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    Communities by Benedict Anderson Introduction Modern Americans today can easily answer the question “When was your nationbirthed?” Though the details of their answer may vary‚ the basic idea would place that time around the American Revolution. Some “older” countries such as Italy‚ Greece‚ or China would not have such a ready-made answer because they believe their nation was a naturalmanifestation of their people. Not so‚ according to Benedict Anderson’sImagined Communities(Anderson 1983).Nations are

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    Carol Anderson is a professor at Emory University‚ who teaches African American History. Through post-Reconstruction racial terror‚ to the extraordinary legal efforts by officials to block African Americans from fleeing repression‚ she discovers the ideas of white rebellion from anti-emancipation revolts. She consistently makes connections to present day actions by legislative and judicial across the country that has criminalized and suppressed blacks and their right to vote. In her book “White Rage”

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    In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ characterization‚ setting and plot all assist in the theme. The theme is you need to speak up in order to help yourself. Anderson uses characterization to elevate the theme. Melinda is immature‚ which make her problem even worse. For example‚ Melinda acknowledges‚ “I almost tell them right then and there [about the rape]” (Anderson 72). Melinda foolishly tries not to tell anyone about her rape. Eventually‚ she learns that telling someone about the rape

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    Monsieur Gustave How does Anderson characterise Gustave? Very fast paced Straight forward Stern Sense of humour Peculiar Lonely Posh but crude Uses a lot of vernacular In what way does Gustave reflect the world that he lives in? The world he lives is depicted as almost cartoonish and unreal. The colours are very bright and a lot of contrast is used. The setting of the film as well as the directing‚ makes the film seem quite peculiar and strange. The setting in the hotel lobby‚ in particular

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    Imagined Communities The concept of nationalism‚ according to Benedict Anderson‚ has never been deeply discussed. There has never been a great thinker treating this concept as thoroughly as other concepts. Anderson suggests that one should not think of nationalism as an ideology like “fascism” or “liberalism”‚ but to relate it with “kinship” and “religion” in order to understand the similarity that groups of people have and why the territory that they live help one understand the borders that we

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    Forge by Laurie Anderson Literary Analysis Forge is Laurie Halse Anderson’s second installment to the Chains series following up her previous novel‚ Chains. The escapades of the young African American slaves‚ Isabel and Curzon‚ continue in this sequel to Chains. Young Curzon and Isabel are forced to endure the hardships of maturing during the demanding time of the American Revolution. Curzon and Isabel are runaway slaves who have a high risk of getting captured with their past catching up

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    1. Benedict Anderson/Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism: 1983 (Revised 2006)/Brooklyn‚ New York 2. What is the central theme – the topic – of the reading? “The reading is about....” Anderson articulates that a nation is an “imagined political community – and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign” (6). People will not meet every person in their community and nationalism has been proven to be hard to define. The people from the same community will

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    Anthropologist by Barbara Anderson‚ is a book about a graduate student who moves to Denmark for a year to do an ethnographic report of the people in a small Danish‚ island town of Taarnby. She travels with her husband‚ Thor‚ who is a licensed Anthropologist‚ her daughter Katie and her unborn child‚ Sarah. Although a fictionalized book‚ it clearly and accurately describes the challenges and perils of being an inexperienced Anthropologist. The book starts out with Anderson introducing her studies

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    Julia Gariepy Period 2 12/11/12 Literacy Letter #2 Speak by: Laurie Halse Anderson The summer before her freshman year of high school‚ Melinda Sordino‚ meets Andy Evans at a party. Outside in the woods‚ Andy rapes her. Melinda calls 911‚ but does not know what to say. The police come and break up the party. Melinda does not tell anyone what happened to her‚ and no one asks. She starts high school at Merryweather High School as an outcast‚ shunned by her friends for calling the police. She

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    people’s true color when they are faced with trouble or problems. I agree with this quote because you never know the people’s feelings until you know the problem they are faced with or are facing. Monster by Walter Dean Myers and Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson used theme and setting to prove the critical lens. The main characters in both these novels overcome challenging situations by taking advantage of the opportunities presented to them. In their struggle to make the best of their circumstances‚ the

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