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    her she was just writing in her diary like she always did. The Diary of Anne Frank tells Anne’s story while she was in hiding from Nazi oppression with her family during World War Two. The diary is admired by so many people because of it’s purity and abundance of raw emotions. The purpose of The Diary of Anne Frank was for Anne’s enjoyment at first‚ she explains that she wouldn’t have been able to survive without writing in her diary. Little did Anne know that her diary would someday be cherished and

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    true but not true

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    Cabuliwallah cabuliwallah‚ penned by rabindranath tagore‚ explores the complexities of human relationships through the story of rahmun and the narrators daughter mini. Rahmun‚ the cabuliwalla does not belong to Calcutta and is always treated as an outsider . he is subjected to the mistrust ‚ curiosity and suspicion of the locals. mini was initially frightened by the cabuliwallah‚ rumoured to be a child abductor ‚who actually peddled dry fruits and went door to door in the hopes of earning a few

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    The Diary of Anne Frank ! This summer I read The Diary of Anne Frank.  This book was a diary written by Anne Frank who was a young Jewish girl living during the German occupation of Holland‚ and was translated by B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday.  In her diary she writes  about what her and her mother‚ father‚ and older sister Margot went through because of their culture and beliefs.  In 1942‚ Anne and her family went into hiding to avoid being sent to a concentration camp by the Nazi’s. !

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    A True Story

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    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚ and Roddy Doyle’s story‚ “Home to Harlem”‚ inspire the idea of an identity crisis of two young men because from an outsider’s perspective‚ they feel they are not good enough for their own heritage. Arnold from “True Diary” and Declan from “Home to Harlem” experience the same issues of not feeling acceptable to their own culture; they feel they are too different‚ with Declan being black and Arnold wanting more for himself‚ to be a true Indian or Irishman

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    Richele Tucker   Stacie Sather English 305          15 November 2013 The novel‚ The Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexi is about a young American Indian boy who decides to leave the reservation to better his life. He starts out finding himself through this change in his life and continues to grow and change into the young man he wants to become. At the beginning of the novel he seems frustrated because he is told he must do as the others on the reservation and he seems to feel mistreated

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    An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow What significant ideas relating to belonging are explored in your related text? In the 1969 poem “An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow” by influential Australian poet Les Murray many key themes are explored‚ for example belonging. Significant ideas such as acceptance and fear of both individuality and conformity are intensely critiqued in this poem by using a grown man to depict the fear of abnormality and segregation within society. Belonging can be perceived as a sense

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    "The Motorcycle Diaries" After reading this book‚ I learned a lot about who Che Guevara was that I never knew about him before. More than just two men traveling South America‚ their trip inspired Guevara to become a man he didn’t expect to be. No dry history lesson or travelogue‚ this biography is supported with the humor of Guevara’s diaries‚ as the 23-year-old Ernesto - a frail asthmatic who had not yet taken the nickname Che - and the slightly older Alberto set off from Buenos Aires on a beat-up

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    Genetic Counselor Decision-Making Two parents‚ Jenny and Bob Miller‚ are both well educated and rich. They have two children‚ James and Andrew‚ who are both stricken with muscular dystrophy. The prognosis is that their muscular systems will gradually deteriorate‚ resulting in an early death. Yet the advances of medicine hold out the promise of a possible cure in the foreseeable future with gene therapy. Closer to hand is the possibility that embryonic muscle cells from normal individuals might

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    true love is not true

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      ??Love??  What is love? Love is not what you assume it is. That ’s why so many marriages end in divorce. People get a hormonal rush when they ’re around a person and think they ’re in love‚ and believe that person is "the one." Not even close. True love creeps up on you over a long period of time. It ’s NOT that powerful feeling of "I must have this person." Instead‚ it ’s a slow build-up. When you truly love someone you don ’t have to ask yourself if it ’s love. You ’re not even ASKING yourself

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    Introduction "A Madman’s Diary" is China ’s first modern short story. The author Lu Xun has been well respected and regarded as one of the most well-known political figures in China (Goldman 446-461). Lu Xun has been praised as the warrior against traditional culture and feudal system. Unique narrative structure "A Madman’s Diary" is very special in its narrative structure. Its setup is very different from the traditional narration in that it avoids the use of classical Chinese. Furthermore

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