January 2014 A Loss I Will Never Forget September 11‚ 2001‚ I wish that was just a day like any other‚ but what happened on that day was sadly a tragedy. September 11‚ 2001 was the day terrorist high-jacked Boeing 747s and crashed them into the World Trade Centers‚ as well as the U.S. Pentagon. Everyone has a story from that day; some very different than others. Mine is probably very common for the kids that were in school. This was the day the Twin Towers were attacked‚ the day I lost a part of my
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Everything was normal‚ but then something happened‚ something that I had to live with for the rest of my life. I can still barely believe it‚ mostly because I don’t want too‚ but I will do my best to recall this day‚ the worst day of my life. “Are you ready to go?” I asked Jim as I jumped out of his computer chair. We were going to take my new Carola for a spin. “I don’t know‚ Mrs. Smith is really piling on the homework‚” said Jim‚ looking at his very full backpack. “Jim‚ it’s the Queen’s
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make a success of…” I tuned off the school principal’s voice at this point‚ ignoring his excited gestures and flying spittle. I was eight then. The man came out of nowhere‚ and I remember pain‚ horror‚ screaming‚ torn clothes‚ more screaming…It was only afterwards‚ in the hospital‚ that I understood what had happened to me. Twenty years ago the society wasn’t exactly sympathetic towards rape victims; it still isn’t today. Principal Clarke’s voice pulled me back to reality. I stood up to the pitiful
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Well‚ I never thought I could until this happened to me in the summer of 2011. It was a gorgeous June afternoon‚ and summer had just begun. I had just gotten my license‚ and I couldn’t wait to go cruising’ around. I had spent the day at my friend’s house‚ and now I was on my way home. I was almost home‚ I just had to turn onto the gravel road to get to my house. While I was turning‚ I was trying to put in a mix CD I had just made‚ and trying to turn the corner at the same time. I guess I was going
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NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE GRADE 12 MATHEMATICAL LITERACY P1 NOVEMBER 2011 MARKS: 150 TIME: 3 hours This question paper consists of 15 pages and 1 annexure. Copyright reserved Please turn over Mathematical Literacy/P1 2 NSC DBE/November 2011 INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION 1. 2. This question paper consists of SIX questions. Answer ALL the questions. Answer QUESTION 6.1.3 and QUESTION 6.1.4 on the attached ANNEXURE. Write your centre number and examination number in the
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damp and an unseasonal frost at night. When I put gloves on the baby she chewed them and had to sit in her pram with cold‚ wet hands. I did not mind for myself‚ but I did not know how to keep her warm. She dribbled too and her chest was always damp. She resisted for some time but in the end she caught a cold. 2 I did not know what to do with her‚ as I hated going to the doctor. I had thought I would be 5 finished with doctors at her birth‚ though I subsequently discovered there was an unending
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What I Saw in the Water is different from most of Kahlo’s painting because this painting does have a dominant focus. This painting is one of the most creative and unsettling. Frida Kahlo friend Julien Levy explained this painting‚ as “It is an image of passing time about time and childhood games in the bathtub and the sadness of what had happened to her in the course of her life”. She painted her entire life into the bathtub. In this painting you see can some of the same symbols that Kahlo uses in
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experience‚ but eventually gains enough lucidity to escape. This escape leads to the family descending on the island to seek out their beloved Mama. SETTING The story is set in Guyana. The timeline flits between 1950-1970. SOCIAL CONTEXT 1950-1970 saw a period of emigration in Guyana. Parents would leave Guyana to seek financial amelioration in either the US or the UK. The offspring of these emigrants would often remain with grandmothers until the parents gained a stable financial footing. The parents
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“I was never an American. I was immediately a New Yorker.” How is Changez’s sense of identity altered over the course of the novel? Identity is as much about public perception as it is self-perception. In Mohsin Hamid’s novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist the reader is confronted with this fact in a bid to understand what it means to be American and Pakistani. The narrator Changez is unsure of who he is‚ and whilst certain personality traits remain‚ his sense of identity is changed significantly
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“I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold” is an art piece painted by Charles Demuth‚ an American Artist born in Lancaster‚Pennsylvania from 1883-1935. This specific piece was painted in 1928 and is made of oil‚ graphite‚ ink‚ and uses gold leaf paint on paperboard. This art piece is encompassed of varying hues of red‚ yellow‚ orange and gray paint. The most important aspect of this piece is the number 5. The point of this is to pay homage to a poem by William Carlos Williams. In Williams poem‚ he writes about
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