Ian Tolledo (Researcher & Editor) Iris Sanchez (Researcher & Editor) ------------------------------------------------- Racel Mendoza (Exec Editor) PNR: What was it like? Among all the prominent hospitals in the Philippines‚ numerous hospitals were abandoned‚ some became dysfunctional‚ and yes -- lacked overall support from the government. One of the poorest is the PNR hospital. Philippine National Railways (PNR) in the country owns not only those railways for transportation for long
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The novel‚ My Antonia‚ begins with Jim Burden‚ who is a New York City Lawyer. He gives a friend his journal of his Nebraska childhood. It is in the form of memories from a friend‚ Ántonia Shimerda. Jim starts his story in Nebraska when he was 10 years old. He had arrived to live with his grandparents after his parents die in Virginia. Jim first sees the Shimerdas on his trip towards Nebraska. They are a Bohemian immigrant family who were on the same train. When he arrives‚ he discovers that the
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Name: Yvanne Julmice Professor: Jeff Gill Unit 1 Assignment What happened to the Lindbergh baby? The equity system’s major components are: police‚ courts‚ and rectifications. Police are public officials whose role are to preserve order and enforce the malefactor law. Police officers work in the community to obviate and control malefaction within their licit potency. This includes‚ but is not restricted to: speeding‚ illicit utilization of drugs‚ violence‚ and disruptive conduct. The
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only place where the tall prairie grass still grows undisturbed” (62). “Even while we whispered about it‚ our vision disappeared; the ball dropped and dropped until the red tip went beneath the earth. The fields below us were dark‚ the sky was growing pale‚ and that forgotten plough had sunk back to its own littleness somewhere on the prairie” (50-51). Willa Cather My Antonia In the book‚ My Antonia‚ Jim Burden finds himself an orphan leaving his beloved home to a new‚ stranger place. When he
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THE FRIENDSHIP OF ANTONIA AND JIM “Since I’ve been away‚ I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I’d have like to have you for a sweetheart‚ or a wife‚ or my mother or my sister anything that a woman can be to man (Cather 240). In Willa Cather’s My Antonia‚ Jim Burden spoke those words to his lifelong love‚ Antonia Shimerda. Jim and Antonia were close friends‚ but were so far apart in other aspects; therefore‚ they never got a chance to be husband and wife. One
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The novel My Ántonia is the story of a Bohemian girl‚ named Antonia Shimerda‚ who immigrates to America with her family in the early 1900s. The story is told through the memory of the narrator’s childhood friend‚ Jim Burden. Jim has just recently been orphaned and makes the move from Virginia to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. On his second day in Nebraska‚ he and his grandmother pay a visit to Antonia and her family. During their visit Mrs. Shimerda asks Jim to teach Antonia English and from
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Relationship of the Past in My Antonia “Some memories are realities‚ and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again”; this quote by Willa Cather expresses the relationship that the past can have on humans. Some would argue that the past has no role in My Antonia‚ almost as if the overall lesson of the novel had gone right over their head. Willa Cather has written the whole novel in flashback form‚ and this has a great effect on the reader. She is trying to show that you can
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My Antonia: (Individualism: Its Influence over Lena‚ Jim and Ántonia During Their Childhood‚ Adolescence and Adulthood) “The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny‚ Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being”--- Dag Hammarskjold.1 This individualist journey‚ Hammarskjold refers to‚ consists of two very important elements which contribute to individualism: (1) having the awareness of personal accountability before the Lord and Savior and (2) having
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his arms were very skinny‚ too skinny. Joseph was a very silent kid making him more vulnerable to bullies‚ when the people were telling him that he was fat he didn’t say anything back to them because of what he knew he was. His parents keep insisting to complain to the deputy principal‚ but what they didn’t know is that if Joseph told the teachers‚ it would make the bullies even more consistent in their acts.
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social conditions‚ and even hereditary characteristics influence and shape the way a human character will develop. It is believed that there is no escaping this realism‚ and each situation one experiences is what will establish the route of life that they will partake. A short story called “My Antonia”‚ written by Willa Cather is merely categorized with Realism and Naturalism‚ though it is evident that several aspects portray supernatural occurrences. The specific characters throughout these excerpts
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