My favorite book is ’’The picture of Dorian Gray’’ wrote by Oscar Wilde. The meeting whis this book has changed my point of view on such aspects of life like youth‚ friendship‚ love‚ beauty‚ eternal life and death. I found a new reality which was completely different from my personal world. "I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them‚ to enjoy them‚ and to dominate them." — Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray) The Picture of Dorian Gray was Oscar Wilde’s
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The Perfect Place Ten years ago I used to be a dreamer young girl living in a place where dream was kind of an impossible. I dreamed of the most extraordinary place in my mind. Being a Cuban girl‚ have a perfect and free place to live was just a fantasy I imagined to escape the reality. The reality of my poor land dominated by hatred and will of a group of people that have not wished at all of seeing a free Cuba. My perfect place had abundant lights; it was bright and colorful‚ wide and where everybody
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<center><a href="http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/">Sam Vaknin’s Psychology‚ Philosophy‚ Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites</a></center> <br> <br>Many futurologists - professional (Toffler) and less so (Naisbitt) - tried their hand at predicting the future. They proved quite successful at predicting major trends but not as lucky in delineating their details. This is because‚ inevitably‚ every futurologist has to resort to crude tools such as extrapolation. The modern day versions of biblical
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Theme: Pitch Perfect (Inspiration) The movie Pitch Perfect has many elements of inspiration that can be shown in many scenes. Inspiration is the underlying theme of the movie. One example would be when Beca first moved into college and started out as a DJ then later on started volunteering at the school’s radio room. She then starts to look at different clubs until she was spot on by a club called the Barden Bellas. The theme starts right when she starts being part of the Barden Bellas
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Against Marriage” by Jessica Bennet and Jesse Ellison and “The Perfect Family‚ ” by Alice Hoffman‚ I have found out that the role of men and women in the united states has changed over the years. I feel that this changed because of education‚ and I think that the education is the main model that helps women overcome inequality between the men and women. Most family life isn’t perfect‚ and there is always something to improve. Despite the perfect family that the author saw on the television everyday when
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possession (have). - I have two sons and now they are having their breakfast. (having = eating) - The chef is a nice guy‚ but today he is being rude. (acting rude) PRACTICE: Exercise 2 page 7. The Present Perfect & the Present Prefect Progressive: The Present Perfect: Formation: (Have / Has + past participle) Used with: since‚ for‚ already‚ ever‚ never‚ yet‚ just. Used to: Express an action that started
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“Picture” was written in the early 1950s. It was one of the first nonfiction novels‚ a forbearer of the genre. As such‚ there was little to compare it to at the time of its publication. Readers had yet to encounter many works like it‚ so it had the appeal that only something new has. Another critical piece of historical context involves MGM itself. Ross wrote her book during a momentous time for the studio. Mayer‚ one of the founders of the studio and a fixture in the motion picture industry for
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Eng.111 January 28‚ 2011 Perfect Paradise Sure we all have either in reality or in our imagination‚ that perfect place where we can spend a lot of time and which we don’t want to leave or change for anything. I have been in some nice places but no place in earth yet has surpassed the beauty of the place of my dreams. This is a place where we can relax and get disconnected from reality and spend a time of peace. Also where we can put our thoughts in order or even bring some memories to mind
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Nothing Is Perfect Have you ever wished things would be just perfect? I‚ for certain‚ know I have. Yet‚ if you really stop to think about it‚ perfection isn ’t attainable because we always want something bigger and better as human nature. In the novel‚Brave New World ‚ by Aldous Huxley‚ there is strongly influential Utopia existing. Even in a controlled society such as the one represented in this book‚ the people still revolt against the government. There are people in this book who change
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My perfect day would begin with me waking up next to my beautiful wife at nine in the morning in the center of Venice‚ Italy. Before getting out of bed we do what any other couple would do if they woke up next to each other on a beautiful day in a wonderful hotel in Venice. After a nice long hot shower the two of us enjoy a large continental breakfast together and then walk around the city. The two of us then take a train into Milan where my wife goes off to shop‚ and I meet up with my five of
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