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Tag Archives: high school
The Plot Is Simply
“All human happiness and misery take the form of action.” Aristotle Since my young years as a student in high school, I have underlined and highlighted words, sentences, paragraphs and pages of description, characterization, scenes and setting from the different … Continue reading
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New Beginning
“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” Ralph Waldo Emerson I do agree with Emerson that … Continue reading
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Tagged author, book, books, civil war, dad, dreams, emotion, encouragement, English, essay, faith, feelings, fiction, gratitude, happy, high school, history, home, house, language, lessons, library, life, light, literature, love, memories, mom, music, novel, people, story, teacher, thoughts, University, words, world, writer, writing
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You Begin With Words
“The theme of art is the theme of life itself.” Lawrence Durell Theme is topic, idea, or subject matter. It is merely a simple way of defining what you are writing about. When I think of ‘theme’ bad memories come … Continue reading
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Can’t You Read English?
In October 1988 Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian writer, won the Nobel Prize for literature. When I first heard the news I was ecstatic. “Finally. I told my husband. Now the rest of the world will know him and read his … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, aim, Arab world, book, books, British, civil war, curriculum, Dubai, e-book, English, high school, home, horror, husband, Ivan Turgenev, journalist, literature, married, Mathematics, memories, Middle East, Naguib Mahfouz, name, news, newspaper, October, people, recognition, road, school, spelling, teacher, translation, tv, twin towers, ugly, welcome, world
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Memory Has You
Hemingway once said that “war makes great material for writing.” True. Think of all these great books: A Farewell To Arms, The Sun Also Rises, Platoon, War and Peace, to name only a few. The first time I read some … Continue reading
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It’s Bad Enough
Have you ever woken up early one morning at dawn and quite unexpectedly noticed the twilight? Or some other day quite unexpectedly you saw a sunset, a starry sky, a scenery or the horizon, so beautiful, so exquisite that a … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, childhood, children, civil war, death, disease, economic crisis, famine, father, fear, foreclosure, hard times, high school, illness, internet, job, job search, Lebanon, life, memories, Middle East, Montreal, mother, news, night, parent, parents, responsibility, sky, stability, stars, sun, survival, teenager, twilight, unemployment, worry, youth
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Prejudice!
Albert Einstein wrote: “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.” According to The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary: A) Prejudice is an opinion, like or dislike, formed before one has adequate knowledge. B) Opinion is judgment not … Continue reading
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Rendezvous With William Saroyan
“Well for God’s sake, what’s that lousy Armenian son of a bitch doing here?” stated Ernest Hemingway. The more I tried to hush him, the worse it got. Finally Saroyan’s companion… began to come back at Ernest. I am not … Continue reading
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