The mitt was brown‚ a light hazel brown. A colour which was worn down by tiredness. It stood by the shoes. There with the bat and ball‚ both exhausted. It was stained by the green ink. The ink which had once been a vibrant green‚ like the freshest morning of a spring day‚ that’s how green. It had been tattooed by this ink‚ like a trademark written in poems. Poems of hope like those of bigger things. The seams were loose‚ like they were slowly falling from the mitt‚ losing their grip‚ a feeling the
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I began fussing with the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Enuma Elish because a group of people with whom I work were curious about Noah. And I can’t‚ of course‚ teach about Noah and the Flood without teaching about the different creation stories in Genesis 1 and 2. And I most assuredly can’t do them any credit if I don’t make a nod to other Ancient Near East literature. (Utterly unrelated to the task at hand‚ this little nugget from Gilgamesh [and I love it that my spell-checker knows this word without
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“It is not possible for a child –any child- ever to use his family’s language in school. Not to understand this is to misunderstand the public uses of schooling and to trivialize the nature of intimate life –“a family’s language”. (125) “At home they spoke spanish. The language of their Mexican past sounded in counterpoint to the English of public society. The words would come quickly‚ with ease. Conveyed through those sounds was the pleasing‚ soothing‚ consoling reminder of being at home.” (3)
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It has been established from early age that each gender plays a different role in society. Feminism is believing in the economic‚ social‚ political‚ and intellectual equality between both men and women‚ not female supremacy. In Breath‚ Eyes‚ Memory‚ Edwidge Danticat expresses the theme of feminism by creating characters for whom bravery‚ strength‚ and education are significant values. Bravery is a powerful value for the characters in the novel. In Haitian culture‚ people view bravery as a characteristic
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remember how I used to stare and wonder how things grew so tall. I can also remember the way I could just gawk at a snake hole and wonder how it was made. I later found out that the snakes just steal the holes from other animals. In those days‚ my friend David Brown and I had this incredible infatuation with catching grasshoppers and other bugs. We actually spent the entirety of our time outside of school‚ including recess‚ imprisoning all sorts of insects in our plastic cages until we were well into
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happiness because of saving a person‚ fear before the dead and interest in the beauty of nature. Sometimes‚ when I recall‚ everything seemed to have just happened yesterday. We were very excited about this trip because this was the first chance for us to go out of THATTA . We prepared and packed up everything about a month before the day of departure. At 8.a.m. on July 4th‚ we got ready to jump on the car and drive straight to Karachi. Along the street‚ we stopped twice for breakfast and lunch and we took
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A best friend is the first person who comes in when‚ out of the door‚ the whole world has gone. A best friend is one who loves the truth and you‚ and will tell the truth in spite of you. There are lots of people who you make friendship with‚ but it is very hard to find a true and honest friend. But I am very lucky that I have a best friend with whom I can share my feelings with. His name is Max. He is very friendly‚ and I am very happy to have him as my best friend. He is very well respectful‚ hardworking
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I am an international college student from Vietnam‚ and have been through twelve grades with lots of memories. One thing I could say is the interval time between my sixth and eighth grade was the time that I cherish the most. It is not only because it was my most successful time with a bunch of fabulous achievements I obtained‚ but also because literally it was my great pleasure to be instructed by a very thoughtful teacher. She was my Mathematics teacher‚ and her name is Mrs. Nguyen. I did enjoy
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Technology: Friend or Foe? The majority of western culture seems to be reliant on technology‚ but does technology facilitate or hinder us? As a biased approach I would strongly suggest that technology improves our quality of life to the extent that if it were removed from our society‚ our quality of life would suffer dramatically. In my life I am aided by technology every day so I have chosen three of the most essential and life altering pieces of technology that affect me at present: Printers‚
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Critically evaluate the claim that ‘flashbulb’ memories are qualitatively different to other memories Memory In psychology is the physical series of events within the brain that encode‚ store and retrieve information within the human body. When information is encoded within our memory it reaches our primary five senses and is converted into chemical and physical stimuli. This stimuli is stored in the next stage of the memory process where information if retained for potentially decades of time within
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