Every family has a story, and so do mine. It is of my great grandfather escaping The Kashmir War in 1947. My mother said he remembered the experience as being chaotic and tiring, where for the first time he genuinely was afraid, afraid to lose his life. He was afraid of what our world had become, relying upon the pointless wars to find solutions. He had questioned, my mother recalled, “Is it worth it?” Through their representation of corrupt bureaucracy and the senseless reality and brutality
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Scott Westerfeld is the award winning author of eighteen novels and has ghost written for many other well known authors, who he refuses to disclose. He was born on May 5, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Scott Westerfeld went to Arts Magnet High School in Dallas, Texas. He attended Vassar College for Philosophy and got his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985. He also attended New York University and was a graduate in 1987-88. His studies at New York University was surrounded by Performance. He is married to
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In The Glass Essay by Anne Carson, the author uses juxtaposition and metaphor to contrast the desolation of her destination with the efforts made by the author to tend to her mother. The author’s destination is described in three juxtaposed paratactic lines. There are many words used to describe an expanse of uncultivated land; the word “moor” is used to describe the land and suggest that “She,” her mother, is moored in the north. In the second line, “She lives alone,” Carson is suggesting through
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Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur Andrews McMeel Publishing 9781449474256 $14.99/208/pb Rupi Kaur is an artist and an Instagram poet based in Toronto, Canada. Her poetry and illustrations delve into themes of sexuality, love, trauma, healing and femininity. Gaining international success, she currently has 2.5 million Instagram followers, while her anthology of poems Milk and Honey sold over 2.5 million copies. Milk and Honey explores female experiences with simplistic, evocative, and accessible language
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“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them”-William Shakespeare. To me, Shakespeare’s books has been very enlightening, to others like highschool students they fine Shakespeare’s books are very very boring. The one question English spectators been asking is; “Should Shakespeare be taught in school”? Some might say yes, some might even say no. For the past 450 years Shakespeare books, plays, poems, etc has been read mostly
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In the book, “The Help”, written by Kathryn Stockett, there are many controversial characters that the reader watches evolve throughout the course of the book. Skeeter Phelan is a character that changes drastically over the course of the book. In the beginning of the book Skeeter is a shy, insecure, young woman who doesn't know what she wants to do or become of herself.All she knows is that she wants to write. For Skeeter’s entire childhood her mom has always put it into her head that she is never
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The Rude Realizations of Russian Romantics “How strangely, how mysteriously does fate play with us! Everything seems to happen contrary to our hopes and expectation” (Gogol 200). These words of jaded exasperation embody the main idea found in the works of Russian writers Nicolai Gogol and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. While it may be debatable whether it was intended as means of reverence or ridicule, Nicolai Gogol’s Nevsky Avenue was redesigned and repurposed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in his work Notes from
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Inspired by the TS Eliot poem “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, Abi Morgan from theatre company Frantic Assembly perceptively wrote the British play “Lovesong”. This emotionally evoking production delves into both a youthful and aged representation of the life of married couple William and Margaret. It explores moments of a healthy love-induced relationship in addition to times of great emotional hardship experienced throughout their marital lives. It can be stated that the dichotomies of marriage
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Leslie Gourse was a writer and a biographer who wrote on jazz musicians and singers. Her first book, Louis’ Children: American Jazz Singers, was published in 1984. Her full-length biographies include Unforgettable: The Life and the Mystique of Nat King Cole, Sassy: The Life of Sarah Vaughan, and others. She had also written for children and young adults. In 1991, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awarded her the Deems Taylor Award for a series of seven articles in the magazine
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Dr. Syrjanen, I must admit, I have enjoyed every aspect of EH 1010. The information for each unit was very informative. Also, looking and listening to your feedback on various videos throughout the units explaining the lesson in depth was remarkable. However, Dr. Syrjanen, one of the questioned you asked was what do I feel was my best essay in EH 1010. According to my grade and your feedback thus far, it would most definitely be the comparative essay. Although each essay has a significate meaning
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