Word Vex: 1: To bring trouble‚ distress‚ or agitation. 2: to bring physical distress to. 3: To irritate or annoy by petty provocations. “I fret about nothing on earth except papa’s illness‚’ answered my companion. ‘I care for nothing in comparison with papa. And I’ll never—never—oh‚ never‚ while I have my senses‚ do an act or say a word to vex him. I love him better than myself‚ Ellen; and I know it by this: I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than
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NOW AND THEN: Darkness plagues the sky as the distant sun retreats behind the vast archipelago of clouds. Rain dropping like sheets of concrete‚ pounding the mud littered paddock. The clouds released a tremendous lightning strike illuminating the sky as if it were the 5th of November. The cattle’s wailing becomes drowned by the wind slapping the face of the metal roofing on the old flimsy farm house. I looked out the glass panes; my vision was slightly obscured by the foggy steam that came from
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Set during the early 20th century in the rural south‚ the novel‚ The Color Purple by Alice Walker‚ portrays the life of a poor African American woman named Celie. Since being published in 1982‚ this novel was won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for Fiction‚ but is also considered highly controversial because of the references to sexual abuse and female empowerment. Throughout the book‚ the reader learns from the unexpected events that accumulate Celie’s journey to self-awareness
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Medical imaging is a way on how doctors can see the inside of your body. This means the body does not have to be opened up surgically for medical doctors to look at various organs and areas. There are many different kinds of imaging including mammograms‚ MRI‚ ultrasounds‚ molecular and x-rays. It is important because it comprises different imaging and processes to image human body for diagnostic and treatment purposes. Therefore it has an important role in the improvement of public health in all
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“In her fiction‚ nonfiction‚ and poetry she confronts bluntly the history of the oppression of her people...” (“Winchell‚ Donna Haisty. "Alice Walker: An Annotated Bibliography."). “The Color Purple” is written in diary format from the view of Celie‚ who is a prime example of an oppressed Negro woman‚ who not only only oppressed for her color‚ but also for her gender. She writes her letters to
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Characterization Essay In the short story “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving‚ Tom Walker lives a greedily‚ miserly‚ and meagerly unhappy life. Through the progression of the story‚ the consequences of greed‚ mean spiritedness‚ and selling your soul to the devil develop over time in creating the beginning‚ middle‚ and end of this story teaches a valuable lesson about life itself. Tom Walker was a meek man who didn’t have a plan with his own life. The Walker’s lived in the swamps of Massachusetts
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stand out? Alice Walker’s poem Be Nobody’s Darling instills that in the head of her readers. The poem is saying to be yourself‚ to be happy with and within yourself. To love your flaws and embrace mistakes because that is what will shape you into who you truly meant to be. A line in the poem that really stood out to me was “Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool).” This line of the poem means be confident enough to stand out. Be happy to be different. In the poem Alice Walker uses the phrases “impetuous
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Feminist Analysis of The Color Purple by Alice Walker In Alice Walkers The Color Purple‚ we have the narrator‚ Celie‚ writing letters to God talking to Him about what is going on in her life. The setting of the story takes place in the state of Georgia where Celie‚ the main character‚ plays the role of a typical feminine stereotype throughout the novel. Celie is dominated by the male role and does everything they tell her to do. The bullying starts right inside her home so she feels like it is normal
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Annotation John Donne’s Holy Sonnet IX Holy Sonnet IX If poisonous minerals‚ and if that tree‚ Whose fruit threw death on (else immortal) us‚ If lecherous goats‚ if serpents envious Cannot be dammed‚ alas ! why should I be ? Why should intent or reason‚ born in me‚ Make sins‚ else equal‚ in me more heinous ? And‚ mercy being easy‚ and glorious To God‚ in His stern wrath why threatens He ? But who am I‚ that dare dispute with Thee ? O God‚ O ! of Thine only worthy blood‚ And my tears‚ make a heavenly
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or by practice. Walker uses the harvest to tell the story of traditions‚ and how she learned the traditions. She was taught traditions by her family trough their work habit. Her family worked on a farm when she was a child‚ and passed those traditions on to her. Walker uses potatoes as an example of the harvest. She asked her daughter if “she knew what potatoes looked like when they were dug out of the ground”. Walker’s daughter was unsure what the potatoes looked like‚ so Walker decided she would
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