never returned? That predicament is exactly what happened to Georgie Burkhardt in One Came Home. Georgie’s sister‚ Agatha‚ was fed up with her family and the small town they lived in‚ so she disappeared. One Came Home by Amy Timberlake is a superb historical fiction novel about family plights and love. The narrative was somewhat slow at the beginning‚ but overall‚ I greatly enjoyed it. The principal character of One Came Home is Georgie Burkhardt. Georgie is a quick-tempered girl who doesn’t seem
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Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” addresses the feelings one may have toward loss. The speaker begins with a declaration that “the art of losing isn’t hard to master” (1)‚ and repeats it several more times throughout the poem. She speaks in a casual and easy to understand tone‚ despite its perplexing verse form (known as the villanelle). The speaker starts with the loss of ordinary‚ everyday things and gradually moves to the bigger things‚ such as the loss of her significant other. While the speaker claims
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Which leader would you rather have: One that is Morally Strong or Morally Weak? When asked the question‚ which leader would you want to have…one that is morally strong or morally weak‚ it makes you wonder what would be the best for the country. Someone that is morally weak doesn’t care about other people‚ just the best thing for him or her and in some instances that could be the best thing. They know what they want and they will never stop until they get it. Yet‚ sometimes the person can case
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From August 12‚ 2015 through to the 14th‚ the class was treated to guest lecturer‚ Professor Ngari Ngunjiri. He showed three films: One on the Aztecs; one involving a not so widely distributed insight to the African Empire; and one detailing the building of the Chinese Empire. The film depicting ancient Chinese civilizations was the most interesting. It was so because it showed how much of a forward-thinking people the Chinese were‚ and still are. Notably‚ the Chinese Empire has survived for approximately
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great Inkosi-Inkosikazi‚ a medicine man who will cure the boy of the "night water." Nanny tells the boy’s story with all the eloquence of the great storytellers while Inkosi-Inkosikazi and the others listen. Even our hero is in awe: "I can tell you one thing‚ I was mighty impressed that any person‚ most of all me‚ could go through such a harrowing experience." 6 All is set for the night; the chickens have been put through their magic‚ our hero has had his sweet potato‚ and it is time for him to meet
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Have you even thought of having legacies? In United As One by Pittacus Lore you can experience how it is like to have it. All the lorics and the army got together‚ and is ready to take on the fight to save the world. They have already taken one of their warship’s‚ and is going to be using it against its own war ships. In the end‚ they successfully killed Setrakus Ra by infiltrating their base and bombing it. I don’t think this book should be a class novel because is has too many curse words‚ some
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theaters‚ even using the water fountain and much more rules within the society that joined them together. All of these new rules did not come too easy to many white Americans‚ to now share almost everything was very hard and even a scary thing to do. The Canary Effect shows the untold stories between Native American people and white Americans‚ it is gruesome and a very true story. By taking their land‚ and killing their people is only the beginning of this story it can show how far American people would
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Elizabeth Bishop addresses the subject of loss. She focuses on two major subjects in her four-stanza poem entitled “One Art”. Between those two topics‚ Elizabeth Bishop categorizes them with language‚ attitude‚ and form. Elizabeth Bishop talks about losing miscellaneous items in the first three stanzas: “of lost door keys.” She also talks about losing real estate property: “of three loved houses went.” The fourth stanza refers to losing a personal relationship with someone: “---Even losing you.”
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One Shot Made In basketball‚ a player’s determination is shown on his face and through his movements. Foul Shot and The Base Stealer are two poems describing the movement and action in two different games. Foul Shot by Edwin A. Hoey is about basketball‚ while The Base Stealer by Robert Francis is about baseball. When these games are played‚ there is much anxiety and anticipation. In both poems‚ the author focuses on a quick and emotional moment in the game that is being played. In Foul Shot‚
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One day‚ the story says‚ America’s great essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson saw a farmer trying to pull a reluctant calf into a barn. The farmer had a rope halter on the calf and was pulling with all his strength‚ but the calf had all four hooves dug into the barnyard mud and wouldn’t budge. To be helpful‚ Emerson got behind the calf‚ put his shoulder to its rump‚ and began pushing with all his might while the farmer continued to pull at the other end. The calf only planted itself more firmly. As these
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