some uninvited and unexpected guest drops in and makes the life of the host miserable. Last year in the Pooja holidays a distant uncle visited us. Throughout my life I had not seen him before. It was quite late at night when he knocked at the door of our house. We all were sleeping Firstly I tried to ignore the call but he continued to knock at the door. I got up with anger to see who the foolish man is knocking at the door at this late hour. At the gate I saw a stranger‚ I asked him what
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can help is a neighbour’s child ten yards away or a Bengali stranger who is ten thousand yards away. I will challenge this assumption by modifying his example: There are two people drowning in a pool‚ one is your cousin and the other is a stranger. You will almost instinctively swim towards your drowning cousin because you will feel more morally obliged to save him than to save stranger. What if the two people drowning are both strangers‚ one is an old lady and the other is a young man? Naturally
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Count: 397 words Written Assignment Word Count: 1‚485 words English A Literature HL Reflective Statement During the interactive oral‚ we discussed the main theme of the meaninglessness of human life that is present in The Stranger by Albert Camus. We emphasized mainly on Meursault’s detached and unemotional characteristics‚ especially when the jury uses this against him at his trial: “He stated that I had no place in a society whose most fundamental rules I ignored” (102)
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him back‚ Trevor McKinney tells you to pay it forward. Pay It Forward is about a 7th grader Trevor McKinney‚ the son of an alcoholic and single mother Arlene. Mr. Simonet is Trevor’s unconventional Social Studies teacher who gives his class an unexpected assignment at their first meeting. "Think of an idea to change the world and put it into action." Simonet wants his pupils not only to know current events but also to think of making a difference in society. Trevor comes up with an idea. He will
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The Meaning of Family People who deeply care for each other often foster loving and familial‚ long-term relationships. Mahtab Narsimhan’s the tiffin shows how Kunal‚ a boy abandoned by his mother‚ finds an unexpected family among the local dabbawallas and a fatherly figure in the elderly dabbawalla Vinayak. Family is not confined to people bonded by blood‚ but includes those who are not related‚ yet still care for each other’s safety and wellbeing. Kunal enlists the aid of the dabbawallas to
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I wasn’t feeling like going to the hotel‚ so I just walked down the lit street‚ full of people‚ noise and music. At first I enjoyed walking through the provincial crowd but soon I became bored by all this intimacy of strangers‚ their laughter‚ they looked at me as it I was a stranger. I didn’t like how the light was pouring from thousands of sources‚ everything in this place was unpleasantly strange to me. As I spent one week at sea‚ I still felt a sense of intoxication in my blood. Suddenly my
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The extract under analysis is taken from the novella «The invisible man» written by Herbert Wells. Wells is a prolific English writer of the 20th century practiced in many genres‚ including the novel‚ history‚ politics‚ and social commentary‚ and textbooks and rules for war games. However‚ he is best remembered for his science fiction novels‚ and Wells is called a father of science fiction. His speculations about biological revolution and social development of society‚ about the mixture of social
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jigsaw piece went missing. It is not a complete piece of writing. Lastly‚ I find R.K. Narayan to be naughty at times‚ from the way he phrased his sentence‚ and the sarcasm‚ but we like it. In " An Astrologer’s Day"‚ an astrologer meets a stranger and tells his fortune. Surprisingly‚ the "fake" astrologer managed to tell what was true for the
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Sara Prusik Mrs. Quick English 11 6 November 2009 Ties to Holden’s Problems “I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would ’ve‚ too‚ if I ’d been sure somebody ’d cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn ’t want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory” (104). Holden is a complex character with mixed emotions about everything; many times contradicting his own thoughts and beliefs. Holden’s struggles are due to the lack of parental attention‚ the death of his
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can’t breathe very well so just don’t put too much in your mouth‚” (263). Although average bedtime stories are fairytales‚ he chooses to elaborate upon morals like looking both ways before crossing the street through telling scary stories. Even strangers speeding down the street cause him to chase their cars and threaten them to make sure they won’t speed again‚ as if he will make a difference. These extremes are out there and show how desperate Garp is to build a bubble of protection around his
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