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Composers have the power to create different worlds and new messages. The autobiographical novel Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah and the drama Across the Barricades by Joan Lingard demonstrate the hardships faced by individuals in difficult circumstances and their ability to escape to new places. In these texts the composers have developed the concept of new messages having the power to change an individual’s lack of acceptance in their world. _In Chinese Cinderella, the protagonist…

not what you imagined as a child. As a child the world seemed perfect and that all people were good. With time the world became strange, and not the same place I remembered as kid. Adulthood is when life became hard to deal with, and it still is. In my twenty-eight years of life, I discovered many things about the world and it has affected my life tremendously. The first few years of my life the world was more wonderful than it is now. The world was exciting to me and life was great then. At…

He lives with his father and mother and sister lily. The Giver is a novel that copies the world today. Jonas and all the other 12 year olds in his world are given jobs. He, among them, is given the most important job of receiving all the memories of the world. He learns that there is actually color and truth about his world. It copies the world today because the whole point is that when your 12 in that world you leave your parents and are given a job and you only produce one boy and one girl and…

whole world is turned upside down by this betrayal. Almost everything about Annie changes, and continues to depend on her relationship with her mother. Annie’s idea of the world becomes constantly changing, but the only thing that remains steady is her overwhelming wish to escape her life in her home of Antigua, and her mother’s influence. Annie’s mother’s betrayal causes Annie to not only change the idea of the world Annie wants to…

going to change the world.” I remember writing this letter, only days after getting the news of my parent’s divorce. It held plans to myself of becoming a successful career woman and mother. Even at nine years old, I knew I wanted to change the world. Now, as an 18 year old headed to college, although my career plans may be different, I still aspire to change the world. And if what I do only affects one person, that is okay, because I have made a difference. Changing the world should not have…

My world was upside down. I had never seen such a variety of races, cultures, and history in one place. The move enabled me to grasp that Arizona was not the only place in the galaxy, but only a microscopic portion of it. Growing up on…

In Labor of Fun by Nick Yee, he discusses the idea that interactive online games are essentially a convergence between what we do in real life and our digital world. He touches also on the idea that it odd that there is so much overlapping between the activities we do when working in comparison to what we so for fun online. Throughout is writing he compares the roles we take online in these games to the different career paths that we can take in life. He explains that at a very basic level all…

most prominent is seeing more of the world I live in. One of the many things I have loved since I was a child is exploring. The ocean Appalachian Trail Seeing different cultures and ways of life Travelling is an important factor in the growth of humans as people and as global citizens. Understanding different cultures Meeting new…

save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another.” George Carlin. This is the brutal truth of the world we live in today; hardly anyone seems to value or respect each other. Yet not many of us choose to notice this let alone try to raise others attention to our behaviors. However, bestselling author Suzanne Collins, does just that. Author…

What would you do if you could discover a “new world”? That’s exactly what the Jamestown Colonists were going to find out when they sailed out for the new world even though this journey could mean their death. The question for this essay is “Early Jamestown: Why did so many colonists die?” even though Jamestown was supplied with 560 colonists only 90 colonists survive after the May of 1610. What the colonists were expecting to find was a new route to china and Valuables but when the colonists…