The best time of the year is when Christmas comes around. When the snow comes and it’s really cold outside‚ the lights on houses and decorated Christmas trees. The thing is that every Christmas there is always that one thing that you really really want‚ but you know you’re not going to get it. Whether it’s because it’s too much money or it’s somewhere you want to go or if it doesn’t exist. For Christmas‚ a great present would be for Scomiche to be real. The first thing that my mom would say is
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"Attention! Attention! All Students. Are you singer‚ actor‚ dancer or all of the above and feel like it’s time that you get your big break well you’re in luck. Next week Thursday we will be holding auditions for our very own school musical of "The Wiz". So bring out your talent and ease on down the road to auditions." Is all I heard Monday morning on the PSA system. Maybe it’s not such a bad idea I thought. As a child I’ve always had a passion to be on stage either singing‚ dancing and acting or
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High School Graduation Day Many people have experienced the over whelming excitement that you feel as you approach high school graduation day‚ and for me‚ that’s a day that I will never forget. The amount of emotions that you feel on graduation day is unbelievable‚ and I have yet to experience anything else like it. I can remember feeling anxious to celebrate the big day with my friends and family‚ while at the same time I was panicking thinking about having to walk across the stage in front
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Maya Angelou’s “The Graduation” In the essay “The Graduation” (McGraw-Hill 2003)‚ Maya Angelou tells the story of life in 1940s Stamps‚ Arkansas. She explains how it feels to be discriminated and thought of as less than equal. Angelou shows that with a strong will to overcome‚ it is more than possible to set aside disgusting racism and impersonal discrimination. Angelou delivers a very detailed‚ inspirational‚ and informative story of self-acceptance. Summary “The Graduation” is an inspirational
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role in one’s life and attitude towards life. In each of the two stories “Graduation” by Maya Angelou and “Salvation” by Maya Angelou a very young person has assumptions from a particular experience that differ roughly from what adults in both stories expect. Feelings such as excitement‚ anticipation‚ and anxiousness can be found in both stories. However‚ when each author concludes the outcomes are different. In Graduation‚ for instance‚ Marguerite an African-American middle school studet‚ who
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Summary Response Essay: “Graduation” Narrated in the first person “Graduation” is Maya Angelou’s account of her eighth grade graduation and how reality doesn’t always meet expectations. Using allegory‚ allusion and changes in tone‚ Angelou builds her story‚ giving the reader a sense of the excitement and anticipation she felt‚ inequalities in gender and racial prejudices of that time‚ and how those inequalities and prejudices encroached upon her graduation‚ ruining her expectations and leaving her
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Level and Advanced Level 8693/12 ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Passages for Comment October/November 2011 2 hours Additional Materials: Answer Booklet/Paper *1304216344* READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST If you have been given an Answer Booklet‚ follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet. Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use staples‚ paper clips‚ highlighters‚ glue or correction
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Graduation Day Like once said by Mahatma Gandhi‚ “Be the change you wish to see in the world”. Throughout the story Graduation Day you could really tell that this quote applied to Maya Angelou in a huge way. The story is based around the eighth grade graduation of Maya Angelou. Her main point reflects the unfair treatment of african americans during that time because they were not valued for their educational intelligence. She does an amazing job telling the story by changing her tone and feelings
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In Maya Angelou’ article “Graduation‚” she explained that a gap of education between black people and white people because a few of black people could had opportunities to go to college. Firstly‚ she talked people of Stamps felt excited and proud‚ and they did a lot of preparation and tradition activities about the graduation of the eighth grade before the graduation came in Stamps. For example‚ Angelou got a lot of gift and some money from her family and friends because people gave a gift to their
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BRIGHT COLLEGE |Test |English |Class |2ndYear |Unit |1 | |Total Marks |35 |Time Allowed |1 Hour |Date |14-12-2012 | Q.01 :(a) Tick the right synonyms of the following underlined words. (10x1=10) (I) The stars are immense balls of fire. (a) Tiny (b) huge (c) various (d) similar (ii) The creation of earth was indeed
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