DOMINIKA BRICE

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“Welcome to the 31st Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2016! My name is Dilma Rousseff and I am honored to be giving this speech on behalf of the country of Brazil. I am very pleased to announce that this is the most number of Olympians ever reported participating in the Summer Olympics, and here is Miranda Delphine of Ireland to light the Olympic torch!”

Miranda starts to process on stage with a pearly white smile against her velvet soft red lips. Her perfectly painted fingers wrap around the torch like serpents. She reaches the top of the spiral staircase and with a flick of her wrist, like the wave of a wand, the silver case of the enormous torch comes back to life, as if it was hibernating. Everyone cheers and claps, for the torch is awakened and all the athletes stand tall and proud as the National Anthem of Brazil begins to be sung by a choir of small angelic children, bringing tears to all who listen to the melodious tune. When we proceed back through the tunnel, everyone takes a last glimpse of the crowd and wishing this would never end, go back through the tunnel which we all enter and kiss the stadium goodbye.

SOPHIA SU

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Claude McKay wrote poetry, articles, and novels to depict the unfair life of a Negro in America. How did he discriminate in choosing friends? In one of his autobiographies, A Long Way from Home, McKay documented his emotions, personality, and experiences as he traveled from Harlem to London to Russia to France to Africa and back to America. Along the way, he met many influential people and made many dear friends. Some of these friends were revolutionists, most involved in advancing Communism. McKay fought the war against discrimination with these people and others. Figues such as James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, other leaders of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), black radicals of Harlem, and the Japanese Communist Sen Katayama. He was not racist when making friends, and he was aware that there were plenty of whites who supported his cause. Some white associates of McKay, such as Frank Harris and Max Eastman, were major figures of the time, but McKay also had personal companions. A prime example is Michael, McKay’s white friend who was also a thief and a gangster.

ALEX LIM

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Formula One and the racing world You may think there is just one type of Formula racing, but actually, there are more –  and they’re all different, and each specific to meet the racing world’s needs, as well as the fans’. Formula 4, also known as F4, is a type of open-wheel racing (the car’s Read more…

From Epigram Analysis unit, 2012

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw   This quote reflects George Bernard Shaw’s economic beliefs, although it can be interpreted in a few different ways. For example, in America today, we have a progressive tax system, established in part by the 16th Amendment. Read more…

ZHUO-WEI LEE

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Alison Bechdel and Joe Sacco decided to write about their state in graphic form, and they had different styles of conveying the quirks of the state. Joe Sacco spoke mainly about his personal life, even going into his relationship with his girlfriend. Alison Bechdel made Vermont seem very unique with its rugged individualism and connection with nature. Since she went into the most detail about the state’s people, politics, and geography, and because she offered an insight into the State’s character affecting her own, Bechdel was more successful in her depiction of Vermont.

SOPHIA SU

Mileena Nguyen’s Three Simple Words is narrated by Evangeline Garnier, a girl who seems to possess a mysterious power to feel the pain of others. The story begins with a quote from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Evangeline, which happens to have the same name as the protagonist. This is probably not a coincidence, as the prologue Read more…

OLIVIA SHEN

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Roald Dahl’s imagination often pits cunning children against bitter and repulsive adults. This continuing theme may be so important in his work based on Dahl’s experiences in boarding school, when his English masters beat him, and upperclassmen were mean and territorial. But in The BFG, the beaten character, the BFG, seems to be similar to Dahl himself; because the BFG spends all of his time giving pleasure to children and saving them, we learn something about who Dahl really is.

HARRY WAN

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Two characters from Danny the Champion of the World:  William, a.k.a Danny’s father,  and Danny. by Harry Wan William (Danny’s father)   Without a doubt, Danny’s father is the most excellent and exciting father any boy could ever have. His father appears to be really serious in fact, he never smiles with his mouth; when Read more…

MILEENA NYUGEN

THREE SIMPLE WORDS Prologue “And by the evening fire repeat Evangeline’s story While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced, neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answer the wail of the forest.”   (lines 1397-1400) –Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Mother’s warm breath ghosted across my ear as she read. She flipped the worn, tea-colored page, reached Read more…

HARRY WAN

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In The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, there are many life lessons learned by the teenagers Rueven Malter and Danny Saunders, exhibited by two parenting styles and perspectives. The first parenting style is from David Malter, Reuven’s father. David Malter is like Reuven’s shepherd – more than a simple father, he is a father who provides shelter and does not try to control his son’s future – he guides him, and yet you could say that David Malter almost has Reuven’s future planned out. Reb Sauders is a leader of a sect, of the Hasidic Jewish tradition, from Europe. His parenting style is quite different from David Malter’s. Reb Saunders raises Danny in silence because the first born of the family must become a tzaddik. (A tzaddik is a high rank in Hasidism.) The tzaddik is the leader in the group of Hasids and the father passes it on to the son and so on, so Reb Saunders is preparing Danny. Reb Saunders never talks to Danny unless they study the Talmud.