Maryam Peigahi Merry Caston Writing 115-Writing Blue January 27‚ 2015 ONE HOT DAY: MY BIGGEST FEAR FLEW IN SPARKS As a young child my greatest fear was fire. I am not certain what sparked this fear‚ or even why I would often dream about it only to wake up with my heart pounding and tears rolling down my cheeks. It was a hot Labor Day weekend 1996. My husband‚ children and I lived in a Farm house built in 1864‚ one of the oldest houses in Lane County. The house had large plank floors‚ two front
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Summer! Summer! Summer! How nice does it feel sitting on the beach as the wind hits you across your face? I recall a time this summer when I went to spend a day at the Seven President Beach in Longbranch‚ New Jersey. This day was a really special day to me. It was a really special day to me because I was able to spend time with my family. The day started off with nice and beautiful weather. Unexpectedly‚ when we first arrived there‚ the weather began to change into foggy and rainy weather
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All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury No one in the class could remember a time when there wasn’t rain. “Ready?" "Ready." "Now?" "Soon." "Do the scientists really know? Will it happen today‚ will it?" "Look‚ look; see for yourself!" The children pressed to each other like so many roses‚ so many weeds‚ intermixed‚ peering out for a look at the hidden sun. It rained. It had been raining for seven years; thousand upon thousands of days compounded and filled
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the movie 500 Days of Summer‚ audiences a lot of nonverbal communication. The movie shows characters Tom Hansen and Summer Finn during their attempts to build a relationship. Tom and Summer’s experiences shows issues such as conflicts within a romantic relationship‚ and nonverbal communication. In 500 Days of Summer‚ nonverbal communication signified a great deal between Tom and Summer. One example of nonverbal communication is when Tom reached to hold Summer’s hand in public‚ but Summer moved her hand
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Ricardo Facey N. Melo ENG4U1b September 15‚ 2014 500 Days of Summer It is thought that in the film “500 Days of Summer”‚ a 2009 comedy drama with a truly original romantic twist‚ post-modernism serves to enhance the overall message of the movie that is‚ don’t fall in love with love. The postmodern elements such as the distorted use of time‚ the fact that the film does not follow the tradition “Hollywood” love story‚ and finally the evident presence of role reversal throughout the story‚ all
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sentence that made the movie 500 Days of Summer have a great importance in my life. The idea is that a person should think about situations from different perspective and more than once because he or she might realize something that they missed the first time around. A person might have missed something that will help them accept a fact‚ or something that will help one understand‚ and gain a sense of maturity that might have not been there before. The point is that after one sits down and calmly looks
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When I first heard the title and the plot of the film (excluding the names of the characters)‚ I thought okay this is about a guy and how he spend his 500 days of summer. Summer that is the season I mean. But when I watched the film for the first time‚ that is when I realized‚ Summer is a name. Name of the love interest of Tom Hansen‚ the main actor. I like the way they did with the title‚ that it seemed it has a dual meaning. Usually‚ movies like this would end like the boy gets the girl. That
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No Coincidence One Summer Night‚ written by Ambrose Bierce‚ is a satirical story which involves a presumably dead man‚ Henry Armstrong‚ who was in fact comatose‚ being ironically killed by the shady caretaker of the graveyard. Irony is a recurring literary device in many of Bierce’s short stories and books‚ reflective of his time period where satire and sarcasm in stories was popular. Bierce is quite known for his similarities in plot outlines in his literature. In his most famous short story‚ An
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2014-02-15 500 Days of Summer is the cleverly told story of boy meets girl. Tom‚ the main character‚ is an average Joe; he works to live (doesn’t live to work) and he stays “inside the box”. That all changes though when Summer (beautiful girl with mesmerizing eyes) walks right into his life. At first‚ Tom doesn’t do anything to try and get Summer. While Tom is still questioning his feelings for Summer‚ the editing stays basic. The editing mirrors the romance
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“All Summer In A Day” “All summer in a day” is a short story by Ray Bradbury about people living on the planet Venus and the weather conditions they live with. One might ask for the purpose of why Bradbury would write such a depressing and saddening story. The reason for that is to stress his audience of the importance of the little things in our everyday lives. We tend to take things for granted and lose our appreciation for them but do not stop to notice how important they are and how big of
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