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    On a cold December day one week before winter break my life was flipped upside down. I was a 5th grader waiting for my mom to pick me up from school after tutoring but‚ my uncle picked me up that day I asked him‚ “Where’s my mom?” “Why didn’t she pick me up?” My uncle redundancy ‚ didn’t say a single word to me during the car ride home. As I got to my house‚ I saw the ambulance outside of my house‚ hoping nothing was wrong. I open the door hope the first responders weren’t there but as I open the

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    The man in "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden uses the boy version of himself as an example for other children teaching them that they should never forget to appreciate how hard a loved one works for you or the dedication they show to making sure you are cared for. Also a lesson for adults that they may suffer extreme guilt later in life when it will be to late to free yourself of those type of emotions. I can identify with the emotions he goes through‚ easily placing myself in his shoes seeing

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    Cited: Goldman‚ James. The Lion in Winter. New York: Rand House Trade Paperbacks‚ 1981. Shakespeare‚ William. Hamlet. New York: Washington Square P‚ 1992. Shaw‚ George B. George Bernard Shaw ’s Plays. 2nd ed. New York: W.W Norton and Company‚ 2002. 203-285.

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    those that have parents and kids who cannot spend more than a few minutes apart‚ while there are others that do not even speak on a daily basis. For the latter‚ there can be a plethora of outcomes from those strained familial relationships. “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden explores some of those issues and their complexities‚ focusing mainly on a breakdown caused by a lack of understanding of all that a father provides to his family as well as broken lines of communication. Hayden indirectly

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    Sesshu’s painting known as “Winter Landscape” depicts the mountainous terrain of China with people settled across it. At first glance‚ without being technical‚ Sesshu uses only ink and paper to paint the mountain range‚ slowly adding less distinct mountains as it moves further away‚ and then vegetation in the form of trees is scattered about the mountain. There is a human presence mixed in with the nature in the form of a man walking up the mountain and a large temple or palace like structure in

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    Lashley Winter The Stephanie Marie Burgos Scholarship Essay My parents came to the United States from Saint Lucia to help create a better life for their children. Knowing the sacrifice my parents made to provide more opportunities for us‚ I approach my education and future with the tenacity to achieve. I waste no time and seize every opportunity that comes before me. I am a firm believer that time lost cannot be regained. Though I immerse myself in the opportunities that come before me‚ I

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    have an innate conscience that dictates what is right and what is wrong? Society has lowered their moral code thus oppressing the consciousness that is instilled in all humans. The answer to these questions can be found in John Steinbeck’s novel The Winter of Our Discontent. The moral slide of Ethan Hawley’s character is a clear representation of the moral downfall of man. The pressure put on Ethan by his family to be wealthy causes his immorality and corruption to come out. At one point Ethan argues

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    1 English 102 Spring 2014 At the Olympics athletes from all over the world to compete in sports and to unite everyone in watching an event‚ but this Olympics has a twist to it. Controversy on LGBT rights exploded prior to this year’s Sochi Winter Olympics has a twist to it. LGBT refers to lesbian‚ gay‚ bisexual‚ and transgender people. Before the Olympics started‚ debates already began to form. Russia’s laws degrade LGBT rights and opened a human rights debate. These laws sparked many LGBT

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    Those Winter Sundays By Robert Hayden’s Robert Hayden’s Poem‚ "Those Winter Sundays‚" is the perfect example of a life lesson. As a child growing up there are things we do not realize but eventually life reveals the significance of curtain things and in this poem Hayden’s has this experience. This poem shows how we take things and people closest to us for granted. He does this in three ways‚ blatantly‚ with the language he uses‚ and also with the mood and tone he sets. The speaker

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    Union in a hockey game during the Olympics. This victory would result in impacting the United States in more than sport supremacy but rather in all aspects of intentional affairs. The film Miracle directed by Gavin O’Connor and the book The Boys of Winter by Wayne coffin recreated this “story about a coach with a vision‚ a team of patriotic kids from mostly working-class families who were prepared to make sacrifices for the unknown‚ and a nation

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