The theme of overcoming difficult odds is seen in the short stories The First Day‚ The Circuit‚ and On the Rainy River. In all of these compelling stories our main characters are faced with difficulties in their lives. In The First Day by Edward P Jones our main character‚ a little girl who is just about to start school‚ is on a journey with her illiterate mother who is desperately trying to give her daughter the education she herself never received. In The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez our main character
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feeling this day was about to get worse. I didn’t find a gas station. I looked at the clock‚ and it was 3:39 p.m. That was the ninth time I looked at the clock‚ and I knew that it was something I’d be doing until I got to work. I needed to get gas in my car because I knew I wouldn’t make it to work‚ and I also had to dropped my mother at my aunt’s home. Luckily‚ after I dropped my mom‚ I saw a gas station‚ and when I looked at the clock again‚ it was 3:44. I was about to reach my work place‚ and I
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Mansoor ENG-111 Janet Sarjeant Feb 17th‚ 2012 The Important day of my life The life is a complete journey in which every second is a new experience for us. Some remarkable experiences can change our whole life and we learn from them many different things that we cannot forget ever. Same way‚ I remember the first most memorable and important day of my life when I went to my first journey‚ out of my country‚ away from my family‚ when I was 12‚ which then led to a life changing experience
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recalls her mother has always pointed towards Seaton Elementary School‚ and said that she is going to learn about the whole world in that place. (The First Day. Page; 288). Jones try to elaborate how‚ “The First Day” is going to last for the daughter for the rest of her life. How she discovers the truth about her mother and how she’ll carry this day along with
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The Worst Day of My Life Sherry Miller Everest University ENC 1101-157 Composition I - 157 Elaine Childs November 4‚ 2012 The Worst Day of My Life In this essay you will read about one of the worst days in my life. It is the story about the first time I was raped. I was 13 years old‚ a junior high school student (8th grade). See I used to have a newspaper route that I delivered before school and got the baby-sitting job after school. Well one day while delivering the newspaper to these
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Happiest day in my life .. Many people dream to become most successful in their endeavour as life is ternary. Most people achieve their goals by hard work‚ dedication‚ & determination with the support and encouragement from parents‚ teachers‚ friends and colleagues . some times self motivation or inspiration of other successful persons. So‚ many people experience happiest day(s) in their life. I am lucky to be one among those successful people and I also experienced a happiest day in my
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Ryan Sheopersad Speech 100 – 153 Spring 2012 ACCOMPLISHING MY FIRST SPEECH Post Speech Analysis - Draft # 1 When I picture a person giving a speech‚ I imagine someone confident‚ alert‚ standing with good posture‚ completely in control of their audience. I visualize a person standing behind a podium well dressed‚ and excited to deliver their material. For me my first intro speech was about conveying the image of what I felt a public speaker should be. How they stand‚ how they speak‚ and how they
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The ‘First day at School’ takes us through the vast stretch of a child’s mind on his first day of school. It voices the feelings of the child; his unknowing mind of the perplexing new world and how that has aroused a sense of anxiety and insecurity inside him. The poem also lets us delve into the child’s misapprehending of his new phase of life; his misinterpretations and how he had gotten the wrong idea. With that many qualities are conveyed to portray all this. In this poem it proclaims to have
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I wake up every day hoping that it will be prodigious for me. My hands get sticky like glue as I prepare the syrups to make sure they are safe to sell. Then I get my block of ice it gets my hand so cold it gets numb. I make sure the corn is soft‚ hot and ready to sell. That is the start of my day as a street vendor. “Yo soy Rafael y vento raspados y elotes.”(I am Rafael and I sell shave ice and corn) I start early in the morning‚ as the sun’s ray penetrated through my window. I make sure that
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My first love for the game of baseball came when I was a young boy‚ maybe around the age 5 or 6. There was just something different about this game and sport; the smell of the grass being mowed‚ the smell of fresh dirt being raked throughout the park‚ and last‚ but not least the char of fresh hamburgers and hot dogs coming off the grill. My family had centered my focus on the sport; starting when I was a kid‚ my first experience with baseball when my late Uncle Mike taught me how to pitch‚ as well
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