we get to a part where we feel like giving up. Sometimes we give up before we even start and other times we give up just before we are about to make that huge break-through that we have been putting so much effort in to achieve. I want to tell to all of you that the only valid excuse you have to give up is if you are dead. As long as you are alive you have the choice to keep trying until you finally succeed. Secondly
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Humans have always been wildly fascinated about the possibility that extraterrestrial life could‚ does currently‚ or has existed elsewhere in the universe. This is a subject that has been questioned by humankind for at least 2000 years. Lucretius‚ a Roman poet from the first century B.C.‚ had suggested that “just as life originated by spontaneous chemical interactions on Earth‚ ‘we must acknowledge that such combinations of other atoms happen elsewhere in the universe to make worlds such as this
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our love is strong!! The distance is the only problem which is difficult to face deep inside it’s killing me knowing I can’t feel your touch each and every night!!! I was never strong enough but thanks to you‚I learned what to be and how to never give up but always smile and to never want to change me!! All I can do for now is just wait and pray.Remember that I love you no matter what!!!Remember how it was when we first started out i mean we were So much alike we shared every thought and We
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Never‚ never give up. means to keep trying and never stop workingfor your goals. do you agree or disagree with that statment? " try again never stop believing " here’s a saying that i agree 100% with it. dreaming is the sweetest thing ever‚ because we always dream about things we love and hope . The best way to reach your dreams and hopes is to work to achieve them and to change them to reality. Here are some great advices that can help to achive dreams: First of all‚ you need to set your
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