_THE DIARY OF A GLADIATOR_ 12/05/58 Dear Diary‚ Today was possibly the worst day in my entire life. I shall start from the beginning. When I woke up I felt an uncontrollable need for freedom. I had the bad feeling in the bottom of my stomach and I couldn’t get rid of it. I felt terrified‚ captured. I sneaked out of the house and ran. I ran from myself‚ from the thoughts in my head. I needed to clear my mind. It felt like a huge and terribly real nightmare. An endless nightmare. I ran and prayed
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Asian writers Nick Joaquin Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín (May 4‚ 1917 – April 29‚ 2004) was a Filipino writer‚ historian and journalist‚ best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. He also wrote using the pen name Quijano de Manila. Joaquin was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines for Literature. He is considered one of the most important Filipino writers in English‚ and the third most important overall‚ after José Rizaland Claro M. Recto. Joaquín
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For my memoir analysis I chose The Basketball Diaries written by Jim Carroll. The book was first published in the United States by Tombouctou Books in 1978‚ then published and reprinted by Penguin books in 1987. James Dennis Carroll was born on August 1‚ 1949 in New York. He was of Irish Descent and grew up on New York’s Lower East Side. In the sixth grade his brother took notice to his literary talent‚ so he encouraged him to pursue it. Apart from writing‚ Carroll was an all-star basketball player
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emotional reactions or mental visualization of the tone or imagery can help create the overall meaning for a poem. Adding one of these or even both can help visualize the readers mind into better understanding how the writer wants to convey the meaning of a poem. The poem “Cinderella’s Diary” is a short poem that is supposed to be about Cinderella’s life‚ taking place after “happily ever after”. It goes to show that not everything has a happy ending. The very beginning of the poem starts with Cinderella
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The artist and the writer are increasingly seen as ‘the guiding light‚ the revealers of truths.’ (Bunce 1994) Through the study of two pieces of children’s literature‚ demonstrate how the widely acclaimed ‘rural idyll’ comes to be represented. The representation of the ‘countryside’ is one of the most ‘stubbornly resilient and ideologically freighted of ideas’ (Horton 2003: 73) in society today. The conventional rural idyll is often associated with adjectives such as ‘picturesque‚ tranquil‚ and
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O’Neill martin.oneill[@]york.ac.uk Lecture 2: Positive and Negative Liberty 1. William E. Connolly: Liberty as an ‘Essentially-Contested Concept’ • See Connolly‚ The Terms of Political Discourse (1983)‚ and the relevant excerpt in CKS (i.e. Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology‚ ed. Ian Carter‚ Matthew Kramer and Hillel Steiner (Blackwell‚ 2007).) • The idea of an “essentially contested concept” – a concept that cannot be specified in detail in advance of normative debates. • The meanings of terms
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An influential theme in “The Diary Of Anne Frank” by‚ Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett‚ is the importance of courage and hope in a negative situation. The reader sees examples of both of these in the thoughts and actions of the characters‚ more specifically: Mr. Frank‚ Mr. Kraler and Miep‚ and Anne Frank. The authors express hope through Mr. Frank when they write‚ “... The air raids are getting worse. They come over day and night. The noise is terrifying. Pim [Mr. Frank] says it should be music
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existence is an act of rebellion." Freedom is something that all humans value. Having the ability to do pretty much whatever you when you want is a privilege not a right. Unlike in the United States where we have that benefit‚ in Haiti the government has stripped that liberty from its own people with the new regime oppressing the citizens. Throughout the novel‚ Krik? Krak!‚ Edwidge Danticat suggests that death‚ water‚ and flight are the only methods to obtain freedom as a citizen under the rule of an
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Timothy Kieu Watson HSE Period 2 September 1‚ 2014 Diary of Katniss Everdeen Entry #1 My name is Katniss Everdeen and I am the mockingjay. I was chosen for the 74th and 75th Annual Hunger Games and I ended it all. Prim is dead‚ mom and gale went to the help people. I killed snow and ended the corrupt government with a new generation of freedom and hope. I see a therapist twice a week and she told me it would help to write this diary but I don’t understand how remembering the gruesome past will help
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he Vampire Diaries is a hit supernatural teen drama television series about a seventeen-year-old girl‚ Elena‚ who is caught up in a mystical world between two extremely handsome vampire brothers. It’s very comparative to Twilight and Buffy the Vampire Slayer with the typical ‘teenage girl falls in love with a vampire’ story. It first aired in September 2009‚ not long after the topic of Vampires had significantly escalated‚ and the show instantly became a teen favorite with almost five million viewers
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