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    Mariono Blanch Ms.Outlaw K12 11/27/12 Hi‚ I’m Mariono im 15 years old and during my 15 years of existence I’ve learned many things I’ve also experienced many things‚ but I also have surrounded my beliefs around things I was taught. The one major thing that I go by which I call a belief is expressing your feelings and not holding them in ask for help if you need it. I say this because I had to learn the hard way and hurting others while learning. My mom is a single parent she is also flight

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    A Cinderella Story Have you ever done the unthinkable to get the attention of your true love? The film Memoirs of Geisha dramatizes how one can endure so much just to get what they want. The writer wants us to get up to a closer look into the life of becoming a Geisha so the film is narrated in first person point of view by Nitta Sayuri which is the main character. Sakamoto Chiyo (Sayuri) and her sister Satsu was separated from her family because their mother became extremely sick. When Chiyo’s

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    Those who are opposed to the idea of men and women playing baseball together‚ often defend their argument with the belief that women are not physical capable of participating in sports. In addition they often entice the belief that women are more susceptible to injury than men. This is not a valid reason to exclude women and there is an abidance of research that refutes this claim. In addition to excluding women based on their sex‚ the sport of baseball is connected to racial segregation. It was

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    Carlita Cartwright June 3‚ 2009 Final Draft Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha depicts the issue of choice in destiny. Nitta Sayuri‚ formerly known as Sakamoto Chiyo‚ has no control over that fact that she is sold from her home into a life of slavery. Fate sets Sayuri up with an unfathomable situation‚ but Sayuri goes against everything her culture believes to pursue a destiny she desires. Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha shows that in life‚ people who are faced with oppression can make the

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    what they want. During growing period everyone has a unique choices‚ such us‚ role model. In addition‚ what society brings to the family characters such us wars might change every thing. For example‚ society could bring more violence to the family life style. In “Oblivion a memoir” is one of the amazing memoirs I have ever read‚ it is about a man called Abad his book talked about the story of his father‚ a beloved doctor who was murdered in the 1980s‚ which was 25 years ago. That crime was

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    KATHERINE CABASAN CL105 Memoirs of a Geisha Book and Film Arthur Golden was born and brought up in Tennessee‚ in the Southern US. He graduated from Harvard in 1978 with an art history degree‚ with a specialization in Japanese art. He obtained further education in Japanese History and Mandarin Chinese. Eventually‚ he landed a job in a magazine publishing company in Tokyo and met a young man who was born between a prominent businessman and a geisha. This inspired him to write a novel about a

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    MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA MAIN CONTEXT The Memoirs of a Geisha is a story of girl named Chiyo. Together with her sister Satsu‚ they were sold to slavery to pay the debts of their parents. They were sent to an Okiya (geisha house) but Satsu was not accepted so they parted ways. She was a slave of a geisha in the Okiya. But after six years she was sent to a geisha school and changed the name from Chiyo to Sayuri‚ to be trained with the support of a successful geisha Mameha‚ and making a lot of enemies

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    The future of geisha: Memoirs of a geisha "We do not become geisha to pursue our own destinies‚ we become geisha cause we have no other choice" – Memoirs of a Geisha. Do Japanese women still become geisha? Yes‚ because as long as there remains demands for geisha these Japanese customs will always exists. Japanese girls are sold to managers when they are very young‚ these girls are usually orphans. Until the day that they are declared geisha their managers consider them an "Investment"-Feeding

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    Memoir Assignment When I was in the 7th grade I heard an interesting story of life experiences from my friend. She was doing a presentation at my school about her life in Peru. I began to think about it‚ but I didn’t know that I seriously wanted to become an exchange student until I was in 8th grade. My best friend name is Ked. She was in 12th grade and she was an exchange student. She passed all the tests and got a free scholarship so she decided to go. She said she learned many thing about

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    Historical Novel: Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Geisha is a compelling novel that is centered on a young girl’s journey of maturing and becoming a prominent and successful geisha. The book was written by Author Golden and published in 1997. The story was based on the life of geisha in Japan during the 1930s and 1940s. Geisha literally translates into “art person.” Geisha are Japanese women that are trained to entertain men with singing‚ dancing‚ and conversation. The book itself was very

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