Chapter 1 Midnight in the deserts of Afghanistan‚ at an Al-Qaida training camp. Gunshots echo throughout the camp. Young boys come running out of dust covered tents. Together they number fifty. All of them were half asleep and hungry‚ shivering in the ice cold night air. The story of these boys is the same. They were taken from their families at an early age and brought here. One in particular stands out; he is the son of a general who fights Al-Qaida‚ and serves the President of Afghanistan
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The two detectives were patiently waiting at their desks for their new assignments. Jerry had been with the police department for over twenty years starting out as a beat cop working his way up to detective in four and a Sergeant in ten. Soon after his promotion‚ Jerry became ill. The doctor informed him he needed to find a less stressful job if he didn’t want his health to decline any further." Since police work was the only thing he knew‚ he decided to step down from the position instead of completely
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“I don’t want to leave here.” It was the quietest of whispers‚ a mere breath of sound. As the housekeeper bustled behind her‚ humming tunelessly‚ Marilla gazed out of her bedroom window and down onto the street in the city she had called home for the whole of her eight years‚ trying to come to terms with the imminent move. Beautiful Tertia One; its pentagonal houses stuccoed in white‚ yellow‚ umbra and orange. Perfect Teria One; flower boxes in every window and designs pointed under every eave
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Why is The Douglas tragedy a popular ballad? – by Luciano Daniel Gercek The Douglas tragedy is a narrative poem arranged in the form of a ballad‚ for it tells a story. Besides‚ it is considered a popular ballad because it does not have an author. It also begins in media res‚ when Lord Douglas is awoken and urged to put on his armour in order to prevent his daughter’s wrongdoing – his eldest daughter‚ Lady Margaret‚ has eloped with Lord William. Both father and sons set off after her and stand
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Land of the Oppressed: An Explication “Ballad of the Landlord” By Langston Hughes Traditionally a ballad is a love song but Hughes turns this ballad in to a poem with rhythm and rhyme The Poem highlights a black man’s experience in an oppressed society. Although this tenant has valid complaints about the conditions of his house/apt; he is thrown in jail without cause. A great detail of the timeline and era the poem was written/created in He begins with a relevant
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The poem of “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall discusses African American girl who wants to join the march for the civil rights movement‚ but her mother insists it is too dangerous. As a alternative‚ the mother persauades her daughter to go to church for safety purpose; however‚ the white terrorists bomb the church. When the mother is desperately searching for her daughter‚ she finds only her daughter’s shoes to be remained at the shattered church.The form‚ the meaning‚ and the settling of
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Stephanie Kuehnerts Ballads of Suburbia takes place within the suburbs. She also works to combine themes of self-harm and emotionally absent parental figures within the novel. These combined themes set the book apart from traditional drug addiction based novels. That and the fact that we meet the protagonist 4 years after her drug overdose. Instead of meeting her before like the characters in the previous novels. Most reviews will point out the use of music within her novel. The use of music adds
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Love and Attraction The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers is a story of love illustrated through the romantic longings and attractions of the three eccentric characters; Miss Amelia‚ Cousin Lymon‚ and Marvin Macy. McCullers depicts love as a force‚ often strong enough to change people’s attitudes and behaviors. Yet‚ the author seems to say‚ if the love is unrequited‚ individuals‚ having lost their motivation to change‚ will revert back to their true selves
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is the diary I let people read. My written Diaries are private; they form a closed document of my world and allow me the distance to analyse it. My visual diary is public; it expands from its subjective basis with the input of other people. Nan Goldin’s photographs stand as a obsessional recording of her life‚ as she puts it ‘I don’t ever want to loose the real memory of anyone again’. Goldin manoeuvred into a career in art photography after she was given a camera
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READING MUMBO JUMBO Mumbo Jumbo is a novel about writing itself not only in the figurative sense of the postmodern‚ elf-reflexive text but also in a literal sense [It] is both a book about texts and a book of texts‚ a composite narrative of subtexts‚ pretexts‚ posttexts‚ and narratives within narratives. It is both a definition of afro American culture and its deflation. Henry Louis Gates‚ Jr. Author of The Signifying Monkey Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed’s third novel and by many
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