Communist China uses propaganda and force to hide the truth from the public‚ as well as controlling them in a sense. Ha Jin writes Waiting and in this book he comments and portrays communist China in great detail. Waiting’s main character‚ Lin Kong‚ is commonly criticized as indecisive and unable to love. In an interview published in Asia Week in 1999‚ Ha Jin comments on Lin’s inability to love: allegorically…sum up a sort of internal psychological damage to the Chinese… the Revolution was to
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Gray- Seems like every day I fall more and more in love with Jones. Some times I even forget about the fair maiden Gabriela I had fallen so hardly for‚ although they are very alike... It was just that Jones was so beautiful! His beautiful eyes that I felt were always staring at me‚ his gentle hands that are always bruised from his hard work‚ his warm voice that I loved when he called out my name. Why am I falling in love with a guy?! Have I gone sick?! Have I gone mad!? Gods‚ ever since he arrived
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Dedicated to my friends and family‚ and to all the authors of the great books that I have read. On the third day of September‚ in the town of Maplerose‚ a girl was riding home on a bike of the finest‚ fiery‚ fall‚ orange. She was zipping down the leaf covered streets‚ like a floating gypsy‚ because her bike blended in so well. Alice Mint was the girl biking down the streets. It was the first day of school‚ and she had just made her daily trip to the town’s public library. Now she
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Julian L. McEachin Jan 28‚ 2015 Ms. Valerie Nieman ENGL 105 Apartment C It was a dark and stormy night. An unnatural haze lingered over Apartment C. In his bed‚ Thomas shivered. For a summer night‚ the air was cold and the sky was black. It was almost as if something evil lurked out there in the shadows. Thomas rolled over‚ clutching his pillow‚ and tried to fall back asleep. But a worry nagged in the back of his mind. Something was not right. No matter how he tried‚ some ghostly force prevented
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I guess it all started off like any other normal day. It always does. Everyone’s happy and living their lives and then the world ends. Well‚ it hasn’t ended. Earth is still spinning‚ orbiting the sun. We’re still getting seasons and global warming and all that‚ but what I mean is the world has ended for us. In a way we brought this on ourselves. We created the Corvus virus‚ originally invented to kill off the brain tumours for brain cancer sufferers. My sister was one of the scientists that helped
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Coffee shop‚ Saturday 09:00 Desmond‚ sitting at table waiting for Howard to arrive‚ begins to get inpacicent Howard‚ walks in and sits across from him: Desmond! You know that I will be late‚ after all I am late every week. Yet‚ you arrive here not just on time‚ but early! How irrational... Desmond‚ Takes out chess board and begins to set up: It is irrational to expect the best possible outcome‚ Howard? Howard: It is irrational to expect a different outcome when nothing has been changed. Two plus
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“Cattielee!! Cattielee‚ oh my goodness! I am so sorry this happened to you! Cattie‚ are you okay?” My best friend‚ Bella says. I get up and hug her. “I’m… I don’t know… I don’t know how I feel…” I start to cry.. I have no idea why it just starts… I haven’t really mourned my family yet.. I cry and cry and cry. I cry for Jessie and Hadlee. My mom and my dad. My mom’s life she had to endure. I cry for Jessie and Hadlee’s life they’re never gonna have. I cry for the father I never had.. I cry for
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Hare’s Revenge Hi I’m Tortoise you might know about the Tortoise and the Hare. Well that story was about me except now I’m a world champion. I have raced in France‚ Australia‚ Germany and the Olympics. I usually win because of luck but through training I have become way better (tortoise was a little full of himself but did not realize). Oh‚ I forgot to tell you but now I’m in the most famous race it’s called the‚ actually I will just leave you to see what it is called. I was in the Olympics and
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the bond between two brothers is stronger and more permanent than Equestira itself. A brother is your best friend‚ your secret keeper‚ your storybook keeper. You go to him when you have harrowing secrets plaguing your mind. I’ve been told that I’m lucky; because on the day Sapphire and I were born‚ I was extremely close to not having a brother. Hehe‚ what a mighty contradictory that would have been. Not only am I a brother‚ but I am also a twin—the first of two fraternal colts to enter the world
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Person A is a pickpocket. Person B is an ordinary commuter. Person A tries to grab Person B’s phone‚ but at the same time they do‚ Person A’s hand flies to their pocket. Their hands touch. You decide what happens after that. - The heat seemed to press on him‚ wearing him down as if he’s got a heavy load on his back. On top of that‚ Ibarra was late. He was supposed to meet Clarita in five minutes‚ yet there he was‚ still stuck in EDSA traffic‚ in a cramped and smelly G-Liner‚ drenched not only in
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