Fresh Off the Boat (FOB)‚ it’s used as an insult to the immigrants who immigrated to the US and have lack of understanding of the new country; people should stop using it. Words are powerful. They can harmless or harmful at the same time. People have to use words wisely. As an Asian‚ I’ve never experience people calls me “FOB” in China until I moved to America when I was 13 years old. I remembered that the first time I walked into the school; I was very nervous and excited at that time. As I walked
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Kaylin Cantor “Turn the Nightmares Off” After reading Kaylin Cantor’s “Turn the Nightmares off” I immediately liked how Kaylin used Narrative form in her poem because it felt from beginning to end like a story. The theme if story I could sense from the beginning that it would be of someone in captivity. And what came to mind at that moment was of a man as a slave on the ship in the years that slavery existed. This was a reoccurring theme throughout the entire poem. I believe that the larger meaning
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Some people believe Rome had a better system for citizenship‚ not in fact Athens system for citizenship is better. In 500 B.C.E Athens established a direct democracy. People have been arguing about this question‚ whom developed the better citizenship system Athens‚ or Rome? Better is defined as that which has a greater excellence‚ or is preferable or wiser. Athens citizenship made more sense because of three reasons: all citizens are equal‚ they had the power to ostracize‚ and they had full participation
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“Life moves pretty fast.if you don’t stop and look around a little‚you could miss it‚” - Ferris Bueller. The film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off follows senior Ferris Bueller as he skips school with his girlfriend Simon and his best friend Cameron. Ferris sees school as a waste of time and would rather spend his time in the real world experiencing life in his own fun way‚ just like kids nowadays. United State schools strive to have their students all graduate rather than genuinely learn material. The schools
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Can scientific data be trusted? Journalist‚ Jonah Lehrer‚ in his organic‚ specific to general arrangement‚ narrative article‚ “The Truth wears off.” describes the study of what is called the decline effect. In which‚ scientific data is put into question on whether the data is reliable‚ or If it’s been effected by production bias‚ statistical errors. Lehrer’s purpose is to convey the idea that it is extremely difficult to prove anything. She adopts a serious and skeptical tone in order to appeal to
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The poem ‘Building with its Face Blown Off’ directly portrays the results of a catastrophe after being hit by a detrimental bomb. The poet describes the situation through displaying specific scenes of the damage done throughout the poem. The poem vividly conveys the destruction caused through the utilization of personification‚ impactful contrast‚ unique enjambment and the boldness of the final stanza. In result of incorporating these elements‚ the poet achieves to deliver the intended message to
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WA 2 – The Moment Before The Gun Went Of A) Characterize Marais Van der Vyver Marais Van der Vyver is an afrikaner farmer‚ living in South Africa during the end of the apartheit regime. Furthermore he has title as the regional Party leader and commandant of the local security command. The people from his district remember how he as child was rather shy and withdrawn‚ and it seems that the people around him beleives that he has conserved these personality traits as an adult. Nevertheless
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A Mother’s Day Kiss Off In the Article‚ Leslie Bennetts talks about women who have been given the wrong impression of life. The impression of life being a fairy-tale‚ in which the man is the breadwinner and the wife stays home and tends to the house and the children. She also talks about‚ the so called fairy-tale crashing when the prince leaves for good. The gender roles in the home are women being taken advantage of. Marriage in the American society has had clearly defined gender roles in the
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In “Just Off Main Street” author Elmaz Abinader depicts the physical and social barrier between Americans and hyphenated Americans such as Arab-Americans who live in dual sensitivity facing identity crisis‚ racism and other various problems living in America. In the first part of the story “Crossing The Threshold” we learn of young Abinader‚ her family‚ their customs and how they are separated from the rest of the families in their town. In the second part of the story “Making A Writer“Abinader explains
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kids did not care at all what the teacher was saying compared to the entranced girl. Line four uses the simile “wandered lonely as clouds borne” to show how the teacher and the girl both were in their own worlds while reading to prom. Line five days “ off Mount Parnassus” to show how far away the girl and teacher were while reading the poem together. Line six used the theme of darkness to convey his deep love and pull toward the poem and how is interest set her apart from
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