Quiroz 1 Christian Quiroz Mr. Crawford AP English Lang/Comp 15 March 2015 War Story Synthesis Essay J. Hayden Stainburn, although not an actual individual, provides the strong point in his passage that true war stories are not masked by heroism or structured around propaganda. True war stories are overflowing with obscenity and horror, not glorified accounts of time in battle. A true war story is not really about war, it is about understanding. In an excerpt from The Things They
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True Story By: Mitchell Wilcox 4 consecutive state appearances, 18 first team all Ohio awards, 6 second team all Ohio awards, 9 medals over all. Ada bulldog swimming is the most successful sport in Ada school history. The only sport to make it to state within the past decade. Setting numerous records every year by a substantial amount of time. This only accomplished by countless laps and hours in the pool. The highest level of dedication and passion is required to reach such great
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September 3, 2014 Period 3 English 9 Mrs. Lorenz Reflection: The Lottery “The Lottery” Upon the first reading of the short story, I thought I fully understood the text. After we analyzed the test again, and stopped periodically to question each paragraph, do I fully realize the writing elements that the author used. In the first reading, I only pointed out small scenes that seemed fishy or just to read to find out what the plot is and where its heading. On page 1, the scene
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Creative Story September 3rd, 2012. A war torn country, plagued with death and injury, houses the lives of a helpless family looking for survival. Mohammed, Tira and their daughter ashur, are constantly forced into moving like a rat in a cage from house to house in order to find peace and quiet for the night. Army forces continue to spread throughout the country in order to find and split families apart. Hostile times cast across the country with an intent of boiling over into a full-scale
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Romantic story emotion nature imagination past inner nature of human beings sAiL Blaming it on my own A.D.D the life within the village was paradise to me. The crazies all seem to worship my lifestyle, and keeping it fun for the cold early mornings I always could find a new mate to keep warm, but my best times were usually those spent alone. No regrets, just a life worth living and ideas that made me whom I am. My creative imagination was my living, Mastery of Crafting
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emotions were horror, fear, anxiety. But once he recognized the feel of those emotions, their texture, their moisture, the shiver down the back, the quick flash of heat that The Sixth Tuesday crosses your brain-then he was able to say, Okay. This is fear. Step away from it. Step away Morrie wanted to savor life and knew that if fear controlled him he would be missing out in life. Both men were determined to make their life better.
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Final Exam Horror Film Genre and Nightmare on Elm Street Part 1 Genre is easily defined as, “A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter” according to dictionary.com. To look more specifically at horror film you need to analyze a film to find a few key elements such as, isolation, desolation, lost cause, and redemption. There are many more aspects that make a film a horror film but I feel as if these are
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story of Rebekah shows the inferior social position and lack of political power in a society where men ruled. In the Bible, Rebekah was married to Isaac who was the son of Abraham. They had two sons named Jacob and Esau. They were born together, but were completely different from each other. Esau was a skillful hunter, and was always out in the fields, but Jacob was peaceful and stayed indoors in the tents. Isaac favored Esua more but on the other hand, Rebekah favored Jacob more. Then one day
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he was being squeezed and looked down to find out in horror that the spider had used its thread to wrap him in a giant cocoon. He tried desperately to tug at the silky threads so that he could loosen them and break free. However, he found that the harder he tugged, the tighter the threads seemed to become. Abandoning his original plan, Greg then decided that he would use all his strength to kill the spider. The spider was surprising agile, and it was extremely hard to catch. Once Greg got ahold
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Short Story Dwayne Edison- Dallas Christian How could this be happening, I never thought we would be able to hammer the best team in the league like this. “The only way to beat Calderon High”, explained coach “Was to deny the ball from Thon Baker, he's seven foot gentlemen. Make him work for every basket, if you do that I guarantee we'll take the win.” said coach in the pre-game huddle. So that's exactly what we did all game long, and to my surprised it worked, maybe we should have
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a controversial title that can really cause many debates and arguments amongst people that have different worldviews. I personally do not believe that God is not ripe enough but I still took many of the tales into consideration to see if I understood the lesson each one was trying to reveal to me because I felt that it would allow me to continue evolve as a person. After reading all of these short stories from this Yoruba story collection they all had something in common which was
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said gesturing to the fat mouse. “Hi, but you’re not supposed to be in this story.” Flynn said “We know but Prince Charming is too stupid. We need a hero like you to save Cinderelly. Lady Tremaine has locked her up in her room, and she needs to get out. Lady Tremaine has destroyed the key to the room, so we can’t help Cinderelly.” Jaq said “Ok, but how do I move from one story to another?” Flynn asked “Come with us, we’ll show you.” Jaq said “Maximus! Let’s go.” Flynn yelled Maximus
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Part D: Draft Your Story George Connor Draft a short story of about 600 words. Include at least one line of dialogue from your character. You may use as many facts as you like from your initial list. You may also use any or all of the three paragraphs you have already drafted. Feel free to modify the paragraphs as you like. Do not feel that you have to use the dialogue you have written. It may or may not relate to your story. The important thing is that you write in the character's voice
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This infographic makes a claim for the long lasting and terribly damaging effects of horror films. Citing sleeplessness, trembling, and fevers as some of the resulting symptoms, it appears ridiculous to think that audiences are making conscious decisions to go and see these films. Theories are vast when it comes to why we watch horror films. Karina Wilson over at Horror Film History asks: Do we derive basic thrills from triggering the rush of adrenalin which fear brings, or do horror
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Robbie Essington Mrs. Richardson 10/2/12 Even though some of the stories were pretty long and boring, I still enjoyed them because most of them were pretty interesting and they weren’t long and exhausting like other short stories I’ve read. They were also very easy to understand. Even though some of the stories were a little longer and not as interesting they were still pretty enjoyable. My favorite short story from this unit was Roald Dahl’s “Lamb of the Slaughter.” This short story
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Story 2 Being Amelia Earhart has its perks, but I have had hardships that I have encountered in my daily life for what I have done. Not being supported by friends and family have threatened my love for flying and non-believers have hurt my ego, but moving past those threats have made me a stronger person. Being a woman in the early 1900s and trying to tackle the achievement of flying across the Atlantic was not the easiest task in the world. Everyone has their doubts and their speculations
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REMNANTS OF HORROR By Terrie Hayes The post-Holocaust film, Night and Fog (1955), by director Alain Resnais is disturbing. Contemporary color footage of the long-abandoned Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp eerily contrasts the black and white stock footage of emaciated prisoners, living and dead, yet both present evidence of an atrocity so incomprehensible, it’s difficult to imagine how anyone survived. Borrowed from Hitler’s Night and Fog Decree (1941), which authorizes
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Brett Longenbach Creative Writing February 17, 2015 Instruction Story How To Tell White Bear My friend summarized an episode of one of his favorite shows, Black Mirror, for me titled White Bear. 1. He started by explaining the time period and location in which the episode was set. 2. He then went on to set up the main character’s first arrival on screen. “We first see the protagonist waking up due to an obviously painful headache. Her house is trashed, and there is a bottle of pills
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Candice Holmes Professor Godwin HUM 201 7 March 2013 I’m Safe…. Oh no! There it is Again! Repetition becomes an engine of horror when the viewer allows the constant replay of old fears to creep into their minds. Commonly found in the Horror Film Genre repetition has been used to create a trap for its victims as well as the audience. Creating the allusion of escape, repetition builds up a cyclic feeling of safety and then cuts out the sliver of hope with the return of the monster or
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Great Story Form What is a great story? A great story is one that shows how you or your program impacted the lives of individuals in your community. A great story is one that shows how you helped meet the needs of your community and helped make it a better place to be. A great story is one that touches the heart, and possibly inspires someone to act, serve, or be a catalyst for change themselves. You can submit a great story at any time. You should submit it to your supervisor and your
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Miss Brill is a lonely older woman, in France, who is no longer an active part of society. She sits in the park by her self and people watched once a week and believes that is her active role in life. Through this story Mansfield argues that the elderly have taken a backseat in modern society, which affects their mental health and emotional wellbeing. She argues this rather effectively through, personification, foreshadowing, and characterization. Brill has a fur that is one of her prized
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military bases on alert for heightened security risks, administration officials said they do not expect the report — or rather the declassified executive summary of it that will be released Tuesday morning — to ignite the kind of violence that killed four Americans at a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. Such violent reprisals, they said, tend to be fueled more by perceived attacks against Islam as a religion than by violence against individual Muslims. Continue reading the main story
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Essay “Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness exemplifies a psychological journey which can be summarised in Kurtz’ last words “The horror, the horror.” Discuss how Conrad has conveyed this journey and explore your interpretation of Kurtz’s final words.” The physical, temporal and psychological journey within Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness epitomizes both Marlow's and humanity's collective psychological transformation upon perceiving the darkness inherent to both the core the psyche and
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Love Story The Scarlet Letter tells the story of hypocritical preacher by the name of Arthur Dimmesdale and his secretive lover Hester Prynne. As a result of their affair, Hester gave birth to a baby girl name Pearl. Choosing to keep their illicit liaison a secret, Hester takes on the critical blame of committing adultery with her pastor Dimmesdale. Because she wouldn’t give up the name of Pearl’s father, she was compelled to wear an “A” on her chest. Secluding herself from the rest of the
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Creative story: Every night the image of her conflicts with my mind, depriving its ability to rest as my delicate, weakened body imprints itself on the cluster of cotton and feathers I call my bed. Continually repeating the memory of her leaving me, leaving all that she once loved, and simultaneously leaving me the only one in possession of the secret. The saying “memories last forever” was never significant nor applicable to me before dawn broke over Burundi on June 3rd 1985, triggering
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To Kill, or Not to Kill In the story Macbeth by William Shakespeare destiny is a major theme. Destiny is a power that has control over the future. In the story of Macbeth, the character Macbeth had complete control over his destiny even though he was influenced by the witches and Lady Macbeth. In the first act Macbeth comes across the three witches who proceed to tell him the prophecy in which he will be King “All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!...Thane of Cawdor! …Macbeth
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When reading short stories, the authors need to draw you in quick to make their story successful. Reading stories that fail do this lack something, but what is it? Personally I feel that two characteristics that make stories successful are; the writers ability to make us envision the setting and to go beyond the five senses and use body language. First of all if you do not envision the setting then how do you really get in to the story? It would be like watching television with no picture
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Short Story Analysis “Just Lather, That’s All” The barber was faced with both a moral dilemma and a dilemma as a tradesman. He would love to kill Captain Torres, the man who had killed and tortured so many of his friends. Torres's death would bring an end to the revolutionaries' greatest threat. But the barber is also faced with his most consequential professional ethic and killing Torres would infringe on this code. The author’s use of point of view was made apparent in the second sentence
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game at Stanford I suffered what would turn out to be a career ending knee injury. Even though I continued to play, make 3rd Team All-American and play as an All Star in the East-West Shrine Game as well as the Hula Bowl, I was doing irreparable damage to my injured right knee. By the time the draft was held I had slipped from a second or third rounder to the ninth round, going to the Detroit Lions who chose to take a chance on me. Since it is too late to make a long story short I will go on
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was spared from possibly reaching the point of no return in which Victor found himself. Furthermore, the theme of both Victor and Walton being "adventurous" was also discussed and some including Paul acknowledged how each man found comfort in the outdoors. This week 9 post demonstrated how there are a number of connections that can be drawn between the characters within Frankenstein. Jeffery noted how Shelley's novel is ripe with irony and that is perhaps what has led to this horror story remaining a classic even today. Overall a number of excellent points were discussed and each student did a great job of defending their stance.
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