Living on My Own

responsibility for their own lives. Discuss the nature of theses failures, drawing upon at least two of the stories from the course. Lecturer's name: M. Brian Duffy Declaration I hereby certify that this material, which I now submit for assessment on module EN205 ‘Exile and Belonging in American Short Fiction’ is entirely my own work and has not been taken from the work of others except in such cases that such work has been cited and acknowledged within the text of my work. Signed:

 To me, it  is like giving your house key to someone you may not know too well. I need to be able to trust this person  fully without a doubt in my mind that they will respect my privacy and personal belongings. Hanging out with  someone and living with somebody are two very different activities. In order for me to choose a person  worthy enough to be my roommate, that person must have specific qualities I am looking for. The most  important characteristic should be honesty. Other traits I would look for is cleanliness and a clean slate

caged bird sings by Maya Angelou). Some persons write about their life changing of their self-person (My own autobiography) or also some person writes about their events important in their life (Roots by Alex Haley). In all these autobiography, people want to give information of what they lived, transmit emotions and relieves themselves in writing. Maya Angelou writes without finesse about all her own life that was very hard and complicated. She wrote a lot of book to tell all her story. She speaks

veines coule à nouveau le flot rouge de la vie,Et que le calme revienne dans ta conscience – regarde, la voici, –Je te la tends.  _______ This living hand, now warm and capableOf earnest grasping, would, if it were coldAnd in the icy silence of the tomb,So haunt thy days and chilt thy dreaming nightsThat thou would wish thine own heart dry of bloodSo in my veins red life might stream again,And thou be conscience-calm’d — see here it is —I hold it towards you. John Keats (1795-1821 )  I'll

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prostitute” (p.172), he feels terrible as he says “Inside of me my world crashed and my body felt heavy” (p.172). This makes him more aware of white people even If he has never seen white brutality. This chokes him as he says that it altered his look of the world. That shows us that even if Richard doesn’t express his feelings, he still has some. Richard knows that he has never been like his classmates but he now feels very isolated (“my sense of isolation became doubly acute.” P.173) but when Richard

I wake up in the morning Put on my face The one that's gonna get me Through another day Doesn't really matter How I feel inside This life is like a game sometimes Then you came around me The walls just disappeared Nothing to surround me And keep me from my fears I'm unprotected See how I've opened up Oh, you've made me trust I've never felt like this before I'm naked Around you Does it show ? You see right through me And I can't hide I'm naked Around you And it feels so

gonna work it out (I Have a Dream) I got a Dream (That One Day) That one day (That One Day) I'ma look deep within myself (I Have a Dream) I gotta find a way... My Dream Is To Be Free My Dream Is To Be My Dream Is To Be My Dream Is To Be Free In search of brighter days, I ride through the maze of the madness, Struggle is my address, where pain and crack lives, Gunshots comin' from sounds of Blackness, Given this game with no time to practice, Born on the Black list, told I'm below average

your life, your work, and your relationships.” —Lynne Twist, author, The Soul of Money, and cofounder of The Pachamama Alliance “We criticize politicians for not being real with us, but when is the last time you tried to distinguish between your own ‘public self’ and the real you? Mike Robbins has tackled this timely topic with great skill and depth. What does it mean to live authentically? Are you truly being yourself? The answers are all here in this highly accessible, eyeopening book that is

| | |I'm sorry it's taken me so long to write. Every time I try to write to you and Papa I realize I'm not saying the things that are in my heart. That would be OK, | | |if I loved you any less than I do, but you are still my parents and I am still your child. I have friends who think I'm foolish to write this letter. I hope | | |they're wrong. I hope their doubts are based on parents who loved and trusted them less