Dystopian Creative Writing Piece Milking I am awake. I have no idea what time it is‚ but it’s light outside. I sit up in bed‚ I try to move my arms but I can’t‚ what’s going on? I try to move my legs but I can only move them so far. I look down and I see I have a tight blue cloth suit on that restricts my movement severely and that my legs are chained to the bed posts. I try to see what I look around the dark and dingy room‚ hardly a room in fact‚ more like a box with a bed and me. My thoughts
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Much Ado About Something “And when I lived‚ I was your other wife‚ And when you loved‚ you were my other husband.” (Shakespeare 232) Claudio asked Hero’s hand in marriage. Don John did a corrupt plan to ruin poor Hero’s image and to make Claudio unhappy. At the wedding Claudio shamed her and she perceived to die. At the end of the book it was revealed to Claudio that his Hero was alive‚ and they got fully married. In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare‚ Hero serves as the foil of Claudio
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Kelly Li Professor Suzanne Roszak Writing 30 January 8 2015 Companion Piece 1 This is the second poetry I have ever written until now‚ and I believe it is a new start as my development as a writer. I have found out the process of writing a poem is not straightforward‚ but it is engaging. By examining published contemporary poems‚ such as “The Clan” and “Spitting Image” in class‚ I have a better understanding about genre conventions of contemporary poems. It also allows me to apply these techniques
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Life Is Not Paradise Life can often appear to be full of despair. In the constant struggle between good and evil‚ evil seems to get the upper hand. This is also the case in the novel‚ The Green Mile‚ by Stephen King. The story and experiences of the main character‚ Paul Edgecombe‚ the supervisor at a prison block in the 1930’s‚ are the epitomy of the following quote. "Life is not paradise. It is pain‚ hardship‚ failure‚ and temptation shot through with radiant gleams of light‚ friendship‚ and love
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The electrifying opening of James Frey’s debut memoir‚ A Million Little Pieces‚ smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit‚ snot‚ urine‚ vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states‚ without ID or any money‚ his face mangled and missing four front teeth‚ Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will
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The Dream of the Rood‚ one of the few surviving pieces of Anglo-Saxon literature‚ is a vital reference for the ambiguous culture of England’s early ancestors. Argued as one of the oldest pieces of Old English Literature‚ The Dream of the Rood effectively embodies the blended culture‚ moral code‚ and religious values of its unknown author. In the poem the narrator recalls a vision he received in a dream‚ where he encounters the rood on which Christ was crucified. The rood’s dictation‚ steeped with
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people about the media. It’s time for some good news‚ says Justin Lamontagne‚ 19‚ of Fort Erie. Lamontagne says he gets most of his news from the newspaper. “I’m not one of those people who hate reporters‚ not at all. I think reporters are useful‚ I mean they grant access to the whole world through the news. Without them I would never have known about mad cow disease and then where would I be?” “Speaking of which‚ the only thing that kind of strikes me as funny about reporters
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self-identity. It is at this point in time that Gene really accepts his selfidentity. The most important way that the theme of self-identity is shown in A Separate Peace is through all of the characters. As the novel progresses‚ and the characters get older‚ they become who they are meant to be. Characters like Brinker change from a leader into a rebel‚ and many others undergo such a change as well. This is believed‚ by some‚ to be the most important showing of self-identity. All of these explorations
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What is the biggest disadvantage of social media? It’s distracting:I look at my phone instead of doing work at homeI end up doing something you didn’t want to doI want to do productive work but end up looking at my phone instead I don’t give 100% to my work and could do better I take a break and use social mediaWhy do you take a break?I can’t focus 100% in two hours so I take a small breakThe length of and number of breaks I take depends how tired and bored I amIt doesn’t keep me from getting
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In his novel The Green Mile’ Stephen King uses the dominant discourse of power to reflect the attitudes and cultural beliefs of Southern USA in the 1930’s‚ while contrasting these beliefs to today’s society. The concept of power used in The Green Mile’ illustrates that when it is abused the consequences that can and will transpire have a harmful effect on everyone involved. The abuse of power intertwines with several different ideologies in The Green Mile’. Justice can be identified
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