University of Mohamed-V in Rabat‚ University College in London and University of Southern California--where she earned her Ph.D. in linguistics. She is currently a teacher of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits is about four immigrants: Aziz‚ Halima‚ Murad and Faten who try to cross the Strait of Gibraltar on a life boat. Each following chapter focuses on their lives before emigration and exploring the reasons for their decision
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A time I will never forget It was winter 2010and the weather was bad. The snow was knee deep and still falling. I was at work and sitting at the reception desk. It had been such a busy night with people checking in and people coming off the street looking for somewhere to stay. A woman came in to the reception area with her three kids. Straight away I could tell she was a gypsy traveller‚ the way she spoke and looked. She went on to tell me that she needed a room for the night as she was
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Better Late Than Never We all see those little girls who are connected to their father’s hip‚ and no one could ever compare to him in her eyes. That was never me. I was never a ‘daddy’s girl’. I wasn’t close with my mom either. They both always talked about their “independent little girl”. For a while I took pride in that‚ but as I started to grow up it became less special to be so independent. I would hear about girls’ excitement to go shopping with their moms or their anticipation for the Daddy
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control. All these concepts relate to hope. Emily Dickinson uses her poem‚ “Hope is the Thing with Feathers‚” to show that hope is contained in the soul of everyone and can triumph over all‚ as long as a person believes in it. In Dickinson’s poem‚ she uses metaphor to personify hope and the give it the characteristics of a bird. This imagery then shows Dickinson’s message about hope. Emily Dickinson uses metaphor and imagery to describe the abstract idea of hope throughout her poem. She begins this
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Oedipus at Colonus was written by the great and renowned Greek playwright Sophocles at around 404 B.C. or so. In the play‚ considered to be one of the best Greek dramas ever written‚ Sophocles uses the now broken down and old Oedipus as a statement of hope for man. As Oedipus was royalty and honor before his exile from his kingdom of Thebes he is brought down to a poor‚ blind old man who wonders‚ "Who will receive the wandering Oedipus today?" (Sophocles 283) most of the time of his life that is now
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sources. The Holocaust was an event in history that should never be forgotten and is urgent to learn about still to this day because of the horrible things that happened to the Jews and so we are prepared so the Holocaust never happens again. It’s important to give recognition to how cruelly the Jews were treated in the concentration camps by simply just being themselves‚ human. For example‚ in
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Why did the US lose the war in Vietnam? Answer with reference to the concept of insurgency/guerrilla warfare. The longest war in the history of the United States of America has taken place in Vietnam during the Cold War. “The US fear of a communist Europe led them to intervene in a war that was not seen in a vital importance or that would not be in the country`s interest to gain any advantage” (Bernstein 1987/8‚ p. 86). One of the main reasons why the US lost the war in Vietnam was the lack of
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Quote 1: “Carers aren’t machines. You try and do your best for every donor‚ but in the end‚ it wears you down.” Page 4 This quote really stuck out and resonated with me‚ especially when you take into consideration how the book ends as a whole. Kath’s quote has quite a bit to do with the theme of this novel. Kath ended up falling in love with Tommy‚ but he led on to break her heart by not wishing for her to be his carer anymore. All she did was try to make things go well for him‚ but ended up driving
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I looked around my room once more‚ turned-off the lights then closed the door quietly. I crept into my parent’s bedroom and kissed my mother on the forehead lightly‚ pulled the comforter tighter around her frail body then let my gaze linger on my father’s empty side of the bed. After a few moments‚ I headed to my younger sister’s room. Little Mia. She would probably hate me for leaving‚ but she needs to grow up and learn to be independent sooner or later; just sooner than she thought‚ much sooner
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Aida Castro Block 2 Ms. Duarte 11/18/12 Evil Never Wins the War An anonymous writer once said‚ “In literature‚ evil triumphs‚ but never conquers.” In modern terms‚ this quote means evil may have won the battle‚ but it has not won the war. Evil is able to take anything it wants‚ but it cannot conquer over good. In most cases‚ the point of this quote is present in many pieces of literature. This quote relates to two pieces of literature: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Beowulf written by
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