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    Annotated Bibliography University of Phoenix ENG 215: Effective Academic Writing Annotated Bibliography Andriessen‚ J.‚ Erken‚ G.‚ Van De Laak‚ C.‚ Peters‚ N.‚ Coirier‚ P.‚ (n.d.). Argumentation as negotiation in electronic collaborative writing. Retrieved from http://edu.fss.uu.nl/medewerkers/ja/Confrontations/Ch4.pdf This source talks about collaborative writing in a situation in which pairs of students have to produce and argumentative text. It goes into the different types of

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    S14 Rosalyn De Leon Annotated Bibliography Gentile‚ Douglas A. et al (2004). The effects of violent video game habits on adolescent hostility‚ aggressive behaviors‚ and school performance. Retrieved October 4‚ 2010‚ from pdfcast.org: http://pdfcast.org/pdf/the-effects-of-violent-video-game-habits-on-adolescent-hostility-aggressive-behaviors-and-school-performance Dr Douglas A. Gentile is a researcher who studies the effects of media on children and adults‚ may it be positive or negative

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    The short story Salvation‚ written by Langston Hughes‚ is based on his personal experience at church as a young child. Langston Hughes aunt takes him to a meeting for the children at her church. At the meeting all the kids were to sit on the mourners bench and wait for Jesus to save them. Towards the end of the ceremony‚ all the children had been saved by Jesus except Langston and another boy. Eventually‚ he decides to get up and said that he had been “saved” by Jesus‚ although he never was. His

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    Reaction Paper Non Fiction “Salvation” By Langston Hughes "My aunt told me that when you were saved you saw a light‚ and something happened to you inside! And Jesus came into your life! And God was with you from then on! She said you could see and hear and feel Jesus in your soul." ( Barnet‚ Burto & Cain‚ 2011) Langston Hughes ’ short story uses allegory to redefine the word "see"‚ when his aunt tells him hat he will see Jesus‚ Langston Hughes believes he will actual see the the bodily figure

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    Langston Hughes’s poem‚ “Dreams”‚ inspires the reader to pursue dreams. Hughes’s poem‚ emphasizes the importance of dreams and their ability to empower‚ strengthen‚ and embrace an individual’s life. Although it is a short poem‚ it holds a lot of inspiring thoughts. The simile used by Hughes’s to illustrate the meaning of the poem was peculiar and incredible. This poem is inspiring. The carefully chosen words to interpret make it even more fascinating. The meaning of the poem “Dreams” captures

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    Langston Hughes was part of the Harlem Renaissance and was known as "the poet laureate of Harlem." His poems tell of the joys and miseries of the ordinary black man in America. In Hughes’ poem "Dream Deferred" he uses figures of speech‚ tone‚ and a unifying theme to show how black people’s dreams were delayed. Hughes uses similes and metaphors--figures of speech--to portray that often times their dreams never came true. He asks if they "dry up like a raisin in the sun‚" if they "fester like a sore

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    In ’Harlem‚’ Langston Hughes is saying that dreams are an essential part of survival. He begins his poem by asking a question‚ “What happens to a dream deferred?” When you delay a dream‚ what becomes of it? Rather than fading away‚ Hughes compares dreams to food‚ a basic component of life. When dreams are put off‚ they become dried and shrunken like raisins‚ and they are not as ripe as the grapes they came from. Hughes is saying that dreams are an important part of life‚ and when they are ignored

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    Langston Hughes’s poem” Harlem”‚ ask a great question‚ what happens to a dream deferred? We start out early in our lives with an endless amount of dreams for the future. Dreams for ourselves and dreams on a global scale. As children we dream of being a fireman‚ a police officer‚ teacher‚ or an astronaut. On a global scale we dream of peace and equality. What becomes of those dreams when they are postponed and overdue? Interpreting the first verse of the poem “does it dry up like a raisin

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    Langston Hughes the author that wrote the story called Salvation which is about a boy who wants to see Jesus. As explained in the story Hughes said he is saved from a sin which means he has confessed he is a sinner in need of a true savior. The thirteen-year-old boy demonstrates on how he just could never see the light of Jesus and for some reason felt embarrassed about it. Hughes is a muddled child who is pressured by the community to conform to its religious standards. “…I couldn’t bear to tell

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    society strive to reach a certain level of success and acceptance. It could thus be said that we likely have a dream we hope to achieve. In "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)"‚ Langston Hughes makes use of powerful sensory imagery‚ figures of speech‚ and rhyme to show the emotions created when a dream is deferred‚ or not achieved. Hughes uses rhetorical questions with similes to show his opinion of unfulfilled dreams. He suggests that deferred dreams‚ ¡°like a raisin in the sun¡¦like a sore¡¦ like rotten

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