A funny incident A funny incident occurred when I was in the 8th standard. It was a normal day at school. Our dramatic competition was not far away. I had to help prepare the props for our house‚ the blue house. Initially everything was going fine and our props were being painted really well. The fourth prop was being painted red. I felt very thirsty and went to my classroom to drink water. When I came back the had almost finished painting this prop so I sat down next to my friends to see
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have cultivated this land for generations‚ the idea of paradise only conceals the enduring oppression that dictates their reality. Every aspect of my entire life has been surrounded by this oppression. Throughout my years in the public school system‚ I have been constantly told by others that we native Hawaiians are responsible for our own dissolution because we are inherently lazy and the lifestyle of our ancestors were uncivilized. One of the most common statements used to describe the situation
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around that rectangular piece of steel...and it’s not even a sphere! I can’t disagree though…I’m one of those people that just can’t part with their phone. Every few minutes I’ll be checking my phone. (Mimes checking phone) Oh look! I have…zero missed calls‚ zero new texts‚ the facebook frontier is quiet… Then I remember I’ve had zero incoming calls‚ zero texts‚ and I have three friends on facebook: mom‚ dad‚ and my dog. I used to have four but then the cat died. Anyways‚ I’ll still be sitting
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How I Got to Salt Lake Community College I always wanted to go to college growing up‚ but because of my family‚ along with my sisters and myself‚ were born and raised in a refugee camp in Nepal‚ I had a feeling that college was a dream that would not come true for me. In 2012‚ we came to Salt Lake City‚ Utah. The school I did was from 9th grade. After resettlement in the United States‚ my parents are still struggling to look after the educational future of me and my sisters. My family said if I could
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Evan Holt Phillis Wheatley’s “An Hymn to the Morning” There are plenty works of poetry that have been published‚ but none that match the intellect and beautiful writing aura like those of Phillis Wheatley’s. Phillis Wheatley was America’s first black female poet who learned to read and write at an age where blacks were either unable to learn or restricted from these opportunities. Most of Phillis Wheatley’s poetry consists of religion‚ death and the hardships and burdens blacks endured throughout
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Adam Cooper: Dynamic Character Can a person change completely over a course of a few days? Throughout the story‚ April Morning by Howard Fast‚ Adam Cooper‚ the main character and narrator of the book‚ transforms from an immature‚ ignorant‚ self-centered teenager to a mature‚ unprejudiced‚ responsible young man because of the story’s setting‚ characters‚ and conflict. With setting‚ it teaches Adam to be become more mature‚ by becoming more knowledgeable about war and to endure hardships‚ since it
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The Morning Guy‚ by Mark W. Gray‚ is a five-minute comedy about the story of a Californian couple. The plot of the story is fairly simple: a married man drives his wife insane by constantly annoying her‚ leading to her departure. Even though this sounds very straightforward‚ the narrative structure of the movie is more complex than it seems. Despite being a short film‚ the director uses a variety of formal elements to carryout an overall meaning. This short film is a great example of how even the
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I wake up from a fallen sleep feeling very excited to go up north. I go downstairs for breakfast. My sister says “Are the dogs coming?” “No‚” my mom says. “Why?We are going up north?” my sister says. My mom sighs. “We are not going up north‚” my mom says. Everyone stares at her besides my dad. “We are going to the Wisconsin Dells instead!!” my mom shouts with excitement. My sister gets a tiny bit mad that the dogs are not coming but‚ overall everyone is excited. My mom said that she was going to
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entire life‚ I grew up in a Caucasian community - a privileged suburb area where everyone around me was a different race than I am. As a child‚ I never wondered how it shaped who I was as a person. I never thought about race‚ I never thought that my upbringing in this neighborhood would change others perceptions of me. I knew that I was black. I did not know that people expected my race to be my personality. A recent death in the family leads me to a gathering in which I would have to meet up with family
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The Craziest Morning So I awoke one morning to a phone call‚ my boss was on the other line. I remember him saying‚ “Hey man where are you? Do you know what time it is?” The only thought in my head was‚ “damn‚ I over-slept.” Sure enough I was right; I was in fact over thirty minutes late for work. I couldn’t believe it! As I began to apologize for being so late my boss interrupts me and says‚ “Just be here within the next thirty minutes if you want to keep your job!” Knowing how serious he was about
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