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In pixel(My first year at IPELSHT is over)
So...we started in September the 13th 2006 at a pace of 30 hours a week(of course without counting the extra_hours), and we had weekly exams(without mentioning orals, surprise tests, DM's, and presentations). And here we are now on Monday, the second...
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Finally!
I did it! I passed with a good average! I am happy, but I am really sad for all my friends who didn't make it! I love you guys from the bottom of my heart! Never been in such a wonderful class before! First Year English Group C! I will never ever forget...
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In pixel( My sister Ryma)
So this is me, and that's my sister to the right. And this is so not me! What cameras do to people!!!! And this is my sister again!! She's an artist you know. She draws wonderful portraits of celebrities and stuff. Sister again. Sophisticated! Sophisticated...
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Introducing my college
: Preparatory Institute for Literary Studies and Humanities. Or as they say in French L'Institut Préparatoire aux Etudes Littéraires et Sciences Humaines de Tunis: -is a very young institute, just five years old. It never had a stable locale until this...
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I Fit In
This is a poem that I wrote just yesterday, that is 06/15/2007, I called it "I Fit In", I don't think I finished it, but I want to post it the way it is now: I Fit In Like a grain of sugar in a salt shaker. Like an aimless love song in my diary. Like...
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Msaken(my home town)
Msaken: The Name: I read once that your name was « Ksour El ashraf », (Castles of the Noble People), and that after a period it became « Msaken El Ashraf » (Houses Of The Noble People). Now dear town, you lay ripped off of your noble history. On the map,...
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Fingers Crossed
Two simple wishes: Tomorrow, I'll know my final grades. I just hope that everything will go alright. I guess ya'll know now that I flunk three of my driving tests, that I had four other chances to sit for four other driving tests and took none, that I...
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Alienation of the characters in James Joyce's The Dead
I will try to post some of the essays I wrote during the last Academic year. I just hope that you will find them of some intrest. I will of course tell you if the essay posted has been corrected by a teacher or not. My essays are simple attempts to discuss...
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Getting practical after not a short journey in fairy tales
I love my daddy so much. He trusts in me. He encourages my dreams by maturely rationalizing them. This way of encouragement gets on my nerves most of the time, but apparently it is the only way that works. If I want to realize my dream then I'll have...
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I'm not an addict
It’s about drugs. Yeah! What’s your drug? I’m not an addict, by K’s choice (moaning….) Breathe it in and breathe it out And pass it on it’s almost out. We’re so creative, so much more We’re high above, but on the floor It’s not a habit, it’s cool I feel...
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Hymns of the Pharoes
This is another poem written by the Egyptian poet Amin Haddad in the Egyptian dialect. You can find it in his collection Fil il Mout Han iich or We shall live in Death. This poem is orginally entitled " Taranim il pharaaina". This is my translation: Hymns...
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Some Poems that I like
Messy Room by Shel Silverstein Whosever room this is should be ashamed! His underwear is hanging on the lamp. His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair, And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp. His workbook is wedged in the window, His sweater's...
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Mutation
This is another poem that I wrote a couple of years ago. I still like it, wich is unusual. Mutation Your bodies are rottening here. Every pore of your skin is letting out The coarse smell of inertia. Inside your coffin you gather Make sure your roots...
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My list
Ok, probably, in a day or two I'll come back to this list and say:"What the hell was I thinking?", but for the moment I want to live my feelings the way they are. So here is a list of the things that I love : 1- Rouz jerbi bi dindon 2- To pass my exams...
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A moment of self scolding
This piece of writing was originally a homework that my writing teacher asked us to do. Of course he asked us to write a formal essay, but I did not know what that was at that time, or maybe I knew and I just could not do it. So here it is, corrected...
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My Favorite Songs for the moment
I tried to download some of the songs in the following list on my blog, but I couldn't. I'll ask for help. And until I do that, and until help comes, here are the titles of the songs I'm diggin' for the moment. -Und Wenn ein Lied, by Xavier Naidoo. The...
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My Experience as a freshman I
I want to write something about my experience as a freshman at college. Allow me to introduce myself first. I am Rania. I graduated last year from high school with a baccalaureate in Literature, or Arts, as some of my English teachers used to call it....
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Just a few moments before I know my final grades
I did not go to IPELSHT to know my final grades! I'm not that courageous! Plus can't take the train to Tunis on such hot day! Damn my stomach hurts, and I'm sweating! I have absolutely no idea how well did I do or how bad did I do in those final exams!...
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Le poème marin
" Al Kassida Al Bahria" is a poem written by the Great Nizar Kabbani. Three years ago, I tried to translate this poem into French. Here is the translation: Le Poème Marin Dans le port bleu de tes yeux Il y a des pluies en lumières audibles Des soleils...
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Rain Song
This is a translated poem written by the great Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al Sayab. I apologize for the artist who translated this poem because I do not know his/her name. This is a very famous poem, a little long, but worth reading. Enjoy it! Rain Song Your...
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I like you
I was just hanging out aimlessly from blog to blog, when I discovered this poem on ginevra.vox.com. It is supposed to be a poem for kids. I love it. it made me smile. Enjoy! I Like You by Sandol Stoddard Warburg I like you and I know why. I like you because...
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Gwendolen in The Importance of being Earnest
I will try to post some of the essays I wrote during the last Academic year. I just hope that you will find them of some intrest. I will of course tell you if the essay posted has been corrected by a teacher or not. My essays are simple attempts to discuss...
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A Nationalistic Song
"Oghnia Watania" is the original title of this poem written by the Egyptian poet Amin Haddad. You can find this poem and many other wonderful poems in his book Fil Mout Haniich or We Shall Live in Death. Amin Haddad writes mostly in the Egyptian dialect....
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Catharsis
Purification Voices in the train cut my braids (My braids were the wind’s favorite mistress In another life time) Voices scratch my head until they shave it. Until I fit in beautifully like a stone. They spit into my pores. And I vomit all the naughty...
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Algernon's mistrust of marriage
I will try to post some of the essays I wrote during the last Academic year. I just hope that you will find them of some intrest. I will of course tell you if the essay posted has been corrected by a teacher or not. My essays are simple attempts to discuss...