...Ezra Faulkner is a 17/18 year old boy who attends Eastwood high in the small town of Eastwood, California. In the beginning of the story, Toby, Ezra’s former middle school best friend faced a terrible tragedy. They went to Disneyland for his 12th birthday, when a fourteen-year-old boy’s head from Japan was decapitated on Thunder Mountain Railroad, and was scared for life. Later on, they eventually grew apart, as they both went to the same high school. This was when Ezra realized he had never really had a tragedy of his own. In high school, Ezra moved on to be one of the more popular jocks at the school and captain of the tennis team. Toby continued to stay one of the more nerdy boys that got bullied. One night, towards the end of junior year, Ezra’s own tragedy took place, and that was the night of a house party that he was suppose attend with his girlfriend at the time, Charlotte Hyde. He found...
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...The novel This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff depicts the hardships faced by a boy in the 1950s. The main character, Toby Wolff or Jack, travels around the country with his mother, Rosemary, in an attempt to escape her abusive boyfriend. Jack is constantly adapting to his continuously changing surroundings and faces new problems everywhere he goes. Throughout the novel, the author uses secrecy among the characters to portray both plot and character development. Secrecy plays a major role in showing the character development of the main character Jack. When Jack decides to apply to private schools, he realizes he needs outstanding letters of recommendation to make sure he gets in. Jack decides to write the letters himself and he describes himself...
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...How to Write an "Accomplishment Essay" What are your three most substantial accomplishments, and why do you view them as such? — Harvard http://www.free-essay-writing-topics.com/index.php?page=mba-application-accomplishment-questions What is the most significant change or improvement you have made to an organization with which you have recently been affiliated? Describe the process you went through to identify the need for change and manage the process of implementing change. What were the results? — Kelley Describe your greatest professional achievement and how you were able to add value to your organization. — Johnson The goal in answering this kind of question is to analyze, rather than summarize, an achievement. This advice is particularly true if you're discussing an accomplishment that is listed elsewhere on the application. Your readers want to gain insight into your character, not read a factual summary of what occurred. Here are some guiding principles to use in constructing your answer: (1) Choose something that's meaningful to you. Some applicants feel obligated to choose the most objectively impressive accomplishments. You should write about something that has personal significance, even if you weren't formally recognized for it. What matters is that you write passionately and insightfully about your subject. Unless otherwise specified, you should feel free to draw on academic, personal, or professional successes. (2) Focus on details about the process. Show...
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...presents us with the idea of the boy’s journey, which ends with a failure but results in the discovery of adulthood. However, looking closer, it is a story of a grown man looking back on his earlier experiences as a young boy. The boy's journey is no longer limited to his youthful encounter with first love but to a representation of a conflict of the ideal: the dream as he wishes it to be, with the harsh reality that it is. This depiction, of the boy’s experiences allows for the dramatic evolution of a story of a first love told by a narrator who, (with the adult vision), applies the sophisticated use of irony and symbolism needed to reveal the story's deeper meaning. In the beginning we learn about the boy’s character through the atmospheric setting of North Richmond Street in Dublin. He grew up in a dismal, dark, dead-end street. “An uninhabited house of two stories stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground.” Gloominess seems to be setting the mood “dark dripping gardens,” “brown imperturbable faces” and “the dark muddy lanes”. Joyce paints a picture of a somber and hopeless presence with no happiness or anything to look forward to. The young boy’s character is revealed through these symbolic images. He cannot understand it intellectually; he feels that the street, the town, and Ireland itself have become unimaginative and that his life is far from ideal. It is a world of spiritual depression and therefore the boy’s outlook on life is very limited...
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...Araby is a short story that deals with a young boy's life. The young boy is in love with his friend's sister and goes to the bizarre, Araby, in order to impress her because she cannot attend. In the end, the boy realizes that the bizarre is ordinary and all of his dreams and hopes about it have fallen short. North Richmond Street presents us the first view of the boy's world. The street is "blind"; the houses are "imperturbable" in the "quiet," the "cold," the "dark muddy lanes" and "dark dripping gardens." Anyone who is not spiritually blinded or asleep would feel oppressed and endangered by North Richmond Street. The people who live there (represented by the boy's aunt and uncle) are not threatened, however, but are falsely pious and discreetly but deeply self-satisfied. We can know that by the aunt’s hopes that Araby, the bazaar the boy wants to visit, is not “some Freemason affair”. The world of blindness extends from a general view of the street and its resident to the boy's personal relation-ships. It is not a generation gap but a gap in the spirit. It results in the uncle's failure to arrive home in time for the boy to go to the bazaar while it is still open. The uncle has no doubt been to the local pub, indifferent to the boy's anguish and impatience. However, the boy waits well into the evening in the "imperturbable" house with its musty smell and old, useless objects that fill the rooms. The house, like the aunt and uncle, and like the entire neighborhood, reflects...
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...A&P and Araby John Updike's A & P and James Joyce's Araby share many of the same literary traits. The primary focus of the two stories revolves around a young man who is compelled to decipher the different between cruel reality and the fantasies of romance that play in his head. That the man does, indeed, discover the difference is what sets him off into emotional collapse. One of the main similarities between the two stories is the fact that the main character, who is also the protagonist, has built up incredible,yet unrealistic, expectations of women, having focused upon one in particular towards which he places all his unrequited affection. The expectation these men hold when finally "face to face with their object of worship" (Wells, 1993, p. 127) is what sends the final and crushing blow of reality: The rejection they suffer is far too great for them to bear. Updike is famous for taking other author's works and twisting them so that they reflect a more contemporary flavor. While the story remains the same, the climate is singular only to Updike. This is the reason why there are similarities as well as deviations from Joyce's original piece. Plot, theme and detail are three of the most resembling aspects of the two stories over all other literary components; characteristic of both writers' works, each rendition offers its own unique perspective upon the young man's romantic infatuation. Not only are descriptive phrases shared by both stories, but parallels occur with...
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...published. Araby is set in the Dublin of Joyce's youth, and the setting and plot are based on the author’s experiences (173). The story is told through the eyes of a young and innocent boy who is stuck in a world of darkness. Araby is about a young boy who falls in love with his neighbor, Mangan’s sister. The boy spends all of his time watching, or thinking about Mangan’s sister. When the boy and Mangan’s sister finally talk, the character suggests the boy go visit a bazaar called Araby. Since Mangan’s sister cannot attend, the boy plans to go and buy Mangan’s sister a gift. On the night the boy is to attend, the uncle is late coming home and by the time the young boy borrows money and makes his way to the bazaar, most of the people have left and many of the stalls are closed. The boy buys nothing and walks through the dark, empty halls. The character is disappointed in himself and the surrounding world. The author plays with light, shadow, and color throughout the story. Joyce utilizes color in Araby to show imagery of the neighborhood, Mangan’s sister, and the darkness that depicts life experiences. The narrator describes the neighborhood as continuously dark and uses obscure references to make the boy's reality of living in the gloomy town more vivid. There are no streams of sunlight or flowery landscapes in this story; darkness is used throughout the story as the main theme. “North Richmond Street” is introduced...
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...The Crush I. How the boy showed his love towards his teacher by actions A. First Scene: In the classroom 1. Stared at his teacher even the bell rang already. 2. Gave his teacher a toy ring. B. Second Scene: At the boy’s house 1. Wrote ‘marry miss purdy’ on a piece of paper. 2. Felt so happy while eating dinner. C. Third Scene: Shopping of boy and his mother 1. Felt really sad when his teacher, Miss Purdy, told him and his mother that his boyfriend already proposed to her and is engaged to marriage. 2. Looked to the couple with angry eyes maybe because he found the fiancé of his teacher as a jerk as his fiancé refused to celebrate their engagement for him to watch football game at home. D. Fourth Scene: Back to the boy’s house 1. Crumpled the paper where he wrote ‘marry miss purdy’. 2. Sneaked at his parents’ room to know where his father hid his gun. E. Fifth Scene: Back to the classroom 1. Ignored his teacher. 2. Expressed his disappointment on the engagement of his teacher. F. Sixth Scene: Confrontation of boy to teacher’s fiancé ...
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...beginning, the way James Joyce describe the narrator’s dingy house with oppressive atmosphere partly revealed the lack of warm affection and loving care that the boy was suffering. He is at the age of numerous complicated feelings and perception towards life when careful guidance from adult was crucial. Unfortunately, his aunt and uncle failed to give him all the love and teaching he needed. He struggled with his own unrequited love, his desire to reach Araby on time but nobody cared. The narrator sincerely asked his aunt and uncle for permission to go to the bazaar. He kept on reminding his uncle that “I wished to go to the bazaar in the evening”. In spite of the boy’s wholehearted request, all he got back was a curt answer “Yes, boy, I know”. This detail left us a distinct feeling of his uncle’s carelessness and indifference. That negative reaction made the boy “felt the house in bad humour” and he realized that his heart already “misgave” him. But it was just the beginning of the endless chain of disappointment. His uncle came back home very late that night and he had forgotten his miserable nephew’s request. The boy’s heart sank as he heard his uncle said “The people are in bed and after their first sleep now”. The apathetic life was once again...
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...Unspoken Love There is nothing more innocent than love from a child. Children come into this world with no expectations other than to be loved. No, they do not understand the meaning of love, but they feel it every time a gentle hand holds or caresses their tender flesh. In the poem “Those Winter Sundays,” by Robert Hayden, the boy speaks of how his father shows his love by the physical things he does for his family. The dedication and commitment of hard work through the week the boy’s father does to provide for them is unrecognized by outsiders. “with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze.” (3-5). It was not until the boy became a man that he realized just how much his father loved him without ever saying it. Somehow humans have an unspoken connection that can translate into love without ever uttering a single phrase. One simple gesture can make all the difference in the world to an unsuspecting individual. The father, a blue collar worker, with hands that show drudgery aches of winter, manages to care for the well-being of his family by waking early to warm the frightful chill that looms in the air. The loyalty of a father and caregiver never end, “who had driven out the cold.” (11). There are days I would wake up on my day off and wish I did not have responsibilities that day. Like everyone else in the world, life continues on whether we want it to or not. The boy’s father knew he had no choice but to take care of what needed...
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...I relate to The Checkouts. I think I relate to this story because one of my closest friends experienced this and I heard it many times. She went to college and never came back. I haven’t heard from her since. This story made me remember her because she fell in love with him without even talking to him. Just like the girl in the story did. “Then one day the bag boy dropped her jar of mayonnaise and that is how she fell in love.” Although she never talked to him, she still liked him and she said she would always look for him every time she went to get gas for her car, but he was never there. She told me she crossed paths with him again at the ice arena when he was on another date. Of course, my friend was upset that he was with a new...
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...Reflections Of Love Table of Contents Prologue Storge (Affection in families)-Definition The Little Black Boy- William Blake Winter Trees- Sylvia Plath Mother to Son- Langston Hughes Philia (Friendship)- Definition Love and Friendship- Emily Bronte Time to Talk- Robert Frost Eros (Romance)- Definition Somewhere Never Traveled- E.E. Cummings Wind and Window- Robert Frost She Walks in Beauty- Lord George Byron Agape (Unconditional Love)- Definition How Do I Love Thee- Elizabeth Barrett Browning Love is More Thicker than Forget- E.E. Cummings Biographies Epilogue Storge Affection Affection- is the love through familiarity, especially between family members or people who have otherwise found themselves together by chance. It is described as the most natural, emotional feeling because it is outcome of love due to family ties. Fatefully, it is the strong point what makes it the most defenseless. The affection is “built-in” and as a consequence people expect it. Prologue This poetry anthology is a collection of poems, which shows the people's view of love. As I am a hopeless romantic, I chose this topic. I think the journey that life takes us all on is one filled with many adventures. I believe to truly live life to the fullest would be to love. If a person can say that he or she has never truly been loved or loved someone then he or she has never really lived. The feeling of love is so euphoric. The...
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...painting graffiti in a tunnel near the bus station, and the mother is completely broke. I am first going to make a characterization of the narrator, the second write about the main character´s relationship with his mother and finally the use of symbols. Main Part: The writer has a special way to write stories because this short story is very complicated and messy, she skips some parts, first is the narrator home, then out and sudden he is home again. The narrator is a I-narrator because we see it all from the narrator point, and we get not a chance to listen what the other people think, but the narrator tells what they said, but not their thoughts. The narrator and the main character is the same person. The narrator is a boy who love graffiti, and his parents are divorced or else his father is dead, we don´t get any info about that, however, the boys mom is working on shift and he is usually asleep when she gets home, but at the time she goes into the bedroom and start sleeping the boy is awake, fully awake, he endure her snoring, vibrating through the walls, the boy also think his mother is full of bullshit because that is was she used to be. But one night he could not take it anymore a sneak out of the bedroom through the window down to the streetlamps. He goes down to a tunnel and heir something there is running away from him. But suddenly he looks up at...
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...I would love to start with the words of Dalai Lama: “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” The current situation is characterized by a spiritual impoverishment of the spiritual powers of man, which makes it almost impossible to moral action. Man denies given reality, transforming it into a free creative act. But where did he deny? In other words, if we use the analogy of the springboard, then that allows a person to jump, leads to jump and where he jumps, and who decide how far to jump? Springboard for itself can not cause a jump, but only one of the conditions of its possibility. That is, the existence of one does not require given reality denying it, because it is not in the animal world, but it exists in the human. Reality does not imply a project of transformation, but a man comes always dissatisfied in everything and everybody, and begins to break and build. There are always deployed vast horizons of opportunities in front of every man, to where he should decide to put oneself and choose one single path. And the situation is further complicated by the fact that people here cannot get rid of choice at random, here is required of him the necessity of choice. The choice should not only be free and personal, but necessary. Moreover, the need for external not taken into account, a person is looking for, demands from himself if he is honest with himself...
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...Love stories are not always like what many think with two lovers destined to be with one another. Although many stories end with “happily ever after,” some end in death or unfortunate situations. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is about two lovers from enemy families, face many great obstacles to be together but results in multiple deaths from both families. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, is about a teen named Katniss who volunteers as a tribute in the Hunger Games, where competitors kill one another to be last one standing. Katniss gets paired up with Peeta and together, they pretend to stand out from the rest through romantic story, gaining attention and a higher chance of survival. Romeo & Juliet from...
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