Choice (Kerima Polotan Tuvera’s The Virgin: A Feminist Approach) Kerima Polotan Tuvera is a Filipino female author who wrote The Virgin which won two first awards in the Philippines. The story can be narrated both man and woman. The text shows that the character‚ a woman who likes to wear flurry-colored clothes‚ Miss Mijares—a 34 year-old submissive daughter‚ sacrificing herself (she spent most of her life caring for her ill mother that’s why she’s still a virgin). She is a spinster who has strength
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May 4‚ 2010 Anita Rookard “Half the Sky” With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are great authors who give us true stories of girls and woman from Africa and Asia and their extraordinary struggles. We view the Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience‚ Kristof and WuDunn view our world with anger‚ sadness‚ clarity‚ and‚ ultimately‚ hope
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A Gap of Sky “A Gap of Sky” is a short story written by Anna Hope in 2008. The short story takes place in London‚ where we see a day from the perspective of our main-character‚ Ellie‚ where she has to make an essay due to Tuesday morning. Ellie is a teenage girl‚ she is nineteen years old‚ and studies at University College London‚ or just known as UCL. Ellie seems like a typical nineteen years old teenager. She sleeps in‚ waits until the last minute to finish her paper and she likes to party
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- John Boyega: Reaching For The Stars Born in Peckham‚ South London‚ John Boyega found a passion for acting in Oliver Primary School. At the age of nine‚ Teresa Early‚ the artist director at Theater Peckham‚ noticed him and his talent. With a busy schedule and low finances‚ Boyega continued to follow his love of acting. After appearing in small roles here and there‚ Boyega was offered the opportunity of a lifetime‚ to star in the next installment of the Star Wars trilogy! This was a childhood
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Reaching Out a Dream in BUMN Abdullah Nasir‚ 21 years old‚ the 49th alumnus of SMKN 7 Semarang‚ indeed tough young man who never give up on his dreams. In the future‚ he wants to take a part in infrastructure development in Indonesia‚ so he decided to learn more about building construction engineering in his school. Like other SMK graduates‚ he chose to work first before continuing his study. Luckily‚ he got a job offer from State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) after his graduation ceremony. Because of
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A Gap of Sky The short story written by Anna Hope is about a girl called Ellie. Her life is a typical dysphoric student’s chaos‚ dominated by drugs‚ anticipant parents and a distracting identity crisis. There are several themes that concern the story‚ and I shall now review some of them. As my aforementioned statement points out‚ identity crisis is an essential issue throughout the story. Her mind lies in a dilemma between either to follow her desires‚ or the expectations which are upon her
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Winton’s that eye‚ the sky (1986) uses first person narrative techniques‚ symbolism‚ imagery and characterisation to create the persona of Morton Flack‚ the narrator and protagonist of the novel. Winton uses Ort’s narration to give the reader insights into the Flack family‚ the relationships they have and the issues that they face. As Winton develops Ort’s narration the reader is supplied with many symbolic images. The most important symbol and imagery in the novel is the sky. Prior to Henry Warburton
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ary THE AFRICAN SKY HAS NO LIMIT My concern an 18 year old student is on the future. Therefore I found it a bit unpractical to focus on only one country as this world is becoming a global village. What happens in America today will tomorrow be adapted somewhere in Africa. This essay will asses the social‚ political‚ environmental‚ or familial challenge faced by individuals in an imagined-boundary less country – Africa. Most attention will be on the
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October Sky‚ Homer Hickam is a young boy who has dreams outside of his mining town of Coalwood‚ West Virginia. He stretched his dreams and pushed himself until he launched his rocket to turn everyone into believers. He saw a little further and wanted opportunities outside of Coalwood .Throughout the movie Homer encounters many obstacles from learning how to build rockets‚ the constant disapproval from his father‚ and negative remarks from his school. One of the main conflicts of October Sky is Homer
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A "The New Deal." United States History. Ed. JOSEPH HUNKINS. Online Highways. Web. 17 Dec. 2010. . A The term New Deal was coined during Franklin Roosevelt’s 1932 Democratic presidential nomination acceptance speech‚ when he said‚ "I pledge you‚ I pledge myself‚ to a new deal for the American people." Roosevelt summarized the New Deal as a "use of the authority of government as an organized form of self-help for all classes and groups and sections of our country." A In his first 99
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