Creative Writing We were sprinting for our lives‚ fear propelling us to our maximum limit. I kept glancing back‚ seeing if we had lost them or not. I couldn’t hear them. All I could hear was the rasping of my lungs and the loud‚ thunderous throbbing of my heart beat pounding and pulsing in my ears‚ like a raging thunderstorm was erupting within me. But the faster I sprinted‚ the harder it was to lift my legs‚ like it was a heavy weight pulling me down. I wanted to scream out something‚ to tell
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Alessia Garino Diary Entry 1: My name is Winston Smith and I think it is the year 1984‚ but I’m not really sure‚ for this matter no one is really sure of that. I’m a member of the outer party of INGSOC‚ live in Oceania and I work for the Ministry of Truth. What I’m writing today is a story that should never be told‚ as it should have never happened. Our house should be a place where we feel safe‚ our shelter and not our prison. Neighbors and colleagues should be our friends‚ people we can trust
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Dear Diary Right now I’m sitting in the Landie writing this. We’re on the way back from our first trip to Hell‚ bouncing along this remote road. This morning we woke up early to get our stuff packed. We have been staying down in Hell for the last five interesting days. Down in a little clearing surrounded by thick‚ dense scrub and a fresh cool nearby creek below Satan’s Steps. It’s the
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Diary entry Dear diary‚ It was my first day at the school today. It was a ridiculous school the students were crammed into small dark rooms with teachers that seemed very uneducated. The children were not much better. Many of the teachers at the school had a really bad teaching strategy and proceeded to teach the children by ramming tonnes of text books in their faces and hoping that they learn something from it. I feel rather sorry for these children forced to learn in a very old fashioned
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March 3‚ 2012 Dear Diary‚ I’m so upset!! I don’t even know where to begin! To start off‚ I think I completely failed my geometry quiz‚ which I know I should’ve studied more for...my dad’s not gonna be happy about that. :( Then‚ we had a pop quiz in history on the reading homework from last night‚ and I completely forgot most of what I read‚ which made me even more upset because I actually did the reading! But what really made me mad was the note that Sarah slipped into my locker during
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Book Review of John Marsden’s Tomorrow‚ When The War Began. Evaluation: John Marsden’s Tomorrow‚ When The War Began is a story narrated by a seventeen year old‚ Ellie‚ who tells the story of how she and her friends fought to save their friends and family. It started off as an interesting read‚ involving the seven teenagers heading off on a camping trip to a place called Hell. At first it was exciting‚ but after a while it just continued to drone on without making much sense
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of them. Tomorrow‚ when the war began has a sense of hope‚ whereas Lord of the Flies promotes despair. When two girls‚ from Tomorrow‚ When the War Began‚ decide to spend their Christmas holidays in a bush with a group of friends‚ they don ’t expect a war to erupt in their small town of Wirrawee. Luckily‚ they see light at the end of the tunnel and do their best to get through the ups and downs of real life in a war. But this isn ’t the case for a troop of boys‚ in Lord of the Flies‚ when they become
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now abolished; because of former president Abraham Lincoln. Many states are making it mandatory for blacks to sign a yearly labor contract and if failed to do so they would be arrested and fined or put into practically forced into unpaid labor. When i asked one of the workers what is was like to be free he replied with “ it’s a good feeling knowing i’m legally free but at the same time I’m living the same way I did before‚ hard labor.” We then asked him about his concerns of the Black Codes‚
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In the novel ’Tomorrow when the war began ’‚ courage is the central message. The WordWeb dictionary defines courage as ’a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger of pain without showing fear ’. This is exactly what John Marsden‚ the author‚ tried to make clear in the novel. The novel is about 7 teenagers that were forced to live in the bush because of the invaders that took over their country. Each of the characters came to a difficult time in the novel and to overcome that difficulty
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Tomorrow‚ When the War Began by John Marsden. Analytical Text Response Essay. How does Ellie change over the course of the novel‚ and what are some of the things she learns about herself and the world in which she lives? “If we don’t change‚ we don’t grow. If we don’t grow‚ we aren’t really living. “Gail Sheehy (esteemed writer). In John Marsden’s bestselling novel Tomorrow
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