It is human nature for us to search for a place to belong‚ not realising that it is our perceptions and attitudes‚ not the place that allow us to belong. Good afternoon year 11. Today I’m here to talk to you about how my understanding of the aspects of belonging have changed through my studying of the two written texts‚ namely china coin by Allan Baillie and educating Rita by willy Russel. All of you will study these texts in year 12. Before I start I want to ask you‚ would you belong to a place
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Winthrop In the passage called “A City Upon a Hill” John Winthrop‚ lawyer and leader of the 1630 migration of English Puritans to Massachusetts‚ discusses his beliefs Puritans should follow to be a good Puritan citizen. Winthrop tries to persuade the Puritans to create a good christian society‚ which they will achieve by sticking together as a community with the idea of brotherly love. Brotherly love with allow the community to succeed and prosper. Winthrop uses repetition‚ an extended metaphor and tone to
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Stereotypical women who flees to escape come back drenched in sorrow and remorse. The old lady in the story displays the foolishness of evading just to regret afterwards. She assumed that she would be happy even after she left her husband‚ daughter‚ and her parents. What was priceless seemed like a burden that only suppressed her. After the lady evades‚ she suffers in such grievance that leads her to the witch and eventually‚ death. This repertory appears commonly in famous movies and dramas; her
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MISSION‚ VISION‚ AND VALUES PAPER Mission‚ Vision‚ and Values Paper Kari L Page University of Phoenix MBA580 August 6‚ 2007 Goutam Sinha Mission‚ Vision‚ and Values Paper The Dairy Queen system’s recipe for success has been simple for more than 60 years. It’s been a combination of hard-working people who own and operate restaurants and great-tasting food and tempting treats served in our establishments. The founders of the Dairy Queen system were men and women who introduced a new kind
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The Gun Debate written by Patricia Smith illustrates the opinions on gun control and how it relates to the second amendment. Due to the amount of gun deaths and mass shootings in our country stronger gun laws are needed to be put in order. “In 2014‚ there were more than 33‚000 firearm-related deaths in the U.S.” (Smith) The United States has the most gun violence compared to any other developed country. Another reason is that people who are small scale gun sellers can claim to be hobbyists and
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“City Upon a Hill” Analysis In 1630 the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony gave a sermon to his Puritan followers. Winthrop writes that God has purposefully made some people poor and others rich in order to perform his work in the different areas of life. He also speaks of a man’s moral requirement to help others with their needs. Winthrop’s purpose of delivering this sermon to Puritans was to encourage them to purify their connection with God and to obtain perfect order in their society
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had to make sure every last bit of equipment worked and was there‚ since it wasn’t going to be a regular park “hiking” trails that we were following. In fact it was going to be complete wilderness with only our skills to get us through vast Black Hills Forest. The long drive from Omaha to Rapid City had taken its toll on our minds and bodies. Since the beginning of the drive to the end of it when we parked the car at the trail head‚ waiting in the car felt like waiting in line for the biggest and
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a deranged‚ psychopath. Patricia Highsmith’s novel‚ The Talented Mr. Ripley‚ is a story where we do see these rare qualities in effect. The eerily charming Tom Ripley‚ like most of us‚ is finding it difficult to be comfortable in his own skin and desperately craves a new‚ more enticing identity. What makes Tom different than us in struggling with this normal insecurity‚ is how he goes about making himself a new identity and that is through murder and assuming his dead‚ new friend’s identity. Even
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sticky? A stick. In his poems “Marginalia” and “Introduction to Poetry‚” Billy Collins uses metaphors to argue that students who annotate without real engagement detract from their experience of reading literature whereas those who annotate for their own satisfaction become more fulfilled. Collins’ “Marginalia” and “Introduction to Poetry” show the ways writing can be enjoyed when one annotates for one’s own contentment. Collins talks about the various ways he wants students to interact with poems‚ saying
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in a photograph" allows for the symbolization of a picture as a memory of love. This provides the poem with the basic foundation that drives the poet’s ambition to reconstruct the love he feels toward his significant other. All in all‚ the poem talks about capturing the key moments he felt closely toward his partner and to use it to keep the inner flame of their relationship
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