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Text to Go: The Kid Nobody Could Handle
"The Kid Nobody Could Handle" is a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. In the short story, Jim, the "kid nobody could handle," has been treated very badly by life. To this, he has two responses—retreating into...
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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: Extract from 'Night' by Elie Wiesel
Young writers living at the time of the Holocaust including Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel taught future generations of young people about the Holocaust. Excerpt from Elie Wiesel, Night, trans. Marion Wiesel...
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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: 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: The Danger of a Single Story
The Danger of a Single Story - Transcript Courtesy of TED By Chimamanda Adichie I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call "the danger of the single...
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Text to Go: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings is one of the most well-known examples of the magical realist style. Gabriel Garcia Marquez combines the details of Pelayo and Elisenda's life with the fantastic elements...
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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: Metamorphosis - Part 3
In his novella, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka applies magical realism which blends magical elements with the real world. No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained...
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Text to Go: Metamorphosis - Part 2
In his novella, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka applies magical realism which blends magical elements with the real world. It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke from...