"The Remains of the Day"‚ winner of the 1989 Booker Prize‚ was written by Kazuo Ishiguro in 1989. Ishiguro had a typical English education with an immersion in Japanese culture. His fictions are remarked as “deal[ing] broadly with themes of self-deception‚ truth and the clash of public and private images of his characters”. In the Remains of the Day‚ he gives an eloquent dissection on the narrowed life of a stoic English butler who has spent thirty years in service at Darlington Hall‚ devoting everything
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Read the story first‚ then carry out the tasks that follow. “Examination Day” By Henry Slesar The Jordans never spoke of the exam‚ not until their son‚ Dickie‚ was twelve years old. It was on his birthday that Mrs Jordan first mentioned the subject in his presence‚ and the anxious manner of her speech caused her husband to answer sharply. ‘Forget about it‚’ he said. ‘He’ll do all right.’ They were at breakfast table‚ and the boy looked up from his plate curiously. He was an alert-eyed
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First Day I had just graduated high school about two months ago just starting my first semester in college. It was a summer semester and I started off taking three classes. This was all new to me my parents were no longer taking me and picking me up form school anymore. I would walk in the blaring Miami heat to the FIU engineering center then from there take the bus to the main campus. This was a special semester where I took all three classes with the same people who were all studying to
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First Day at School in a New Country My family moved to the United States when I was fourteen‚ and I learned I would be going to a new school just two days after we had entered the country and I wasn’t assimilated to the culture or the language. Even though I took lots of English lessons when I was in China‚ when I learned I would not be attending a bilingual school like the other new immigrants‚ I was extremely apprehensive. My first day of school in a new country was extremely nervous
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A Day To Remember It was midday‚ but the sky was dark. My friends and I went to a shopping mall and did the usual things like shopping. However‚ today was something different and we felt it. We felt uncomfortable with the atmosphere because after we shopped we walked home together. Our houses was next to the mall street. My friend’s name is Emel and she pointed at the skies “Look! There is something different and scary in the dark skies.” I looked up in the skies and saw a white object flying
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Andrea DelVesco Works‚ D Period Due 8/25/10 A Novel Failure: The Unsuccessful Story of Tommy Wilhelm Seize the Day by Saul Bellow is a novella written about failure and bad judgment. The protagonist‚ Tommy Wilhelm‚ has made mistakes all his life by “invariably [taking] the course he had rejected innumerable times” (Bellow 19). He constantly frustrates his successful father who resides in the same hotel as Wilhelm by living in disarray‚ depending on drugs‚ begging for help and sympathy‚ and
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to source a new world where the human race can continue to prosper. The planet Aedan has been chosen to form a new Earth. The inhabitants of this planet must be destroyed before the human race can prosper once more. One of the beings from Aedan has now been captured. This is her story. 2. int. Outside of Cell. Day A masked scientist (scientist 1) stands in front of a door. The camera pans from right to left across the scientist’s masked face. Being (V.O.) This is how my days begin... The
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Clara’s day This short story "Clara’s day" by Penelope Lively is about a girl‚ Clara‚ who suddenly took off all of her clothes and started walking naked around at her school. After this sensational episode she was told that she had to meet "the Head" after school. They talked about Clara’s reasons for doing what she did‚ because as the Head said on page 53 line 1-2‚ "..you aren’t really like that‚ are you?"‚ and Clara agreed that she wasn’t. Naturally Clara’s parents‚ or in this case‚ mother was
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It is indeed a privilege and honour to be invited to speak on the occasion of the independence day . I take this opportunity to congratulate each one of you on this great day ‚ a day when India won her freedom 68 years back on 15th August 1947 and became a sovereign nation. Being born in a free country‚ living and taking breath in free air is a privilege given to us by great leaders. On this day we pay tribute to our great freedom fighters The country spans over 3‚million square kilometres from
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A Special Day Beep beep beep... the sound of my alarm clock went off. It was seven o’clock in the morning. I was still very sleepy. I didn’t want to wake up yet and was just rolling around in bed. I couldn’t go back to sleep now that I’m awake. I was laying in bed planning out my day. Today is a very special day for me and I want everything to be perfect. Today is my sweet 16 Birthday. I’m happy but worry at the same time. I wanted to go to school dress in the prettiest outfit and have the nicest
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