April 2013
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February 2013
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Menachem Begin - From Rebel Fighter to Peacemaker
“The life of every man who fights in a just cause is a paradox. He makes war so that there should be peace. He sheds blood so that there should be no more bloodshed.” Begin, as a freedom fighter and as prime minister, realized that it was crucial to sacrifice land, and even lives, in order to achieve freedom and peace for the country he was so dedicated to.
Begin, who was born 1913,...
December 2012
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Paris
Paris
Paris – one of the most gorgeous cities in the world. During my stay in Paris in the summer, the usual stereotype of warm weather and short clothing was blown away by the cold winds and constant rainy weather that enveloped Paris. Paris, the city of lights, is the capital city of France, which is in Europe, and is full of contradictions. On one hand, the city is brimming with rich history...
August 2012
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The world is burning. Great fires roaring around our house, spiting and spurting flames. The heat scorching my body & parching my throat, breathing black smoke with every breath instead of oxygen. Fires. Burning. Me. Mom, Dad & Bonnie are dead on the floor – the fire reached them first & tore their soles away from their bodies. Pain. Smoke, clouding my vision & clogging my...
May 2012
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Quotes and explanations from Macbeth
Blood imagery
“What hands are these…Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.”
In this quote, Macbeth is appalled and horrified by the blood on his hands from killing Kind Duncan, and says to Lady Macbeth that all of great Neptune’s ocean wouldn’t be...
April 2012
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“False face must hide what false heart doth know.”
-William Shakespeare
Some people are just so talented!!! :(
When I try to write
Sometimes when I try to write,
Nothing seems to come to mind.
Ideas disappear from sight,
And words dissolve before my eyes.
Sometimes when I try to write,
Inspiration floods my mind.
Words and phrases materialize
And I write them quickly before
they ebb away once more.
I can never write with ideas thought of before-
My best work pops in my head while my pencil...
Writing is like painting
Writing is like painting,
The only difference being words instead of paint.
Writing is like painting,
Depicting ideas by phrases, words and poems.
Writing is like painting,
A means of beautifying an object or being.
Writing is like painting,
Where the writer is the artist.
“George Orwell
Why I Write
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or...”
– http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw
The Storm
The wind howls, the lightning flashes, the thunder booms,
the twilight storm strikes without mercy at all in its path.
The sea churns, the huge waves flood the shore and town.
The little girl sleeps silently and safely in her home.
And the wind howls, the lightning flashes, the thunder booms.
Now it is night, yet the storm thrashes on wilder than before,
summoning a gigantic...
Two Birds
Through the sky flew two birds-
one was gloomy the other bright.
On and on they flew in light.
Yet once they entered a time of darkness,
The bright bird fought for freedom from her bonds, calmed by her happiness and love.
But the gloomy bird stopped mid-flight, unable to go forth,
and while the bright bird flew into sunlight once more-
the other never emerged.
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The Seasons
Spring
Spring is a paintbrush coloring the world,
Using blues and greens of joy and calm.
Summer
Summer is a lion full of power and energy,
Roaring and shaking the sun, his golden mane.
Fall
Fall is an angry man,
Shattering a stained glass window into shards.
Winter
Winter is the end of a bittersweet book,
Feeling sad and lonely and cold, for he is the end.
“anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring...”
– http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15403
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Based on "Anyone lived in a pretty how town" -...
Those who have all and those who have nothing:
In so small a town live those who have all and those who have nothing,
Those who have all are so busy while those who have nothing sit and wait.
When one dares with rules to disagree or beg for the things he has not,
He goes to the unspoken, scary cold floored dungeon for his unknown crime.
In this lonely jail only nothing can survive,
Except for...
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Pink and Small
The house itself may not be magnificent,
but it’s colors are:
bright, pink walls that leave spots of vision in your eyes
Go against people’s expectations.
And so it happens that many a townsfolk comes to stare,
Their mouths gawking open,
Their eyes glued for hours
To those dazzling, chromatic, fuchsia walls
Of that small, humble house on Side Street.
The Need to Use Electronic Touch Readers (E.T.R) in Schools Around the World
Technology has progressed over time, in such a way that now it has reached a level that enables us to make a light weight, touch screen, electronic device. This device can be used as a reading device (regular reading or text books), a writing device (notebooks, organizers), a Wi-Fi connected device which...
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My Year in Fads
Watching Lost was on my mind from the begging of fifth grade and until Sukkoth, not to mention after I even finished all six seasons. I started sixth grade with silly bands covering my wrists, and once-in-a-while-writing diary entries. The musical Wicked accompanied me through my Bat-Mitzvah, and I felt as though I was “defying gravity” as I leaped into the pool with...
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Inspired by e.e. cummings
Freedom
Freeeeeeedom, to me coming, takeoff as I from the ground,
The cool wind whooshesatme. Flying I am!!
All noise is growing fainter
and
fainter.
Days into nights and nights into days, I am away from the earth.
Come begging me to down, but airborne I stay.
Caught freedom I have, and...
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of...”
– http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377
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Based on "Do not go gentle into that good night" -...
Do Not Lie
Do not lie,
For fear that your life will be put to risk:
Be a truthful man.
A rich man would have everything in the beginning;
But nothing in the end; so flattered would be he that he would never hear the warning:
Do not lie.
A poor man, whom is destined to lead a life of nothing;
But will have everything in his own ways, will always
Be a truthful man.
A determined man, who...
Compare Contrast Essay Between Maniac Magee and Wringer:
The book Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli is about a kid named Jeffery Lionel, nicknamed Maniac, whom had a good life until his parents died. He does a lot of crazy and dangerous stuff like outrunning a train and opening a knot as long as two blocks. Through out the book maniac helps others by lots of things, including opening the...
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Essay about Rules – Central Themes
The book Rules, by Cynthia Lord, is the story of a teenage girl named Catherine, and how she deals with her brother David’s autism. Although this book contains many themes, there are three major ones.
One of the most important themes in this book is accepting differences. Throughout the book, Catherine struggles with her...
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Dark They Were and Golden Eyed
Adapting to a new environment
One theme in Dark They Were and Golden Eyed, by Ray Bradbury, is how people react and adapt to a new environment. Bradbury proves this theme in the story by comparing Harry Bittering to the rest of his family and friends, and by comparing Bittering’s first reaction to Mars with his later reactions.
For example, in the beginning...
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Compare Contrast Essay Between The Necklace and Gift of the Magi
The Necklace, by Guy de Maupassant, is the story of a French couple, Mathilde and Monsieur Loisel. One day, Madame Loisel decides to borrow a diamond necklace from her friend for an exclusive party that she and her husband were both invited to. But when Mathilde and her husband came home after the party, they discovered that the...
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To Build a Fire
Jack London
In Jack London’s To Build a Fire, critics describe the dog as a “foil” to the man. A foil is a character who sets off, or emphasizes, by way of contrast the traits of another character. In this case, the dog’s reliable instincts contrast with the man’s faulty human judgment and intellect. I believe that this story proves that...
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A Test
Tal Malka
Deep breaths. Steady now. Calm those nerves. Breathe in, breathe out. In, out…
Don’t worry about that big, huge, GIGNATIC test tomorrow where you will defiantly fail. Think about unicorns, or anteaters in the jungle, or ANYTHING!! You went over the test’s topics, you practiced hard, and you KNOW the information. Math isn’t so hard.
I’m going to FAIL!!! God,...
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Dawn
A cool morning wind played across Lynne’s face. Her eyes fluttered open dreamily, and she smiled lazily, savoring the feeling of the wind over her face, as soft as her mother’s fingers stroking her hair. It was dark outside of Lynne’s cottage, and cold, yet she rose quietly, tied a scarf around her bare shoulders, and slipped outside. The sky was painted midnight blue, and...
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“Nature’s first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early...”
– http://www.online-literature.com/frost/748/
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Orwell’s Artistic and Political Purposes in Animal Farm
In George Orwell’s essay “Why I write”, he states: “Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole.” There are many examples from the book, Animal Farm, which prove how Orwell accomplishes this...
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“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the...”
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Examples of Propaganda
Animal Farm
The meaning of the word “propaganda” is Information of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. In most cases, the dissemination of such information is used as a political strategy.
In the first five chapters of the book Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the pigs in the Animal Farm use...
Compare Contrast Essay on three Utopian Books
The books The Giver, by Lois Lowry, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, and The Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld, all have in common a similar theme, protagonist, antagonist, plot and setting.
As mentioned before, these three books share a similar setting of a Utopian society that is in “reality” a dystopia. We can see that in all the...
