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Text to Go: Snow by Julia Álvarez
Our first year in New York we rented a smaJI apartment with a Catholic school nearby, taught by the Sisters of Charity, hefty women in long black gowns and bonnets that made them look peculiar, like dolls...
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Text to Go: Ishwari's Children by Shabnam Nadiya
Nadiya is a writer and translator from Bangladesh, whose story, Ishwari's Children"explores the culture and social practices of a rural Bangladeshi village. The protagonist is a 6 year-old boy who journeys...
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Text to Go: Fatherland by Viet Thanh Nguyen
"Fatherland" is the final short story in Viet Thanh Nguyen's collection: The Refugees. It is narrated in third person, past tense, and it returns to the country of Vietnam itself. In the story, the protagonist,...
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Text to Go: A Contract Overseas by Mia Alvar
Mia Alvar's short stories shed light on the Filipino diaspora, with each story following the various journeys of men, women, and their families as they leave their homes in search of a new, but not always...
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Text to go: R&J - Balcony Scene
Scene II. Capulet's Garden.[Enter Romeo.]Romeo.He jests at scars that never felt a wound.[Juliet appears above at a window.]But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?It is the east and Juliet...
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Text to Go: Lest We Forget: War Poetry
The Charge of the Light Brigade By Alfred. Lord Tennyson I Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge...
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Text to Go: Poetry of Witness
Now light the candles; one; two; there's a moth;What silly beggars they are to blunder inAnd scorch their wings with glory, liquid flame—No, no, not that,—it's bad to think of war,When thoughts you've...
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Text to Go: Extracts from Anne Frank's Diary
The following extracts are taken from the diary of Anne Frank between 1942 and 1944, during the period she lived in hiding with her family in Amsterdam. The Franks were discovered, arrested and transported...
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Text to Go: Extract from 'Night' by Elie Wiesel
Excerpt from Elie Wiesel, Night, trans. Marion Wiesel (New York: Hill and Wang, 1960). Translation copyright 2006 by Marion Wiesel. Reprinted by permission of Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus...
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Text to Go: The Yellow Wallpaper
"The Yellow Wallpaper" details the deterioration of a woman's mental health while she is on a "rest cure" on a rented summer country estate with her family. Her obsession with the yellow wallpaper in...