The Man from Mars by Margaret Atwood This story takes place in a town somewhere north of Montreal‚ Canada. There are several settings but most often the story centers on a college campus or the main character’s residence. The main female character is a Caucasian citizen of Canada and is very affluent‚ while the main male character is Asian and is visiting Canada on a study visa‚ and is not wealthy at all. The political climate of this story is not completely present; however‚ at the end of the
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s ¨Letter From a Birmingham Jail¨ is all about letting people know how the minorities of that time felt and putting the reader in their shoes. He wrote about how some of the laws in that time were hypocritical or only applied to one group of people. He explains how these laws aren’t fair and promote discrimination. Dr. King then goes on to explain the differences between just and unjust laws in several different ways. The first thing that Dr. King writes is what he thinks
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The book From The Land of Shadows by Khatharya Um made me think if people really believed to the communist party and their propaganda or if they were just scared to stand up against them. The book talks about revolutions and how some movements were trying to fight against the regime‚ but they were usually not successful and lots of people were killed during revolutions. Did it result in resignation and accepting the life based on the communism ideals or people were really persuaded by the politic
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While reading From the Barrio to the Academy‚ by Laura Rendon‚ I made a couple of connections between my journey and that of the author. The first common parallel was about how we had to separate ties with the past to be successful. I’m not really fluent in my language‚ Vietnamese. I knew way more Vietnamese words when I was a child. While growing up‚ I kept on learning and practicing English‚ but I never really practice Vietnamese. I cannot have full on conversations with my grandma or Dad anymore
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Reading Keila Diehl’s Echoes from Dharamsala was‚ personally‚ an emotional ride. Her narrative does a phenomenal job of transporting the reader into a first-hand experience of “movement and being moved” (Diehl‚ 2002). Published in 2002‚ the book traces the nuances of life and music (as it is received and performed) in the Tibetan refugee community in North India during the last decade of the 20th century through the eyes and ears of Diehl. She set out to conduct research in Dharamsala in 1994 on
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-------------------------------- American Government ------------------------ 10/1/11 “From Freedom to Fascism” by Aaron Russo I decided‚ rather than to write a play-by-play‚ I would write more of an overview of the entire video. I believe that the main points of the video are more clearly shown in this form of review. The video examines the Federal Reserve System‚ including how it was established and what it does. The video states that the Federal Reserve System (FRS) is privately owned
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In the article From The End Of Nature the author Bill McKibben bewails upon the loss of the conception of nature‚ and how human amendments have done nothing‚ but decline its true meaning. He explains‚ everything around us is altered by human renovations‚ and there’s no where to escape from it. He explains that life as we know it‚ wilderness‚ rainforest‚ ocean‚ atmosphere is no longer the production of nature‚ but it is now the product of human pursuits‚ economy and human’s narcissistic way of life
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The Excerpt from Bossypants by Tina Fey gets your immediate attention with the title alone. I mean how many experts start with Bossypants? This excerpt also causes for immediate attention because of all the quotations and the (what I would call) back and forth bickering. The main point in this vignette/excerpt is the rules of improvisation. In the text Improvisation is broken down into 5 rules‚ “AGREE”‚ “YES”‚ “MAKE STATEMENTS” and “THERE ARE NO MISTAKES”. This is a very intuitive way to learn
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In the article “A view from the bridge” there is two main characters‚ one a man who is in his 20s-30s and a boy who is young. The story is about the man helping the boy with his fishing with a twist at one point. Throughout the article there is details that inform the reader of the boy’s problem and there is a point when the author realizes it too. When reading the story it starts off with the man jogging in Fort Lauderdale who comes across a boy who is fishing in the water. The man doesn’t seem
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Letters from Rifka is the story of a young Russian-Jewish girl and her family who leave their homeland in 1919 to travel to America. Persecuted in Russia by the soldiers and others who dislike Jews‚ Rifka’s family makes their way across Russia to Poland and the U.S. However‚ Rifka encounters many difficulties along the way. Initially worried that they will not make it out of Russia‚ the family runs into guards on the train on the way out (whom Rifka successfully distracts)‚ and unkind guards at the
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