As I was looking through the suggested summer reading list for 10th graders‚ the title of this book caught my attention: My Life As A Rhombus. I wondered how could someone have a life as a rhombus. And since it has the word “rhombus”‚ I was expecting the book to be mostly about math. Expecting so‚ I ordered the book online without reading a summary or preview. I guess I shouldn’t have judged the book by its title. It turns out that the book is mostly about two girls becoming friends as they exchanged
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hard to imagine what is the life of silence and darkness‚ blindness and deafness. How one can live without knowing that how others are look like‚ what others are saying‚ what others are doing‚ and what kind of things are existing. Helen Keller lived in the world of darkness and silence since she was young‚ and she was a lost child. During the era‚ 1800s‚ the society was not acceptable toward something unusual‚ including a person who with disability like Hellen Keller. Probably‚ many people kept
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Narrative Essay My Outsider Life Within this essay I am going to be comparing my life to a book I have read numerous times in school “The Outsides.” It is a favorite book of mine and I am going to compare my life to the main characters of the book. My main topic is to describe my life and how it is is similar to the life of the Ponyboys’ in the book. Ponyboy is the youngest child out of three brothers‚ who have unfortunately lost their parents. Now here is a brief summary on my life‚ the life of Ponyboy
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A very good morning to my English Language teacher ‚and to my fellow classmates.My oral English test presentation is entitled ‘The person I admire the most’. Hellen Adams Keller is‚in my opinion one of the most amazing people at all time. She was an american author‚political activist and a lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Hellen Keller was born on June 27‚1880 on a farm in Tuscumbia‚Alabama. When she was a year and a half old she become
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Helen Keller _ Helen Keller was an American speaker‚ author‚ politician. She was a first deafblind that claimed the award ‘Bachelor of Arts’. I.Childhood _ Helen Keller ( Helen Adams Keller ) was born on June 26th 1880 in Tuscumbia‚ Alabama. Her family lived in a farm in Ivy Green‚ it was built by her grandparents about several decades ago. _Her father is Arthur H. Keller‚ an long-time-work editer for the newspaper North Alabamian in Tuscumbia and a captain of the south Army. Robert E. Lee is
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‘Howards End is more the story of Helen than Margaret’ Explore the methods which writers use to present their characters and create interest in their stories The idealistic Schlegel sisters are at the epicentre of E.M Forster’s Howards End‚ and are essential to the plot of the novel‚ whilst other characters are primarily used to highlight aspects of both women’s character. While Helen provides the reader with drama and acts as a catalyst to events in the novel‚ Margaret’s development as a character
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The Next Chapter 1 Launching the Next Chapter of My Life Introduction In the last several weeks‚ the author has had the opportunity to look back and analyze the events that have shaped her life. The author was free from the turmoil of emotional fears of failure‚ anger‚ regret and loneliness‚ which often clouded her perception. The author understands that life happens even when we are not prepared for it‚ but more importantly‚ it is how we deal with circumstances that keeps us going forward
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This memoir by Helen Ellis is about her story from being a slob to become a more organized person and how it had an influence on her marriage. She starts out by giving examples of how disorganized and messy she was. She says that one time she had a panty liner stuck in between her shoulder blades before she went on a date‚ her date peeled it off and she mentions how he wasn’t the man she married. What I grasped from her specifically pointing out that he wasn’t the man she married‚ was that her being
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The documentary Not My Life gave a tragic overview of the multiple forms of exploitation that children face around the world. Fishing boys in Ghana are forced to work in dangerous and sometimes deadly conditions. Street beggars in Senegal are abused‚ starved‚ and overworked. Impoverished children in India work in garbage dumps to try and make money. Young girls in Nepal start as laborers before being trafficked for sex in India when they grow older. The dehumanizing conditions child soldiers face
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Throughout my life‚ I have been told many funny‚ sad‚ and crazy family stories. I have also told a few myself. I have shared my crazy‚ funny‚ and sad stories with friends‚ family‚ and sometimes strangers. I feel as if thought the more a person shares a story the more it shows how much it has impacted their life. A story that i tend to share a lot that has impacted my life in many different way is the story of my dad’s accident. I have heard and told this story so many times from my mom and my grandmas
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