correct button on the flat piece of glass that was the surface of my cell phone. There’s two buttons to choose from and if I’m not careful‚ I would find myself pressing the button that would allow me to drift off to the land of odd happenings‚ to unicorns and fairy dust‚ and to the place where time seems to stand still. Often times‚ when this unfortunate mishap has occurred‚ I would wake in such frenzy that I could feel the labored breaths as they attempted to escape from my lungs. My heart was beating
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they had Alexia blocked I couldn’t find an entrance. I started panicking and I kicked it to the only person open right then. They all began yelling at me simultaneously because lucky for me I kicked it to the one girl who was lost in her land of unicorns and rainbows and the ball zoomed right past her cluelessness and into the other team’s territory. Well the ending to this tale is that we lost‚ of course. In sports there are all different types of people. Tall‚ short‚ skinny‚ big‚ girl‚ boy‚ black
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Aster Cheng Hero Definition Essay “Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens‚ or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It’s all part of the fairytale.” -Peter S. Beagle‚ The Last Unicorn. Heroes can be found in normal‚ everyday people; however‚ they go unnoticed because they did not have to overcome a great calamity to perform an action. More well known heroes have all overcome the worst of situations imaginable. For example‚ Ms. Riley from October Sky had fought Hodgkin’s Disease while
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MY FAVOURITE CITY I love Paris with such a passion‚ it hurts. Last year I lived there for four months but still‚ I can never get enough. When I’m not in Paris I ache for the city as if for a lost love. If I could return once more‚ I’d jump feet first into all the wonderful places I still want to discover. And‚ I would also make a personal pilgrimage to my favorite places from chic to charming all that hooked my heart. First I would re visit my favorite arrondissement‚ the Marais. Here the
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Notes on ‘A Call’ by Seamus Heaney * The word ‘call’ has both everyday and special associations. In this poem ‘call’ contains both casual and serious meanings.The call here is the phone call home but the speaker also meditates on the idea of a person being called home to God as in the medieval play ‘Everyman’. * The opening of the poem‚it could be argued‚ isn’t poetry‚it is ordinary‚everyday speech.And yet the arrangement of the lines on the page and the overall rhythm create a musical flow
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Blade Runner (directors cut‚ 1992) directed by Ridley Scott are both exposed to the continuing nature dominant paradigms presented in the 19th and 20th century. Mary Shelly and Ridley Scott challenge the dominant assumptions of the romantic and scientific paradigms‚ this ultimately challenges society’s understanding of humanity‚ and the concept of what makes someone human. Although 200 years separate these texts are both cautionary tales about the creation of life
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the writings of the Buddha exceed the Classics and commentaries and beautify the accomplishments of the sages?” Then as an answer he compares Confucianism and Buddhism saying “To compare the sages to Buddha would be like comparing a white deer to a unicorn” obviously stating that Buddhism is the better of the two religions. So he must accept Buddhism’s spread but wouldn’t mind having Confucianism and Daoism as other religions in the country. In Document 5 Zong Mi‚ a Buddhist scholar‚ is for Buddhism
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Children’s beauty pageants have been around for a long time. I admit that as someone raised in the North and on the West Coast‚ I never really encountered this phenomenon in my daily life. Recently‚ two different reality shows have popped up on TLC that exposes the viewer to the works of pageants. The shows are titled "Little Miss Perfect" and "Toddlers and Tiaras". As I’m the mother of a pre-teen daughter‚ I watched both of these shows with a horrified curiosity. I have certainly garnered some opinions
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Angela Carter was an English novelist and journalist‚ known for her feminist‚ magical realism‚ and picaresque works. In 2008‚ The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012‚ Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Biography Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne‚ in 1940‚ Carter was evacuated as a child to live in Yorkshire with her maternal grandmother. As a teenager she battled against
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Professor McGonagall. Hagrid leads Harry‚ Ron‚ Hermione and Draco Malfoy into the Forbidden Forest‚ which is usually off-limits to students. The half-giant then leaves Malfoy with Harry to find out what has been killing and drinking the blood of unicorns. This is apt for the "Belly of the Whale" since Harry Potter is wandering into the
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