I’ve been stood up on my wedding day! Have you thought of anything more tragic than that? Here comes the bride‚ all dressed in white!” – - but where is the groom? My Jonathan? Father’s eyes were apprehensive – - “Madeline – - this is preposterous! – - - Didn’t I warn you? Is this what you call maturity and independence at eighteen? I guess we better hurry home!” But this is not how playwrights picture love. Romeo died for Juliet‚ Pyramus for Thisbe‚ Han Suyen called it a many splendored thing
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My daughter‚ Kacie‚ is three years old. She is the light of my world. I would do anything for her as many mothers would. I long to be a stay at home mother but simply can’t afford to be. With my job‚ as a nurse‚ I make ends meet and satisfy all the needs of my daughter and myself. It’s only me and her. My family has all either passed away or are no longer in touch with me. My heart hurts breaks a little everyday as I drop her off to daycare knowing that I’m the only one she has also. My daughter
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We have been reading a story by Ray Bradbury from the collection The Golden Apples of the Sun called A Sound of Thunder‚ it is a futuristic story about the consequences of time travel and how changing a small thing can result in a huge change somewhere down the timeline‚ the best way of describing this change is to imagine a single mouse‚ you kill the mouse then you stop the families of that mouse from being produced and so the families of those families‚ maybe millions of mice and for want of a
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The Veldt In the short story “The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury‚ everything starts with the purchase of their new family home. This home was not your average home because where other homes flawed this house seemed to have perfected itself. This house had features that would cater to the family such as feed them‚ sing to them‚ and even nurture them "nothing was to good for their children" said George. The greatest feature was the nursery. What this nursery would do‚ was catch the telepathic emanations of
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Society One theme Ray Bradbury developed in the novel Fahrenheit 451 is “mindless of mass culture”. In the novel is a city where no emotion exists‚ and where the society is happy‚ but realizing that the society is actually miserable. People are antisocial and are mindless zombies. Individuals can just enter your house without telling any details on what there are doing. Ray Bradbury had shown the theme mindlessness of mass culture is using metaphors‚ similes‚ and foreshadowing. Ray Bradbury has created
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Wanted by Caroline B. Cooney Alice Robie is a 15 year old girl. She was visiting her father during one of her “custody weekends”. She gets a strange call from her father telling her to drive his most prized car‚ Corvette‚ which he wouldn’t let anyone touch. In the book it said that was one reason why her parents were divorced because her mother thought he loved the car more than her. Her father told her to get two disks and drive to where they eat ice cream most of the time. In my opinion I felt
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Ha Jin’s short story “Saboteur” tells of a man who seems discontent‚ idealistic‚ and gravely ill. In Muji‚ Mr. Chui‚ is accused of sabotage and taken by force to jail after a run in with railroad authorities. His crime is for speaking out against police officers assaulting him and his bride during lunch in the city square. The reader is lead to believe this is a simple case of excessive force by the police‚ therefore the abuse of power is the catalyst of this short story‚ but the real story is about
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The Missing Melody I woke up in the middle of the night with a sweat all over my face. “Oh‚ it is such a horrible nightmare I had.” I said to myself. I lighted the candle in my room; the small frame gave me a warmer atmosphere; so I felt a lot better. I tried to continue my sleeping but I had a strong sense that there is something wrong. And what made me frighten until my heart beat faster was my sense is never lie to the reality. Nevertheless‚ I felt asleep again with my doubtful mind. Three hours
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In America there’s has been a lot of actions that the police have been used on citizens and innocent bystander. One of these actions are called “Stop and Frisk”‚ which has been used a lot these days‚ specially in New York. “ Stop and Frisk” means to be randomly search by police or a high authority when they suspect a bystander is carrying something suspicious. At times " Stop and Frisk” can be helpful at times ‚ but not most of the time ‚ and in some cases it has been believed to be used
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Azad Hawkers’ Union has called for a strike on January 24 to protest against the injustice meted out to them by the police and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The union‚ which has a strength of more than 1.25 lakh hawkers in the city‚ claimed that the police department and the BMC together extort almost Rs1‚000 crore from hawkers to allow them to do business. “More than 50‚000 hawkers will take to the streets on Thursday demanding regularising of those hawkers who are doing business
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