awkwardness‚ but “If I Was Your Girl” by Meredith Russo is indeed a book like no other‚ heartwarming and important at the same time. Transgender teen‚ Amanda Hardy (formerly known as Andrew) had attempted suicide after being bullied and unaccepted‚ “ For as long as I could remember‚ I had been apologizing for existing‚ for trying to be who I was‚ to live the life I was meant to lead. (273) ” - from “If I Was Your Girl”. She struggled finding people others who would accept for who she truly was. Nevertheless
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Art as a Second Language Bernice Eisenstein’s novel I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors uses both art and modern language to express the feelings and emotions associated with her family’s traumatic history. Eisenstein blends images throughout her work to help the readers gain a better understanding of the emotional journey that she has undertaken through writing this novel. Not only does she tell the story of her life but she also incorporates the life stories of her family and community. She
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I looked up at the black sky. I hadn’t intended to be out this late. The sun had set‚ and the empty road ahead had no streetlights. I knew I was in for a dark journey home. I had decided that by traveling through the forest would be the quickest way home. Minutes passed‚ yet it seemed like hours and days. The farther I traveled into the forest‚ the darker it seemed to get. It was very hard to even take a breath due to the stifling air. The only sound familiar to me was the quickening beat of my own
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Tyler Jones Brown Eng. 12/ p.2 When I was One-and-Twenty In the poem‚ When I Was One-And-Twenty‚ by A. E. Housman‚ the author begins by describing the setting around the time when he was twenty-one. He mentions how an older man had given him some advice. The wise man could possibly be a mentor‚ father‚ grandfather‚ or another male figure in the author’s life. The wise man tells the author‚ “Give crowns and pounds and guineas‚ but not your heart away.” The man means that you can give away
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Subject Matter – ‘I was only 19’ written by John Schumann performed by the band the Redgums is a highly emotive and meaningful song. It describes the typical war experience and post war experience of the Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War‚ it show cases the struggles and hardships that the soldiers faced. It explores the atrocities of war witnessed though the eyes of young soldiers. The physical trauma and emotional scaring they suffered upon their return. It is primarily about his conscription
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It was back in first grade‚ we had a big house‚ my parents were doctors and I’m studying in a good school. I was rich back then. When I first met this half Chinese person named William Lim‚ I didn’t care at all. My dad hired him for the reason to work for our family. For one thing‚ he drives me and my siblings to school. I guess he was a driver. I always see him cleaning off the leaves from the roof‚ washing the cars‚ and watering the garden. I didn’t talk to him; I just know he is getting paid for
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Ken was my voice teacher. I never admired anyone more than him. He meant the world to me. It would be safe to say that we did not have a typical teacher/student relationship. I was infatuated with him. He was tall dark and had the voice of an angel. But he was eleven years older than I was‚ and he was my teacher. I learned from him‚ I confided in him‚ and I trusted him. I never pictured myself being with him. I never dreamt he would think of me as a ’woman’ and not just a love-stricken seventeen
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Was Mary Bloody or Misunderstood? Mary became Queen of England in 1553‚ after she executed Lady Jane Grey. Source A‚ in the textbook‚ says that “There were bonfires and tables in every street and wine and beer and ale”‚ this is an account from the diary of a Londoner at the time Mary became Queen‚ and so it is quite reliable. Mary mistook this celebration to mean that the people of England were glad they had a Catholic Queen on the throne. So she set about trying to turn the country into a Catholic
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however cliché‚ cheesy‚ or over-used that phrase may seem‚ I learned it to be very true a few months ago. In March I went on a school trip to New York City with my high school and I had an incredible experience. We all took a lot of pictures throughout the trip but none of those pictures can sum up the entire week by itself‚ much more would need to be said before someone could at least faintly understand the significance of that week. I learned that the phrase‚ or truism‚ “A picture’s worth a thousand
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If I could travel back in time In this competitive world‚ sometimes we wish to make time stop and travel back to the past. I’m definitely sure that everyone at least once in his or her life thought: “If I could go back in time‚ I would…” All of us have something in our past that we want to change. Personally I regret that my UPSR result was not ideal. If I have a time machine‚ I will travel back to my golden age of about 10 years old. I have many reasons to explain my choice. Firstly
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