only plays with a symphony in the background instead of actual noises. In The Nutcracker, a man comes from the shadows and gives a doll to the main character and her friends She then sleeps with the doll, and the doll turns into a human being! The lady then spends the rest of her day with the Nutcracker. The Nutcracker is then taken away by the man from the shadows. My favorite character had to be the man from the shadows because he was very mysterious and unpredictable. He is mysterious because
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1. Write a summary of ‘’Happy birthday’’ 1951 in about 150 words. ‘’Happy birthday’’ it’s a text about an old man and a young boy, who live in a ruin, in a former warzone. The city is still full of soldiers and tanks. The man got the baby boy about six years ago from a refugee woman. The story begins with the man wanting the boy to choose a birthday. The boy chooses the following day. The old man puts together a cart for the boy, but he also wants the boy to experience a world without war. Next
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MNGT360--Elina Ibrayeva Individual Learning Assignment 4/29/2014 Optimism Can you image how to live without all four limbs? You cannot eat with your hands, you cannot hug with your arms, you cannot jump with your legs, and you cannot walk with your feet! That is horrible! With the absence of all four limbs, it seems that you can do nothing except waiting to die. Actually, this awful thing is happened to a boy named Nick Vujicic, and if you think his life sucks
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bad as Biff and Happy from ‘Death of a Salesman’. These two brothers were very close when they were younger, but one incident changed the whole dynamic of the family’s relationship. Biff, the eldest son of Willy and Linda Loman, was supposed to be the one with the most potential, but fell short of the goals everyone set for him. The three main differences of these two brothers was their age and responsibilities that came with the age, the fact that Biff was a realist while Happy was ignorant and
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individual was autonomous. Each man had the right to do what he wanted as long as he preserved peace and mankind in general. He also had the right to preserve himself and therefore, he had the right to those things that would help him and make him happy. Locke believed that God gave mankind all the resources and materials for man’s preservation and all man had to do was use them. By applying labour to the resources, man would bear the fruits of his labour and would be happy. For example, God has provided
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I Believe People Should Live a Happy and Peaceful Life I was a young black woman, married with two wonderful kids; a boy and girl, I had a brand new car, I had a great paying job and was working on purchasing a new house. I had pretty much what many women wanted, but something just wasn’t right. I battled with myself for years. Then one night, when I was home alone lying down in my bed, thinking, I started crying like a little baby. I cried for almost an hour. I realized my life was a lie; I was
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My Mother and her Sister Happiness is a key factor in life. Weather happiness is found in love, in career, in family - everybody deserves to experience true happiness sometime in life. Life is not complete without this key factor. This is true in the case of the mother in the short story “My Mother and her Sister” who does not seem to find true happiness in life before her days are over. This assignment will begin with an analysis and interpretation of the short story “My Mother and her Sister”
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So was old age. Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunteers. The population of the United States was stabilized at forty-million souls. One bright morning in the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, a man named Edward K. Wehling, Jr., waited for his wife to give birth. He was the only man waiting. Not many people were born a day any more. Wehling was fifty-six, a mere stripling in a population whose average age was one hundred and twenty-nine. X-rays had revealed that his wife was going to
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cruise. However, imperfect and circular life as it seems, time really comes that we’ll be placed in an off and curved beam regardless of how proficient captain we are in our own aboard. But what really constitutes life to be happy? How long or short would it take for a man to feel the most infinitely power of contentment? Some people believe that wealth in the form of money, precious stones or jewelries and other materialistic desires would guarantee happiness. They devote and spend most of their
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assume that the story is happy, but this is not the case. Would you want to win something and then get stoned to death? I don’t think so. Doesn’t sound like something I would want to win. There are many characters mentioned in this story, but the two characters that really stood out to me and that I have chosen will really show the two sides of humanity in the story. A married women named Mrs,Hutchinson was late to the lottery because of dishes. She seems to be a happy housewife with an apron
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