Play Response: A Rasin in the Sun I thought the play "A Raisin in The Sun" was very good because it accurately displayed so many aspects of what life would be like in the 1950’s for African Americans. Full of conflict and racial tension‚ Hansberry creates a strong distinction between her different and unique characters. The main theme of dreams creates conflicts that are evident in the play because the family is aiming for an individual dream that seems to never happen; however‚ in the end‚ they
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Critical Response: Listening to Popular music David Riesman During the 1950s a sociologist by the name of David Riesman published a study on the listening habits of teenagers. In the study itself he addresses Adorno’s assumptions about the power of the music industry over consumers. After completing interviews with approximately 150 youths‚ Riesman found that a minority group’s critical attitude toward mainstream popular music led them to make alternative choices for themselves. According to Riesman
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Nguyen Thi Thanh Thao L9921032 L70513B 23th May 2013 Essay: rewrite critical response 2 TEXTING AND YOUNG PEOPLE Texting is a tool that people can use to exchange their messages freely. Abbreviation is often a choice that people quickly use to transfer their information. In the newspaper is that “Mobile phones and Literacy” from 2012 and “ Text messaging and the decline of the English language” in 2012‚ Samuel Tsung and Louise Dite both discuss texting affect young people with different supports
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Critical Response Essay The real debate - the pipe-dream or nuclear? Mark Kenny ’The Nation’ Mark Kenny’s article on the coal power versus nuclear power debate was published in the Advertiser on the 31st of October 2009. The Advertiser is South Australia’s only daily tabloid newspaper‚ and is widely distributed around South Australia allowing for a large dispersion of readers from diverse cultural backgrounds and an assortment of age groups. The article has Mark Kenny’s photograph situated
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TASK 1: CRITICAL RESPONSE (a) Article 1: Teaching English Grammar in Malaysian Primary School by Ruth Wickham. This article is basically about the techniques and approaches that can be used to teach grammar in Malaysian Primary school. There is one section in this article where Wickham talks about covert and overt approach. According to Wickham‚ covert approach requires teacher to teach the grammar rules indirectly to the students. Instead of explaining the grammar rules to the students‚ teacher
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Part I. Response Journal (four passages and responses = four points). Divide the book into four equal parts (four quarters)‚ and select four favorite passages‚ one from each of the four quarters of the book. Follow the guidelines shared for the grade 7-10 response journals (see above) in terms of format‚ length of responses‚ and content. Here is a sample response: Chapter/Page: “Evacuation Order No.19” page 6 Passage: "She wiped her forehead with her handkerchief. The sun was bright and she did
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Critical Analysis of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry is a book about the Youngers‚ a family living on the south side of Chicago between 1945 and 1959. Throughout the work the family deals with the struggles of poverty‚ racial discrimination and their dreams of having a better life. Although the time frame of this book has a large impact on the family’s struggles‚ the importance of family takes a leading role in creating the main theme of the
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A Raisin in the Sun: Act One Journal Aaron Garfinkle 12 August 2014 English 9 In act one of Raisin in the Sun‚ we learn many of the dreams that the characters in the play have‚ that all have one thing in common‚ the need of money. These dreams combined with the fact that the family has recently come into possession of ten-thousand dollars provides a fantastic opportunity for author Lorraine Hansberry to foreshadow that greed will tear this family apart. Each character is vastly different from
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although the common belief is that reading will make us better people‚ it doesn’t mean anything to us unless we really know how to comprehend the book itself and allow it to influence our decisions. A text that applies to this idea is A Raisin in the Sun. It is just a normal book until you take it to a new realization and apply it to much more. Through this book‚ I have learned how characters are influenced by their surroundings‚ how pieces of the book connect to this quote‚ and how my life has been
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I called walter for supper late that evening‚ He spoken back and said “ I’m not hungry.” I was thinking about what he said because he has not ate all day. I called him a repeated time and said “come down to the kitchen “ My husband was already sitting at the table with his meal ahead of him. Walter was walking pretty stiffened looking but i did not mind it. His father ask “ What’s wrong with you‚ boy?” Walter talk back as his common answer “Nothing.” My husband said the same thing just his tone
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