Growing Up with My Cousins I consider my cousins‚ Jessica and Jennifer‚ to be my best friends. We have always been close growing up. Jessica‚ Jennifer and I are very close in age. Jennifer is two years older than me‚ and Jessica is two months younger than me. I believe that we being close in age gave us a sisterly bond. Growing up‚ we spent a lot of time together at my grandma’s house. While we were at my grandma’s house‚ we let our imagination run wild. Today‚ there are a lot
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Dear Nadhirah‚ How are you? I hope you’re in the pink of health. It’s been a pretty long time since I last write you a letter. I do have the guts to do so but my time was always packed with homeworks and school activities. Do you know that last month was my birthday? My father took our whole family on a vacation for a weekend as my birthday present. I was so axcited when he informed us that we’d visit the famous Jeju Island located in South Korea as it was my dream place vacation after
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Kate Chopin: Seeking Freedom Who comes to mind when the term “American author” is mentioned? A lot of female authors of today would say Kate Chopin‚ one of the most independent writers of the nineteenth century. Although Kate Chopin didn’t live to see her work re-published‚ she is an important author to study because her stories are influential‚ her ambition arouses her readers‚ and her point of view supports independent women. Unlike most of the women during her time period‚ Chopin didn’t agree
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Kate Sheppard Kate Sheppard is recognised as the leader of the fight to win the right for New Zealand women to vote. She and other pioneering women campaigned so effectively that in 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing nation in the world to grant the vote to all women over 21. http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Society/People/S/Sheppard-Kate/ Kate was also involved in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union‚ founded the National Council of Women‚ established the first women
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Analysis of the poem “Remember” by Christina Rossetti This poem is composed by fourteen lines that are divided in two quatrains with four lines‚ and one sestet follow the structure of the Italian sonnets. The structure of the poem is iambic pentameter because it has five feets‚ the rhyme is abba‚ abba‚ cdde‚ ce. In the first stanza‚ Rossetti conveys an infinite need to stay alive in the memory of her love even when natural events in the lives of people‚ such as death and separation may come
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Is Kate Tamed? In the Taming of the Shrew‚ Kate goes through an amazing alteration from a harsh shrew to an obedient‚ pleasant wife. This transformation occurs due to the realization of Kate and the respect that she understands she must have for her husband. Although Petruchio doesn’t “tame” Kate‚ he helps Kate to come to her realization that if she wants to be respected and treated as a lady‚ she must return the favor and become obedient. Thus the interpretation of the reader varies and it is
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Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti in Historical Context Victorian Era: Victorian Britain‚ 1837 - 1901 Christina Rossetti * Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic‚ devotional‚ and children’s poems * Family: Born in London to Gabriele Rossetti‚ a poet and a political exile from Vasto‚ Abruzzo‚ and Frances Polidori‚ the sister of Lord Byron’s friend and physician‚ John William Polidori. She had two brothers and
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Zach Huber Essay Fundamentals Analysis by Division Essay Final Draft Kate Janke When you think of someone influential in your life it’s usually someone very close to you. To a child it’s usually a superhero or one of their parents. To me this is not the case. Kate Janke‚ a music teacher and theatre arts instructor at the high school of Park Center‚ is one individual who has changed me as a person‚ and made me who I am today. Ms. Janke’s qualities of directing in the theatre program‚ teaching
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Today has been weeks since cousin Chin-Kee first arrived. I wish that he could go back to china‚ where he belongs. He has embarrassed me since the first day of his arrival. Moreover‚ people have treated me differently since I hang out with cousin Chin-Kee. I figured that some people are just being racist like when Chin-Kee dance while singing on top of a table for no reason today. Some of them have expressions that look very judgmental‚ just because he acts and looks different. But in that moment
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but what’s wrong with Kate‚ exactly?” My roommate sets down the novel with a sigh‚ ready for another long winded discussion on the English reading. I just stare at her for a second and takes incredible restraint to reply “I don’t know‚” instead of “Nothing.” I want to explain that there’s nothing wrong with Kate. She’s okay‚ she’s just lost‚ she’s just looking for herself‚ she’s just trapped by her pendulum of a dialectic. But I know that Kate is not okay. I know that Kate isn’t okay because I’ve
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