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    My Father, a Seafarer

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    My Father‚ A Seafarer” In working on board the vessel‚ he gave his family a living of higher level. Father as the male human parent has the responsibility to find job to make his family live and a seafarer is the general term for men who work on ships at sea. Great fathers make great decisions. Giving his family a better living‚ achieving something in life and fulfilling his responsibilities as a father to his wife and four children are the reasons why my father chose this profession. My father

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    Essay on Short Stories

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    Alina Rozental Mrs. Muzaurieta English 9‚ pd 1A 12/19/2012 9th Short Stories‚ Formal Essay Final “Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts” (Daymond John). This represents the great work many underprivileged people must go through to earn simple things that would be easy to acquire for people of a wealthy society. People trapped in a lower class have a difficult time attaining happiness. A poor maid’s daughter struggles for a simple friendship and to gain respect from her

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    Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Summer Reading Assignment 1. Explain the author’s purpose for writing this book? The author of this book is Barack Obama‚ and the reason I believe he wrote this book is to share his experience growing up and for people be able to understand his personal background. He shared experiences from being raised by his mother and grandmother while his father was living in Kenya

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    Personal Response Number One Title: Dreams from My Father ‘A Story of Race and Inheritance’ Author: Barack Obama Genre: Autobiography‚ Life Memoir Before Barack Obama was a Politician he was an author. ‘Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance’ is an Auto-Biography written by Barack Obama. The book describes Obama’s life in three parts‚ from his birth in Honolulu‚ Hawaii up to the final part of the book which includes his emotional and revealing trip back to his father’s homeland;

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    Romulus My Father

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    relationships with those surrounding an individual‚ and they may have to compromise part of themselves in order to belong within a group. This is very true of the way in which we see Raimond and his father come to feel they belong to each other and to other members of their community in Gaita’s memoir‚ ‘Romulus‚ My Father’. It is also true of the way Charlie is made to feel he belongs within his new friendship group at school in Stephen Chbosky’s epistolary novel‚ ‘The perks of being a wallflower’‚ and the

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    Short Story Essay

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    analysing three short stories and will be explaining through my writing how the stories interest and satisfy the readers. I will express the aims of the stories through the eyes of my writing and evaluate the short stories in detail. The stories that I will be analysing are all set in different places. The first short story I will be focusing on is “The Sniper”. This is a story written by Liam O’Flaherty‚ which is set in a city called Dublin situated in Ireland. The genre for this story is Civil war

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    In My Fathers Country

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    Orbezo Lira FYW 100-C November 30th Courage led Saima to fulfill her dreams. This is the story of an Afghan girl whose life had a change she always dreamed of. Saima‚ the main character‚ relates the story. Since the moment when Saima´s father stated that his daughter would be stronger than a thousand Pashtun boys‚ and different than any other Pashtun girl‚ Saima´s firm ideas became even stronger. The story starts in a country where women are treated poorly and abused. Saima tells how she made her

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    Commentary on Short Story

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    It was said by more than one author that the ‘golden age’ of the short story was the 1920s‚ and that although varied publications remain (The New Yorker‚ Myslexia‚ The Woman’s Weekly)‚ there is little opportunity in the modern age for the short story writer. Was this‚ as Kurt Vonnegut argued the result of television? Vonnegut claimed: When I started out it was possible to make a living as a freelance writer of fiction…because it was still the golden age of magazines‚ and it looked as though

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    Scary Story: A Short Story

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    What makes a good scary story? A good scary story is only good if it’s based on something that happened in reality and could happen to anybody. My story is something similar to that. Now that I look back at it‚ maybe it was just the sugar rush I had from the Surge soft drink. It had my blood pumping and my heart beat was racing. I haven’t been back to those woods since that day; however‚ there was still a part of me that wondered if what I saw was there in reality and not just my imagination. Either

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    Immigrant: A Short Story

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    others. Our conversations were long‚ and laughter filled. We talked about our family and personal lives. We both became pretty close over the short amount of time that we had been talking. When it came to a more in depth conversation about of family‚ we both fell silent. “I used to have a father and mother‚ but they aren’t in the picture now” she explained as her eyes slowly teared up. After it had been nearly two hours and we both decided we should return to our waiting mother and father. “It was

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