"THE SENSIBLE THING" F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Liberty‚ 15 July 1924 At the Great American Lunch Hour young George O’Kelly straightened his desk deliberately and with an assumed air of interest. No one in the office must know that he was in a hurry‚ for success is a matter of atmosphere‚ and it is not well to advertise the fact that your mind is separated from your work by a distance of seven hundred miles. But once out of the building he set his teeth and began to run‚ glancing now and
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"The things they carried" In "the things they carried" Tim O’Brien defines a fine line between fiction and non-fiction in the form of story telling and the memories he has accumulated from his participation in the Vietnam war the way they "seemed" rather than "what happened" because that’s how you tell "a true war story" and that’s how the book effectively engages the reader throughout the whole book because nothing is ordinary‚ not even the way the book is put together‚ you just can’t anticipate
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“Supersize me” Opinion I felt like supersize me was a great way to finally educate consumers a little bit about how their food is made and to make more conscious decisions when deciding what to eat. It also made me feel disgusted with fast food in general and made me think twice before putting my money in their pockets for something that you just put in your mouth and can’t be called actual food because it isn’t food and has little to no nutritional value. I think that this documentary goes even
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"My Three Favorite Things" My three favorite things are music‚ basketball‚ and writing poetry. In this essay‚ I will write my reasons for choosing these things. Plus‚ how I feel about‚ and while I’m‚ doing these things. I will also mention certain memories from doing these things‚ and while listening to music. We all have our own preferences‚ and these are mine. Music is my life and it keeps me going in every way you can inmagine. My favorite types of music are rap and reggae. In the morning
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SOUTH ASIAN WRITING HOME ASSIGNMENT: Diaspora In South Asian Literature- As seen in Meera Syal’s “Anita and Me” Submitted by : 08/EL/47 Urmimala Bhattacharjee The mention of ‘home’ and ‘outside’ is not a specification of India at all‚ but rather
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Superman Saved my Life The best feeling in the world is overcoming an obstacle‚ especially one when people say it can’t be done. Sherman Alexie talks about this in his writing “Superman and me‚” where he tells us his life story about how he started out as a poor Indian boy living on a reservation and overcame many racial barriers to become a writer. Alexie uses rhetorical strategies such as ethos and pathos to pull the reader in and make them understand his life story. He also uses writing strategies
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and happily married. I have worked from home for the past 13 years as a medical transcriptionist. I would definitely categorize the latter 2 statements to be huge successes. However‚ to be honest‚ that is pretty much it! I have started many things in my life that‚ had I finished‚ I would have been so proud to list in my little autobiography. For example‚ I would love to say that one of my hobbies is reading. Well‚ I have books all over the house that I have started‚ but have yet to finish. I would
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21 January 2013 ENGL 152-14 Crazy Thing 2 Crazy Thing 2 When I almost ran my grandfather over at his house it affected my life by making me more aware of my vehicle. The incident changed me because once I realized what was happening I realized wasn’t in control of my vehicle anymore and couldn’t stop what happened or could have happened. I know that once a person loses control bad things can happen. What could have happened terrified me; the first thing that went thru my mind is ‘I could have
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What things do I hate the most? Why do I hate those things? Do I need to adjust with it? Why Should I? Is it possible for me to like these things? I’ll be sharing my own opinion in this essay. I’m so sensitive and irritable person. And for me‚ there are a lot of things to hate. Look at your left and right side‚ there are something that you don’t like. You don’t want to see. There are also things that you don’t want to feel‚ to think and to happen. And every person who lives in this world hated
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Bipolar me Eng 101 Bipolar me BIPOLAR ME 4 Running head: BIPOLAR ME 1 Bipolar me Brandi L Kemmis Eng 101 12/8/13 Robin Lyons Bipolar me What is bipolar disorder? Can you catch it? While researching this paper‚ I decided to ask actual people what they thought bi-polar disorder was. I was astonished at how people perceived it. I decided that I needed to define it. I need to further peoples education on it. 27 million people suffering from the disease
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