Michelle Wong 12 October 2015 AP Literature Ms. Taylor The Century Quilt Response The poem The Century Quilt by Marilyn Nelson Waniek serves as a nostalgic reflection of the history of a cherished quilt‚ which connects the speaker’s life to her diverse heritage. Wainek’s use of enjambment‚ personification‚ and colorful imagery develops a speaker and a character that demonstrates affection for the quilt’s qualities and reveals a more complex underlying message about the quilt’s impact on how the
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America is a mélange of people and culture. However‚ this mixture is critical to the foundations of America. Only a meager handful of people actually stops to ponder these factors to society. Of that handful‚ “A Quilt of a Country”‚ by Anna Quindlen‚ and “The Immigrant Contribution”‚ by John F. Kennedy‚ are essays prepared to convey these attributes to society. Their writings are of an identical nature‚ but written in two distinct manners. Both of these authors wrote essays about American identity
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I’m alive" (Walker‚ 29). These desperate words of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple display Celie’s disconsolateness in her life and her submission towards those around her. Nettie‚ Celie’s sister is a fighter‚ refusing to allow any man or women to diminish her spirits‚ hopes‚ and dreams‚ at any cost. Whereas Celie‚ too weak and fearful to defy anyone who demands more than what she desires to offer‚ suffers through these trials‚ unable to find her voice. In The Color Purple‚ Alice Walker analyzes the
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I have read pages 1-159 of Go Ask Alice by an anonymous author. Throughout Go Ask Alice‚ the diarist explores a darker and more ominous side of human nature‚ one that is often disturbing and shocking. I believe the theme statement‚ “All the good in the world becomes transparent‚ as evil invades with an impossible potency” properly reflects the themes shown to us in the novel. Written as the diary of a fifteen year old girl‚ it has an aspect of immaturity that causes events in her personal life
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What is family? The word family can be described in many ways. A group of people who share the same DNA. A group of people you love. There are many ways to describe family. The short stories “Two Kinds”‚ “Chee’s Daughter”‚ “Catch the Moon”‚ and “Everyday Use”‚ all have one thing in common and that is family. They all show he differen family connections. Family connections are how families keep connected with their differences. Anyone can be family. To put it another way‚ a group made up of friends
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TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY PHIL 241: Theoretical Ethics FALL 2012 Alice Guillen 12-06-2012 Final Examination [Fall 2012] 1. “There is no possibility of thinking of anything at all in the world‚ or even out of it‚ which can be regarded as good without qualification‚ except a good will.” [AK393] What is the argument that Kant introduces with these words? Comment on the suggestion made in the content of the argument that neither prudence nor utility can comprise a good without qualification
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Dance of The Happy Shades Summary Walker Brothers Cowboy Story The story is divided into two sections: the first section is short‚ and the second makes up the bulk of the story. The first is general and reflects certain abstract ideas while the second is concrete and details one specific event. A girl meets a woman her father dated before marrying her mother. Through the encounter‚ she comes to view her father in a new light by realizing that he is not only a family provider but also a man with
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Alice Walker’s Journey through the Past In the collection of stories‚ “In Search of our Mother’s Gardens‚” Alice Walker‚ has one related to Flannery O’Connor. In Alice Walker’s‚ “Beyond the Peacock‚” she journeys back to her hometown on a mission for wholeness. She experiences this walk through memory lane with her own mother. Alice Walker‚ who was twenty years younger then the famous writer Flannery O’Connor‚ admired O’Connor’s works. She grew up reading her writing and especially in college
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This essay will be about two texts and how their diction and tone differ from one another. The first text is The Immigrant Contribution which is about how immigrants contributed to America and how important they are. The second text is A Quilt of a Country which is about how America is a bunch of different ethnicities and religions and how they have all joined together throughout the years. The diction and tone throughout each text has some difference between each other‚ but they mainly convey similar
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The short story “Everyday Use” had a handful of brilliant morals. Morals are not for one race‚ but for every race who believes in heritage. I believe Maggie deserves the quilts because Dee only wants them for decoration; Maggie wants them for family heritage and culture. In conjunction with‚ she never did explain to her mother who Asalamalakim and why she was with him. Is that not disrespectful to her mother and her household? Maggie deserves the quilts for her wedding gift mainly because her mother
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