Riley Joslin josserball3@yahoo.com 315.939.4130 Beaver River Correspondent Week 26 – Favorite Moments There are so many games‚ matches‚ meets‚ etc. in each season‚ and I attend nearly 75% of them I’d say‚ so it’s hard for me to pick my favorite moments of the season; I’ve tried to compile a list nonetheless. The beginning of the season seems like a logical place to start. Right off the bat‚ the girls’ basketball team was able to string together five wins to spark the season – something that’s
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Funny Boy‚ a novel by Shyam Selvadurai‚ tells us a story through the eyes of a growing Tamil homosexual boy‚ Arjie. By using a first person narrator‚ Selvadurai vividly describes Arjie¡¯s struggle to negotiate life in Sinhala-dominated Colombo. Besides‚ the horrible ethnic violence between Tamil and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka was also highlighted throughout the novel. Selvadurai developed the theme of ethnic violence by telling various incidents and facts through the narrator of Arjie‚ beginning with
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What does the name “Magdeline” mean? A name is much more than just a name! M is for musical‚ your hidden talent! A is for absolute‚ for you know your mind. G is for goal‚ your eye on the future. D is for dazzle‚ the sparkle of you. E is for excellence‚ your passion‚ your drive. L is for luxury‚ the luxury of your smile. I is for intense‚ your zest of living. N is for neatness‚ your orderly way. E is for exquisite‚ who could argue? What does the name “Gladys” mean? A name is much more
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A comparison of Brian Friel’s Philadelphia‚ Here I Come & Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge Both Brian Friel’s Philadelphia‚ Here I Come‚ and Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge bear a resemblance to each other as plays‚ particularly in certain areas. For example‚ both plays are set at a similar time‚ in similarly isolated‚ and to a certain extent impoverished setting. Dramatic tension is used to great effect in both plays‚ to hold the audiences attention. The key moment‚ or climax
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Amongst all the different kinds of adventures there are in the world‚ there’s an adventure for everyone and each adventure will have that moments which would inspire you long after the adventure is over. The importance of adventure sports is being increasingly recognized in India from both the educational and social point of views. More and more students have become prisoners of their daily routines. The participation in an adventures trip is a very powerful and effective method to achieve a new
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I thought of penning down my memorable incidents and what could be better way than listing down funny incidents. There are many such incidents in my life (all unintentional at the moment they were happing) but I have chosen only four incidents to share. These incidents are at different point of time and from different areas….with an attempt to show that I am can generate humor from anywhere (this is better way of saying that at times i am equally ignorant in all areas!!). Anyway‚ I would not take
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Journal On Movie Funny People Trevor Edwards Funny multitude Funny People‚ directed by Judd Apatow‚ was‚ to me‚ not as extraordinary as I expected ground on the title of the movie. There were definitely some funny parts‚ only when overall‚ I thought the movie was more on the earnest/drama side of writing styles rather than drollery. I think by chance Judd Apatow named the movie Funny People‚ and then make it more as a serious movie‚ on purpose. I believe this could be showing the difference
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they were raised in a southern state you find it more applicable to a southern dialect. Ned Vizzini‚ writer of It’s Kind Of a Funny Story‚ allows the reader to think more with the wonderful word choices he makes. He makes connections to the real world and uses many aspects to help the reader become more involved. The story is about a student named Greg‚ who goes to a prestigious high school. He has few friends‚ but their names
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Funny in Farsi A Memior of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas is all about her life growing up in California after her dad is moved there but is company form Iran. Being born in Iran she had not learned much English so when she moved to the United State she slowly learned and was the translator for her mother a lot of the time. In her younger years she moved around about every two years and eventually she settled in America after her dad retired from the oil refinery in Iran. Since
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In the book Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas‚ there are five concepts from our textbook‚ Lives Across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Development by Harry W. Gardiner and Corrine Kosmitzki. Three of the concepts are components of Firoozeh Dumas’ developmental niche such as the psychology of her caretakers‚ the customs of her child care‚ and the social settings of her daily life growing up. The other two concepts are individualism and ethnocentrism. Dumas’ developmental niche is apparent throughout
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