The Night Face Up by Julio Cortazar is a short story written back in 1967, and "Go Back to Where You Came From" director by Ivan O'Mahoney are both very similar as they explore different worlds of various perspectives. ... Go Back explores the journey of six participants through the experiences and lives of asylum seekers and the process of discovery that is initiated as a result of their experiences and the challenges they face. ... In the final moments of the story in which the protagonist is being held prisoner and a figure is approaching him with a knife, he comes to the sta...

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Your heart and mind will go through phases. ... After you go through all the phases, something lies ahead for us. ... The point is there comes a time when there is nothing esle we can do. ... Sometimes I want to cry, sometimes I wish I could turn back time, not just for me, but for my friends. ... Rewind for the wrong I did, to go back and re-do mistakes. ...

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What comes to mind when you hear memorable event? ... For me, hundreds of things come to mind, but the memorable event that comes to mind over all of them is the car accident I was in during my junior year of high school. ... They told her it would be back to normal in a couple of days. ... I mean I had months of going to a chiropractor and hours of nerve shocking, massages, and back popping. Still to this day I have back problems. ...

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I know it's impossible to turn back time but sometimes I wish I could. ... I know I have to take on the responsibility of a job and make money but I always wish I could turn back time to my summers back at Camp Poyntelle Lewis Village. ... It's so hard to put on an act to others saying that I didn't want to go back knowing deep inside that I had no idea if I was making the right decision or not. ... From now on, I can only hope that someday, something I do will come close to my experience at sleep away camp. I hate that when it comes to thinking about the past, I cry. ...

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I steped foot on this ship knowing it was a dream come true, walked straight to food, and ate as much as my 4 day empty stomach to hold. ... Captain Swiss and his followers begun to load the boats ladies and children first, i knew by the look of things that i was going to go the long was and fight for my life and go with the ship. ... I knew what the out come of this was going to be, i just didnt what to believe it. ... But i then notice a flare gun in the back pocket of a victim of the Titanic and i fired it. Within seconds i was laying in the back of a boat covered head to toe praising jesus...

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Gracey finds it very hard to come back into "black civilization" after she has tried so hard to fit in with her new "white life" at school. ... When she does come home she sees how backward her people are, wasting all there money and time getting drunk. ... Gracey finds the whole saga very embarrassing and is she can not wait to leave to go back to her school where she feels more at home then in Cunningham with her family. ... I hurt you and cut myself off from you but I"m back now." "Back home; with my family. ...

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Rahim asked me to go back Kabul and to bring Sohrab to Afghanistan where a Christian couple would take care of him. ... Part of me wished that I had not come home to Afghanistan. ... It has always been at the back of my mind, tugging and pushing, making its way back. And so it was true, the past always comes back to haunt you. ... There is far too much going on in my mind. ...

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My job requires me to be able to figure things out on the fly, as well as be able to make them understandable for the next person to be able to come along and do the same thing. ... Going back and reviewing the study information made these quizzes a ton more manageable. Although I was able to have some benefits, this still did not come without some challenges. ... Going through this course I was able to get back into the flow of taking online courses. ... As I reflect back on this course the thing I enjoyed the most was the discussions. ...

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As a result, of these changes Gene comes to the conclusion that he and Finny are in a constant competition. ... The reader quickly comes to the understanding, however, that it is Gene, in fact, who resents Finny. ... When Gene and Finny got back from the beach, Gene received his first F ever on a test. ... He tells Gene to stay and study, but Gene replies that he has studied enough and decides on going to see Leper jump. ... Finny wants to do a double jump with Gene,Gene agrees and they go up the tree. ...

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The danger, however, comes when we are so consumed by these fantasies that we lose sight of the pure and simple joys to be found in everyday living. ... Hawthorne goes on to list several artistic masterpieces and inventions to serve as examples of the magnificence of things that can occur when we play in the imaginative world but live within the actualities of each day. ... That would be good both going and coming back." ... Frost reveals he so enjoys swinging back down toward the ground because "Earth's the right place for love." ... Our dreams act in much the same way as this passpo...

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Friday night would come and my parents would ask, "Who are you going out with? Where are you going? ... What time are you going to be back? Why are you going out?" ... I was to bring her back a sandwich. ...

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I wish I could have been a bird in the sky while the War was going on. ... It puts a question in the back of my mind of what we do truly know. ... Who was going to war? ... They would rather go to jail then be put in the situations of the Vietnam War. ... In 1965 the war was not nearly as hated as it became in the years to come. ...

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Most people back then believe that love is the only thing that is significant in a boy-girl relationship. ... Several other things come into mind of most people when picking a satisfactory partner like beauty, body contour, class, etc. ... The individual chooses strategically where to take the person and what to do in every place they go to. ... Back then, people let love take control of them. ...

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Walking down rusted brass stairs reared, at the back of the aeroplane "farewell for now" I whispered inside my noddle. ... All I can say is that it's like a swarm of killer bees are trying be very irritable, then sting you right middle, centre in the back of the neck. . ... Close enough to another later, we checked in to the hotel and signed the entire lark that comes with the "good" holiday packages. ... When in my comforting position of laying half a sleep, I decided to go back and think about what I saw, heard and felt a short time before in the form of a relaxing, yet fulfilling dr...

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He is the only person who knows what is going on. ... The still picture suddenly becomes alive again and the sounds slowly come back. ... In five second, silent come back and movement become still again. ... His friends is worried now, they do not know what is going on. ... The sorrow has come out. ...

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I then make my way to the dorms with thoughts of the past year hovering in the back of my mind. I think back to all the memories I have of the time I have spent on campus. Walking through the halls of the freshman dorms, I come across a couple of students. ... She goes on to tell me that she misses me and my eyes start to tear up. ... I am about to go home to my family and I can not wait to share stories about my freshman year at TCNJ. ...

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He's going back from love to lust when he writing his letter to this lady thinking that the love words he says is going to help him get closer to getting what he wants from her. He goes back to biblical use when he says he will love her ten years before the flood. ... Reading Susan Glaspell "Trifles" it makes your mind wonder what was really going on in the wife's mind at the time. ... Was it a payback situation; like since you killed my bird I"m going to kill you and see if you like it? ... All she could do is sit in the rocking chair and rock her back and forth with nothing to ...

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In the teenage years it is common for an individual to experience all the savage realities of life as a sub-adult, while missing out on the respect that comes with maturity as well as the leniency that comes with adolescence. ... But I think the human fascination with violence goes far beyond anything we can observe or even comprehend. ... Not to mention that somewhere along these lines one of them, one of us, woke one day and went to the river to drink, only to realize that the reflection staring back at him was his own....

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So I went to my room to think about what exactly I was going to say to my mom. ... After about fifteen minutes of thinking what I was going to tell my mom, I slowly started to walk down to the basement. ... She told me to come with her upstairs so that she can talk to me for a minute, little did I know that she was going to explain to me everything I needed to know to be an adult. ... I look back today and think it is the funniest thing that has ever happened to me....

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Thomas did not begin to realize that humans and animals were alike until going to the zoo. ... Humans feel the need to go against what is natural to us.His thought process broadens as he begins analyzing the actions of ants. ... (Thomas 540) They collectively come together, though each one insignificant in its own, to perform a significant task. ... Looking back at the ants, one must look at them collectively because each of them individually made no substantial difference. ... According to Lewis Thomas, the only way for society to thrive, is to go against societal beliefs of "every man for hi...

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Jimmy has to make some difficult decisions while in his tour, and most of them come to his attention after his friend Ted Lavender is killed. ... She was a girl back home who he had loved dearly, and had remained in contact with throughout the war. ... He needed something to keep his thoughts away from the horrible tragedies going on around him. ... Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak and not budge until your buddies picked you up and lifted you into the chopper ." Because of Martha Jimmy cross could not let go. ...

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Dates don't always have to go perfectly to workout perfectly for two people. ... I went back about my busy day, by this point miserable from the heat, yet I couldn't take my mind off of her. ... We finally made it back to the lake and fixed the tire. ... In conclusion, dates come in a variety of ways and may not always be what you expect them to be. ... Looking back on it now, I can say there is nothing I would change about my "last first date."...

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Even though there was more to come in her new days, there was probably more that he would encounter that he would have ever expected. ... As known to this day adolescent minds should not come to face with such horrors. ... He would call them chinks and other derogatory names and his reply to this consumption is that they should go back to their own countries. ... That he would come back later in his life and judge a race from the way the look and act and just the way they are for hardly a good reason. ... One more elementary school memory is how I remember when all the kids during lunc...

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Ivy had long, curly red hair pushed back with a sparkly headband. ... The moment Bean saw Ivy she instantly thought they were not going to be friends because Ivy wore dresses and read books. ... Ivy than comes to the rescue by hiding Bean in her back yard. "I'm going to take you to a secret spot.... In conclusion the author did a great job presenting of what goes in a seven-year-olds mind. ...

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He always knew the places I loved to go and which restaurants served the best ice cream. ... Then, one day, my uncle was back in the hospital with pneumonia. ... Just then, my mother and sister came back and the moment was gone. The next day, we received the call from the hospital asking us to come and claim the body. ... Recalling the events of the previous night, I blamed myself for not asking him if he was going to die the night before. ...

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