13.09.10 Something for Nothing Characterisation: Jake is the main character. He’s a good family man and he takes an interest in his mother and lets her spend time talking to her son. Jake lives a regular life with his wife and his daughter. The mother is an elderly lady. Widowed years ago‚ who maintaines her intellect and brain power by an active social life with friends and by reading‚ especially the new yourk times‚ which is a massive publication 100 of pages long
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It is Saturday morning and I decide to walk to the Oil City Public Library‚ I am walking across the bridge and I stumble across several used syringes lying on the ground. I shake my head‚ grunt and kick them off the bridge into the mighty swift river. They float away‚ as do my thoughts and memories of my own past struggles. I arrive at the Oil City Library slightly out of breath. There are three young boys approximately 13 years of age on the computers. I mumble jokingly‚ but outloud‚ "Dreads of
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Halloween night. Halloween was one of the scariest days of the year. Little children would knock on the door of each house‚ saying ‘Trick-or-Treat’‚ asking politely for the adults to put candy into their bags. I was finally a teenager and was afraid of nothing. I found trick-or-treating boring and pathetic and thus‚ I scheduled something more effective for that day. Little did I know what was going to happen... I had registered for the annual 2013 computer challenge known as ‘Sniper Attack’. Millions
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You share a fresh perspective compared to what I have in mind upon reading Italo Calvino’s Good for Nothing. Indeed‚ tying shoelaces is symbolical representation of the things that needs fixing‚ but it is more of the lack of skill and the personal decision to do something which needed more attention. “It is essential that we become critical-minded‚ that we direct our neighbor’s attention toward their shoes that are undone‚ if we have to.” — Is it not too intrusive? It can be looked at as social
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Name:__________________________ English 10 Mr. Grew Unit 2 (Much Ado About Nothing Paper) Due 2 December 2013 Your task In “Imagining the Real‚” David Horowitz argues‚ “ . . . love is indeed an idea out of imaginative fiction‚ but that like all ideals it need not merely remain a potential. The real commitment of two lovers may yield love a substantially and permanence that no dream can have. In this perception [these characters] make their way to a central‚ commonplace‚ paradoxical truth:
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WHEN YOU KNOW NOTHING‚ YOU GAIN SOMETHING Life is a learning process for everyone. Nothing stays till the end of our breath except knowledge. From Aristotle quotes‚ All men by nature desire knowledge because there will always be something new to learn every day. During my childhood time‚ I think that I could be anything I fantasize when the teacher asked about my ambition. But now‚ that question becomes the topic that I feared the most and I would take some time to make up my mind and came up
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The author Robert Frost has an excellent gift for putting words into finished works of poetry. His poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is no exception. Although short‚ it delivers a deep point and meaning to the reader. Life is such a delicate thing and most of it is taken for granted. The most beautiful‚ special time in life generally passes in what could be a blink of an eyes. Even in such a short poem‚ he describes what would seem to be an eternity or a life time in eight simple lines. Change is inevitable
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unmarried in life are punished in the afterlife. (The actual proverb reads: "Those who die maids do lead apes in hell.") She also says she’d rather pay make a bargain with the man who keeps performing bears (a bearherd) than be a wife. Much ado nothing is a romantic Shakespeare play about two couples of lovers. The play is set in Messina‚ deep in the heart of Italy and is based in Elizabethan times. The lovers are namely; Claudio and Hero‚ Bennedick and Beatrice. Claudio is a noble Florentine count
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In her essay‚ “Nothing Distant About It” Echols describes “identity politics” as “[the idea] that identity is the basis of politics” (Echols‚ 44). For example‚ a person who identifies as an African American‚ heterosexual female will have different political views than an Asian American‚ homosexual male based on personal experiences associated with these identities. The man‚ for example‚ might be more active in pride parades or advocating for LGBTQ rights while the woman might be more concerned with
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matter how arduous the situation may become‚ it is not the definite outcome. For instance‚ this past Christmas‚ my sister had money saved up and a significant plan to achieve. If nothing went wrong‚ she would be spending Christmas and New Year’s with her new fiancé‚ which‚ may I add‚ lives in San Antonio. Again‚ If nothing went wrong. However‚ of course‚ her car gave up a day before Christmas Eve‚ and there was no way to fix it due to my dad not having the efficient tools and everything being closed
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