I am lucky. If I am from anywhere I am from the Connecticut River valley of Massachusetts. It is where my parents live choose to make a lives. It is a fine place where many people choose to make a life. It is where I return to‚ broken hearted when relationships don’t work out‚ or exhausted when jobs end. I am here now for a mix of these reasons. I am just a little person learning how to live. I figured out I liked food before I became an adult. A cook didn’t show up for his shift at a bar I worked
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“Where I come From Is Like This” by Gunn Allen In her essay Gunn Allen utilizes effective ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos to convince ethnic studies woman‚ and feminist scholars‚ of her claim that European woman are in a bicultural bind between strong mighty Indian woman and Europeans who think of woman as weaker and lesser. Allen states that Indian woman were always thought as savage by the different views she had been taught‚ an example was when she talks about her Christian education they would tell
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It was one evening when i was walking down the street and i saw a homeless man. He was asking for money for the past few days. I walked on the opposite side of the street that he was on because i didn’t have any money to give to him and i had a feeling that he was going to do something to me. I saw him look at me and he started to come my way. I heard him yell “Hey kid wait” so i panicked and i started running as fast as i could and i ran till i couldn’t see or hear him I also took some turns so
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Zsa Zsa Padilla on the set of I Do bidoo bidoo (Contributed photo) A rich history of beach ball movies explains our natural objection to musical films. Before we could even enjoy talented actors bursting into song and dance‚ there were action‚ comedy and action-comedy stars singing off key to their leading ladies‚ a mob of noontime show dancers in the background. These made the notion of local films — more so a Filipino musical film with singing -- something to avoid. Until Studio 5 and Unitel
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“You’re different. And I’m different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me‚ I know” (Quick 222 ). This quote is being said by Herr Silverman to Leonard when Herr Silverman is trying to stop Leonard from killing himself. I chose this quote because it is something that should be brought out into the world. It’s more about
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Soledad Blanco ENC 1101 Professor Stephanie Pi 1 April 2013 Americas Baby Boomers Golden Years: Where Will They Go As America ’s baby boomers moves closer into their golden years‚ more and more working families find themselves facing difficult‚ stressful and financial health care issues with regards to their parents. At some point everyone will be faced with many important health decisions such as choosing the right physician‚ or the right hospital for their love one. In today’s economy‚ most
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Rhizopus Rot of Jackfruit Scot Nelson Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences he plant genus Artocarpus comprises roughly 50 species of tropical trees native to the Pacific and South and Southeast Asia‚ several of which produce edible fruit. Jackfruit‚ Artocarpus heterophyllus‚ is a popu- lar garden species prized for its edible flowers‚ fruit‚ and seeds for fresh consumption or cooking. Jackfruit trees can reach over 60 ft in height and bear fruit that can be 2 feet
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(113) Instead‚ McCandless would often talk about leaving school to go South Africa to help end the apartheid. When his friends or adults responded by saying that you are only kids‚ or you can’t make a difference‚ McCandless would simply respond “so I guess you just don’t care about right and wrong ‘” (113). McCandless would grow to learn that his father had had an affair with his mother before they were married. Because of his simplistic black and white views‚ he would be unable to forgive his father
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Analytical Essay: Where I Come From “Where I Come From” is a striking poem written by the talented‚ twentieth century‚ Canadian poet‚ Elizabeth Brewster. In this heartwarming poem‚ Elizabeth Brewster portrays the creation of the human identity and defines how individuals carry with them a unique essence of where they go and how they are created from their experiences of living in a specific cultural setting. She talks about the lives of “city folk” and of where she was raised‚ a rural farm
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A library and a book are very different things. I love books. However‚ I hate libraries. This may seem contradictory. How can someone love a book so much but hate its natural habitat? The answer lies within a bittersweet story of seeing my future‚ not so long ago‚ that tells the story of my education. It was January of my freshman year‚ and my classmates and I were brought to a library to be introduced to the pieces of paper that would follow us forever: our academic transcripts. My classmates joked
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