SUMMARY LETTERS FROM RIFKA November 30‚ 1919 Warsaw‚ Poland Mama‚ Papa‚ Nathan and Saul go to America‚ but Rikfa can´t go. Rikfa can´t go beacuse she has ringworm in her head. She stays and her family leaves. I think this is really bad beacause she´s only 12 years old and they can´t leave her alone in a big city. She has to go with her family. December 1‚ 1919 Warsaw‚ Poland Rikfa has to go to another country and leave her family. She will go to another family like immigrant
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many people easily contracted the disease. I will analyze two letters written to friends by a doctor and nurse to show some of the conditions and duties they had to endure during the pandemic of 1918. This letter was written by doctor‚ N.R. Grist. He had been stationed at a military base in Massachusetts called Camp Devens just as influenza started to spread. Dr. Grist writes to his
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Jesica Jaramillo English III The Great Gatsby Essay 3/20/14 In The Great Gatsby novel Jordan and Nick are a couple and they stay in a relationship together until nearly the end of the summer. In the new movie Jordan and Nick are not considered a couple‚ at one of Gatsby’s parties Jordan is whisked away by a male companion. In the movie it shows Myrtles sister Catharine giving Nick a pill she said she got from a doctor in Queens and that does not come up anywhere in the novel. In the movie
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Today I study Lord Byron’s Love Letter story. This story is telling about old woman and her daughter Spinster‚ they deceive other people that they have the love letter of Lord Byron that written to Spinster’s grandmother when she met Byron on the steps of Acropolis in Athens. Matron and her husband want to see the letter and old woman explains how she had met Lord Byron. The Spinster reads the account from a diary. They had gone to Greece to study the classic remains of the oldest European civilization
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for its ideals of freedom and new opportunities‚ a nation built under the idea that every man and women is created equal. However‚ the definition of what makes a person an American is entirely different from what it is that makes up America‚ itself. J.Hector St. John Crevecoeur‚ author of Letters from an American Farmer (1782)‚ exposes what he believes makes an American. However‚ when compared to the standards of what makes an American in today’s world‚ it seems that becoming an American then was much
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To Whom it May Concern: I highly recommend Jane Doe as a candidate for employment. Jane was employed by Company Name as an Administrative Assistant from 2002 - 2005. Jane was responsible for office support including word processing‚ scheduling appointments and creating brochures‚ newsletters‚ and other office literature. Jane has excellent communication skills. In addition‚ she is extremely organized‚ reliable and computer literate. Jane can work independently and is able to follow through to ensure
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‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ Formative Assignment 1. The overall point that Martin Luther King is making in the letter is that in order for civil rights to be achieved‚ the act of non-violent protests must be allowed. King believed that if non-violent methods were prohibited then tension would keep building up‚ and would result people being much more violent in order to let their opinions be heard. King also believed that there was no better time than that moment to fight for their rights‚ rather
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Letters from Rifka is the story of a young Russian-Jewish girl and her family who leave their homeland in 1919 to travel to America. Persecuted in Russia by the soldiers and others who dislike Jews‚ Rifka’s family makes their way across Russia to Poland and the U.S. However‚ Rifka encounters many difficulties along the way. Initially worried that they will not make it out of Russia‚ the family runs into guards on the train on the way out (whom Rifka successfully distracts)‚ and unkind guards at the
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caused Jay Gatsby’s downfall? Imagine hearing about a friend or family member’s death and not truthfully knowing how they died. In the novel it states that George Wilson shot Gatsby‚ but what were all the underlying reasons… was it really him? The mystery of this non fictional death is a various blame game including all the events leading up to his death. It all starts when Nick Carraway moves to West Egg‚ a wealthy area‚ and gets invited to a party by the “big name” of Gatsby (Fitzgerald 3). Jay Gatsby
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Everything is unique in one way or another. That was Shannon L. Alder was implying. In Joan Bauer’s short story “A Letter From The Fringe‚” the protagonist Dana and her friend Sally constantly gets bullied by the antagonists Doug Booker and Charlie Bass at Bronley High School. They are not fitting the standards given to them by society. Dana wants to speak up not just for
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