September 2013 My most vivid memory of learning to read was with my mom. At the age of three‚ my mother bought me a book‚ The Little Engine That Could. Over the years‚ I learned to read the book. Each night‚ my mom and I would read it together. By the age of five‚ I stumbled a little but I could pick up the book and read it with ease. At the age of six‚ I read it with no problem. As years went by‚ my mom would pick up the book occasionally and we would read it together. When I would get in trouble
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When I was younger I took a interest in art. Every day I really pursued learning how to draw. I started out tracing things from magazines and books that I really enjoyed. After tracing I would try my best to draw what I just traced. I slowly moved away from tracing‚ and was drawing things on my own. My mother began to realize I was taking a sudden appreciation in art. So she placed me in a drawing class and a pottery class. She wanted me to enjoy myself and try to get better at what I wanted
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In the short story “How I Met My Husband” by Alice Munro the structure of the plot and the conflict work in unity to reach the conclusion. This story has a sympathetic protagonist dealing with a relatable conflict‚ suspense‚ and a twist ending that may keep the reader thinking after the last lines have been read. The protagonist in this story‚ Edie‚ is a timid person who is always doing whatever makes other people happy and never says what she wants. She describes herself as “shy” (Munro 127)
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I remember walking into a Dick’s sporting goods store in Ohio during a lacrosse tournament‚ looking for some athletic tape. I took the wrong turn at the basketball shoes and found myself at a wall littered in rifles and various hunting weapons. I didn’t think much of it – until I saw someone walk out of the store into the mall with a crossbow. I was definitely a bit unsettled by the fact that anyone could just walk into a store and buy a crossbow. Obviously the sporting goods store wouldn’t have
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As I walked down the hallway‚ it seemed endless. I could not feel my feet hitting the ground‚ nor notice anyone around me. I just walked. The smell of the place was intoxicating. It reminded me of insulin or disinfectant spray. I entered her room; it was dark. The sound of beeping machines echoed in my ears. I walked to her bed. She was sleeping soundly. Her body was frail and looked as if she was bone covered with skin. She was weak and tired. The cancer had been eating away at her‚ slowly
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How I Met My Husband Donielle Miller Eng 125 03/02/2014 The story of “How I Met My Husband” by Alice Munro (1974)‚ is a story about a young naïve farm girl that had very little education or money‚ she was hired as a worker for a wealthy family. She finds love where and when she least expected to‚ all the while she was maturing into a lady. Edie get her first encounter with men and romance. The story is told in first person point of view‚ through the eyes of Edie and
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always like this though‚ I was embarassed of my naturality. I dreamt of waking up with straight waves and hair that didn’t frizz up at the slightest percentage of humidity. I was that girl that would stay awake until 2AM to straighten my hair for school the next day‚ only to come face first with 8 hours of discomfort from having to avoid any sort of water. You speak to me with a little spit in your mouth and I’ll run away faster than you can imagine just to avoid having my hair disobey me more than
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Patrick Silva AP Lit Period 4 Mr. Schmitz October 11‚ 2012 How I Met My Husband Thesis Paper The theme of Alice Munro’s story “How I met my Husband” is Social expectations mold individual circumstances. Edie‚ a fifteen year old housemaid in the lower class of society has qualities and talents that demonstrate a skill set of aristocracy. "Have a house without pie‚ be ashamed until you die" is a quoted statement that Edie ’s mother used to say to her that Mrs. Peebles was not very familiar
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on how they treat it. Think of this box symbolically as representing the tradition which these townspeople do not really understand and no longer has any current meaning‚ yet they are unwilling to give it up simply because it has become a town tradition. No one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box. Oddly enough‚ the people are extremely loyal to this box but do not care at all that they now use slips of paper rather than wood chips. The lottery can be compared
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never write and marries the mailman‚ who believes that she waited by the mailbox for him every day‚ although Edie never tells him that she had waited for Chris because she likes "for people to think what pleases them and makes them happy." How I Met My Husband Summary A red-and-silver plane lands at the old fairgrounds across the road from the home of the Peebles‚ for whom Edie works. Edie’s first close-up view of an airplane leads to her first encounter with romance. Edie is both eager for
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