recognition on her frontier works. She earned much acknowledgement in her work of My Antonia. Raised on a primitive farm in Nebraska‚ Cather uses her experiences of the landscape to transform the senses of her readers. Cather demonstrates her ability to capture the feeling of the prairie at the end of the “Hired Girls.” (“Presently we saw… somewhere on the prairie.” Page 146-147) Not only is this scene an important image of the moment‚ but the representation of this plow amongst the setting sun as well.
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It is not an easy task to determine what my real passion is in life. I take pride in being a person that my friends and family can depend on for help and support. Over analyzing seems to be a habit I have a hard time breaking since childhood. At times it can be exhausting juggling home life‚ college and being a loyal individual to the people that need me‚ in which I rarely have any time for myself. Involving myself in other people lives can keep me from being focused on what I am most passionate
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I decided to write my essay about the positive and negative aspects of my generation because I can write more thoroughly about a subject that is affecting me‚ than about something I have no real connection with. Every new generation is different from the one that perceded it‚ but today the difference is very marked indeed. The gap between the different generations is widening and the children growing up at our time have to face many problems that did not even exist in the past. This generation
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My admiration and respect for the profession of medicine developed at the age of 8‚ due to a close encounter with death. I was admitted in a hospital due to an extremely low and rapidly deteriorating blood platelet count. At first the doctors provided me with a treatment that should have treated 90% of the cases‚ but they didn’t have any effect on me‚ and with the time running out quickly they resorted to the next best treatment. If this treatment didn’t work‚ I was only left one other option and
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“My view of America” when saying it I get nostalgic‚ as it took me long to get a feeling of “I belong here”‚ “This is my Home”. It didn’t take me that long to come out of the shell looking the beauty of diversity in America where everyone’s values are respected and appreciated. I will throughout my essay give some views through my personal eye and teacher’s eye. America offers such a Democracy and values that people of any different nationalities‚ different ethnic backgrounds‚ and different religious
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Experiences It’s hard to imagine a life without writing. From research papers‚ school essays‚ and resumes‚ to text messaging‚ grocery lists‚ and passing notes during class‚ writing is a huge part of my daily life. Sometimes I write as part of requirements for a class of to apply for a scholarship or a program. Other times I write to amuse myself or to remind myself to do something. I’ve changed as I’ve gotten older‚ and my writing has changed along the way. When I was in elementary school‚ I didn’t think
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writing my essay about the greatest writing challenge of my life that I had to face as a senior in high school. I learned through this experience the importance of being able to write a research paper and also how to deal with learning obstacles. Before this experience I thought I was an excellent writer‚ but afterwards I realized that we all have to overcome the challenges of learning to read and write at certain times in our lives. When I first started on my journey of writing my research
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Important Moment In History The writing of the constitution is an important moment in history because it still helps us today by making sure one person doesn’t have all the power‚ helps makes laws‚ and keeping our government together. Without the constitution our government would still be falling apart. It would have fallen apart even before it was made. The writing of the constitution is an important part of history because it still helps us today. The constitution makes sure one person doesn’t
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-How does the author describe the feelings of anxiety and excitement of the boy? My Greatest Ambition is a story written by Morris Lurie in 1984 about a thirteen-year-old boy whose greatest ambition was being a comic-strip artist although at the end he grows out of it. In this text the author can easily transmit the feelings of anxiety and excitement of the main character in different ways. One of the ways Morris Lurie describes them is through the boy’s incapacity of controlling his own body
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identity. A believe a person’s identity is under their immediate control. There is a person’s true personality and the one they choose to respond to society with. This is true in the case of Martin Van der Vyver a character of the short story "The Moment Before The Gun Went Off" written by author Nadine Gordimer. "A story set in South
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