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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me in because I have a connection to the material‚ my father died when I was ten. Not many lines about the speaker’s father draw direct parallels to my father‚ but never the less I was drawn to the work and felt a since of deep melancholy as I read. This since of melancholy‚ even though the speakers father differs from my own‚ is largely due to the non-standard metaphors. What I mean by this is that the work is riddled with metaphors‚ few of which are common‚ and I only felt like I understood the
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John Keats was a man that died way too young‚ he left this world way too early but when he passed‚ he left get amazing literature. His stories has many messages to them that you can’t help but think of what he had to say as the reader reads each line of his stories. The message that brings up in Ode on a Grecian Urn for example‚ brings up how art is the true beauty of this world and how art speaks in many different ways that a person really wouldn’t think of. Keats wanted the people that read his
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another chance at life. All of the sudden as huge red pointy thing comes tearing through the lawn‚ gathering them together so they can be shoved and pushed into a suffocating black or orange bag. Their life seems to be ending here. Suddenly‚ they fly through the air and land with a
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We are challenged by the issue of adapting to change in the novel I heard an Owl Call my Name. Through Mark‚ the main character we see the affects of change in the Native American Indian village of Kingcome. Not only do we see the westernisation of the village‚ but also the change in culture and way of living mark experiences when he arrives in the village from the western world. The changes the village and Mark go through are shown to us through characters‚ symbols and dialogue. The idea of change
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Good Bye World Good Bye with a verse of When the Roll is Called Up Yonder‚ Come Fly With Me‚ When We All Get to Heaven‚ In the Mood‚ and I’ll Fly Away. The instrumentation of the band was the singer in the middle and front of the stage than starting from the left on the front was the keyboard‚ five saxophones‚ and a xylophone. The middle row consisted of drums and three trombones. While the back row contained a bass guitar‚ guitar‚ and four trumpets. I was a referential listener during the performance
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be left behind and we would make new ones. When I found out we would have to move I was upset. We had worked so hard to make that house look how we wanted it to. We built things that we hoped would stay there for a while‚ but when we were told we had to move everything we built we wouldn’t be able to take with us. I could feel an empty feeling in my stomach when I thought about us having to move. My hands were shaking and tears were rolling down my face. I was not ready to move yet. We had to pack
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