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    A berlin Diary

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    What was Christopher Isherwood’s aim when writing A Berlin Diary? When writing A Berlin Diary Christopher Isherwood’s main aim was to subtly portray his thoughts of unfolding events at that time. Isherwood weaves together his observations of life in nineteen-thirties Berlin‚ capturing the spirit of the city and the people within it. The main character Christopher Isherwood is painted as an observer‚ recording the occurrences around him in the city of Berlin. He says at the beginning of the

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    Hello, and Goodbye

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    Poetry Book May 6‚ 2013 Similes & Metaphors Thanksgiving: My family is like a Thanksgiving Buffet My mother is a Jello Salad‚ wobbly and sure‚ But too sweet and familiar to resist. My father is like a dish of potatoes‚ slightly overcooked Firm‚ unyielding‚ and comforting all at once. My Sister is a sweet potato casserole‚ A little bit of her goes a long way. My brother is the mystery salad on the end of the buffet Nobody is sure what is in it‚ so they mostly

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    Mango Says Goodbye

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    However‚ in Mango “Says Goodbye Sometimes” she still hates that house‚ but she feels like she is more a part of it. “In the House On Mango Street” Esperanza has no desire to go back to that house in the future‚ although in “Mango Says Goodbye” Esperanza wants to come back to her house in the future to say hello to all her neighbors and all her friends that she once knew before she escaped. She finds all the cons in living in a house like that. Yet in “Mango Says Goodbye” Esperanza finds all the

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    Goodbye to All That

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    There were many fine‚ powerful memoirs published about the First World War‚ and Robert Graves’ “Good-Bye to All That” is considered to be one of the most honest and insightful. Based on “ Triste La Guerre”‚ the descriptions of battle are horrifying‚ and the descriptions of military bungling and pomposity are darkly amusing. The book was published in 1929‚ it is hugely effective in describing the everyday dangers Graves faced‚ how death was always minutes away and how it was inevitable that after

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    goodbye africa

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    Ngugi wa Thiong’o 1938- (Born James Thiong’o Ngugi; also transliterated as Ngũgĩ) Kenyan novelist‚ playwright‚ essayist‚ short story writer‚ children’s writer‚ and critic. The following entry presents an overview of Ngugi’s career through 2002. See also Ngugi wa Thiong’o Criticism. As a spokesman for his people and a chronicler of Kenya’s modern history‚ Ngugi is widely regarded as one of the most significant writers of East Africa. His first novel‚ Weep Not‚ Child (1964)‚ was the first English-language

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    Goodbye, My Friend

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    a month .Almost immediately after his release ‚ he hanged himself from the heating pipes in his room . Before committing suicide‚ Sergei Yesenin wrote a poem in his own blood. Goodbye‚ my friend‚ goodbye My love‚ you are in my heart. It was preordained we should part And be reunited by and by. Goodbye‚ my friend‚ without pens or words.: no handshake to endure. Let’s have no sadness — furrowed brow. There’s nothing new in dying now Though living is no newer. Death is inevitable

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    Goodbye Lenin Essay

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    “It always takes about 10 years to have some distance. And distance allows you to laugh about yourself and things you wouldn’t dare laugh about when you’re right in the middle of it‚” director of Goodbye‚ Lenin!‚ Wolfgang Becker‚ stated in an interview discussing the movie. Goodbye‚ Lenin! focuses on the drastic shift in the lives of East Germans following the fall of the Berlin Wall. With the rise of communist nation‚ Russia‚ after World War II‚ came the conflict between communist and capitalist

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    Year of Impossible Goodbyes is book where girl face war with her family and her life is like in the country North Korea and towards the end how she escapes to the south.In beginning of the book it talks about how Sookan had a grandfather and how he has medicated under his pink tree and how he teaches her how to wise peaceful person.After with grandfather everyday sookan go’s to town with her mother to the sock factory to work on socks and how Captain Norita has to watch them work and they

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    Goodbye Lenin Analysis

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    Goodbye‚ Lenin is a heart-warming film about a son’s attempt to make time stand still in order to keep his sick mother from knowing the truth about the political changes. His mother‚ Christiana‚ is a strong political activist in the Socialist party in East Germany. She becomes ill after she sees her son‚ Alex‚ protesting in the streets‚ she falls into a coma after suffering a heart attack. During the eight months she is in a coma‚ the Berlin Wall comes down and capitalism floods in from the west

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    Not able to control its own country‚ Korea is taken over by the oppressions of both Japan and Russia. In the novel Year of Impossible Goodbyes‚ by Sook (Sookan) Nyul Choi‚ we are taken through her life as she grows up under the influences of Japan and Russia. Her family is separated while Japan ruled over them; when the Russians move in‚ her family is torn between North and South Korea; the 38th Parallel is all that separates them. Soon Sookan‚ as well as her mother and brother‚ find all means of

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