Book Review of “The True Story of Ah Q” Course: HIS 1601E Student Name: Xiqian Yang Student Number: 250701761 TA: Chris The True Story of Ah Q is written by Xun Lu‚ one of the most famous author and thinkers in modern China. This book is one of his representative novels. Xun Lu‚ the founder of Chinese literature‚ originally went to Japan to study medicine in order to save people. Then he realized that‚ for China at that time‚ saving people not only means rescuing
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Artist Vernon Ah Kee believes that Australia isn’t the dream country that many perceive it to be‚ especially when it comes to human rights and equality. The intention in his works are to show this to the audience and reveal Australia’s true identity and the government’s actions in the past towards Aboriginal Australians. World Vernon Ah Kee was inspired by seeing his great grandparents’ and grandfather’s picture in the State Library in Brisbane. What stood out was their "gaze" and is what mainly
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In this passage‚ Abraham Lincoln uses the literary device of contrasting imagery to express the higher‚ spiritual implications of the war. Through his magnificent oratory talent‚ Lincoln distinguishes a path for the nation by employing the images of life and death. The phrase‚ “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us‚” describes an incomplete duty‚ once held by the soldiers of Gettysburg now passed on to those in attendance (93). To illuminate this transfer
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ambiguity of manner. 8. Anachronism – Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time‚ esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: The sword in an anachronism in modern warfare. 9. Anaphora – A rhetorical device in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginnings of successive phrases or sentences. Compare this to epistrophe‚ where such repetitions occur at the ends. (lesson 10. Analogy – A similarity between like features of two things‚ on which a
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As one discovers more about one’s past‚ one ultimately unravels one’s own identity‚ as shown in the poem‚ "Digging" by Seamus Heaney‚ where the narrator through digging through his own family roots‚ comes to accept his own heritage and family traditions. "Digging" is the first poem in Seamus Heaney’s first collection‚ "Death of a Naturalist". In this poem‚ the theme of heritage and family traditions is most apparent. The narrator describes two relationships in the poem‚ and through examination of
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Digest: U.S. vs. Ah Chong G.R. No. L-7929 March 19‚ 1910 Facts: Because of the many bad elements happening at Fort McKinley‚ Ah Chong‚ a cook‚ locked himself in his room by placing a chair against the door. After having gone to bed‚ he was awakened by someone trying to open the door of his room. He called out twice‚ Who is there‚ but received no answer. Fearing that the intruder was a robber‚ he leaped from his bed and called out again‚ If you enter the room I will kill you. But at the precise
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The Grave "The Grave‚" by Katherine Anne Porter‚ is about two young children’s lives and how their past affected them while growing up. Both Paul and Miranda are related as brother and sister.Paul was a twelve year old boy who really enjoyed hunting and gathering skeletons.Miranda was a nine year old girl who use to like shooting targets‚ and grew up as a tomboy. They used to live in Louisiana and then later on they moved to Texas. After they moved down to Texas‚ their family purchased a small farm
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essay or just a paragraph is (part of) a literary work or not. That’s because most of the literary works have some certain kind of features that make them distinguishable‚ especially from daily communication. In the following paragraphs‚ some of these features will be discussed. The following is a famous piece of work written by W.B.Yeats‚ an Irish poet and dramatist‚ praised as “one of the foremost figures in the 20th century”. When You Are Old When you are old and gray and full of sleep And
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In 1929‚ Robert Graves published his war novel "Goodbye to all that." It is based on his own life experiences of the Great War. This autobiography has been involved in "The great books controversy and changing attitudes towards the war." But in 1931‚ two years after this Great War book was published‚ Robert Graves wrote "P. S. Goodbye to all that." In this he justifies some of his actions and why he wrote parts of the novel the way he did. He confesses that he wrote the novel to make "a lump
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This poem "Digging" is in Heaney’s first collection of poems called "Death of a Naturalist" (1966).This poem is the first poem of this collection. It is a free verse poem written in first person narrative‚ with eight stanzas containing two couplets. The free structure of this poem allows Heaney to freely express his respect of the Irish tradition as well as his pride and dignity towards his ancestors. The poem starts and ends with the same lines "between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests"
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