feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed” (Gioia & Gwynn‚ p. 430). This causes the narrator to be ignorant to the harsh realities that surround him such as poverty. For example‚ “The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses‚ where we ran the gauntlet of the rough tribes from the cottages‚ to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens …” (Gioia & Gwynn‚ p. 430). The drawing board in the story represents the narrator’s coming of age
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Greek by the name of Zaphiro‚ who had a station which he had named "Fort Harrington". When C.W. Gwynn visited in 1908‚ Zaphiro ’s station consisted of a garden that covered several acres and his house‚ located on a spur projecting from the Boran highlands‚ and providing access through the line of cliffs that run along the border. "This route may well become some day a considerable trade artery‚" Gwynn predicted. "Fort Harrington is therefore well placed as a healthy administrative post and as a possible
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True Heritage Heritage is defined as something that is passed down from preceding generations‚ such as a tradition. It could also be defined as the status acquired by a person through birth. Heritage helps to develop a persons values showing what they believe in; particularly about the values of their family. In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets”‚ the author’s seem to explore a common theme of heritage. Alice Walker is exploring the concept of heritage as it applies
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ways history and memory generate compelling and unexpected insights. In your response‚ make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing. History and memory both provide adequate insights into the past‚ but it is through the consideration and combination of the two that compelling and unexpected insights are generated. After having analysed and studied a selection of poems from Denise Levertov’s anthology ‘Freeing of the Dust’ and ‘Millicent’s
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“Trifles” Formalist Analysis Most people tend to presume when they really don’t have any evidence of something being true. It is that “for sure” feeling that people get that allows them to make presumptions. False presumptions can create certainty where it should not be. It is that image or symbolism that reveals the truth; therefore‚ truth is in the eye of the beholder. Throughout the play‚ “Trifles”‚ the accused murderer is on trial by a jury of her peers. In the play “Trifles”‚ by Susan Glaspell
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Southern Culture 44.3 (Summer 1991). 3.Fowler‚ Virginia C. Faulkner ’s ’Barn Burning ’: Sarty ’s Conflict Reconsidered. College Language Association Journal 24.4 (June 1981). 4. Steinbeck‚ John. The Chrysanthemums. Fiction: A Longman Pocket Anthology. Ed. R.S. Gwynn. Second Ed. New York: Longman‚ 1998. 5.Beach‚ J. John Steinbeck ’s Authentic Characters. Readings on John Steinbeck. Ed. Swisher‚ Clarice. San Diego: Greenhaven‚ 1996.
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assignment: Compose an anthology of thirteen quotations drawn from the materials assigned for the first three sections of this course (Parts I‚ II and III). The anthology will consist of a preface‚ short commentaries on each quotation‚ and a conclusion. The anthology should be governed by a theme (or a set of two topics aligned to the concerns of the first four sections of the syllabus) that offer a way to unite together the diverse materials for this course. The best anthologies (those that will receive
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hitters in baseball history while Tony Gwynn is a name that few people know. Cobb’s batting average was a solid .366 while Gwynn’s was a .338. Although these stats seem far apart from each other‚ but simple mathematics proves otherwise. If each player were to have a hundred at-bats‚ Cobb would get a hit 37 out of the 100 times‚ while Gwynn would have 34 hits out of the 100 attempts. Those 3 hits sent Cobb to the Hall of Fame and to the record books while Gwynn was seen as only an average hitter.
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Essay anthologies are one of the perennials of American publishing‚ old and new titles shoaling into bookstores by the tens of thousands every year … the catch being that most are put forward not as essay anthologies‚ but as “composition readers‚” created to encourage undergraduates to take an interest in the shapeliness of their own prose. Their covers and editorial apparatuses gesture wildly at being up-to-date‚ but the contents—descriptive‚ narrative‚ and argumentative essays‚ as represented by
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863 Both “In the new landscape” by Bruce Dawe and “Your Attention Please” by Peter Porter are fine examples of Speculative Fiction worthy of being in a Year Nine anthology for 2012. The poems are in-depth hypotheses of what society will eventuate too‚ allowing the reader to ponder the way of living in the future: a true example of speculating. The poetic structures display careful imagery and strong senses of warning
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