What Are You Proud Of? By: Mulki Abshir Certain things happen in your life that you never forget; sometimes they’re happy moments‚ other times sad moments and sometimes they’re even powerful moments like when it’s your turn to be bullied. I’ve always thought that when your friends or you get bullied‚ by ignoring the bully would make them leave you alone but I realized it just makes things worse. It was 3rd grade in Elementary School‚ a year that I realized something important. So far
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disease conquers everyone throughout the country‚ one man hopes to escape the disease by locking himself and many of his wealthy friends in his abbey. “The Masque of the Red Death‚” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ is a story about a disease called the Red Death wiping out the country side. Prince Prospero believes he can escape the Red Death by locking himself in his abbey with a thousand of his wealthy friends. To celebrate escaping the deadly disease at the end of the fifth or sixth month‚ Prospero throws a masquerade
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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death is Poe details how futile attempts to inhibit the inevitability of mortality ultimately fail‚ regardless of how lofty or respectable one’s status in life. Prince Prospero is described as eccentric‚ extravagant‚ and even materialistically vain all of which is simply a charade to offset his fear of death‚ but fails to prolong his life. Prospero’s somewhat foolish behavior can be seen when Poe writes “while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad
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The new teacher arrived in the town with a belief in the educational benefits of paper folding: she had written a pamphlet for other educators entitled ’ Creasing Patterns into Children’s Brains: the Place of Origami in the Classroom. ’ One afternoon a week she taught her pupils basic designs and demonstrated more complex constructions. What really added fuel to their spark of interest was her collection of animals‚ birds and abstract shapes‚ built up over many years and kept in a specially constructed
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Arrogance Kills Edgar Allen Poe’s "The Masque of the Red Death" is a typical dark Poe story‚ but it contains some unique themes and symbolism. In the story a disease known as the Red Death is ravaging the fictional place where the story is set‚ and it causes its victims to die quickly and painfully. Even though this disease is spreading rampantly‚ the prince‚ Prospero‚ does not care. He decides to lock the gates of his palace in order to keep away from the plague‚ ignoring the illness that is ravaging
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Proud Moments in our history Canada has had many proud moments in the past 100 years that makes us who we are now. Vimy Ridge was one of our first proud moments in the 1900s where all four Canadian divisions in World War I fought in one battle together. After the First World War Canada became its own country by the Statute of Westminster stating that we were no longer was about of Great Britain. In the 1920s Canada invented many useful things that we still use today like the telephone‚ radio
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What Are You Proud Of? By: Mulki Abshir Certain things happen in your life that you never forget; sometimes they’re happy moments‚ other times sad moments and sometimes they’re even powerful moments like when it’s your turn to be bullied. I’ve always thought that when your friends or you get bullied‚ by ignoring the bully would make them leave you alone but I realized it just makes things worse. It was 3rd grade in Elementary School‚ a year that I realized something important. So far
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Proud to be an Indian 20 26 Oct 2010 | India India‚ a country with a culture having more than ten thousand years has enriched the global scientific‚ educational‚ economic and cultural scenario significantly. That is the reason why mark Twain has stated “India is the cradle of the human race‚ the birthplace of human speech‚ the mother of history‚ the grandmother of legend and the great grandmother of tradition.” Being born in such a great country‚ you have millions of reasons to feel proud as
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I am an Indian and what am I proud of? What if I were to list five points? umm....‚ *India’s diversity in flora and fauna (just a while before it reads only flora) *Cultural differences (toooooooo many really) *Tourism spots??(I must have visited ‚what‚ five or six of them?...the foreigners know them better!) *Growing Economy (growing since God knows when?:S) *Indian Cricket! (the real pride of the Indians) Something we have been writing since decades in essays? India is perhaps the
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Accidental Tragedy Objects of Symbolism in Death of a Salesman Throughout literature‚ objects are often used to display a theme that is more deeply rooted than what is seen on the surface. In the play Death of a Salesman‚ Arthur Miller chose certain objects within the play to describe what was going on both in Willy Loman’s head as well as the thoughts of the people around him. Often times you must look deeper into the storyline than you might normally‚ and this is evident in Arthur Miller’s play
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