Once Were Warriors: “Once Were Warriors” by Alan Duff is a harrowing vision of New Zealand’s indigenous people two hundred years after the arrival of Europeans. In prose that is both raw and compelling‚ it tells the story of Beth Heke‚ a Maori woman struggling to keep her family intact‚ despite the filth and violence of her urban neighbourhood in which they live. Conveying rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left by its absence‚ Once Were Warriors is an engrossing novel of unblinking
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GOODBYE... YOU WERE THE BEST THING I EVER HAD I walk my feet on the lovely shore As I watch the strong waves that everyone adores I feel the cool wind brush against my face Yet... To my bereaved heart it fails to solace All that’s left with me are memories GOODBYE... You were the best thing I ever had I lay & tuck myself in bed at night As I keep the moon & stars in sight Wonderful how they won’t leave each other And I keep wishing you were the moon‚ and I‚ the star Together
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The movie ‘Girl Interrupted’ is a story of a nineteen year old girl (Suzanna) in the 1960’s who‚ after being suspected of trying to commit suicide‚ gets sent away to the Mental Institution (Claymoore) for a short ‘resting period.’ Her psychiatrist had suggested to her that the affair with one of her parents’ friends‚ along with her misconception that chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka is anything other than a suicide attempt‚ could be signs that she may be suffering from ‘borderline
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COMPUTERS AND GIRLS. The girls in this sixth grade class in East Palo Alto‚ California‚ all have the same access to computers as boys. But researches say‚ by the time they get to high school‚ they are victims of what the researchers call a major new gender gap in technology. Janice Weinman of the American Association of University Woman says‚ “Girls tend to be less comfortable that boys with the computer. They use it more for word processing rather that for problem solving‚ rather than to discover
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Girl interrupted is about of girl named Suzanna who has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in the 1960s. She is committed to a mental hospital where she becomes friends with a sociopath and is roommates with a pathological liar. The main focus of this paper will be the symptoms‚ diagnosis‚ and treatment that Suzanna goes through in the movie. Borderline personality disorder is characterized by intense shifts in mood lasting only a few hours at a time. This is often accompanied
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ago‚ I was in your sights‚ you got me all alone. You found me. You found me. You found me. I guess you didn’t care‚ and I guess I liked that‚ And when I fell hard‚ you took a step back. Without me Without me Without me And he’s long gone‚ when he’s next to me‚ And I realize the blame is on me. Chorus ’Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in. So shame on me now I Flew me to places I’d never been. So you put me down. Oh‚ I knew you were trouble
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5 Ways To Get Rich Online [pic]By Natalie Robehmed | Forbes – 21 hours ago • • • 1 • Email • Print To cash in online you need to be a game-changer. When Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook‚ there was nothing like it. He is now worth $17.5 billion according to recent Forbes valuations. Drew Houston saw money to be made in online storage‚ and co-founded Dropbox‚ the web-based tool that hit $240 million in revenue in 2011. Eric Lefkofsky spotted the potential in Groupon and
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Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series‚ created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage‚ originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19‚ 2007 to December 17‚ 2012. Narrated by the omniscient blogger "Gossip Girl‚" voiced by Kristen Bell‚ the series revolves around the lives of privileged young adults on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York City. The series begins with the return of
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World War I is known as the most deadliest conflict in history and was declared by‚ George Kennan. During the war‚ their was a total number of forty-one million military and civilian casualties; there were eighteen million deaths and twenty-three million people wounded. This war effected many innocent lives and people. During the war‚ a total of twelve million letters were delivered to the frontline every week. The families sent those letters to the soldiers to try and stay in touch with them. Families
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One of the book’s major points concerns the structural positioning of what she calls the Final Girl in relation to spectatorship. While most theorists label the horror film as a male-driven/male-centered genre‚ Clover points out that in most horror films‚ especially the slasher film‚ the audience‚ male and female‚ is structurally ’forced’ to identify with the resourceful young female (the Final Girl) who survives the serial attacker and usually ends the threat (until the sequel anyway). So while
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