ASHES By: Susan Beth Pfeffer Reading Journal By: Samira Hasan The story is about Ashleigh (or Ashes as her dad calls her) Ashleighs dad and her mom. Ashes parents is very different from each other. Her dad is a very simple man who is unemployed‚ poor‚ and a huge dreamer. He makes false promises and tries to make people around him happy with false statements. Her mom on the other hand is the straight opposite to the dad. She is straight as a yardstick‚ and certainly not a dreamer. I
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place to stay and meals as they passed through. Villagers were also expected to check soldiers’ papers to ensure they were not deserters as only proper documentation allowed soldiers to leave the fronts of the war. In North Vietnam communism and Marxism are the same thing however instead of an ideology Joseph Marx himself is viewed as a god himself. Quan in the story states that Marx is his god. Much like the people of North Korea worship Kim Jong-Un. The reason behind this behavior is best explained
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K. Alexander Ashe article titled “Yes. Education System Overhaul should Include New Emphasis on Financial Literacy” provides a better overall argument‚ supporting finance classes being a required class as opposed to Wayne Madsen “No. Better We Get Back to Basics” which does not support required finance classes. One reason Ashe was more convincing was she used a trustworthy source to connect and persuade the reader. She showed‚ the president and CEO of the Council for Economic Education‚ Nan J. Morrison
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The location of the Valley of Ashes shows the waste that comes from the American lifestyle and the death of the American Dream. When traveling from East and West Egg to New York City‚ the characters journey through the gloomy place of the Valley of Ashes‚ “an area swampland that is being filled with refuse”(Baker). The Valley of Ashes is a dark‚ dirty place between the sparkling East and West Eggs. The valley symbolizes darkness and death: the horror that comes after the expensiveness of the American
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economic equality for all. But the Red State did not fulfill its promises‚ with Soviet Premiers like Stalin killing millions of its citizens. It truly seemed as though Marxism‚ as it was practiced in the Soviet Union‚ was nothing but equality in social and economic misery for all. It is perhaps because of the USSR’s interpretation of Marxism that Kurt Vonnegut was inspired to write his short story Harrison
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QUOTE; It was‚ of course‚ a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood‚ and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. As Angela’s Ashes opens‚ Frank describes how his parents meet and marry in New York‚ then eventually move back to Ireland with their four sons. He characterizes his upbringing as a typical “miserable Irish Catholic childhood‚” complete with a drunken father and a downtrodden
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William Blake: Songs of Experience- A Marxist response Marxism focuses on the political and economic philosophy in which the concept of class struggle plays a central role in understanding society’s allegedly inevitable development. This development focuses on the departure from bourgeois oppression which is under the rule of a capitalist society to that of an ultimately classless society. William Blake wrote of social consciousness with the will to change society; one that lived their lives in
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fearless and restores his self-respect” (p.35). If this is reflective of the anti-colonialism revenge that KSA advocated while they were in Paris‚ then it is plausible that Pol Pot was still seeking a personal vendetta from European powers. At its core‚ Marxism-Leninism is inherently oppressive. Isolated from the ideas of Lenin‚ Marxist philosophy determines that violence is often necessary for a communist revolution to succeed (Vandenbroek‚ 2008). On the contrary‚ Marxists tend to have a proclivity toward
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Cigarette ashes flying in the air‚ The wind blow them my way. And charred filter left a scar on my hand. I see you from far walking my way‚ And the pain that I feel is no longer so real. In your eyes I drown‚ your beauty consumes me whole. Tell me‚ how many nights you didn’t sleep? Acting out your desires and love. You’re not tired? Playing in love with yourself at nights. And now‚ once again you’re here ... You’re with me ... With me forget it about all. This night will seem like a dream. I’ll
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Bibliography: Delahoyde‚ Michael. Introduction to Literature. n.d. 12 10 2014 <public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/marxist.crit.html>. Gill‚ Chris. Marxism of Iron Man. 18 11 2013. 12 10 2014 <http://dustdevilgill.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/marxism-of-iron-man/>. Marxist Criticism. n.d. 12 10 2014 <marxist-criticism.wikispaces.com/Definition>. Palmer‚ Landon. Culture Warrior. 11 5 2010. 12 10 2014 <filmschoolrejects.com/features/culture-warrior-a-marxist-reading-of-iron-man-2
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