good father. Everywhere I go I see kids spending time with their fathers‚ but not me. My father is my worst enemy. For example‚ he picks his wife over me‚ he makes me feel like a small kid next to bigfoot‚ and he made me into a person I don’t want to be. My father is my worst enemy because he picks my stepmother over me. He lets his wife dominate him like a toy. For example‚ one day I was supposed to go to their house to sleep over. I was ready to go when I get a call from my father
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I like Katniss‚ the protagonist of this book‚ because she is very resourceful. Another reason is because she is courageous and brave. I further like her because she is very rebellious and disregards unjust and unfair rules made by the Capitol. Katniss is quite resourceful. One example of her cleverly using her resources is when she hunts animals with her bow and trades them in the black market of District 12. “We easily trade the six of the fish we caught for good bread‚ and the other two for salt
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Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew from the Elizabethan England period and Gil Junger’s teenage film Ten Things I Hate About You‚ released in 1999‚ share many similar elements but at the same time seem completely different from each other. Although both stories work with similar plots‚ many aspects of the Ten Things I Hate About You‚ which is an appropriation of The Taming of the Shrew‚ have been altered to suit the teenage audience of the late 1990’s. Both stories deal with relationships with
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If I could change the world‚ I would try to stop the global warming and save animals from it. Global warming is big problem in this world because it is big impact to the natural balance of environment [1]. Global warming is that to happen due to increase in the greenhouse gases resulting from pollution‚ which is rise the temperature of the earth [2]. According to “Global Warming.” (2002)‚ there are many cause of global warming. The electrical pollution‚ destruction‚ car pollution and overpopulation
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The film 10 Things I Hate About You is a successful adaption of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Although the themes‚ plots and characters in each text are very similar the modern adaption of The Shrew is appealing to a modern audience because of the changes the director has made. The film targets a teenage audience therefore the language the characters use is modernised. For example‚ Bianca and Kat speak to each other in a colloquial‚ aggressive style. At the beginning of the film Bianca asks
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In the poem “Now I Become Myself”‚ the author May Sarton illustrates struggles during one’s pursuit of true self. As May Sarton states‚ to “become [herself]”‚ “[she has] been dissolved and shaken”. Through the search of identity‚ human beings “[wear] other people’s faces” and drown in perplexity. In particular‚ this phenomenon refers to the period in life when people feel lost and lack the sense of belonging; even in modern society‚ it is not uncommon to see teenagers undergo agony‚ trying hard to
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all learned a lot of different things such as writing‚ reading and doing annotation work. Everyone one needs to learn how to do this all because you are not always going to have someone there to translate or read to you and tell you what is say. Reading and Writing are two of the most important things to learn about because in this world you are going to have to read something or write things to other people and what if you do not know how to do that?. Then you would be screwed. Writing‚ this is
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What I like about this novel is that it’s not like a novel that I have read before. I first want to remark that I like the time frame of the novel taking place during the Second World War and in the setting of New Mexico. I enjoy how the novel begins about a young boy who is conflicted with the pressures of parent opposed expectations. Needless to say‚ Antonio the main character has to grow up to be a man on his own without some kind of guidance from brothers who are away at war during the early
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When I was 10 years old‚ I went to Malacca’s Safari with my beloved family members‚ which was my first visit to Malacca. I was so excited until my brother and I started to sing a song. It was really funny. Once‚ we reached there‚ the environment was so colourful with nature’s beauty nixed up with human’s colourful dresses. It was 10 am‚ but the morning fog still leaned on the shoulders of Mother Nature of Malacca. First‚ we went to Cowboy’s Town. The moment I entered the stadium liked brick walled
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Friendship is one of the most valuable things in life. Based on Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary‚ the definition of a friend is‚ “A person whom one knows‚ likes and trusts.” Because there are many different types of friends that people want or need‚ the meaning of a ‘real friend’ depends on their ideas. However‚ my personal opinions of characteristics that make a good friend are being honest‚ loyal‚ and polite. Honesty is an essential characteristic of a true friend because it is one of the criteria
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