In the book Night by Eli Wiesel, He describes this scene after being in a train car for days with little food and water. It was mostly standing room only and people where at a loss for words. When the train finally stopped it was at a place called Auschwitz. When they got off the train hours later what they saw made their minds go numb. There was a smell in the air that burned your nose as black plums went in to the sky from a big brick building. Family’s where split up mothers and daughters to the
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Adele Someone Like You I heard That you're settled down That you Found a girl And you're Married now I heard That your dreams came true I guess she gave you things I didn't give to you Old friend, why are you so shy? It ain't like you to hold back or hide from the lie. I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited, But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it, I had hoped you'd see my face, And that you'd be reminded that for me it isn't over, Never mind, I'll find someone
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Should September 11 be a national holiday? I think 9/11 should not be a national holiday because it will remind us of who terrible that day was and people will forget the true meaning of the whole thing. The opposing claim=honestly don't think 9/11 will ever be forgotten. There will always be the families and friends of those who died, to remember and honor them. That's why I agree with the idea that 9/11 should be a holiday. So that we can celebrate and show our enemies that it doesn't matter
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classrooms today are now expected to read it as it is part of the curriculum. Which without it some may never know what happened during the Holocaust. The memoir is one of many reads about the holocaust but is the only one that students across Saskatchewan are expected to read. Ellie speaks volumes as he has pulled those memories from his thoughts, put them into words and his work will never be forgotten by the people who have read it. Ellie’s memoire is effective, the power of one voice has a greater
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of having the will to live. In “Red Sector A” written by Neil Peart for his band Rush, the lyrics explain the need to survive and describe about wounds that can never heal. Both literary works expose images that one just cannot forget. One common theme shown in both works is the need for hope and strength to survive. Peart describes, “Days and weeks and months go by. Don’t feel the hunger... Too weak to cry.” In the beginning, Elie had faith and hope, but, towards the end of the novel his faith and
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18? The sonnet is about the author comparing his lover to a summer’s day and showing all the faults and problems a summer’s day has. Throughout the poem there is a romantic atmosphere. Shakespeare say his lover is more ‘lovely’ and ‘temperate’, this suggest her love is constant and never ends unlike a summer’s day; movever their love for each other is eternal. Also his lover is perfect and has no faults unlike a summer’s days indicated by ‘shake darling buds’. Then again he repeats the idea of love
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Collapse I’ll never forget the day. The sun was shining exceptionally bright and the sky was the lightest of blues. The weather was abnormally warm for a March day. It was a beautiful day. I had just got home for work, when My Dad and my son, crash though the door loudly. My son jumps in my lap and I talk to my dad about his day. Everything about my father seemed normal. He got up and announced that he was going go rest in his room for a while. The evening continues on and my son and niece
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To the people whom lost there loved ones, 12 years ago, on the day of September 11, 2001 the attack on the twin towers happened. No one had seen it coming, now this will be a day that they never will forget. There were a lot of people that died that day; brothers, sister, sons, daughters, mothers and fathers. These are the people that the world will never forget. These people died as heroes in our eyes. From the brave firemen that risk there lives and past to the innocent bystander that tried to
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“You hurt me and I forgive you, but I will never forget what you put me through.” The past four years of my life have been like a rollercoaster of emotions and feelings. I have been put through more tough situations then most elderly people have been put through in their whole lives. I never would have thought in a million years that my dad would be a single parent raising me. And if you would’ve told me 5 years ago that I would have absolutely nothing to do with my mother I would’ve took it as
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was as white as the clouds above. The air was cold and frosty. I could feel the cold air down to my bones. My trip to Lake Tahoe is a vacation that I will never forget. The amazing food and the great people in Lake Tahoe were the best parts. The really cool thing about my stay in Lake Tahoe is that my hotel was 10 feet from the California, Nevada border. The snow smelled super sweet. The smell was just like walking into nature, which I did. The breakfast at the hotel was one of the best breakfasts
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Sometimes, we tend to forget who we really are and oblivious of being astray. We forget the beauties of the world and we tend to live in our own despair, exasperations, miseries and lonesomeness. We forget that we have life to live with and savor every inch of it because we'll never know when we'll run out of time. I thought living in a total void would lead me to a better place. I never knew it's just eating my whole system, leaving me weak and causing me wholly insane. I thought running away from
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my cousin Noah, and sister, Megan, down one floor to get ice, and realizing that’s where the entire Michigan State basketball team was staying. I will never forget the trip where I learned one the most valuable lessons of life, wherever you go in life, however successful you are, never forget the people who made you, who you are. It was a brisk day, we had just returned from the frigid zoo holding one thing particularly special, elephants. As my family
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life so enjoy them. But are they really? Walking through the halls is the best part of my day, seeing everyone's joyful, sleep deprived faces. As I walk through the sea of bodies in the hall, people standing there just staring at me. Groups of people forming in this small space, causing traffic jams seeming like they just want to get in the way of the people who actually want to go somewhere. Don’t forget about the couple
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Dear Amber, I wanted to write a letter to you to remind you of how thankful I am that you take a significant part in my life. You have been the best aunt anyone could have asked for. You have always been there for my family. I know that this time in your life happens to be one very difficult time. I wanted to write you a letter to remind you that you did not fail as a parent. I don’t know the emotions that you may feel but I wanted to remind you that you have done a marvelous job raising both
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Where else would you see a mother elephant seal bonding with her baby on a beautiful day? At Ano Nuevo State Reserve you see many wonderful things. You mainly see elephant seals. The males are very tough, the females are very calm, and lastly, the babies are very cute. All of this experience at Ano Nuevo is amazing and an adventure you will never forget. Elephant seals are very interesting creatures and have interesting lives. They have many unique adaptations which make them interesting to study
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managed to take away all the items that would give a prisoner and individual “look.” When the head's assistant attempted to get Elie’s shoes by bribing him with an extra ration of bread and margarine Elie adamantly refused: “ I refused to give him my shoes. They were all I had left.” His victory on holding onto a piece of his persona was short-lived as the author admits,“Later on they were taken from me just the same. But in exchange for nothing this time” (Wiesel 35). Eliezer’s loss of his shoes
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I drove into the city, where the buildings were tall and the people were supposed to be impatient and filthy. What I saw was far more grotesque than any city I'd been to. As I drove into the city I saw terrible things, twisted fragments of metal sticking out of the ground, trash and human waste buildup, and the sky covered with pollution. The smell of rot was putrid. I had to roll my windows up due to the horrid stench. As I drove further, the city only got worse. The buildings were teetering precariously
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English II 5B 2 January 2012 Humanity Peace is clearly not shown in modern days. We solemnly watch the news of small, fragile children with gory wounds dying on the cold, rough ground. Obviously, we can’t do anything about it because we are in the warm feeling of home, unable to go and strongly fight for what’s right. Instead, we get this unexplainable feeling in our gut that spreads and crushes our insides to pieces. Do we really feel what our mind is telling us to feel at that very moment
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of Presentation: Commemorative Eulogy General Purpose: The eulogy of Colonel Tungsteena Zarpodoen Specific Purpose: Why Zarpodoen was the best commander on the force Introduction: Attention Getter: It was a Tuesday, April of 2143. My division and I were in the Pandora orbit. Our mission was to take control of the Helios station orbiting the planet. Colonel Zarpodeon knew exactly how to take over the station. She had the perfect idea on where to strike first, how to do it, and when. If it wasn’t
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Wiesel wrote a memoir about his experiences being persecuted as a child. In the Elie Wiesel’s book he wrote about the horrors he went through, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky” (Wiesel). This shows the gravity of what people went through before the other countries intervened
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(Norman MacFinan) I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission. (Nadia Comaneci, ROM, Time Magazine 1976) Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. (Herbert Kaufman) Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. (Malcolm Forbes) A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. (English proverb)
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immediately stole away his innocence."When they withdrew, next to me were two corpses, side by side, the father and the son. I was fifteen years old." Again, he is exposed to this death and hatred, and forced to accept it as life. Two dead, next to him. He was forced to have no emotion. No feeling. At this point he is completely devoid of innocence, and, in a way, he is extremely wise. Never again will he be naive, because he knows the
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Lindbergh. Is a very insightful book, the author writes about what many of us are thinking and want to do but just haven't been able too. I feel as though I am truly able to relate to the author, and her struggles in life. We become so consumed by day to day life dealing with children, husbands, work and life in general that we forget ourselves. I also forget to give my self time and space from the world to gather my thoughts and get my mind in order.“Women need solitude in order to find again the
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answers prompt 4. “Don’t forget your reading log!”, my mom reminds me as I’m closing the car door. The sharp winter winds whip my freshly showered hair, sending chills throughout my body. I began the journey down the cracked cement sidewalks of Roynon Elementary, towards my second grade class. An aged white woman a couple feet away was walking towards me. I noticed her cold gaze. I now recognize this as contempt. She passed and I continued. I didn’t understand that. “Don’t forget I’m picking you up later”
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I can remember it like it was yesterday, it was a cold cloudy Saturday in February. I remember plain as day that it was around 42 degrees Fahrenheit, and there was a rainy overcast. The day began like most Saturdays, we stopped for our Saturday breakfast at the nearby gas station, and had a quick bite, and talked with neighboring farmer Charlie Johnson. We finished breakfast and began the three hour drive to Welch, Oklahoma; to look at a group of show heifers for my little brother. After three hours
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Yoshiko Uchida explains the day-to-day life experiences of her and her family when they were sent to internment camps because of their Japanese race. She uses detail to create an image in your mind to cause you to remember the struggle and enormity of the situation. Living conditions
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Story “I can’t stand to think about him waiting in the room and knowing he’s going to get it. It’s too damn awful.” George said (Hemingway). Have you ever been in a situation and you knew it was no way you were getting out of it? While reading “The Killers” from Scribner’s magazine. Throughout the story you learn how two men were on a search to find Ole Anderson. They stopped at the bar named Henry’s Eating House where he normally comes in for dinner at 6 o’clock and waited but on this day he never
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How do you feel about the parent’s reaction about the daughter’s pregnancy? Don’t Waste Your Life Looking In The Past “The helplessness of family love to sustain, let alone heal, the wounds of marriage, of parenthood, and of sonship, have never been so remorselessly and so pathetically portrayed, and with a force of gesture too painful ever to be forgotten by any of us.” –Harold Bloom. In the play, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, by Eugene O’Neill, we see how the past has a fatal and hopeless
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rejected by Fahrenheit 451's society and technology, will never be taken over by technology; the ideas will always reach its audience no matter what is in its way. The ideas with quality in the past are no where shown in the present-day media. Quality ideas will never be taken over by technology, in other words quality ideas will never be destroyed by technology. All the quality ideas were created before present-day technology. The present-day technologies, radio and parlor walls etc., have shoved
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Timberlake 1/19/17 Rough Draft The Day It was my 9th birthday when I got told some amazing news. I had just started to play football that year and I liked professional football but i didn’t have a favorite team. When I played football video games I just picked the team with the better colors. But on this day, I was persuaded to be a chiefs fan. It was November 2nd 2007 and my dad said he had a special gift for me for my birthday. My birthday was the 4th so I was excited and not sure what it was
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