I was born and raised in a third-world country: Ethiopia. Even though Ethiopia is mainly known for her poverty and destitution‚ my life there was not that bad. Since my dad has lived in the USA since long before I arrived‚ I was able to go to private school in Ethiopia and get a good education. I came to the USA when I was fourteen years old. Nothing was as easy as I thought it would be. New country‚ new language‚ new home‚ new school‚ new friends: everything was new for me. Being a high school student
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Literature. 1/ General overview: The frontier romance is an imaginative form of literature giving shape and meaning to the American experience. It portrays the ambivalent drama of the frontier hero‘s encounter with the natural world and the feeling inspired by the American frontier spirit. The Leatherstocking Tales are also about the narrative exploration of historical episodes. American Romance with Cooper is about the American landscape where the national character and identity are inseparable.
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Two of the legendary Italian film director Federico Fellini ’s films‚ OTTO E MEZZO‚ also known as 8 ½‚ which was filmed in 1963; AND THE SHIP SAILS ON‚ which was filmed in 1983‚ demonstrate significantly different aspects of this great director ’s cinematic talent. Separated in time by two decades‚ created in distinctly different social and cultural environments‚ and products of very different stages in Federico Fellini ’s career‚ the two films reflect contrast much more than they feature similarity
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attention to the details of her dream life" (85). Jane’s dreams thus reveal the raw emotions she attempts to mask in order to be an ideal Victorian lady. When Jane becomes a governess at Thornfield‚ Rochester takes interest in three watercolour imaginative landscapes she painted while at Lowood school. They reveal her great awareness for dreams. Jane describes the drawings as visions of her "spiritual eye" and notes‚ "The subjects had indeed risen vividly on my mind" (1.242). Rochester declares‚ "I daresay
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creative‚ personal. The purpose of a descriptive essay is to describe a person‚ place‚ or thing in such vivid detail that the reader can easily form a precise mental picture of what is being written about. The author may accomplish this by using imaginative language‚ interesting comparisons‚ and images that appeal to the senses. The Most Important Features: • This type of essay is focusing in descriptions on the senses‚ to provide vivid and specific details that show to the readers rather than
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work from the customer back eBay leverages the scale and power of online networking Dell’s direct personalisation and interactive supply chain Diageo’s balanced portfolio of profitable brands Cadbury’s disciplined metrics linked to economic profit Imaginative action of Picasso Apple’s market vision that redefines a whole industry Nike’s brand about you and your aspirations‚ rather than them 3M’s continuous innovation of concepts‚ products and markets Innocent’s storytelling with a passion for fresh thinking
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Often censured for his emphasis on sex‚ his stereotyped female characters‚ and his frequently-blatant sexism‚ Lawrence remains one of the important figures in British literary modernism. Also a poet and essayist‚ Lawrence’s greatest influence is fiction. His use of topographical detail to evoke a sense of precise locale was especially attractive to American writers like Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson. In addition to his attention to surfaces as a way to delineate place‚ Lawrence’s determination
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The blackbird is the only element in nature which is aesthetically compatible with bleak light and bare limbs: he is‚ we may say‚ a certain kind of language‚ opposed to euphony‚ to those "noble accents and lucid inescapable rhythms" which Stevens used so memorably elsewhere in Harmonium. … There are thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird because thirteen is the eccentric number; Stevens is almost medieval in his relish for external form. This poetry will be one of inflection and innuendo; the inflections
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mental asylum) House on Mango Street‚ Sandy Cisneros Of Mice and Men‚ John Steinbeck The Joy Luck Club‚ Amy Tan (Chinese-American culture) The Help‚ Kathryn Stockett (set in 1960s; about African-American maids in the South) Shoeless Joe‚ WP Kinsella (baseball) Franny and Zooey‚ by JD Salinger (from 1950’s; If you have an interest in world philosophy or eastern religion‚ you’d probably like this.) The Outsiders‚ S.E. Hinton The Bell Jar‚ Sylvia Plath (mature themes) Research Novel
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the times announcements page she gatecrashes the funerals and memorial services of rich widowers. She dresses up in black suits and charms her way into the grieving men`s wallets and onto their platinum credit cards. Under the pen name "Sophie Kinsella‚" Madeleine Wickham has published the highly successful Shopaholic series of books which is being filmed under the name "a confession of a shopoholic". Now her publisher is releasing‚ for the first time in the U.S.‚ several chick-lit novels written
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