...Whitaker Sullins/English 1101 9/10/13 Lost, but never found Based on a True Story Getting lost at 7 years old seems pretty scary, but being lost at 7 and never being found is even scarier. She was never abducted or ran away. She simply lost herself. It is hard for a 7 year old to realize that she lost herself. It would not be until a few years later when she realized. The worst part is that still to this day she still hasn’t found herself. At 7 years old, all a kid wants is love. Especially when they are scared, they want to run to their parents and have them love on them and tell them everything is going to be alright. One night the little girl got scared from having a bad dream. She ran to her mother’s room only to find her step dad. She thought nothing of it. She ran to him and he said everything would be alright and that moment time everything she had was gone. She lost herself. A piece of her was taken away. She did not understand it. She just wanted to be loved and told that everything was going to be okay. She never knew he was going to take something from her and that it would be lost. Forever. Five years have now come and gone. She still did not understand. Something was taken from her and something was taken from her almost every single day for the past five years. She struggled to figure it out. She struggled within herself to go on. She just simply never understood it. She lost herself by someone who she thought was supposed to love her, not violate her and...
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...The idea that the ideology of the Lost Cause does not embody the South’s commitment to white supremacy is in itself apart of that same ideology. The reality is that the ideology was used by the South to show that even though they had loss, they would still hold onto their traditional views and ideas which are race orientated. The Lost Cause is a very complex ideology that still plagues American history to this day. It threw a kind of fog over the events of the American Civil War. Even though there are a lot of facts that show and explain what happened in the Civil War, it is still surrounded by myths and legends. A lot of these myths and legends were created by the South in an attempt to salvage what ever pride and dignity they had left. Honor, a huge player in the Lost Cause...
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...impacted by the outbreak of World War One. However, Cohn still lives by the pre-war values, mainly due to the fact that the war had little impact on him, unlike Jake who was injured in combat, or Brett, who lost her true love during the war. They all have characteristics that are similar with many people who were a part of what Gertrude Stein called “the lost generation”, a generation of people whose previous values were figuratively destroyed by the outbreak of World War I, and they wandered the post-war world without guidance, without a purpose. (Britannia 1 ) This is because Hemingway created these characters to symbolize a large portion of people in the 1920’s, through the characters attitudes, lifestyle and personalities. In doing so, Hemingway uses these three characters to represent different groups of people within the lost generation. Robert Cohn represents the people of the lost generation whose lives had been unaffected directly by the war, and those who still continued to live by failed the pre-war values of romance, morality and honor. Many of these people were outcasts; they were different, just like Cohn, and Cohn knew what it was like to be different. He spent a good portion of his life feeling like an outcast due to the fact that he was Jewish and Cohn never served in World War I, and was therefore typically scorned by people who had seen combat, like Jake. Cohn holds onto these traits because he had never seen the full extent of the war, and he reads books...
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...his memoir. The writer himself was “lucky enough” to spend seven years of his youth in the European center of culture and entertainment of the Jazz Age. Throughout the literary works of Hemingway it can be observed that Paris had a special place in his heart. He adopts Paris as a setting not only in “A Moveable Feast” but also in “The Sun Also Rises” and “Midnight in Paris.” But what makes “A Moveable Feast” stand out from many other works written by Hemingway is that it is a memoir, thus, the characters are real people and the events are actual as well. However, “various critics have pointed out that “A Moveable Feast” contains serious factual errors." Though, the most of the factual errors are about the workplaces of the characters, for instance the one of Walsh, and do not significantly influence the understanding of life flows of the memoir’s main characters. Hemingway along with other expatriates viewed Paris as a place where he could find a market for his literary works. “Many Americans who settled in Paris [believed] their native land was a cultural sink.” Those who caught the drama of the World War I and the time of the after-war letdown are referred to as “lost generation.” This generation characterized by lost hopes, lost values and a general mood of futility and despair. Young people of the after-wartime could have spent their entire days drinking in cafes or bars around Paris and, thus, for many of the American expatriates Paris was indeed a moveable feast. Besides...
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...How to hasten up the search and rescue of the lost trekkers Jatin Ashra DSV, Stockholm University Abstract Consider a recent incident of flight MH370, where even with state of the art GPS systems, we do not know the where about of the flight even after so many months. In today’s world, even with available latest technology, it has become difficult to search some things like an aero plane etc. Imagine how difficult the task of search and rescue team might be to locate people who might have got lost in the forest while trekking or hiking. This paper explores how information from previously lost trekkers can help the rescue teams in helping in some way to locate the lost people. The study surveyed some of the experienced trekkers from southern India and how the information from them is useful in at least knowing the starting point of the search. How their personal experiences can contribute in helping other trekkers, search and rescue teams and other involved people in the search. 1. Introduction In this chapter, the background, research aims and objectives, research questions and also limitations of the study will be presented. 1.1 Background Research Problem: Mountaineering, trekking, hiking is one of the most common weekend getaways for young and energetic people. The outcome is both pleasure and fitness. The locations chosen by them to explore the vast wilderness tend to be unexplored mountains, valleys, peaks and plains. The most common equipment...
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...by war crimes have their lives turned upside down but they never give up to reach the peace they always sought. Looking back at Disney’s Peter Pan the lost boys were those who fought off pirates and crocodiles before flying off to Never Never Land. The same goes for the youth in Africa where they sought refugee, and fled the camps by whatever means necessary. In the book What Is The What Valentino describes his journey to America to be a miracle, having gone through a dark road which he finally reached the light of. It was because of The Lost Boys Foundation that many lives have been turned around and children have been saved. During the civil war in Sudan in which over 2 million people had died, children were left orphaned; and were living in camps that weren’t run efficiently. Nearly 30,000 children left the camps on a journey to find a place to call home, they faced attacks from animals, starvation, illness’s, even attacks from Soldiers their, yet approximately 11,000 survived. The foundation has made dreams come through one change at a time. Many of these adolescents have not been exposed to what is so accustomed to us; spoons, forks, cell phones, and TV’s. “It’s a group that’s lost in time,” says Sasha Chanoff an American at the camp who prepares the children for their journey to America. The articles show that The Lost Boys Foundation is an effective organization that does their best to assist refugees. According to Mary-Jayne Mckay CBS reporter, “Every Sunday, a plane...
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...distinctive components of style to separate their work from different writers and create what people refer to as author's style. Best selling author, Gayle Forman, has her very own style in which she uses to connect the audience with her stories, I Was Here and I Have Lost My Way. After reading both stories and analyzing the techniques in which she uses, it is clear to see her style includes the use of motifs and the distinct way she creates her characters. These elements of style help her to capture readers and keep them coming back for more excitement and entertainment. Both stories contain the same motifs. The motifs present in her writing are friendship and loss. In the novel, I Have Lost My...
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...An aphorism from the book “Poor Richard’s Almanac” says “A little neglect may breed mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for a want of a horse the rider was lost; for want of a rider the battle was lost.” What the author of the book, Benjamin Franklin’s meaning was that in this aphorism is that if one part is skipped, the entire whole can collapse. In this aphorism Benjamin Franklin wants the audience to pay attention to detail. The aphorism compares to modern American society by describing a situation which failure to do the small things in life first will make a bad outcome. Benjamin Franklin’s aphorism starts with a nail, the smallest object in the aphorism leads to the battle at the end of the aphorism, so in that, the battle was lost....
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...Atlantis Atlantis was told to be a charming city that was sunken by the gods because the residents of Atlantis, who were always intelligent, compassionate, and thoughtful people, had turned into greedy people that wanted to take over the world and rule it (Keyes 2). To punish the residents, the gods had the volcanos erupt, the rivers become floods, fires rage, and earthquakes shake the land. With all of the eruptions, water, fire and shaking, the land started to sink and in one day and one night the land was completely gone (Drye 2). People have been looking for Atlantis for hundreds of years and no one has been able to find the location of where Atlantis could be....
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...innocence was taken from him as the consequence of the horror during the World War Two. Before Wiesel was restricted into a concentration...
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...Alexis K Pointer ENGL 1101 Dr. Dominy 1 December 2014 Lost Sovereignty When an individual looks at the bigger picture than the small one in front of you and enjoy the experience instead of looking for ways to show proof to someone what you did or what you saw. I lost my sovereignty, power over something, because of a postcard I received in the mail from Philadelphia, which did not look the same in person. The postcard had beautiful, old buildings and clear blue sky. When we went a few weeks later the buildings were just old and the sky was not clear. I was so excited by the way Philadelphia looked on a postcard that I did not really experienced what it had to offer. Many people just like myself have lost their sovereignty at an event, place, or even showing evidence that they went somewhere. In “The Lost of the Creature” Walker Percy gives many examples of people losing their sovereignty while visiting places. A man from Boston is one of Percy’s examples. This man from Boston had seen a picture of the Grand Canyon on a postcard. While visiting the Grand Canyon the man was shocked by the way it looks. The canyon does not look the same as it does on the postcard. So the man was in a sense cheated out of a great experience that he could have had, because the postcard looked one way and was expecting the canyon to look the same way. As Percy stated “that the thing is no longer the thing as it confronted the Spaniard. It is rather that which has already been formulated, by...
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...CONFLICT OF THE KNOWN Vs THE UNKNOWN The novel What is the What by Dave Eggers depicts the struggle of the Lost Boys during the second civil war in Sudan. Egger writes the book for Valentino Achak Deng, a Lost Boy, who gives us a first hand account of the brutal experiences that the boys encountered. On reading the book, it was very touching, because every incident was carefully described with emotion, and gave us an insight into various conflicts that Achak himself faced. Recently we (The University of Tampa students) were visited by one of the Lost Boys, Atem, and he shared with all of us his first hand experiences when he fled Sudan. Atem was faced with many conflicts. When he was only six years old he fled Sudan. He is currently in Jacksonville, Florida with his family except his dad who was shot. When he fled Sudan he had no idea where his family was, and had lost complete touch with them. In United States, he was later reunited with his family, and his mother was unable to recognize him. Although she eventually realized he was a grown man and she finally acknowledged it was Atem. The Lost Boys faced many conflicting moments and decisions on their way to Ethiopia. One conflicting theme throughout the novel is the idea of the known versus the unknown. For example, on the way to Ethiopia, Achak and all the other boys envisioned Ethiopia to have tall buildings and many healthy people. Achak imagined, “We would have chairs in Ethiopia. I would sit on a chair, and I would listen...
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...friend Rae. “Hey Rae!” I yelled. “Hey girl. How are midterms going for you?” she asked. “Oh, they’re treating me well now since I just finished my last one. How about you?” I replied. Rae’s facial expression reeked of uncertainty. I could tell she was worried about her midterm. “I take it you’re not too excited about this one huh?” She looked down with glazed over eyes and replied, “Na, I have an Art midterm due Friday and I have yet to start. I guess I don’t know where or how to begin.” Assuming she’s talking about a paper I confidently replied, “Writing a paper can be tricky. It’s always the introduction that seems to be the hardest. What I do is start with the body; when I feel more comfortable, I go back to the intro and it usually comes easier.” She looked at me with the same facial expression and said, “It’s not a paper. This happens to be my Art final and although painting is piece of cake, I can’t just paint anything. Professor James wants us to paint an illustration of an abstract idea. That abstract idea happens to be “repentance”. I have no idea what that means so how do you expect me to illustrate that in a painting?” It was quite obvious that Rae was very frustrated so I offered to help her out since I was finished for the week. “Let’s go get lunch, and I’ll help you after. I happened to get an “A” in all of my Theology classes and of course my father is a Pastor, so if all else fails, we can go to him and he can explain it even better than I can. ...
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...Land of the lost The short story “Land of the lost” by Stewart O’nan from 2009, is about a woman who becomes obsessed with a murder case she hears about in the news. She starts following the case about the murdered girl, whose body the murderer, James Wade, claims to have buried west of Kingsville. Soon she’s changing her work schedule so she can search for the girls’ body. She’s very naive, and even calls the FBI when she’s convinced she’s found the girl. She didn’t, and even though her sons ask her to stop, she keeps on searching long after that. Her only agenda is that she wants to help the family find the girl – or is it? We don’t know the name of the main character. She is a woman, living alone and working as a cashier at a supermarket, a job that doesn’t have a very high status. Her sons left shortly after her divorce, and she is left alone with her dog Ollie, a German shepherd. She has no social relations in her life. She feels that she isn’t really needed by anyone – until she discovers the case. So when she’s searching for the body, she is really searching for at purpose in life. “She could admit that at least part of the reason she was searching for a stranger’s daughter was that nobody else needed her. Just Ollie.” Her life is meaningless and she’s trying to fill the hole with the case. The woman is definitely not a quitter, long after everybody has stopped thinking about the case, and put it behind them, she continues. The odd thing is how her view on the case...
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...Land of the Lost There are some people who aren’t able to relax in their spare time. Even though they live a normal life, working at their jobs from nine to five, they need a something to occupy them, a hobby for example. They need a hobby or something like that to occupy their thoughts, even though they, most likely, are tired from a hard day’s work. This is their way of relaxing because it puts their focus on something else rather than the stress, which in exists in their everyday life. However, if the thing or action which they’re obsessed with is taken away from them, some might become desperate to find something new, which can give them the same kind of thrill. The main theme in Land of the Lost is loneliness. Land of the Lost is a short story written by Stewart O’Nan. The story is being told by a limited third person narrator, but and it starts in medias res. Land of the Lost is about a middle-aged divorced woman, who lives alone with her dog. When she’s not working as a cashier, she’s spending all of her spare time searching for a local girl’s dead body. Her obsession begun after she heard a man, James Wade, admitting to burying the girl. She hasn’t told anyone about her new occupation, and her German shepherd named Ollie is her only friend, who follows her everywhere. The narrator in the Land of the Lost As mentioned before, the story moves around a single person and her thoughts, and makes use of the third person limited point of view, which restricts...
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