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    Lost Memory

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    Lost Memory by Thomas Yang 10th grade Every day the sun circles around my little apartment as each sleepless night leaves its memories in my mind‚ as I fear of that fateful cold day in an alley. It was winter of 87...on a Sunday I was walking through market when I “accidentally” bumped into a bread cart and RAN.The chase was on. I bumped into some kid along the way and fell on the floor I cursed‚ as the bread lay there on the cold gravelly floor I looked at the kid around the same

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    that was how I knew that my mother loved me. I was born in a single parent family and I had never get the paternal love. Therefore‚ my mother was responsibility to support and rear the whole family through thick and thin. In order to bringing me up well‚ she worked very hard as she was taking three jobs in a day to earn a crust and this made her to leave early and returned late day after day. Having no time to keep an eye on me‚ my grandmother was managed take care of me and so I was the apple

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    Lost Generation

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    Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway represent their inner state and feelings at the time they lived through their novels. Ernest Hemingway corresponds to the “Lost Generation” of 1920’s and Jack Kerouac corresponds to the “Beat Generation” of 1950’s. Both of these generations were after wars. It is not coincidence‚ wars make people devastated and lost. People tried to overcome problems and pain through literature and music. Writers put all their emotions on the paper‚ musicians wrote songs‚ which described

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    Marilyn Chin’s “How I Got That Name” is a poem that serves as a criticism on how Asian-Americans in their efforts to fit into western society have lost part of their cultural identity. Lines 36 through 57 compose the second stanza of this poem. The second stanza of this poem has an overriding tone of outrage. Chin begins the second stanza with the use of an ironical device “Oh‚ how trustworthy our daughters‚ / how thrifty our sons!” (lines 36-37). Chin then proceeds by telling us how Asian-Americans

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    A Fly-Went By Response

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    1. New Story: Oral Read aloud of “A Fly Went By.” a. Prior Knowledge: Last time‚ I worked with Nealy was in the summertime. So we talked about the difference between summer and spring. We made a “T-Chart” about with the difference between the two seasons. Since I showed Nealy the title of the story. One of the first things Nealy talked about are the flies and mosquitoes in the summer. Nealy talked about how she hates bugs particular the flies and mosquitoes because they just a pain. b. During the

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    Waiver Got Talent

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    PROCEDURE‚ GUIDELINES‚ AND FORM (PGF) TALENT BEYOND BORDERS…Creating Initiatives for Compassion and Mercy (CICM) July 17‚ 2015; 1:00pm-3:00pm (1st show) and 4:00-6:00pm (2nd show) PRINCE BERNHARD GYM‚ SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY Name: ____________________________________Classcode:________Instructor:_____________________ 1. SAPIENTIA AEDIFICAT or WISDOM BUILDS or WISDOM EDIFIES is a legacy of the CICM founders of SLU to the Louisian students to realize. Our founders envisioned Lousians to explore and

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    The Lost Treasure

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    Jahdai Dunk The Lost Treasure When reminiscing on a special moment in time there is delight‚ fear‚ or humiliation that may be remembered; teaching a message in the long run. While many people learn through past memories‚ I also have been taught a lesson about God always being with me while on my trip to Lake Tahoe. It is known to be an amazing place where families enjoy themselves and vacation like there is no end. People have this perfect vision of beautiful green trees‚ skiing‚ camping

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    The Man Who Went to Chicago An African American man undergoes many experiences and ideas through the several different jobs that he has. The narrator is a man‚ whose name is never mentioned throughout the story‚ who is employed in several occupations throughout his life. At each job‚ he learns something new about his race and the American race‚ whether it is something good or something bad. This short story‚ written by Richard Wright‚ is a very complex story to read‚ but from what I understood through

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    The Lost Generation

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    English The Lost Generation (1920-1929) During the 1920 ’s a group of writers known as "The Lost Generation" gained popularity. The term "the lost generation" was created by Gertrude Stein who heard her auto-mechanic while in France said that his young workers were‚ "une generation perdue". This referred to the young workers ’ poor auto-mechanic repair skills. Gertrude Stein would take this phrase and use it to describe the people of the 1920 ’s who rejected American post World War I. The three

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    Lost in a Forest

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    Katrina Pham Ms. Leang English 1 HP‚ Period 1 3 October 2012 Lost in a Forest “It’s too dark‚ Katrina. I can’t see!” cried Christopher‚ my baby cousin. “Slow down! If I lose you‚ the monsters are going to swallow me whole.” I heard him‚ but his whimpers only exacerbated the situation‚ which was already worsening by the second. The sun had nearly disappeared behind the mountain‚ and the darkness was quickly claiming the night. Out of instinct‚ I grabbed his hand and we ran as quickly as we could wherever

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