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    experience through “The Widower in the Country” a loss of a sense of belonging caused by the death of the speaker’s wife. In “The Away-Bound Train” the speaker describes the rural landscape in his poetry‚ and his sense of belonging to it. Les Murray in “The Widower in the Country” uses descriptive imagery and emotive language to highlight the loss of belonging. The depression of the speaker by having no real direction in life is shown by the words “and pause to look across the Christmas paddocks”

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    The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver uses her talent of creating believable real-life situations to engage the reader and draw their noses closer and closer to the spine of the book with every word. She is‚ furthermore‚ able to transform a dull history lesson of the colonization of the Congo to a thrilling‚ on-the-edge of-your-seat book. By allowing the development of several points of view from the wife and daughters of Nathan Price‚ the reader is able to capture the true picture of every situation

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    Your essay should include at least 2 citations and should be garnished with an original title pertinent to the content of the essay. Give the full question and number below this title. Let your ideas determine the structure of your paper‚ not the other way around. Other topics by negotiation Target Audience College Professor English 150 – college of your choice MLA format Length 2-3 pages only (No Bible length narratives: no Crime and Punishment . . .) ESSAY TOPIC IDEAS 1

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    About The Poisonwood Bible The Poisonwood Bible‚ Barbara Kingsolver’s most heralded novel‚ is the story of the Price family and their journey into the African Congo as Baptist missionaries in the late 1950’s. The novel is told from the perspective of the four Price children - Rachel‚ Leah‚ Adah‚ and Ruth May - with flashback scenes interspersed‚ told from the perspective of Orleanna Price‚ the children’s mother. The book had tremendous success not only because of its dramatic power‚ but also because

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    Rhetorical Style Analysis of Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Nickel and Dimed on (not) Getting By In America. It is about how lower class people cannot make it in America because they do not make enough money to provide for themselves. If anyone could interest a reader it would Ehrenreich because of her style. At times she can be offensive with her hyperboles‚ satire and metaphors but I could not help my self from turning page after page. Ehrenreich paints a vivid picture

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    James Kern Comparison Paper English 3A 27 October 2012 Codi vs. Hallie In the book Animal Dreams‚ by Barbara Kingsolver Codi and Hallie are sisters who are very much alike physically. They differ greatly when it comes to personality. They both grew up with the same parent situation‚ raised the same‚ and yet they are two completely different people. Most of the similarities between them are physical‚ which is obvious because they are sisters. The way Codi and Hallie were raised‚ greatly

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    History has never halted for want of peasants. But crucial as they may have been to Europe’s agricultural well-being‚ they weren’t exactly well loved by nobility. Barbara Tuchman‚ in A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous Fourteenth Century‚ tells us they were considered aggressive‚ insolent‚ greedy‚ sullen‚ suspicious‚ tricky‚ unshaved‚ unwashed‚ ugly‚ stupid and credulous... in satiric tales it was said the [peasant’s] soul would find no place in Paradise or anywhere else because the demons refused

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    Bob is a piece of artwork created by chuck close in 1970 in the united states. A synthetic polymer white and black painting on canvas.It is one of the one of series of eight large black and white portraits that Close painted between 1967 and 1970. THe subject if this painting is Robert Israel one of the CLose’s friend‚ a new york based opera designer Chuck Close uses a girding technique . THe effect of this technique is that the artwork almost looks exactly as the original. he took a photo of

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    Bowenian Family Therapy views a client’s problem as a symptom of dysfunction in the family. The family‚ is viewed as a system and that changes for one family member causes changes in all of the other parts of the system. Bowenian Family Therapy doesn’t blame anyone and focuses more on insight than action when it comes to problem solving. Phases of treatment include: • Phase 1: Genogram • Phase 2:Coaching • Phase 3: Education/Self-Differentiation For goals‚ one short-term option would be to lower

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    Methuselah is a parrot character in The Poisonwood Bible written by Barbara Kingsolver. The novel is set in the late 20th century in a village of The Congo call Kilanga. Methuselah is a parrot who is left by brother Fowls for the Price family. He has been denied freedom for very long and has been kept in a cage. Later when Nathan Price sets him free‚ he has no idea what to do with his independence. So he keeps flying near the Price house and depends on the Price girls for food. When Congo’s independence

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