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    works within your selected theme. Race / Ethnicity Country Lovers (Gordimer) The Welcome Table (Walker) What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl (Smith) Child of the Americas (Morales) Gender Roles / Marriage The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Thurber) I’m Going (Bernard) The Story of an Hour (Chopin) The Necklace (de Mauppassant) The Proposal (Chekhov) Country Lovers (Gordimer) Creativity / The Creative Process Poetry (Neruda) Constantly Risking Absurdity (Ferlinghetti) You‚

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    life in this situation I could insure that this person’s life is full of pain and misery. Dreaming inspired many writers to write novels‚ stories‚ articles and others these inspirations invented what we call now a days “ literature” . James Thurber wrote “ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty “‚ This story talks about an ordinary man with a miserable and boring life who had dreams of becoming a better person in his life at the end of the story his dreams or goals made him a better person.

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    attainable or unattainable‚ but the three sources that I have chosen being Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Richard Cory from Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson‚ and Walter Mitty from The Secret life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber‚ all explain how the American Dream is unattainable. Although satisfaction is never permanent

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    artistic expressions; it enables a writer’s work to become an expression of meaning in our world‚ and allows readers to engage in identify with what the writer’s work has to say about things that matter. Example: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber. This story is riddled with examples of imagination. During the second daydream where he believes he is a surgeon and the write describes the noise that starts coming from the anesthetizes machine as it starts to malfunction. We can image ourselves

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    Castillo‚ L‚ G.‚ 2004. Academic Stress Among College Students: Comparison of American and International Students The British Council.‚ 1999. Studying and living in the UK: a guide for international students and visitors. Plymouth: The British Council. Thurber‚ C‚ A.‚ Walton‚ E‚ A.‚ 2007. Preventing and Treating Homesickness. Child Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics Of North America‚ 16 (4). pp. 843–858. UCL.‚ 2010. Problems for International Students [online]. Available at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/personaltutors/helpingstudents/commonproblems/international

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    Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber and “The Story of an Hour” from Kate Chopin. I will compare and contrast these two literary works. Gender roles can be divided into

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    to make them more vivid and—by contrast—make the real life situation more boring and drab. Create multiple antagonists. Communicate through your daydreams a sense of what is missing in the real-life persona’s existence. Use the same title as Thurber‚ substituting “Walter Mitty” with the name of your persona. English 1 Honors Unit: Short Stories “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Creative Writing

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    An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips. PROVERBS 24:26 A Digest on the 7 C’s of Written COMMUNICATION Essence of the material Clarity‚ completeness‚ coherence‚ conciseness‚ credibility‚ correctness‚ and continuity – these are all the 7 C’s of communication – collectively‚ this is what is required to achieve more effective communication practices which eventually lead to a more effective learning process. Each C in itself is already an enormous task to maintain but more so

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    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty VS The Necklace April Kahl ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Angela di Guaico March 3‚ 2014 When comparing and contrasting short stories‚ one should look at tone‚ irony‚ theme‚ symbolism‚ and imagination. When all these literary terms are combined they make a great setting for a story.( The secret Life of Walter Mitty‚ and The Necklace)‚ there are similarities in gender role of the characters‚ but

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    This is a story by Bob Thurber‚ an American writer. The text under analysis is a short story‚ a true-life boy’s story. The general atmosphere of the text is ironical and moralizing. The title of the text is “The Cricket War” judging by it we can guess that the matter is about insects and the fight against them. The story describes the events happening in one family. They met with the invasion of crickets and started an unequal battle with them. The more people tried to banish the crickets‚ the

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