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    my name is margaret

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    My Name is Margaret” Our name identifies us in many ways. It connects us to who we are and connects us to our family. White people have had the power to express what identifies them best and black people really never got the chance to experience what identity is‚ it has always been prearranged for them. This passage’s main point is about identity and breaking out of the silence that the whites have had over the black people‚ about taking control and breaking the norms. In this story‚ Margaret

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    My Name Is Margaret

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    Madison Premoli 13 September 2012 1st period My Name Is Margaret Investigate and discuss the narrator’s attitude shifts as she achieves her identity. In the introduction of the essay‚ the narrator is informative of how it was like to live in that specific time period. Margaret differentiated between a white girl and a black girl growing up in the south. Maya Angelou claimed‚ “While white girls learned to waltz and sit gracefully with a tea cup balanced on their knees

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    My Name Is Tik

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    crystal meth (TIC). She wrote this while in jail. As you will soon read‚ she fully grasped the horrors of the drug‚ as she tells in this simple‚ yet profound poem. She was released from jail‚ but true to her story‚ the drug owned her. My Name: "Is TIK” I destroy homes‚ I tear families apart‚ take your children‚ and

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    My name is Khan

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    film ‘My Name is Khan’ directed by Karan Johar‚ is about the story of a man named Rizwan Khan‚ a Muslim man with Asperger’s syndrome who fall unconditionally for a woman named Mandira who is a Hindu‚ single mother living out her life successfully by opening her own salon in San Francisco. However‚ a tragedy tears his family apart. In order to mend back what is broken‚ Rizwan Khan innocently sets foot on a journey to meet the president of America and utters the words “My name is Khan and I am not

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    My Name Is Khan

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    stands divided. Terrorist outfits continue to strike in the name of religion and the common man‚ not even remotely associated with these groups‚ is bearing the brunt. The world is not a safe place anymore. * The second statement: There’re two sets of people in this world - the good and the bad. No matter how strong the evil forces are‚ good always triumphs. My Name Is Khan mirrors the era we live in. Not a day goes by when you haven’t heard/read/watched news of terror attacks and innocents being killed

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    The Story of My Name

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    4. "Why did your parents give you your name - what is the story of your name? Are you named after someone or some place? If you don’t know why you have your name‚ make up a story." 1. My name is Viet Nga. Anyone who sees my name at the first time‚ will think of something relating to Viet Nam and Russia. It’s right. It’s a romantic love story of my parents and my name was given to memorize the time and the place where my mother met and loved my father. Back in 1985‚ a Vietnamese student was sent

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    In the poem “I Heard a Fly Buzz‚” Emily Dickinson describes her death in a way that makes her death seem insignificant. She says in the poem‚ “I willed my keepsakes‚ signed away what portions of me be assignable” (Dickinson). In this passage‚ Dickinson describes the last thing she does before her death. She says that she signs away all her belongings to others. This passage tells that she gave away only material and that she wanted to give away something more valuable. Dickinson did not care about

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    My Name and Its Meaning

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    Before I was born my parents had started looking for names they could give me. Since they had no idea if I was a boy or girl they came up with names for each sex. Each male name they had in mind for me had value along with each girl nameMy mother and father had come up with a list of names they each liked.   So once I was born my parents decided they wanted a family name and dubbed me Gabriela Patricia. Gabriela is my uncle’s name in feminine form and my mother was very fond of it and thought it

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    Origin of My Name

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    your name and how you feel about it. My full name is Saidah Lauren Belo-Osagie. My name is definitely different from the average Joe’s‚ but it’s special because I know that even though it’s hard to pronounce‚ people will say‚ “Hey‚ you’re the girl with the hard to remember name.” And that’s okay. That’s because I know that my name means something special: Joy. My parents named me Saidah because they believed that I would bring joy and pleasure to the family‚ especially because right when I was born

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    Changing my name

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    All my life I have viewed myself as a weak individual. Someone who was easily stepped on and walked all over. I always wanted to stand up for myself but I had no idea how. I was never very competitive and I had very little self-discipline. I wanted to change this desperately but‚ I felt like it was to late in my life to just suddenly change. I felt like I needed a motivation. That is why I am here today‚ to explain to you why I changed my name to Nina. When I was a little girl I recall

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