Benjamin alighted from the bus and made a clumsy half skip from the last step of the bus to the bus stop. “Why does it have to rain now?” he thought as he looked up at the gloomy sky. Rainwater lashed down as lightning flashed and thunder roared. It had been bright and sunny the whole day‚ the sudden downpour half an hour ago caught Benjamin off guard because he had left his umbrella at home. How was he going to get home in the rain? Benjamin stood waiting at the bus stop for ten minutes. The rain
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CURRICULUM VITAE Mobile:+918980366544 Email: abhipatel7016@gmail.com CAREER OBJECTIVE | * To be a successful professional in a progressive organization that offer opportunities for advancement‚ which allow me to actualize the skills developed so far with a good potential for professional growth and further.
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The Way to Rainy Mountain The title of N. Scott Momaday’s "The Way to Rainy Mountain" encapsulates the theme of a journey that permeates the story. In the story‚ a young man journeys to the grave of his grandmother along the same route that her people‚ the Kiowas‚ took across America before settling on the southern Plains. The young man’s grandmother had never undergone the journey that she so often told stories about‚ and yet she seemed to have experienced it through the memories of others that
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"The Way to Rainy Mountain" A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma‚ north and west of the Wichita Range. For many people‚ the Kiowas‚ it is an old landmark‚ and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. The Hardest weather in the world is there. Winter brings blizzards‚ hot tornadic winds arise in the spring‚ and in summer the prairie is an anvil’s edge. The grass turns brittle and brown‚ and it cracks beneath your feet. There are green belts along the rivers and creeks‚ linear groves of hickory
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WHAT IS A SUCCESSFUL LIFE? What is a successful life? A few moments’ thought will convince us that the question is by no means an easy one to answer. We say this‚ that‚ or the other man is successful‚ but what do we mean by it? One man has houses and lands‚ has a large bank account‚ drives fast horses and has many apparent friends‚ such a man is accounted successful. Yet all of these things that minister to his pleasure have been acquired by unremitting labor‚ by hard‚ avaricious dealings with his
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Anna in the Tropics‚ a play that had won a Pulitzer Prize for 2003 had made one of its many performances at the wonderfully built and great resemblance thrust stage. The show was quite spectacular when you look at all the things it had to offer. From the moment you walk into the theatre you notice that almost all of the seats are taken and that this play is very well known and can offer an explosive performance. You knew that by seeing where everyone sat that the distance from the stage to anyone
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English III (2013) (S2453406) Sierra Turner Points possible: 20 Date: ____________ This is your journal activity. Complete the prewriting steps below before moving on to the journal response. Read and Paraphrase Read the text below from The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday: Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass‚ popping up like corn to sting the flesh‚ and tortoises crawl about on the red earth‚ going nowhere in plenty of time. Loneliness is an aspect of the
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was written in a political context where the benefits of globalization were overly hyped by boosters and economic elites‚ and among intense xenophobia‚ which saw immigrants as over utilizing ‘American’ resources” (Adamson 169). Equally important‚ Tropic of Orange criticizes corporate globalization‚ where labor workers and environmental protection are seen as an unnecessary added cost‚ given the “global geography” and division of labor (Yamashita 204). Sue Lee‚ the author of “We Are Not the World
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ways. In “On the Rainy River”‚ Tim writes about facing the decision to fight in a war he didn’t believe in or flee to canada. In “How to Tell a True War Story” Tim writes about what he believes a true war story is all about. In “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” Rat Kiley tells a story about a woman who gets sent to Vietnam on request of her boyfriend‚ a medic in the war. Each of these stories has instances where there is no right or wrong answer in different ways. “On the Rainy River” deals with
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“On the Rainy River” The short story “On the Rainy River” is an integral chapter in the memoir The Things They Carried written by William Timothy O’Brien. The short story is written through the perspective of O’Brien in present day and as a young man faced with a draft notice for the Vietnam War. In “On the Rainy River‚” O’Brien portrays the importance of bravery of individuals in the society through the use of symbolism‚ powerful tone‚ reflective point of view‚ narrative devices‚ and through the
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