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    My Optimism Helps Me Overcome Obstacles Optimism is such a funny thing. It has the capability to help you solve some of the most challenging and troublesome problems you’ll ever face in your entire life. This is exactly what optimism does for me. I have had some of the most challenging and troublesome things happen to me and using optimism during those times really helped me through them‚ and I honestly don’t think I would have made it through all of those times without using optimism. During

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    in optimism affect who we are today? We did not just spontaneously appear and start giving life lessons when we first came into this world. No‚ we built our understanding of the world from the knowledge that was surrounded around us. The ones who taught the goods and the evils of this world‚ along with teaching us the rights and wrongs‚ those are our roots. In your life and mine‚ the roots of optimism are instilled through the people that are around us. To understand our roots of optimism‚ we

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    Describe how crisis is shown in one poem The significance of crisis‚ and often more interestingly‚ the reaction of crisis is fundamental in many poems written by Auden. Crisis is depicted in O What Is That Sound as a major event‚ with panic and the unknown reaching a climax in the last stanzas. The structure of the poem is chronological‚ with the reader experiencing the events with the characters. The inevitable of the soldiers coming is known from the beginning of the poem by the one of the characters;

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    Disney films are not for childrenWe were a generation that grew up with the Disney films. The Lion King‚ Snow White‚ Mulan‚ Peter Pan‚ The Little Mermaid‚ Beauty and the Beast‚ and we could recall more of these famous stories without a second of hesitation. We enjoyed them‚ loved them‚ and most of us repeated our favourites like we could never grow tired of them. We loved their adventures‚ the world Disney films created for us. We adored the romance between the hero and the heroine and they were

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    During the Civil War unit‚ we discussed many different types of authors. Some were cynical and pessimistic‚ while others were very optimistic‚ almost to the point of Transcendentalist. Three Civil War era writers that varied from pessimism to optimism included Ambrose Bierce‚ Mark Twain‚ and Walt Whitman. Ambrose Bierce‚ also known as “Bitter Bierce‚” was a writer in the 1800’s that wrote about war and the tragedy that comes along with it. Being a realist‚ Bierce wanted to reveal the horrors of

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    By Marcia Douglas  Marcia Douglas was born in the UK of Jamaican parents in 1961‚ but grew up in rural Jamaica. She left Jamaica in 1990 to study for a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Ohio State University and was awarded a Ph D in African American and Caribbean Literature in 1997. Visit Marcia Douglas’s website: www.marciadouglas.com or see http://www.peepaltreepress.com/author_dis play.asp?au_id=17   The poem is set in Jamaica‚ in a town called Cocoa Bottom. People‚ both adults

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    Japanese Literature Reporters: Afable‚ Carlo Manasis‚ Fahra Afro-Asian Literature MTh 09:00 – 10:30 Japanese Literature I. Introduction Facts about Japan * Also known as “Land of the Rising Sun” * An archipelago made up of 6‚852 islands * Its capital is Tokyo * Japanese is its national language * The government is Unitary Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy II. History of Japanese Literature Japanese Literature can be divided into four main periods: ancient‚

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    In the film “Saving Private Ryan” there are a lot of times where there military virtues. There are serval different military virtues like courage‚ duty‚ honor‚ respect‚ and integrity. I’ll also be talking about the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque. I chose this theme because I feel like this is something that is overlooked with a soldier. Courage is something that is brought up a lot in the film “Saving Private Ryan”. Courage to me is an action that you do not for

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    fearless character who is now brave and willing to face what everyone is scared of because she is reluctant to believe that she may be The Lonely one’s next victim. Also she is covering up her weaknesses‚ acting independent and like a man. This is shown when she says “If I’m the next victim‚

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    The theme Individual vs society is shown In the Book thief in many ways. In The Book Thief‚ there are many instances when the smaller‚ personal world of Liesel comes into contact with the larger German society of World War II and the Holocaust going on around them. Books give Liesel as an individual a better world than the one she’s in. She has a better society when she’s in her own world. Reading books is something she can control has an individual. Liesel reads books so she can stop being bullied

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