Surprise Award Provokes Mixed Feelings President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on October 9th. The award has brought immense attention to the modest President. This is an immense accomplishment for Barack Obama as well as for anyone who is privilege enough to win such an award. The argument throughout this article is if Obama is truly justified in winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Scott Wilson does an impressive job of creating an argument within his writing. Both sides are expressed
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Surprise of a lifetime The sun was shining in brightly and violently onto our pale skin through the small crack of the curtain that was left partially open from the night before. As I slowly began to wake I realized a shadow standing off to the side of my bed‚ quickly I opened my eyes straining to see this figure through the incoming sun beams. The figure moved and I soon realized it was just my husband Cody as he came closer I let out a long sigh in relief‚ and giggled a little out loud
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The big surprise. Two years ago I was with my family visiting Chiapas‚ we were in Palenque and we rented a car so that it was easy for us to move around the entire city and visiting all the nearest towns around‚ the plan was to go in the car around the country. One of the first days we went to visit the entire archeologist zone and the pyramids. My brother and I went to the car like at 10 am to leave some souvenirs and a big statue of a cougar that my mother bought so we can walk more easily and
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The Surprise Party At eight o’clock of the evening of my lucky birthday‚ I was alone at home grumbling and frowning‚ shouting furiously and pitying myself for my misfortune. I thought it was going to be a special day filled with presents and fun‚ but all I received was a “Happy Birthday”. All of a sudden‚ the electricity cut off and there was a complete darkness in the house. I couldn’t do anything therefore I decided to go to sleep and end this unlucky day. Out of the blue in that
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humorous style . Voltaire’s disapproval would have been extremely sharp if he had not spread it with little of some of his humor. He always used humor to make people enjoy better his novels. Voltaire‚ mostly protected a sour candy with a small coat of sweet in order to make it easier to consume. The novel Candide is a huge element of satire that makes fun of how medieval citizens thought . This piece of writing is concerning a guy named Candide and all his afflictions. Candide has incalculable stuff
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hobbling creature who will never understand the inner workings of things. Even if Leroy’s relationship with his wife was not completely fine before the accident‚ it was not dysfunctional either. It’s the accident that has brings a major change in Leroy’s life and is ultimately the indirect cause which leads to Norma Jean wanting to leave him. Before the accident‚ when Leroy was the breadwinner of the house‚ he maintained the structural authority in the house. He had a fine relationship with his wife too
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How do people succeed in life? Does it take pure ability and drive to rise to the top? Or is it just pure luck of being at the right place at the right time? Olaudah Equiano defiantly was not a lucky man at the start of his life‚ he was taken from the African coast from his village when he was a boy at the age of 11. He was then sold into slavery and stayed a slave for about 11 years‚ then through a chance of luck and opportunity and with his driven attitude and intelligence he bought his freedom
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servants‚ but when they arrived things changed. During this time‚ the notion of “ all men being free‚” was proposed by Benjamin Franklin‚ but in contrary‚ all men weren’t necessarily free. The work “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‚” by Olaudah Equiano described the life and emotion of how the experience of being sold into slavery affected him. In Equiano’s narrative‚ he distinguished a
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Last Tuesday‚ I woke up early as it was my sixteenth birthday and I was very excited. Quickly I dressed for school and came downstairs. I went to the kitchen. I saw my mother was busy preparing breakfast as usual and my father was getting ready for work. My siblings also were busy as it was a school day. I was very disappointed. No one had remembered my birthday. I tried not to show my feelings and went to school. Even in school‚ my close friends seemed to have forgotten my birthday. That day
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Humanities Volume II: Culture‚ Continuity‚ and Change April 28‚ 2013 Justino L. Berrios In Jonathan Swift’s essay A Modest Proposal‚ the author uses satire in the essay and the title itself‚ to make a point about the English government allowing the citizens of Ireland to starve to death. The proposal that he makes is by no means “modest‚” hence the sarcastic edge surrounding the title. The essay was written in 1729 and during that time‚ the entire country of Ireland was under English rule‚ unlike today
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