Debbie Pierre Prof. Grant English 1102-119 April 17‚ 2013 Cover Letter The following are three essays that I worked on during the semester. Most of it remains the same‚ while some of my ideas have developed. The only major changes made were redirecting the ideas in the Where is Waldo Now essay. In English 1102 I struggled with a lot‚ Professor Grant really challenged what I thought I knew about writing. Being that English is my second language‚ language barriers normally do not reflect
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Primary source analysis by Charalambos Poulikidis Main topis is “9/11” Primary Source Analysis of “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer The book “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” was writer by Jonathan Safran Foer. He is a young author‚ born in 1977‚ Washington‚ D.C. Foer graduated from Princeton in 1999 with a degree in Philosophy and he is best known for his two novels‚ the “Everything Is Illuminated”‚ which took National Jewish Book and Guardian First Book Award
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IIndividuality‚ based on the definition presented by Marion Webster’s‚ is the aggregate of qualities and characteristics that distinguish one person or thing from another. From birth‚ one’s family stresses the importance of creating a distinct identity. To begin‚ the parents select a name for their new child‚ in hopes that someday‚ the child will represent the name with honor. This name defines the child. This name separates the child from the rest of the world‚ creating an identity. As the child
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Identity can be defined as a distinctive characteristic given to any individual. It also relates on how you see yourself (self-imagination)‚ your self-esteem‚ and individuality. Consequently‚ Weinrench gives the definition “A person’s identity is defined as the totality of ones self-construal in which how one constructs oneself in the present‚ expresses the continuity between how oneself as one was in the past and how one constructs oneself as one aspires to be in the future”.(Weinrench 1986a)
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the collapse of the Ibo African tribal system due to the arrival of aggressive European missionaries. Achebe focuses on “both what was strong and what was weak in the African past” (Appiah). He traces back the roots of his people to the “moment when [they] lost [their] initiative to other people‚ to colonizers” (Appiah). Throughout his novel Achebe shows the effects the Ibo culture experiences when Christian colonizers arrive. Ibo culture was thriving in Nigeria‚ up until the Europeans arrived.
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Extreme Grief and Incredible Love Death in any person’s life is tragic‚ whether sudden or unexpected. Everyone experiences it at least once throughout a lifetime. In the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer‚ the reader meets several characters that lose people very close to them. Each person has a certain way of dealing with the death‚ but overall his or her grief is out of love. These two emotions are triggered by one another. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close displays
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the concepts of self creation and the limits of oneself. “The End of Remembering” is a passage written by Joshua Foer regarding how technology has impaired the current generations thought process. Many people still believe that the reasoning for memory loss is because of our age‚ but in reality people tend to become forgetful because of the lack of exercise their brain endures. Foer uses oneself as a reference to how technology has shaped and limited people’s inner personalities from forming. In
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morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down‚ and you could know if New York is in heavy boots."(Foer.) The thought of using sadness for advantage is quite a heavy thought for a child‚ and
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emphasis on whether focusing on difference is egalitarian or not. The chapter discusses two perspectives on race that differ in their arguments on the status of race‚ however both perspectives believe that the goal of colour blindness is optimal Appiah believes that to fight and rid of racism people must eradicate the concept of race. He rejects the concept of race and argues that the factors that contribute to the criteria of race are insufficient. He says that skin colour is not necessary nor
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