My Favorite Place To escape the reality of life and relax‚ I go back to my home town Lake View‚ South Carolina on the weekends. Lake View is a rural town near the North and South Carolina state line. I do not some elaborate vacation spot to unwind and relax; I am perfectly fine with going back to the boondocks. People that pass through always wonder why anybody would want to be in such a small town; but I love everything about that one caution light town. I only get to go back on Friday‚ Saturday
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When I think about what my hero means to me‚ I realize that most of my special memories and feelings toward my hero come from the little things he does everyday. My hero is not a celebrity or such a recognizable face. My hero is not a national hero or a multi-millionaire. He has never saved me from a burning castle or an avalanche‚ but he does hug me and tell me to have a good day. He doesn’t buy me expensive or fancy accessories‚ but he does whisper to me that I’m his special girl. He is just an
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Name: Erickson Mar T. Castilla Date: Nov. 22‚ 2012 Subject/Section: Engl05-EE Prof.: Aimee Layag Topic: Cebu my hometown Gen. Purpose: To Inform Spec. Purpose: To inform my audience the beauty of my hometown Cebu. Central Idea: The beauty of my home town Cebu are the Whale shark watching and the sceneries that you can see from the mountain top. Cebu is located in central visayas approximately 1 hour from manila via airplane‚ Cebu is known for delicious roasted pork and famous
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‘It’s Not My Fault That It’s Default’ By Georgia Mitchell When you sit down in front of the television on Friday night and think about what you are going to watch‚ you should definitely consider the hilarious British sitcom‚ My Family. This modern day sitcom is based around the lives of an average‚ middle-class English family and their day-to-day experiences. The program is set within an enclosed world which changes between the Harper’s residence and a dental surgery. The funny and opinionated
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as though Jim lost the world and does not care to return to it. At this point‚ the reader begins to pity Jim‚ wanting to comfort him while adding to the setting "in a little room‚ scarcely larger than the bed that held me‚ and the window-shade at my head was flapping softly in a warm wind‚" (Cather 14). Once awaken in his grandparents’
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Willa Cather‚ an American author‚ achieved much recognition on her frontier works. She earned much acknowledgement in her work of My Antonia. Raised on a primitive farm in Nebraska‚ Cather uses her experiences of the landscape to transform the senses of her readers. Cather demonstrates her ability to capture the feeling of the prairie at the end of the “Hired Girls.” (“Presently we saw… somewhere on the prairie.” Page 146-147) Not only is this scene an important image of the moment‚ but the representation
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My Antonia By Willa Cather Kajal Desai 2B APUSH March 3‚ 2016 My Antonia is a fictional story written by Willa Cather. The story starts off with Cather herself as the narrator‚ which then switches to another narrator to a man by the name of Jim Burden‚ who is a lawyer of the transcontinental railroads. The reason there is a switch up in the narrators is due to the fact that Cather wanted to write a memoir about a girl named Antonia‚ but she is not as familiar with Antonia as much
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in my life‚ when I decided to move away from my hometown. I am so thankful for the metamorphosis it created in me‚ and it is my biggest and most significant life change thus far. It taught me about who I am‚ who I want to be‚ and what matters most to me in this world. About three years ago‚ I was miserable with my life‚ and heartbroken. I had gotten out of a horrible relationship‚ and I had also moved back in with my mother at the age of 25‚ because of a bad roommate situation. My mother
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My Antonia is a nostalgic memoir‚ written by Willa Cather. Even though My Antonia is not a work of Christian fiction‚ it does have underlying truths that can connect to what is written in the Bible. Christians can use their perspective as a tool‚ utilizing it to help understand some of the main themes in the text. Could certain struggles in the story have been handled differently by a Christian? Can a Christian’s perspective change the way something is normally viewed? A Christian must be able to
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Spend a day in my shoes: Spend a day in my shoes‚ the daughter of an abusive father. The night before my first day of high school I lay on my bed watching the clock. With every breath I took‚ my heart sank deeper. New friends‚ new teachers and a whole new beginning. Firm footsteps interrupted my train of thought. They carried an unpleasant feeling. Dense‚ accelerated and increasingly emphatic‚ they were approaching my room. My father busted into my room murmuring to himself. He reeked of smoke
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