(page 278) This quote is from Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is about a 10-year-old boy named Patrick Clarke‚ but everyone calls him Paddy. This books ’ setting is in 1968 ’s Dublin‚ Ireland. At the beginning of the book‚ Paddy is a cruel boy; he enjoys the Three Stooges‚ Geronimo‚ Father Damien and the Lepers‚ and also his favorite soccer player George Best. Paddy has challenges in life just like every other 10-year-old boy he has problems at home‚ but when he ’s with his
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An old woman clutches a tourist’s sleeve and tags along with him. She wants a ’fifty paise coin’. For this she offers to show him ’the horseshoe shrine’. This refersto a legend centred around a horse-shoe shaped depression in a rock about Khandoba‚ the presiding deity at Jejuri‚ who leaped from that rock onto his horse ashe carried his wife with him. This is a legend that the true believer reveres and the sceptic doubts.The tourist moves away as he has seen the shrine already. The old woman ’tightens
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The original story of the prodigal son is very touching but is written as all bible stories are written and that is to put anyone to sleep. However‚ Garrison Keillor’s version of the prodigal son makes the same point and is fun to read. He brought it in to a more modern day setting but the same message is sent like the original story. The story of the prodigal son is that he wanted his father to give him everything that he would inherit when the father passed on. His father agreed and he left
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Son of Satan Three kids were sitting in a backyard. The sun was shining‚ they were young. Two of them were 12 years old‚ Hass and Morgan. The youngest one‚ who’s also the narrator and the main character‚ was 11. They sat there‚ smoked cigarettes‚ and talked about an important situation. The main character claimed that he had heard from Simpson‚ a contemporary who they apparently didn’t like‚ that he had been fucking a girl under the main character’s house. The three friends was certainly not satisfied
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your own business is better than being employed? -oOo- Everyone has to work. Working is not only for earning a living but also for making one feel happy and proud of what he can achieve in his life. Some people choose to be loyal employees in a company; others love to start their own business. Either choice has its own strengths that suit a specific person with a specific personality. To me‚ starting your own business is far better than being employed in terms of self-determination and job
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Anabella Morabito 04/04/2015 Reflection Paper #5 The Canaanite Woman In her book‚ Back to the Well‚ Frances Gench explores the story of the Syro-Phoenician‚ or Canaanite‚ woman. She offers an exegesis of the two different accounts found in Matthew and Mark. One of the points which I find extremely fascinating in Gench’s work is the idea of ethnic boundaries that is reflected in Jesus’ response to the Gentile woman. Gench claims that in the words of Matthew 10:5-6 "Jesus now conveys his own sense
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Luis Flores Simon the Cyrenian Speaks This poem talks about a black man who at first refuses to do the work that he’s suppose to do because he thinks their making him do this because he is black and how he speaks out to say what he thinks. "He never spoke a word to me‚ And yet He called my name; He never gave a sign to me‚ And yet I knew and came. 1. At first I said‚ "I will not bear His cross upon my back; He only seeks to place it there Because my skin is black." But He was
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about forgiveness is clearly given to us in the bible through the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this story‚ two brothers are promised large inheritances from their father. However‚ while the older brother patiently waits for his inheritance‚ the younger brother asks for his share right away. He ends up wasting all of his money on material items‚ and not saving any for food or shelter. The younger son returns to his father’s house‚ not expecting a warms welcome. However‚ the father is thrilled
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"Phenomenal Woman‚" by Maya Angelou‚ describes herself from her own point of view. It shows us her strong self-confidence when expressing the way she feels personally about herself. She may lead us to think that she does believe to be unattractive when she describes in the poem‚ "Pretty women wonder where my secret lies" (1). "Men themselves have wondered what they see in me" (30). She shows that even though she is not the cute‚ petite women‚ she is beautiful and can attract attention in any circumstance
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In the film “Her”‚ Theodore works in a company in which he creates love letters and express the emotion of each couples where he only sees them through pictures. As Theodore gets of his work‚ he had a same routine of playing this horrific‚ and boring video games where this creature is trying to help him find his way out. And there is Samantha‚ Theodore’s artificially operating system who lives in a computer which is designed to provide companionship. “Any person is available to become part of one’s
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