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...though. Delight is warm and personable and has the relaxed confidence of youth. He loves school, especially science classes, and understands the importance of education. He is in many ways like his grandfather, with whom he is close. "I like studying, you know," he told me. "There's constant discipline. If you feel lazy or not, you have to study...
...this horror show of raging fights, "mother's-little-helpers," and constant humiliation, Kominsky Crumb establishes the sub-themes that will run through her life and art: negative self image, always striving to please others and the need to escape. Subsequent chapters detail the author's early adulthood as the quintessential hippie chick. At 19 she hangs out in New York's Lower East Side and soon becomes pregnant amidst a series of lovers, none of whom she can recall since she was so high all the time. These stories of free love, massive drug and alcohol abuse...
...creative writing offerings are drastically different than anything most students have ever experienced. Unlike the novels one may read and analyze in other English courses, the writing discussed in workshops is never considered finished. The process can be challenging for workshop participants, particularly because the courses are focused on constantly tweaking and improving one’s work. “It’s not about the grades,” says Uzodinma C. Iweala ’04, a creative-writing-workshop veteran. “You’re really trying to go for something else...
...sprawling American compound at the airport, Charlie Company fortified a row of houses with concrete, razor wire and plenty of firepower. The COP is the first test of the counter-insurgency strategy the military plans to implement across Baghdad. Part of the plan hinges on quicker response time and constant interactions with residents. The thinking goes: with no room to fight and fewer chances to intimidate civilians, the power and influence of militiamen and insurgents will wane...
...television interview on February 3, the constant comparisons with Bachchan seemed to get to Khan. "That was your generation, this is mine," he replied, curtly, to one question. "He does his age, I do my age." Bachchan said comparisons were unfair. "I am 25 years older than him. If you want to do an honest comparison, you should wait for him to get to 65 and then see how he fares with the Box Office king at that point in time...