Bus HomeThe Last Bus Home Rain was always a sign of tragedy‚ something bad didn’t happen every time it rained‚ no‚ but everything bad that happened to me in my life had happened on a day when it was pouring. Alight sprinkle never phased me‚ it was also raining that day. As I woke up in my warm & cosy queen sized bed‚ I remember feeling a cold shiver going up my back through my pink silky pyjamas. It was a typical December morning‚ it wasn’t snowing yet but it was cold and foggy. As I got ready
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I picked my own story for The American writer O. Henry The Name of story is: The Last Leaf a brief summary of the story: The short story took place in New York City where two friends - Sue and Johnsy - live‚ work in art in a poor apartment‚ and publish their drawings in magazines‚ and thereby earning their living‚ and like any other artist‚ they hope to draw a masterpiece one day. One day‚ Johnsy fell prey to pneumonia. The doctor visited her and told her friend-Sue- that Johnsy could be cured
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In The Last Samurai protagonist Nathan Algren grows fond of his Bushi captors sympathizing with their supposedly “simple” ways like the Natives he had fought in the Great Sioux War. The film’s message is clear‚ like the Natives the Bushi were a relic doomed by industrial modernization and the triumph of western norms. This Eurocentric and sentimentalist understanding of the emerging Meiji period results in a portrayal of the samurai as rusticated and anti-modern‚ fundamentally misrepresenting Bushi
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Text: Mao’s Last Dancer I chose the autographical novel ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’‚ composed by Li Cunxin‚ as it has several themes that convey the idea of a journey. It is physical in the way Li Cunxin had to work hard to be a professional ballet dancer and it is also mental as it is a road to self-discovery. The autobiography is also extremely inspirational and inscribed in first person‚ therefore this allows the reader to see the personal journey of Li. I believe this text also relates to Shakespeare’s
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The last days of one’s long stay anywhere are usually as sad as memorable. The place oneloves to stay in cannot be left for good (forever) without thoughts that bring tears to theeyes and grief to the hearts. Who will not accept that the college is a place which astudent will never like to leave happily? It was perhaps my saddest experience that Iunderwent on my last day in college‚ just before the preparatory holidays before the present examination.I got lip early in the morning thinking that I
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as ‘the cold‚ unseen stranger’! THE LAST LEAF remains one of my favorite short stories written by him. The plot revolves around two artist girls – Sue and Johnsy - who have their own ‘studio’ in quaint old Greenwich Village. Their’s was a relationship fostered on mutual trust and their common tastes in art‚ chicory salad and bishop sleeves! All went hunky dory till Johnsy fell ill with pneumonia one cold November month. The disease seemed to drain out the last streaks of will and womanly taste from
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Air Force‚ every mission was extremely dangerous and many planes crashed into enemy territory. In the story The Last Mission by Henry Mazer‚ the author writes a fictional depiction of the Air Force in World War II that accurately represents real events that occurred. The reader is shown how dangerous missions were and how many underage men enrolled into the war. While the story The Last Mission by Harry Mazer is a fiction book‚ it is an accurate portrayal of events that occurred in World War 2. In
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This article explains how portion sizes grew over the past centuries through different versions of paintings of The Last Supper. On March 23‚ 2010‚ an article by Melissa Healy was released that explained portion control over the years. She researched and realized that in different depictions of The Last Supper the amount of food grew. She gathered most of her research from two brothers. They found fifty-two different paintings of the meal. They figured out about how much food they ate by the
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The Last Town on Earth The Last Town on Earth in it of itself is an interesting read because unlike most historical fictions‚ the author does not drag the story with too many details‚ but captivates its reader with re occurring themes such as the irrational behaviors during a crisis‚ the American reluctance to enter World War I‚ the attitude towards war – which keeps the plot from fading away. Thomas Mullen brings the setting of his first novel in a mill town called Commonwealth in the
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The stylistic analysis of “The Last Leaf” by O’Henry The text under stylistic analysis is the short story “The Last Leaf” by O’Henry. William Sydney Porter was born on 11-th of September in 1862 in North Carolina. His mother died when he was three year old. Porter worked at drug store of his uncle. Then he went to Texas and tried many professions. For example rancher‚ bank teller‚ journalist‚ founding a comic weekly magazine The Rolling Stone. Then was employed by the Houston Post to write a humorous
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