of life‚ with positive and negative influences‚ as shown by the film Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta (OUATIC) by Bernadette Lim and the poem The Door by Miroslav Holub. Change is a tornado: it comes without warning and can pass by without interference‚ or can cause irreversible damage. A majority people believe that tornado is a synonym for change. In OUATIC John Newman states the Vietnamese ought to be deported‚ “The one thing they fear is deportation back to the jungles of Vietnam‚ because that’s
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written essays‚ journal entries or any kind of “story” in a very long time. Considering my recent writings‚ and the atmosphere in which they were written‚ I finally decided that my current writing process most closely resembles the image of the tornado. When I am writing‚ I take all of the words and thoughts that are in my head at the moment‚ and then proceed to type them out as they come. I don’t preplan‚ I don’t write drafts‚ and I usually don’t stop and put much extra thought into what I am
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started making protest/”hippie” music‚ the Rolling Stones were performing songs that sounded like a mixture of a Led Zeppelin-like sound and a Beatles-like sound. Some American bands took a stronger and hard rock type of sound to protest songs. Janis Joplin used her strong voice to bring a rock edge to the psychedelic band
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Have you ever heard‚ “We Didn’t Start the Fire‚” by Billy Joel? He wrote the song to document historical events and people from 1949 to 1989. Each snippet of the song brings up a person‚ event‚ or item of importance from those years. In English class‚ each person is researching the importance of a snippet of the song. My section‚ “Woodstock‚” was a significant event during those years. Woodstock‚ a musical festival billed as “Three Days of Peace of Music”(Cammorata)‚ took place in mid-August
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Natural Disasters Tragedies after tragedy after one after another. Simply‚ the impacts of climate change to Philippines. Natural Disasters Tragedies after tragedy after one after another. Simply‚ the impacts of climate change to Philippines. The Philippines is on top of the list of countries in the world in terms of the occurrence of natural disasters in 2011‚ the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction said. The worst disaster that hit
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of this era experimented with marijuana‚ lysergic acid diethylamide‚ also known asLSD‚ and heroine. Experimentation with these drugs allowed the baby boomers to feel apart of a society and felt a sense of inspiration while on these drugs. Hendrix‚ Joplin‚ Morrison were well known rock and roll figures that the hippie’s looked upon as role models in the drug
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first thing I want to do is milk a cow‚ after that I want to go farther up north in Alaska to see the Aurora Borealis. While still in Alaska‚ I will fly up to Adak on the Aleutian Chain. Then I want to go to the more western states and try to see a tornado. Another hair raising activity will be to go ghost hunting. Next‚ I want to start traveling again and go to Loch Ness Lake. After all my crazy new adventures I want to go back home and relax and get a manicure/pedicure. The final‚ and most sentimental
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lot. Firestorms look like a tornado absorbing fire‚ but they’re really whirlwinds made of fire that cause a lot of damage especially when touching flammable items‚ but most areas recover quickly afterwards. The Firestorm of Peshtigo included many details common to firestorms and caused damage and destruction to property and lives that affected the region‚ but the area has recovered in its aftermath. Firestorms are like whirlwinds made of fire so it isn’t as big as a tornado. They’re two thousand degrees
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Back on February 1‚ 1902‚ there was a boy named James Mercer Langston Hughes. He was born in Joplin‚ Missouri. After his birth‚ his parents decided to separate‚ and his father moved to Mexico. His grandmother‚ Mary‚ mainly took care of Langston while his mother moved around when he was younger. She eventually died in his younger teens‚ by then his mother had settled down in Cleveland‚ Ohio. Walt Whitman‚ and Carl Sandburg introduced him into poetry‚ later on they both were primary influences on Langston
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Today in class we watched a video on Gumbo. The Gumbo we saw today was not about the creation of the famous New Orleans dish‚ but the creation of Jazz. The Documentary Gumbo was directed by Ken Burns who interviewed different people from critics to famous musicians. One of the famous musicians he interviewed was Wynton Marsalis a famous trumpet player. In the introduction Marsalis said something that grabbed my attention‚ he said: “music is a language”. New Orleans was the home for many people of
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