The Guardian, Friday 22 July 2011 23.01 BST Photograph: Charlie Surbey Every Good Boy "It's a piano!" The black lacquered monster loomed in the doorway, my father and Uncle Tony grinning from behind its immense bulk, red-faced from exertion and lunchtime pints. "They were going to throw it away so I said we'd have it." My mother looked as if she might cry. "Take it back, please, I'm begging you." "But it's free! It's a completely free piano!" "What are we going to do with a piano, Michael
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Published in The Hindu - Sunday Magazine on Oct 5, 2008 The bursting of the speculative bubble in the U.S. housing market has destroyed billions of dollars in investor wealth across the world, crippled the banking system, expunged close to a million jobs…and India has not been spared either. With banks failing by the day…definitely, these are uncertain times for the financial services industry. While many people who have lost their jobs, are faced with permanent shrinkage of their lifestyle, others
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My mom would always tell me, “I can’t wait until you’re 18, so you can move out of my house!” This was usually said after my many childhood “mess ups”, causing my mom tons of stress. But the older, and more mature I got, the less I heard her say the expression. The closer I got to the magic number eighteen, the more real it got. My mom began to fear the day that I went off to college. It scared not only my mom, but my whole family. The same little Anthony they had watched grow up was stepping into
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A 1. This poem touched my heart and made me feel great compassion for the author. She wrote about how she feels the world perceives her. In the first paragraph, she describes how people can metaphorically step on her and crush her into the dirt, but she and her spirit could not be crushed. She also mentions how history depicts her in a negative light. People tend to believe what they read, even if it is not accurate. In the next paragraph, she describes how she is outspoken and how that makes
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& JULIET Prologue (ACT 1) As a prologue to the play, the Chorus enters. In a fourteen-line sonnet, the Chorus describes two noble households (called “houses”) in the city of Verona. The houses hold an “ancient grudge” (Prologue.2) against each other that remains a source of violent and bloody conflict. The Chorus states that from these two houses, two “star-crossed” (Prologue.6) lovers will appear. These lovers will mend the quarrel between their families by dying. The story of these two lovers
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Autobiography My name is LaQuinta Walker and I was born in the Spring of April 4, 1987 in Atlanta, Georgia. I was born to, high school sweethearts, Sharon and John Walker from a small town called Aliquippa, PA. My parents are currently still alive and has been married over 35 years. I am the youngest of five children, and whose name means "The Fifth" in Spanish. Some cool facts about my birthday are that I share it with the late poet, Maya Angelou. April 4th occasionally falls on Easter and
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Shlok Kumar Professor Padma Baliga English Literature Upto 1900 13 September 2010 The Canterbury Tales and the Panchatantra: Two Frame Narratives contrasted The East has a wonderful tradition in teaching morals through interesting tales; India has given the world the earliest such tales in the form of the Panchatantra, the Hitopadesa and even the Puranas. The Canterbury Tales and the Panchatantra are both frame narratives- often known as ‘story within a story.’ Yet the target audience
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1. Santiago is an old hardened fisherman as described in this quote, “the old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck” (9). He is distant from his fellow fisherman and lives in a rather tiny house. 2. Manolin was taught how to fish by Santiago, and had worked alongside him for a period of time. Manolin would only quit when his parents told him that he had to work on another boat due to Santiago’s lack of success. Manolin considers Santiago to be the best fisherman, “There
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packing industry, bringing down an empire of corruption. The original intension of The Jungle can be compared to Jacob Rii’s How the Other Half Lives, which is a novel about poor immigrants horrible living conditions in tenement houses. Immigrants in there tenement houses were crammed into small apartments with numerous other people, with no safety features, and no indoor plumbing. They lived in the cold and in filth. They both argue for social reform to help the poor immigrants who were taken advantage
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readings of poems from Gitanjali and other texts; a performance of Frank Bridge’s gloriously passionate settings for tenor voice and piano of two poems from The Gardener (composed in 1922: the poems are Nos. 29 and 30, ‘Speak to me, my love’ and ‘Dweller in my deathless dreams’); a presentation on Sriniketan and Dartington (Tagore and Elmhirst) by the The Tagoreans, an old-established London-based group; and a song and dance sequence called ‘The Golden Boat’, designed and performed by the Tagore Centre
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