“This is my story. This is the sacrifice my father made. This was his gift to me.” The prescribed text “Life Is Beautiful” by Roberto Benigni (1998) explores how obstacles and challenges are integral to aspects of inner journeys. Similar features are revealed in the two related texts. The news article “A Young Refugees Plea for a Better Future” Nooria Wazefadost (2004) SMH and the poem “The Road Not Taken”‚ by Robert Frost (1916). However‚ all texts highlight the central concept that though the
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A place that I have always wanted to go but have never been to is Peking University. It has always been a dream of mine of living here and getting me enlightened on my life. (我们tutor说dream这个词其实不怎么好，就中国人乱用。你可以改成goal或aim)(那个应该是me，不是myself) Life in Peking University is consequential (这个小词儿太拽了，你确定它主要的常用的那个意思是你要表达的意思么？) and delightful. (这个地方把形容词变成名词就学术啦，就像of great delight) First‚ I have an access to numerous learning resources: learned professors‚ a tons of books and documents‚ many of lectures for
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Misty Thompson Mr. Foster English 111 8 June 2013 A Beautiful Mind The Academy award winning movie “A Beautiful Mind” is a truly inspiring film that demonstrates triumph over schizophrenia. The main character is played by Russell Crowe who is portraying John Nash a mathematical genius who suffers from schizophrenia‚ who later went on to receive the Nobel Prize in Economical Sciences. This film describes the disturbance in thinking‚ emotion and perception that characterizes the disorder. This
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Soccer truly is a beautiful game‚ but what makes it beautiful? Soccer has many interesting things that make it a beautiful game. Some of these things are players and teams‚ stadiums‚ and its history of how it is what it is today. In soccer‚ players and teams make the game more interesting and popular. Let me explain. Soccer has been played for a very long time and comes from ancient ball games. Over the years‚ however‚ soccer has undergone many changes. According to ThoughtCo.com‚ There was an ancient
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that you can fall into. In Harlan Ellison’s “ I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” we are introduced to five humans; Gorrister‚ Benny‚ Nimdok‚ Ellen‚ and our narrator Ted being
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I believe that the one question people ask themselves the most is what they want to do before they die. For example‚ maybe a little child around the age of eight‚ wants to go to Disneyland and se where all the magic comes from. Or for a young man in highschool‚ maybe he wants to get a scholarship for football‚ and possibly go on to play for the Broncos in the NFL. Many people have different dreams than their neighbor and peoples thoughts about the world and what they want to do in life can drastically
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films that have be created to portray the stories of Holocaust victims‚ two examples being the film Life is Beautiful and the graphic novels Maus I and Maus II. Life is Beautiful tells the story of Guido‚ a Jewish man in Italy before the war. He fell in love with Dora‚ a beautiful teacher‚ and eventually married her and had a son‚ Giosue. As the Nazis took over‚ Guido‚ Dora and Giosue were taken to a concentration camp‚ where Guido does everything he can to keep his family alive. Maus I and II are
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What Freedom do I enjoy the most? The freedom I enjoy most is the Freedom of Speech. I enjoy this freedom the most because I‚ as an American‚ have the right to express my feelings or opinions on any subject‚ and not get into any major trouble for doing so. This freedom comes from the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. In other countries such as North Korea or Cuba that are communist countries‚ a citizen would not have the right to express their feelings about anything‚ political or not. If
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My understanding of the poem was to figure out if I was going to go through with killing my step-brother or the neighbor’s child or my last chose‚ to sacrifice myself. This poem had a lot of meaning. The poem meant the world is a beautiful place without continuous violence‚ people being unhappy‚ people stressing‚ some people dying‚ and even some people being on drugs or people starving or people striving to do good things. This meant to me that I need to take life and my education much more serious
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The passage “Girl”‚ by Jamaicia Kincaid I believe is about a mother explaining to her daughter the ways she must act to be the ideal women. The mother gives her guidance throughout the passage wanting her to have social manners and domesticity. The mother gives instructions and commands‚ I believe to give her the tools to be independent‚ strong‚ and respected as a young aspiring women. The mother is setting out rules and giving commands to her daughter to lead her daughter into a better path and
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