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North Dakota Attending College
1,267 wordsImagine the senior year of high school when students are poised to enter college and become adults. It's a time of responsibility, of being on one's own, and of shaping lives by making daily decisions. One of the most major decisions is where to attend college. Should a person stay close to home and attend an in-state school where people and even campuses are somewhat familiar? Or should the decision be to start a completely new chapter in one's life by attending a college farther away, with tot...
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Feel So Homesick Experience New Things People
400 wordsMamacita is the main character in this story. She is the new comer, "immigrant", in the new city. Mamacita later on starts missing her home very much. She paints her walls in her apartment pick like her old pink house. All she does all day, is sit by the window listening to the Spanish radio shows just so that she could hear songs that reminded her of her country to that she wouldn't feel so homesick. Then she realized that it actually made her miss it more. Then as time passes by, her baby boy ...
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Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler Story
286 wordsDinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler All the Tull Family is dysfunctional in their own ways. Beck, the father, deserts his family and it is tempting to believe he is the cause of all their troubles. By the end of the story, youre not so sure. Pearl, the mother, is run ragged bringing up the children on her own but she is no saint. She resorts to abuse, which scars the children. Cody, the eldest, develops such severe hang-ups over his fathers desertion and his mothers display of favoritis...
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End Of The War British Soldiers
1,218 wordsExplain The Changing Attitudes Of British Soldiers Explain The Changing Attitudes Of British Soldiers And Civilians Towards The War When war broke out in 1914 soldiers were ready and eager to fight a war they believed would be over by Christmas. They volunteered to beat the Germans, to fight for King and country, to protect their land and families and they believed it was their duty. There was also huge public pressure to join up and objectors were given white feathers and publicly ridiculed. Fr...
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Shaggy Grass Jim Burden Life
760 wordsThe landscape in My Antonia This country was mostly wild pasture and as naked as the back of your hand. I was little and homesick and lonely and my mother was homesick and nobody paid any attention to us. So the country and I had it out together and by the end of the first autumn, that shaggy grass country had gripped me with a passion I have never been able to shake. -Willa Cather (Internet # 1) Her life task became portraying how the pioneers tamed the wild land. Cather's visual, and disarming...
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Kate Cruise O Brien Cruise O Brien Antonia
843 wordsThe Homesick Garden By, Kate Cruise O Brien The Homesick Garden by Kate Cruise O Brien was a thoroughly enjoyable read. It tells the story of the life of a teenage girl, Antonia, whose life is turned upside down by the unexpected pregnancy of her unmarried aunt, Grace. The novel explores many controversial issues, including, alcoholism and child abuse. The story is told through the eyes of Antonia. Isolation: The theme of isolation is vividly captured in this novel. Antonia is fifteen years of a...
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