Creative Writing - Belonging The clear‚ bright and enlightening blue skies greet my face as I ponder through my thoughts in my head. The sun blossoms it’s radiating sunlight‚ which glisten and reflect off the tranquil‚ wavy sea to reveal elements of a mystifying‚ inexplicable‚ yet convivial world. My heart beat pulsates through my ears… so silent and blissful this world of beggaring-description‚ words could not hope to utter moments like these. It was the idea of confronting‚ change and experience
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❖ Area of Study – Belonging To organise your notes for this unit of work‚ 3 key sections will need to be created: 1. Understanding of the Concept 2. Core textual study: As You Like It 3. Related texts: minimum of TWO required (preferably in different types of texts) 4. Bringing it all together Section 1: Understanding the Concept ‘Belonging’ is a complex multi-faceted concept that highlights our inherent/gregarious need to feel connected with out peers‚ it is fundamental to human
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“I is for India‚ Our land in the East‚ Where everyone goes To shoot tigers and feast.” (Ames 278) John Beames’ “Civilian Memoirs” gives a slight reference of what Ames was trying to convey‚ being that he was in Indian during that time‚ and that piece was just about his day to day life‚ more so touching on why India was ‘the preferred place to live in’. The piece was more based on the work environment as to Beames and his comrade George Faulkner chose to move to India for the same reason‚ less government
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I watched a movie about a college girl gave birth. The film was really interesting. It gives a lot of moral lessons especially to the college girls like us‚ those who have no idea what it’s like being a teenage mom and yet willing to take the risk. The film is very powerful‚ to think that it was based on true story. The main character in the story who pretended to be pregnant for her project‚ was smart and brave enough to think of something really interesting and then do it. Based on the movie‚ pretending
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As I hear my mom coming down the hall at 5:30 in the morning making sure everybody was awake. I immediately jumped up out of bed because I haven’t slept a wink all night. The reason for this is because I was so excited and nervous to get to the airport and take my first flight in my life to Florida. Where a huge boat named “The Mistress of the Sea” was waiting on us to board it and go on a 3 day adventure. We got to the airport about an hour before the flight left so we could check our bags in
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After reading A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” by Richard Rodriguez‚ and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ I found that being bicultural is one of the best qualities I could have. Speaking two languages‚ eating different kinds of foods‚ and celebrating my culture are some of the advantages of being bicultural. Although my family and I live in the U.S we follow the customs and traditions of America and Pakistan. I have learned to speak three languages‚ including English. I eat a variety of foods and celebrate
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Unbowed: a memoir; Character Study As the author‚ Wangari Maathai tells us “The experiences of childhood are what mold us and make us who we are. How you translate the life you see‚ feel smell and touch as you grow up—the water you drink‚ the air you breathe and the food you eat—are what you become.” (Page 52) It is no surprise given this way of thinking that the people in our childhood also make an enormous impact on our lives‚ especially our parents. Wangari’s father‚ Muta Njugi‚ was named
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Memoir Coming into high school ready to have the time of my life was a little over rated. I was 14 turning 15 and was not interested in much and now needing to have an answer to those inevitable questions What college are you going too? or What career are you planning to pursue? All of these questions put an immense weight in my shoulders and the only thing on my mind back then was whether or not I will be able to afford the latest Call Of Duty title. Up to that point I had not thought of what I
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My memoir will be about something I rarely ever talk about much less let my feeling about it show through. I am going to writ about the time that someone tried to physically hurt me while I was working out. I work out in the weight room of the school I work at. I was in there one day‚ alone‚ when someone began to bang on the doors that thankfully were shut. He threatened all kinds of bodily harm to me while beating on the doors with a concrete trail and metal pole. He was not there in a
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Richard Rodriguez- Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood “Aria‚” an excerpt from the memoir “Hunger of a Bilingual Childhood‚” accounts for the author‚ Richard Rodriguez’s‚ childhood experience with learning English as a second language. Throughout his essay he represents the power of the individual to defeat the language barrier and how he overcame this particular problem as a child. Being torn between conforming to the “public” language or staying true to his “private” language‚ he discusses
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