The motive of the journey and the return—Cuevas’s return to Guatemala‚ her return to a traumatic past—are central to her memory narrative. The director’s narrative “I” assumes a situated point of view as a woman‚ a ladina‚ an exile‚ and the direct relative of a disappeared person. By placing herself in Guatemala‚ by returning‚ so to speak‚ to the scene of the crime‚ she counters the hegemonic discourse of the nation and of history‚ a discourse whose impersonal and universalizing vantage point reflects
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Essay I died for beauty but was scarce The poem "I died for Beauty- but was scarce" is a short poem‚ but has a powerful underlying tone that gives the reader chills. In the poem‚ the narrator states she died for Beauty. In stating this‚ she implies that perhaps that’s also what she loved for. In the adjoining room to hers‚ another person is laid to rest. The person buried in the tomb next to hers says he died for Truth. He wonders why he failed‚ as if by living for Truth he could master eternal
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I had heard talk of a mother’s love for her child before the day I had my own. I’d heard stories of a mother that gives her life to save her child’s. I’d seen that kind love expressed by my own mother everyday. I guess‚ I never thought it to be much different then the love a person feels for any other immediate family member. Boy‚ was I wrong. It’s not that I don’t love my other family unconditionally and entirely‚ but a mother’s love is undoubtably incomparable to any other. October‚ 20‚
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I Robot The opening scene of I‚ Robot shows main character Det. Spooner‚ played by Will Smith as a less than happy fellow. As the alarm wakes him up in the morning‚ Spooners looks at himself in the mirror without any expression of joy. The audience is able to tell that Spooner has a complex personality and carries some baggage. In the background you hear "superstitious" playing as a mean to present Spooner as a superstitious man. I think that this movie causes the audience to question if there is
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When can I see my God? It is the common nature of every human being to believe in something‚ when he feel it through any of his five senses (Seen by own eyes‚ heard by own ears‚ felt by touch‚ smelled by self‚ or tasted by self). Even many of the Christian believers have had a question in his mind during the time of tribulations in life that; is the God a fact or a fantasy? Here I would like to share you the one and only truth‚ that “our God reigns” is a fact. A real desire will definitely
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The movie “I‚ Robot‚” set in the year 2035‚ effectively causes its audience to reconsider its answers to the questions: could precautions humans take to protect themselves from advanced technology be distorted and backfire; and also what defines humanity. The movie provides a plausible view of the future with robots‚ a reasonable portrayal of the potential flaws of having robots in the future‚ along with the possibility of robots having human personalities. The movie presents a robot‚ Sonny‚ with
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Good afternoon‚ ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for considering me to be your next class president. Since freshman year‚ I have been a passionate advocate for our student body. When a food poisoning epidemic broke out on campus‚ I crafted the petition to demand better service from our food providers and better oversight from school administrators. It was unacceptable for the health of our peers to be compromised by consuming the food in our own cafeteria. Many of you agreed with me‚ and the petition
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This morning is a typical Tuesday morning as I make my daily commute to work. The blue sky is bright with sun‚ but it is a brisk New England winter morning. As I drive down the highway drinking my coffee‚ I scan through the radio stations looking for my favorite songs desperately trying to get motivated for the day ahead. Instead of finding my favorite tunes‚ I find weather bulletins galore warning of an impending storm due to hit land by Friday. From station to station the forecast varies from modest
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When I rescued Lin Tse-hsü I could hear the pitter-patter of rain pellet ting the rooftops of the stone buildings‚ which the English had constructed‚ but I‚ Bry-wong‚ was not here to be cold nor wet‚ which I was. I was here to rescue Lin Tse-hsü‚ who was an official from Canton. Lin Tse-hsü was captured by the English because he helped lead the opposition to England. The East India Company shipped tons of opium‚ a drug from the poppy seed‚ to China. Lin Tse-hsü has written a letter to England’s
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Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s I Will Marry When I Want and Festus Iyayi’s Violence as a case study. The texts have their historical and fictional settings in Kenya and Nigeria respectively. The Marxist theory‚ upon which the socialist realist literature set their canon‚ is that which is characterized with class stratification and struggle. Therefore we see two categories of characters; the Ahab Kioi wa Kanoru‚ Jezebel‚ and the Kiguunda‚ Gicaamba‚ Wangeci‚ Njooki in I Will Marry When I Want and Obofun‚ Queen
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