Edwin James Dr. D. Wei SYG 2000 26 February 2007 Courage to say “no”. We all have difficult decisions to make in life. When these decisions involve someone you care about and when it means doing something you don’t want to do‚ it becomes even more difficult. Several instances come to mind where I had to make a choice that could ultimately affect my relationship with the other party. I will cover two‚ one when I was a young boy and another as an adult‚ both of them significant. I was born
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Hope for Melal The book “Melal “by Robert Barclay takes place in 1981 in The Marshall Islands of the South Pacific. The people known as the Marshallese are the natives to these islands. Overtime other cultures began to settle on these islands also‚ such as the Spanish‚ Japanese‚ and Americans. Out of these three cultures the Americans were the most domineering and devastating to the Marshallese people. The Americans took over the Marshallese native land and forced all of them to live on one island
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right in front of them‚ seeing people suffer from endless starvation‚ and most important of all having their dignity and pride taken away. Although the characters lost hope at times‚ a closer examination shows that daniel and his family had hope of the tragic holocaust ending and them surviving. Daniel and his family started to loose hope because their fellow neighbors weren’t doing anything to stop the Nazis. Daniel reflects‚ “Slowly all our rights were taken away until we were nothing but bodies being
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The Cocoon of Embrace: The Only Way to Go Up "Hope for the Flowers" is a story about a caterpillar‚ Stripe‚ who was born in this world and lived a normal life as expected from a caterpillar: eating and growing bigger. However‚ he became tired of doing such routine over and over again and thought that there must be something more to life. So he left the tree which served as his home from the very start and went out to the world to wander. Yes‚ he was fascinated with things he saw‚ but he was unsatisfied
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Forevers‚ author Katherine Boo argues that hope and faith are what brings together a family during hard times. She explains the meaning of “hope and faith” to a family in the slums of Annawadi in section 3‚ “Sunil” (31-49). “First these children have to learn after bread and rice‚ when they’re older‚ they can worry about the other things” The first argument Boo explains the fights and gangs of Maharashtrains and argues that these gangs fight the Bhaiyas in hope of forcing them to leave the city‚ so they
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1.) How do you interpret the story of the caterpillar pillars and the transformation of Yellow and Stripe into butterflies? The story of Yellow and Stripe in Hope for the Flowers is analogous to our own Human search for purpose in life. Human life seems as open as life would seem to a caterpillar‚ a parallel that the story draws on to create a critical dialogue in our own mind as we read the text‚ raising such questions as: What is my purpose in life? Is whatever I am doing now only just “climbing
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BENEATHA (Dropping to her knees) Well – I do – all right? – thank everybody! And forgive me for ever wanting to be anything at all! (Pursuing him on her knees across the floor) FORGIVE ME‚ FORGIVE ME‚ FORGIVE ME! (1.1.123) | Beneatha sarcastically apologizes for having dreams. To Walter‚ her dream seems kind of far-fetched. However‚ Beneatha is determined and she stands up to her brother for her right to want to become a doctor. Quote #2RUTH Mama‚ something is happening between Walter and me
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’’Hope for the flowers’’ is a book that I found at a friend’s place. This book was part of a course on entrepreneurship that he underwent at business school. Hardbound with bright coloured cover and inside pages‚ the book looks like one created for kindergarten kids. Something that prompted me to give him a quizzical look. His reply was very simple - ’’Just read it’’. I was still sceptical‚ but considering the fact that the course itself was taken by a pretty successful entrepreneur I gave it the
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Invected Invictus What is one to do when stuck in a pickle‚ finding nothing but sorrow and self-pity being the only realistic ways of comfort? Write a poem. That is what William Henley did when he wrote “Invictus”. The poem “Invictus” talks about how William Henley is the master of his own soul and how he’s not going to let anything or anybody else run his life. The theme of this poem includes not giving up and pushing on in life no matter what any one says or does. William Henley deeply states
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The Gattaca Text response: Is Vincent the hero in ‘’Gattaca’’? A typical hero is someone who is able to be admired or idealize courage‚ outstanding achievements or noble qualities. Andrew Niccol’s film text ‘’Gattaca’’ displays Vincent Anton Freeman as a character with innumerable heroic acts and qualities but the fact that he lacks some heroic qualities brings him short of being the hero in ‘’Gattaca’’. The film furthermore portrays the fact that there is no real hero in Gattaca‚ just like
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