My name is Marissa Clearwater as you may know from the summary haha well lets just jump into my story instead of me blabbering on. I came from a well to do family we never had any problems with money or anything of the sort so I’ve never really known about hardships. I had two siblings a younger brother and sister who were twins and they defined stereotypical twins. Both were mischievous‚ silly and never did anything without each other they even went to the bathroom together (dont worry we got
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I come from a family with a rich background in music. I don’t know a single family member that can’t play at least one instrument or doesn’t know how to read a piece of sheet music. When I was very young my mother would play music for me and sing to me. My father would also play the drums very loudly so the entire neighborhood could hear. Due to the fact that I was brought up around so much talent and music appreciation‚ naturally I decided that I wanted music to be a large part in my life forever
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My First Memory of Gender I always knew that I was a girl. Mainly because everyone was always telling me that. I never truly got what the difference between what made a guy and guy and what made a girl and girl until sex education in the fifth grade‚ which is a terrible thing to learn about that young. But‚ my first memory of the fact that I was female and that truly made a difference was when I was in the second grade. I was in a Christian school at the time and I was the top seller during one
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literary terms notes Nonfiction-literature that is based on fact (facts‚ true) Examples: textbooks‚ biography‚ newspapers‚ magazines‚ and autobiography Fiction-literature that comes from the author’s imagination (fake‚ not true) Examples: short story‚ novels Types of Fiction: Short story-a piece of fiction short enough to be read in a single sitting Novels-book length fiction Plot-the series of causally related events that make up a story Parts of Plot: Exposition-the part
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WW2 weapons from the ETO / Warfare History The best American Infantry weapon had to be the M1 Garand. Even General Patton credited the American semi-automatic rifle as one reason we won the war. While other nations were equipped primarily with WWI vintage bolt action rifles that held no more than 5-6 rounds‚ the Garand held 10 rounds and was semi automatic. This increased the fire power of a 12 man squad dramatically over that of a similar squad armed with only bolt action rifles. The Germans
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wealthiest men in history. In this autobiography Andrew Carnegie explains the story of being an immigrant who goes through numerous obstacles and struggles‚ however‚ rises to the top. Carnegie’s autobiography is moving and extremely powerful for being one of the first of its kind in the 1900s. He starts as a telegrapher and with hard work and complete devotion to being the best‚ becomes the captain of industry and steel magnate. In addition to this‚ The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay
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Kelly Teague 7/19/11 Kaffir boy: an autobiography: The true story of a Black Youth’s coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa. Mark Mathabane Copyright: October 7‚ 1998 Pgs: 354 Growing up as a youth in Alexandra‚ black ghetto of Johannesburg‚ where mark was born and lived for eighteen years with hopes of becoming a successful man in a world full of obstacles that would eventually help or destroy him while dealing with the laws of society. He had to endured pain‚ grief‚ and
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the opportunity to create an autobiography which will be later shared with a peer in your classroom might be intimidating‚ but I remember that I am also reading someone’s else autobiography and maybe she/he might feel intimidating for sharing a personal story with a total stranger. Deanna told me her autobiography in which I later wrote a biography‚ in which she later review if there was anything that was missing. We later meet together to discuss about our autobiographies‚ biographies‚ and readings
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Literary Devices Allegory A form of extended metaphor‚ in which objects‚ persons‚ and actions in a narrative‚ are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral‚ social‚ religious‚ or political significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity‚ greed‚ or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings‚ a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration The repetition of the same sound at the beginning
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Franklin suffered a condition called presbyopia‚ which is why he created bifocals. This helped people to see better for years after. “Franklin wrote‚ in August 1784 to his friend George Whatley‚ that he was happy in the invention of double spectacles‚ which serving for distant objects as well as near ones‚ make my eyes as useful to me as ever they were" (Ben Franklin’s Inventions). Franklin also helped discover aspects of electricity people hadn’t figured out yet using a key and a kite. It was thought
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