1. “No greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery at hand.” - Marcos Aurelius Explanation: There is no major anguish for a man than to remember his days of joy in the midst of his suffering. In Marcos Aurelius quote reflect to me because I suffer more pains remembering joyful days of my life in time of my sadness. This I always feel when I’m alone nursing every failures in my life. 2. “While I murmur no again heaven nor cavil at men‚ while I stoop
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Classroom 3-A‚ Hajime couldn’t tell if he was lucky or unlucky to be in a classroom with his peers. The faces he found familiar were outnumbered by the many unfamiliar faces. His saving grace was that his homeroom teacher was a breath of fresh air compare to the painfully boring teacher his earlier year. None worse than his freshman teacher who would yell at them about how entitle their generation was from the clothes they wear to the technology they used. Ms. Shibata was friendly‚ fit and approachable
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Rainsford wakes up the following morning. Everything in the house is quiet‚ and he feels alone. Rainsford gets up out of bed and he feels an ache in his neck from something hard in the pillow. He lifted it up to find a knife with blood stains sitting under the pillow. Rainsford didn’t know what to do next‚ but he knew last night was one of the best he’s ever had. As he sits in the dining room and eats out of fine china‚ he thinks he might as well give hunting humans a try since killing two the last
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The news struck her‚ like a lightening bolt striking a tree. Josephine‚ the sister of Mrs. Mallard‚ now realizes what she has to do. Mrs. Mallard is suffering with heart disease‚ so telling her won’t be easy. There was a railroad disaster reported and her sister’s husband‚ Mr. Mallard‚ was one of the firsts on the ‘dead list.’ When Josephine first arrives at her sister’s‚ she is unsure how to break the news. Should she be straightforward? Maybe just ease into it‚ so it might not hit her as hard
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Chapter 7 Passages from the Text Comments & Questions “He had tasted riches‚ had tasted lust‚ had tasted power; nevertheless he had still remained in his heart for a long time a Samana; Kamala‚ being smart‚ had realized this quite right. It was still the art of thinking‚ of waiting‚ of fasting‚ which guided his life; still the people of the world‚ the childlike people‚ had remained alien to him as he was alien to them” (75). (C) In the movie‚ A Walk to Remember‚ by Nicholas Sparks‚ the main
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Checkouts: Review and Assess 1. I was disappointed that the girl and the boy didn’t get together because I know if they did it’d be something wonderful that would make both of them happy. 2a. The girl loves grocery shopping because she thinks it’s her only time to et away from everything. 2b. We learn that the girl like to be independent and on her own due to her love for grocery shopping. 3a. The boy and the girl think about each other while they’re apart. 3b. The unacknowledged romance
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Elaina Samelo 5th Block Ritzus The Good Earth The Good Earth‚ written by Pearl S. Buck‚ is a book about the political and social struggles of China. Since this book was published in 1931‚ the somewhat old-fashioned style of writing reveals the era of which it was written. Although it is apparent through the writing that this book is a little older‚ it has a charm that only older books can possess. It is one of the things that actually kept my attention; the old-fashioned charm. The publishing
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December 2011 The Nature of Wang Lung All human beings show emotion‚ as emotions are a tell-tale sign of who somebody is‚ what they are to others‚ and how they react to different situations. When we examine the character Wang Lung from the book The Good Earth‚ we see an example of the purest form of the human nature working under difficult situations. Through this book‚ Wang Lung symbolizes “human nature‚” as he shows a dynamic variety of different human attributes from the beginning to the end‚ such
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In the book The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck‚ the fall of the House of Hwang and the rise of the Wang family was shown. The story completed a "circle of life"‚ with Wang being the center of the circle. While Wang at first was intimidated‚ he also looked down on the House of Hwang‚ he soon found that when his family became rich‚ his house fell onto some of the same "curses". In both houses‚ a lack of love for the land was highly noticeable (except for Wang Lung)‚ opium was used‚ slaves were
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The Good Earth The Good Earth depicts a famer’s journey to prosper from his land while undergoing many struggles and hardships. Farmer Wang Lung lives in a civilized village where he and the villagers work and live off the land‚ but when a famine strikes‚ this forces Wang and his family to move towards the city in search of food and money. In the busy city‚ that is very chaotic due to a revolution‚ Wang and his family must rely on begging and stealing instead of relying on the Earth. Throughout
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