My telephone rang and a shiver went down my spine. I knew who was calling and why they were calling. I slowly walked towards the phone‚ trying to walk slowly enough so by the time I get there the caller would hang up. But soon enough I founded myself next to the phone‚ because the room didn’t go on for ever. My hand reached out to grab the ringing phone and putted it next to my ear. I heard someone speaking to me through the phone and he said ‘hello’. I quickly answered him back with a shaky voice
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It was tea-time. Jason’s eyes were glued to the television set. The sounds from blasting speakers reverberated through the four walls of the living room. “Jason...” a familiar voice sounded. The television screen went blank. The speakers turned off. It was complete silence for a few seconds. Wondering what happened‚ Jason looked up. True enough‚ it was his mother‚ the same female that had given him life 19 years ago. In her hand was the television remote control. However there was something strange
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Is your generation wiser than your grandparents’ generation? This question has been asked about numerous times in the past and yet with so many people pondering and contemplating about it‚ there’s no definite answer to this question. It all comes down to how you look at it. From my point of view‚ I think that the current generation is becoming more and more of a ‘book smart’. There is a clear divide between a ‘book smart’ and a ‘street smart’. Being ‘book smarts’ means being smarter
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The main character in this story is a Jewish girl named Alicia. When the book starts she is ten years old‚ she lives in the Polish town of Buczacz with her four brothers‚ Moshe‚ Zachary‚ Bunio‚ and Herzl‚ and her mother and father . The holocaust experience began subtly at first when the Russians began to occupy Buczacz. When her brother Moshe was killed at a " Boys School" in Russia and her father was gathered up by German authorities‚ the reality of the whole situation quickly became
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LALALALALALLALALALLALA Story-story” is a circle game for all ages. The group of performers sit and a moderator (us) stands in the middle and provides a setting for the story. Then we point to a person in the circle and they begin telling a story (says 2 sentences). After the first storyteller has described the beginning of the story‚ the moderator points to another person‚ the story continues on; the new person picks up from the last word and tries to continue the narrative. Every performer should
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society. Three of the most intriguing aspects of Hinduism that I am able to connect to my personal experience are the use of the Puranas‚ the Ganga river‚ and their view and response to death. Today‚ people across India know stories from the Puranas‚ “a collection of myths‚ legends‚ lessons‚ and stories…” ( Robson 28) that simplify and teach the Vedic texts. I grew up reading “ My Book of Bible Stories” giving me an idea of the Bible’s
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Helen Adams Keller was an American author and lecturer. She was born in Tuscumbia‚ Alabama on June 27‚ 1880 and died on June 1‚ 1968. When Helen was nineteen months old‚ she was stricken with a damaging brain fever that left her blind and deaf. There was no way she could be educated until she was seven years old‚ when a teacher named Annie Mansfield Sullivan came to teach her to read the Braille system and to write with a specially constructed typewriter. Annie was almost blind herself from a fever
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“My Father Writes His Story” In this essay I will discuss personal stories from my childhood that will outline similarities and differences of “Western” and “Eastern” cultures. “Western” and “Eastern” countries differ in many ways. They both have their own history‚ culture and traditions. They also differ by how “Western” and “Eastern” people present themselves and tell stories about themselves. In both “Western” and “Eastern” culture heritage‚ family‚ respect and honesty play major factors. Me
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Badheka‚Gijubhai ( 1885 -1939 ) Girijashanker Badheka‚ generally known as Gijubhai‚ the most outstanding personality in the field of pre-primary education‚ was born to Bhagwanji and Sm. Kashiba of Vala in Saurashtra at Chittal 9Saurashtra) in the house of his maternal grandfather on 15 November 1885. He had his early education at a primary school at Vala and later passed the Matriculation from Bhavnagar around 1905. He joined the Shamlals College‚ but had to leave his studies incomplete and
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My radio broadcast stories were based on versatility. I picked my stories based on what would grab the audience’s attention. My overall performance was most definitely great‚ but every good performer knows there is also some room for improvement whether it is a little thing or a big change that has to happen to improve the delivery of the speech. My radio speech‚ I believe was one of the best ones. I feel this way because‚ I had interesting stories that grabbed the audience’s attention‚ I spoke with
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