A/N: a short story done for my mock English GCSE exam‚ where the question was to ’describe a nightmare world’. Instead of going for the cliché‚ hell-like landscape‚ I decided to base my so-called ’nightmare world’ off of a real nightmare‚ in the world we live in – a young boys perspective during a bombing in WWII. Note: I got an A for that exam paper! Nightmare World Every day they come‚ in their great terrifying birds of steel‚ overhead and through the clouds that I once thought held heaven
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A Nightmare World Flames. They were all I could see as I stared at the lit cigarette igniting the beginning of my death. The pain of burning streaked across my foot as I rose into the air and violently stamped my feet to end the brutal agony. The conflagration rose high above the window‚ to give me a glimpse of the azure blue sky outside and the rest of the world that had no idea of my imminent death or the flames that would eventually destroy the whole town. The fire was almost mocking me‚ as
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The Beautiful Nightmare One of William Shakespeare’s most sublime works‚ Macbeth‚ displays the tragic downfall of a once trustworthy and noble man named Macbeth. Shakespeare is able to transform the nightmare portrayed in this play into art that everyone can relate to‚ making the play obtain such high quality and admiration. The idea of a nightmare is dissimilar to the genre of horror in a variety of ways. A nightmare is very realistic and universal‚ whereas horror is not; it is exaggerated‚ very
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Darwin’s Nightmare can be described as an allegory presenting a world of super powers and their greed to steal‚ destroy and kill. It is not only the story of Eastern Congo alone‚ but an eye opener to the imperialistic interest of some “war lords” in the natural resources of some endowed nations that are considered lesser power. Examples of such are nations like Iraq‚ Nigeria‚ Rwanda‚ Burundi‚ Sudan‚ or Sierra- Leone. The endless conflicts are often described as tribal or religious‚ but the underlying
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Name: Erickson Mar T. Castilla Date: Nov. 22‚ 2012 Subject/Section: Engl05-EE Prof.: Aimee Layag Topic: Cebu my hometown Gen. Purpose: To Inform Spec. Purpose: To inform my audience the beauty of my hometown Cebu. Central Idea: The beauty of my home town Cebu are the Whale shark watching and the sceneries that you can see from the mountain top. Cebu is located in central visayas approximately 1 hour from manila via airplane‚ Cebu is known for delicious roasted pork and famous
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Starbucks A Worst Nightmare I was making a grande vanilla bean frappiccino while other customers were waiting in line to have their order taken. Business was slow that day‚ but heck‚ everyday at my job was a slow one. I would think to myself‚ Why the hell am I still working here? when this place gets no business at all. Of course‚ I work at Starbucks‚ not the ones that you see on the corner of the streets‚ but I worked at the one in Target. At my Starbucks‚ we would have one person working
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‘It’s Not My Fault That It’s Default’ By Georgia Mitchell When you sit down in front of the television on Friday night and think about what you are going to watch‚ you should definitely consider the hilarious British sitcom‚ My Family. This modern day sitcom is based around the lives of an average‚ middle-class English family and their day-to-day experiences. The program is set within an enclosed world which changes between the Harper’s residence and a dental surgery. The funny and opinionated
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as though Jim lost the world and does not care to return to it. At this point‚ the reader begins to pity Jim‚ wanting to comfort him while adding to the setting "in a little room‚ scarcely larger than the bed that held me‚ and the window-shade at my head was flapping softly in a warm wind‚" (Cather 14). Once awaken in his grandparents’
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Willa Cather‚ an American author‚ achieved much recognition on her frontier works. She earned much acknowledgement in her work of My Antonia. Raised on a primitive farm in Nebraska‚ Cather uses her experiences of the landscape to transform the senses of her readers. Cather demonstrates her ability to capture the feeling of the prairie at the end of the “Hired Girls.” (“Presently we saw… somewhere on the prairie.” Page 146-147) Not only is this scene an important image of the moment‚ but the representation
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My Antonia By Willa Cather Kajal Desai 2B APUSH March 3‚ 2016 My Antonia is a fictional story written by Willa Cather. The story starts off with Cather herself as the narrator‚ which then switches to another narrator to a man by the name of Jim Burden‚ who is a lawyer of the transcontinental railroads. The reason there is a switch up in the narrators is due to the fact that Cather wanted to write a memoir about a girl named Antonia‚ but she is not as familiar with Antonia as much
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