CCA Unit 1 HOPE I chose the song‚ "Begin Again" by Taylor Swift to represent this unit’s theme; hope and despair. Hope is present in this song starting from the title "Begin Again‚" this tells me that we all are faced with difficult situations and we’d all enjoy the sweet opportunity to undo the past events and start from scratch again. I enjoy this title because I can relate back to this title several times throughout my life and probably in the near future. Hope can be found in these "restarting
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In the novel Inside Out & Back Again‚ by Thanhha Lai. We have characters named Ha‚ Mother‚ Vu‚ Quang‚ Pam‚ Steven‚ Cowboy‚ and Miss Washington. It takes in Vietnam in 1975-1976. They will go through lots of the troubles that other refugees experience too‚ this is called the universal refugee experience. They will have trouble leaving home and finding a new home‚ they will be inside out for a while. They will also have trouble when they eventually come back again. They will experience very similar
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that adults would tire of hearing me speak. I used to find myself standing before the teacher’s desk‚ receiving some minor punishment for socializing too often. Then my family moved‚ and I lost all the relationships I had built up. I used to start all over again with the same level of enthusiasm as initially. And again. And again. Every time my family moved‚ I started to see less and less of the importance of friends. What was the point‚ when you move again in three or four years and have to
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would you go? The novel Time and Again‚ by Jack Finney‚ tells a classic story of Simon (called Si) Morley and his time traveling adventures. Published in 1970 by Simon & Schuster‚ the book creatively reveals time traveling as not complex technology‚ but instead as an event that can be reached through a hypnotic state. As anything‚ mixed reviews are to be expected‚ however‚ this book appears to cause more mixed feelings than usual. Goodreads rates Time and Again an outstanding four out of five stars
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’The door slammed to be opened again’ The door slammed shut never to be opened again … Nothing can be done now. It all started on a normal Friday morning. I was eating my breakfast: it was cereal whilst I was eating my cereal I started to think about how boring my day was going to be. While I was day dreaming I didn’t realise the time and I was suddenly awaken by my mum saying “Come on you’re going to be late!” I woke up with a start and shoved my shoes on‚ rammed on my coat‚ and ran out of
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1-25-14 EH 101 Helpful or Harmful? What would you choose to be the worst mistake in history? There are many different thing you could pick from. Some might say slavery and some might say going into space. According to Jared Diamond in his literary article‚ “The Worst Mistake in History of the Human Race”‚ the worst mistake was the adoption of agriculture. The title he gives his work helps you really weigh out the pros and cons of agriculture. It lets you know that this mistake that occurred
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The book Inside Out & Back Again by Lai shows the struggles that refugees face in their long journey to safety and a new home. In the book‚ the author uses a character named Ha and the rest of her family to show what refugees go through while escaping their home country. Ha‚ and her family have lived in Saigon Vietnam their whole lives up until 1975 when the communists took over their country. Throughout the book‚ the author shows us the struggles that refugees go through by telling a story through
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Memoir Seeing my grandma again is always fun. The first couple of days with just my family in Florida were okay. On the way to Florida my mom told me that my cousins were coming to visit too right after they stop by Texas first to see their other grandma. I couldn’t understand why they would go all the way to Texas and then Florida in just a 2 week period. But I didn’t care I was still really excited to see them. Where I live I’m the only girl around. I have only 2 brothers. I’m surrounded by boy
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is a very hard process to go through and requires finding a new place to settle. The character Ha in Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai‚ faced all of these while having to flee her home in Vietnam because of war. In another text called World of Difference Benefit Luncheon‚ a boy explains his struggles of fleeing his country and finding a new one. In Inside Out & Back Again‚ Ha flees her home in haste when the war comes closer to her home. Soon their president left them and couldn’t run their
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A nation cannot move a step higher if seeds of terror are cultivated within the hearts of its people. The mountains of the Cordilleras have been a haven for vastly rich culture‚ and home of great people. Throughout history‚ the Cordillerans fought for their ancestral domain‚ for their thirst of freedom and peace‚ and for the preservation of their natural resources but then it seems the table has turn in Abra’s situation from Arya Abra to Bangon Abra to a dilapidated ruined slate bathed with abrenian
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