Still I rise Introduction: Good morning‚ Mrs. Roberts and classmate. Today I am going to perform the poem” Still I rise” by Maya Angelou. Firstly‚ I would like to talk briefly the poet. Maya Angelou was born in 1928. At a young age Maya had to deal with many issues such as rape her identity as a black person. However‚ encouraged by her grandmother‚ who introduced her to literature and she gradually emerged as a talented artist. In the 1960s‚ Angelou began to focus on writing. She became one
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appearance alone. For many people‚ the root of their anxiety stems from the fear of others judging or evaluating them because of they way they look or act. The short stories “Am I Blue?” by Bruce Coville and “Hum” by Naomi Shihab Nye both illustrate the uselessness of judging a book by its cover. In the short story “Am I Blue?” by Bruce Coville‚ Vince‚ the main character‚ discovers that people are not always what them seem. In this story Vince‚ who is questioning his sexuality‚ is the main target
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I feel the scratchy fabric of the airplane seat and hear the shuffle of feet as people board the plane. The humming of an engine fills my ear as I place my bag under my seat. I’m about to go home for the first time since my deployment to Kandahar. I’m about to see my son and husband for the first time in eight months. Letters have been the only thing connecting me to my family and it has been hard at times. The hardest thing I have ever had to do. It’s easy to forget that soldiers have families back
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pull yourself together?” Being told “You have nothing to be depressed about‚ you have so much going for you!”‚ “But you don’t SEEM depressed‚ you were just laughing an hour ago!” For those struggling with many of life’s abundant obstacles‚ suicide seems like the ideal compromise for the self-destruction and agony to end. I believe that suicide is not the answer because I’ve overcome it myself. I’ve had to learn in the most difficult of ways that suicide is exceedingly traumatic for the friends and family
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will mean what you make them.”—Regret to Inform “The terrible price of that nobility is one that nobody should have to pay”—Barbara Sonneborn In 1968‚ the director Barbara Sonneborn was informed that her husband‚ Jeff Gurvitz‚ had been killed in a mortar attack in Vietnam. The words “We regret to inform you” appeared on the telegram‚ and the message arrived on her 24th birthday. Sonneborn is the director‚ writer‚ and producer of the notable documentary film Regret to Inform. Although she remarried
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Hassan‚ a Sunni Muslim‚ also was close to the family of Rafik Hariri‚ the Sunni former prime minister who was assassinated in a 2005 car bombing in Beirut that Mr. Hariri’s supporters have blamed on Syria and its Lebanese allies. There was no immediate word on who was behind the blast. Politicians pleaded that the country not get dragged into tit-for-tat killings or a return to the sectarian conflict that convulsed this city during the 1975-1991 civil war. Two days after the explosion‚ thousands of mourners
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Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song)‚ and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself‚ Sam’s limitations start to become a problem at school; she’s intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away‚ and Sam shames high-priced lawyer
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I am a very optimistic and determined person. We’ve all heard about the girl raped‚ abused‚ or even in foster care right? Luckily‚ I was neither of the those. Although just because I have never been that girl doesn’t mean I haven’t had my own struggles and obstacles I have had to overcome. Obstacles that made me who I am. The ones that gave me my identity. My obstacles started as a baby. I was conceived when my mother was only thirteen years old. She lost custody of me and my older three siblings
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(Bomarito and Hunter‚ pars. 5). They became more independent in their lives without the need of men to support. But the question is that was this change good for women or not? The American author Kate Chopin gave an example of those independent women in her short story "Regret". In the story‚ a woman called Mamzelle Aurelie lived alone in her farm. She has never got married and never had children. But one day the silence in Aurelie’s life was broken as she carried the burden of looking after her neighbor’s
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I wish I was the richest person on earth‚ I wish I was the president of Maldives‚ I want to be a singer‚ I want to be a doctor. I’m sure you have dreams like these‚ well‚ not precisely‚ but I’m sure you will have dreams. Anyway‚ most of the times we see that people hesitate to become what they want to be and often give up on their first or second try. Why do they give up? Haven’t they heard the saying‚ “Failure is the key to success”? Respected teacher and my amicable friends‚ today I’m here to
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