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    Once Upon This Island is a wonderful play that tickles the audience’s imaginations. I had the great opportunity of watching it on Friday May 5‚ 2017 at precisely 10 A.M. It was magnificently performed by the CMT Rising Stars in the Children’s Musical Theater of San Jose. The play was written by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty‚ and was first performed on May 6‚ 1990. Once Upon This Island was directed by Ian Leonard. The play was a traditional musical‚ with beautiful songs and dances. It combines

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    "othering" is investigated. Besides‚ it is focused on how in the development of personality‚ dialect and exchange are major parts of a mind boggling process. At last‚ it is contended that the part of writing in this procedure is possibly liberating. Nadine

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    http://www.geocities.ws/cloned4479/Gordimer In Nadine Gordimer’s “Once Upon a Time”‚ the most important element is its theme.  The entire story is set about telling its readers that human beings create their own destruction.  The setting of the two parts of the story is important as well as the ironic structure presented.  Suspense and tone also add to the final effect.  All this is brought together to leave readers shocked‚ ready to rethink the importance of things in their own lives. The

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    toward becoming adults. In the movie “Edge of Seventeen”‚ Nadine Franklin was experiencing a lot of difficulty fitting in. Her awkwardness with others got the better of her as she emerges into adolescence. This is an example of social outcast‚ or a person rejected by their peers because they are different‚ strange‚ inept or misunderstood. Throughout the movie‚ we see her go through many stages of adolescence. As a seven-year-old girl Nadine was exposed to being bullied and rejected. However‚ she was

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    A once-in-a-life-time event can be good or bad depending on the person or it can be phenomenal or it can be catastrophic. My once-in-a-life-time event is when my daughter was born. The feeling that was going through me was that of anticipation. The call from the Red Cross telling me that my beautiful‚ pregnant wife wants me to come home to see our baby be born. At this moment I was in Redstone Arsenal‚ Alabama still in my training for the army. At first Red Cross would not send the message to me

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    The Downfall of a Society People Once Knew According to an article title‚ “Atrocities against Native Americans”‚ over 90% of the Martians and Native Americans died due to not having any immunity to diseases from different cultures (2016). The way people treated each other in the past is unacceptable. In this analogy‚ the Martians are portrayed as the Native Americans while the Earthlings are portrayed as the European settlers. After learning about the Martians in Earth history and comparing it

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    This stanza is from the poem "Upon the burning of Our House" by Puritan woman and poet‚ Anne Bradstreet. In this poem‚ Bradstreet uses plain style and inversions to convey her relationship with God.Bradstreet finds the burning of her house justified and even says "Yea so it was‚ and so ’twas just‚" meaning the fire in her house was fine since‚ according to Puritan beliefs‚ God decides everything that happens Earth so it must have happened for a fair reason. Bradstreet believes that God owns everything

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    The Time Machine (by H.G Wells) Summary The narrator recounts the explanation of two difficult ideas by a man he refers to as the Time Traveller to an after-dinner group. The group includes a Psychologist‚ a Medical Man‚ a Provincial Mayor‚ and a few other men. The Time Traveller shows them a smaller prototype of the time machine‚ and when he pulls a lever‚ it disappears--into the future‚ he claims. At the next week’s dinner‚ the Time Traveller comes in midway through the meal‚ haggard and limping

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    to join the new church‚ but the people who didn’t join were called Puritans. Jonathan Edwards lived during the Puritism time. He was an American Calvinistic theologian and philosopher. He attended in Yale college and later became a pastor at Northampton‚ Massachusetts in 1724. His outstanding preaching there led to the ’Great Awakening’ in 1734–5. Another famous person at that time was an English woman named Anne Bradstreet. She was the first woman to publish her poetry. She wrote two edition

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    Adventure Time‚ episode 112: Mystery Dungeon Adventure Time is a cartoon that began airing on Cartoon Network in 2010. It’s creator; Pendleton Ward created Adventure Time in 2008 as a pilot which aired on Nickelodeon. The protagonists‚ Jake the dog and Finn the human are adventurers‚ voiced by John DiMaggio‚ and Jeremy Shada. They travel throughout the land of Ooo; a surreal - post-apocalyptic land inhabited by beings made of candy. During their travels‚ they are compelled to help the inhabitants

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