My Favorite Character Ezio Auditore da Firenze was a Florentine nobleman during the Renaissance well at least that what many thought he was but in reality he was a skilled assassin and Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins. This is probably one of my most favorite characters of all time not only because he was an assassin‚ which is cool‚ and all but it’s mostly the kind of honor and character that he had. Ill talk about his story first so you can have some understanding as to how he became
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The short story “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is about a young Indian woman‚ Sumita‚ and her cultural transition to America that is symbolized by her clothes and the color of her clothes. The traditional Indian attire for a woman is a sari and each one has its own purpose. Her clothes also indicate her progression from daughter‚ to wife‚ to woman‚ which is why this story embodies Mordecai Marcus’ description of an initiation story. The story starts off with the bride to be in a yellow
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What would you do if you found out you were dying of cancer? Would you able to make jokes and laugh it off as though it were nothing? Would your humor be a way of denying the truth? People use humor in different ways. In "The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor"‚ Sherman Alexie tells how one man tries to use humor to deny the reality of his terminal disease. He shows how humor can be taken too far. This story demonstrates how humor can destroy one part of your life as it helps you cope with another
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* My favorite bear is the Chicago Bears mascot. This is the team Brian Urlacher plays for now. He has played for the Bears his entire professional career. During his time with the Bears he has gone to the Super Bowl and several Pro Bowls. His rookie year‚ Brian won the Defensive Player of the Year Award for most outstanding Linebacker in the NFL. Growing up as a child‚ he had a rough life but it didn’t stop him from playing great football through from the time he was young to the time he
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My two favorite places Everyone has their secret special places that they go to or places just to simply get away or look for advice at every once and a while. I am not anyway different than anyone else‚ as I also have some very secret places where I go when I need privacy or just seeking much needed advice. One of my places is the lake in the wintertime. There I can escape from the everyday mess and can think more rationally or just simply soul search. The lake is located approximently 45
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My Favorite Mistake Madeleine Albright on the time she stuck it to Putin. Jul 25‚ 2011 1:00 AM EDT Madeleine Albright.‚ Cindy Marler / Hollandse Hoogte-Redux When I was America’s biggest diplomat‚ I made a really bad mistake. This is how it happened. In 1999‚ President Clinton‚ Defense Secretary William Cohen‚ and I were in a room together‚ celebrating the 50th anniversary of NATO. It was a completely accidental thing; we were just sitting and joking around‚ and we pretended to be the “See
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Throughout the short story‚ “My Favorite Chaperone‚” written by Jean Davis Okamoto‚ the siblings Maya and Nurzhan do things to deceive and trick their parents‚ all in an effort to help one another‚ as they try to adjust to life in the United States. The story itself is about Maya and her family‚ who moved to America from Kazakhstan. Together they overcome challenges from others and from themselves‚ and in the end they are a stronger and more developed family. At the beginning of the story‚ Maya
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Music as art. My favorite music style. Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence that are organized in time in a special way. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony)‚ rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo‚ meter‚ and articulation)‚ dynamics‚ and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. In the historical context the development of music is inseparable from the active development of person’s sensory abilities. Course of the auditory development of the
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on Long Island‚ near the now married Daisy‚ and begins the process of recapturing her favors. I have read this book in my junior year of high school. It was I truly memorable book because it was taught by an enthusiastic and descriptive teacher. It’s what isn’t written and the hidden‚ subtle meanings between the lines and my potent reaction that makes this book one of my favorite classics of American Literature. Also Fitzgerald’s elegant‚ almost dance-like‚ symbolic and deep prose; yes‚ many might
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I really don’t think I have a favorite; I think I have a few of favorite pastimes. My favorite pastimes are NASCAR‚ baseball‚ and football for sports. Others would be watching television or movies‚ and probably sleep. I think my favorite pastime of them all would be NASCAR. I started watching NASCAR when I was really little. I always was sitting in front of the television every Sunday. For the past five years we have been going to Michigan International Speedway for the whole weekend when the Sprint
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