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    considered or parallel to the relationship the other Wes had with his brother‚ tony. This relationship wasn’t the negative relations like with tony‚ but one that was positives in the time that we remembered. Wes wanted to be like his father even when his father wasn’t there‚ and the other Wes wanted to be like his brother tony who was there. Their ways of dealing without a father‚ both Wes’s took their mourning through different mean when growing up. The other Wes‚ felt that the major difference although

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    were always racist towards blacks. “Did you see any white people waiting an hour and a half for spagagetti”(Haggis‚ 2004) Anthony was under the impression that although the waitress was black‚ she saw that they were black and were not going to tip. Anthony’s views of any other race they his own‚ is very negative‚ but in his eyes African American people should all stick together‚ and never go against each other. “Bias is not a bad word. Biases is an attitude or belief- it’s not until we act it

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    Narrative Strategies and Chronotope of Violence in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun By Ayodabo J. Sunday Department of English‚ Elizade University‚ Ilara-Mokin‚ Ondo State‚ Nigeria Introduction As an event in a specific time and history‚ the exploration of the Nigerian civil war as a theme in fiction returns us to the focus on memory and its connection to narrative forms. The war happened in 1967-1970 when the South Eastern states‚ led by Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu

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    The Warmth of Other Suns

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    THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS Isabel Wilkerson is an African American Howard University journalism graduate writer and the first black woman in the history of American Journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize. Among her notable works is the novel “The Warmth of Other Suns”. The novel The Warmth of Other Suns was about the Great Migration which occurred between the years 1915-1970 and this was the movement of approximately seven million Black people out of the Southern United States to the North‚ Midwest

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    Historical Context and Legal Basis of Rizal Day and Other Memorials in honor of Jose Rizal For over a century now‚ the nation has never failed to observe the anniversary of the martyrdom our great national hero‚ Dr. Jose P. Rizal. This year‚ the President will lead the simultaneous raising of Philippine flag at half-mast and wreath offering at the monument of Jose Rizal at the Rizal Park in Manila‚ Calamba‚ Laguna and in Dapitan‚ Zamboanga del Norte on December 30‚ 2010. The theme of this year’s

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    A Good Day

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    gray rain wall dropped out of the sky. Lightning. Then thunder. We‚ the already-tired crew on the feature film Yellow Day‚ were stuck. We quickly covered the large cameras in heavy plastic and donned rain gear while Bob‚ our Dutch production manager‚ called it for the day. Not good. Forty employees sitting idle is not cheap. And I’m the executive producer/writer of Yellow Day. I’m looking at every rain drop and thinking each one costs us a dollar. I look out onto the set‚ which is anything but

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    The First Day

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    The First Day The story is narrated by an adult female who tells the story of her first day of school‚ when she was still very young and unfortunately‚ throughout the years‚ has become ashamed of her mother. The question is: does her first day occur “long before” she “learned to be ashamed” of her mother? Or is she learning to be ashamed before the story ends? In order to give an answer we must first understand what is the narrator ashamed of. The set-up for the beginning of the story describes

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    A Day Jealousy

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    The Unintended Consequences of Jealousy The story “All Summer in a Day” is written by Ray Bradbury. The story is set on the planet Venus‚ where life is troublesome. It has been continuously raining for seven years‚ and the sun is supposedly coming out. The children have been waiting for this moment all their lives. Margot‚ however‚ saw the sun when she was four‚ and hasn’t seen it since. This led to jealousy. The jealousy has led to mean and rude actions‚ which lead to sorrow and regret

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    Groundhog Day

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    Groundhog Day is a 1993 film starring Bill Murray and directed by Harold Ramis. The story follows a weatherman‚ Phil Connors‚ unhappy with his life as he reluctantly travels to Punxsutawney to cover a news story about Groundhog Day on February 2. After a storm hits (that Phil had wrongfully predicted would miss them) the news team are forced to stay in Punxsutawney for the night. When Phil wakes up he is surprised to see that it is February 2 again‚ and the day’s events follow exactly like they did

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    Other Health Impairment

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    Other Health Impairment (OHI) JUNIELA FE A. SAN JUAN IV-3 BECED 1 2 AMERICAN PIE 3 4 LIFE OF PI 5 6 BLACK SWAN 7 8 WALL­E 9 10 THE MATRIX 11 12 TANGLED 13 14 THE KARATE KID 15 16 RATATOUILLE 17 18 EAT PRAY LOVE 19 20 TED 21 22 MONSTERS INC. 23 24 THE RING 25 26 TOY STORY 27 IDEA Definition Other health impairment means having limited strength‚ vitality or alertness‚ including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli‚ that

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