I Had a Job I liked. Once. Guy Vanderhaegh takes us back a few decades in the retelling of a court case in small town‚ Saskatchewan in the play‚ “I Had a Job I liked. Once.” Using elements of style‚ staging and developing characters throughout the play Vanderhaegh portrays to the audience the theme of the biases and prejudices that come with living in a small town. The story is set in small town Saskatchewan in a police station office‚ on the night of August of 1957. Corporal Heasman has brought
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entertainment‚ Magical Mystery Tour presented what was essentially an elaborate and expensive home movie. It was more avant-garde than comedic and more experimental art than musical film. No holiday elements were involved except for the fact that mystery tours would have been a popular way to spend a bank holiday like Boxing Day. The final performance‚ “Your Mother Should Know‚” even essentially poked fun at the theatrical‚
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Both the text‚ “I never had it made” and the PBS review‚ Jackie Robinson: an inside look‚ have some similarities and differences. Both the excerpt and video mention how important the world series was to him‚ but even though that is one similarity‚ the excerpt talks about of people of such importance to him for example‚ Rachel‚ his wife‚ and Branch Rickey. PBS’ video talks more about Robinson’s private life or his life before baseball. Before he broke the color barrier‚ Jackie Robinson fought in the
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My Magical Pet I am twelve years old and don’t have any siblings. Both my parents’ have a long n tiring work schedule. I have a pet dog his name is Gucci. It’s a charming dog. He is always waiting for me to come from school. When my parents are too busy and don’t have time to play with me‚ they send me to my room to play with my toys and Gucci would always follow me. In the beginning I was upset and frustrated of being alone. However I soon got used to it. I could stay
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Magical Realism in Thursday’s Child Magical Realism centers on Tin Flute in Thursday’s Child by Soyna Harnett. Magical realism is a literary genre where magical elements are a natural part to a rather realistic‚ dull setting. The title of the book comes from a nursery rhyme with the same title. Thursday’s Child is Tin‚ who was born on a Thursday and as the nursery rhyme says‚ “he has far to go.” Tin is an eccentric and isolated child who digs. His wanderings take him underneath the earth into the
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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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father. He is the reason why I view a lot of things like I do. The reason why I don’t like alcoholics‚ reason why I don’t like violence‚ reason why I don’t like yelling/arguing. He has had the biggest impact on my life than anyone. July 18‚ 2001 is when it all started. When I was born. My mama always told me that he wasn’t there when I was born and that he took our jeep to go get drunk and such. I’m not sure when my mother divorced my dad‚ I was too young to remember. I don’t really remember much
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confessional poems “I had been hungry all these years” and “I gave myself to him” by Emily Dickenson have a unique economy of style which actively challenges these dichotomies in the notion of “belonging”. Moreover Dickenson is contrasted with Annie Proulx’s shocking short story “55 miles to the gas pump” which promotes the view that geographic and social isolation‚ taken to extremes‚ can result in destructive and macabre outcomes.
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ago we had to move. To me it was a huge change in my life‚ it wasn’t gonna be the same once we were gone. All the memories would 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
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She sustains this through the extended metaphor of food which symbolises the joys of life and hunger to emphasise her longing to belong. In the opening line‚ she clearly states “I had been hungry all the years”‚ and further underlines her sense of loneliness that she felt as an outsider‚ “I looked in windows for the wealth I could not hope for mine”. She uses sensory words such as “trembling”‚
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