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    Faith Like Potatoes

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    Potatoes are an excellent metaphor for Angus Buchan’s book‚ Faith Like Potatoes. A good-looking stalk may hide a rotten crop under ground. As is taught by Christianity‚ you may be successful in this world without God‚ but there will always be that Christ shaped empty space in your heart that only God himself may fill for any one person to be happy. Angus Buchan was born into Southern Rhodesia‚ which is now modern day Zimbabwe. He grows up as a Christian and is slowly drawn away from Christ as

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    Just Like Us

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    Essay about Helen Thorpe’s Just Like Us Just Like Us by Helen Thorpe is “The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America.” The story revolves around four high school students; Marisela who is a gaudy‚ driven‚ dramatic girl who wears “twice as much makeup as anybody else in her circle.”(8) Yadira who is a strong and reserved girl who “never gave away anything important with her facial expressions.”(8) Elissa is a star athlete and Clara usually dresses like a tomboy. They are all eighteen

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    painting is like a pizza

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    St Petersburg I always thought art was just a picture in a frame. Now after taking history of visual arts‚ and intro to art‚ I now see that there a many different types of art than a painting. I’ve been browsing through the book‚ Why a Painting Is like a Pizza by Nancy G. Heller and I thought I would share some of my thoughts on this. Nancy says that‚ "art depends both on visual balance for much of their overall appeal and‚ though both can be judged by established standards‚ pizzas and paintings

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    Life is like a Menu

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    LIFE ISLIKE A MENU Life is like a huge Menu---Full of choices at each stage to choose from. So many different items and so many choices to make and so much confusion.The Only difference is that the choices are not listed out systematically as in a menu card. We get what we order. Whenever we go to a restaurant‚ we order meals of our preference and avoid what we dislike and so relish the meal. Life is the same. If we choose what we like to do‚ we will enjoy our life . Sometimes we may be influenced

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    There Is No Frigate Like a Book Emily Dickinson There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away‚ Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! Emily Dickinson foregrounds the simple pleasure of reading an enjoyable book by four striking metaphors: 1. A book is compared to a "frigate" - a light sailing vessel capable of travelling at high speeds. 2. light verse is compared

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    Think Like A Freak

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    Ashleen  Quirke Mr. Homa 4 December 2014 Period 3 Think Like a Freak Chapter 1: What Does It Mean to Think Like a Freak? Most people do not truly know what makes them happy. A great example given on page 9 was that married people are demonstrably happier than single people‚ but this does not mean that marriage creates happiness. In reality‚ generally happy people get married‚ and unhappy people do not get married‚ in order to become happy.  The thoughts in this book are

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    At first glance it may seem that Emily Dickinson has written a simple poem in “There Is No Frigate like a Book”. However‚ further analysis reveals that she believes reading is a gift to all. Through observation of the poem we find her fascination with reading and the poem’s ability to take her reader on a journey; as well as reveal how reading can take us on any journey we wish to embark. The theme of the poem is that when we use our imagination while reading anything is possible‚ even travel to

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    Soto Like Mexicans

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    Like Mexicans Gary Soto (1952 -) My grandmother gave me bad advice and good advice when I was in my early teens. For the bad advice‚ she said that I should become a barber because they made good money and listened to the radio all day. “Honey‚ they don’t work como burros‚” she would say every time I visited her. She made the sound of donkeys braying. “Like that‚ honey!” For the good advice‚ she said that I should marry a Mexican girl. “No Okies‚ hijo”—she would say— “Look‚ my son. He marry one

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    Just Like Heaven

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    Just Like Heaven Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon) is a work-alcoholic San Francisco doctor with no time for a life and David Abbott is a grieving widow. One fateful night will change both of their lives forever. Dr. Masterson’s older sister‚ has set her up on yet another blind dinner date at her house and has ordered her younger sister to join. Running late and excited about a recent promotion‚ Elizabeth doesn’t see the semi-truck coming at her head on before its too late. David Abbott

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    Like Water for Chocolate

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    The film‚ Like Water for Chocolate‚ represents a story through incorporating the idea of food as feelings and expressing the woman’s roles during the Mexican Revolution. The film is a romantic-comedy showing many joking ways of hard times and soft issues and the way of life. The most striking and theme seems to be how women seem to be in charge rather then males; during this time period‚ I thought that men were more likely to be the head of the household and in charge. Throughout the film‚

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