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    In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye‚ the character Claudia struggles with the beauty standard that harms her sense of self-esteem. Claudia tries to make sense of why the beauty standard does not include black girls. The beauty standard determines that blonde-haired blue-eyed white girls are the image of beauty and therefore they are worthy of not only attention‚ but are considered valuable to American culture of the 1940s. Thus‚ learning she has no value or beauty as a black girl‚ Claudia destroys

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    Jasmine Tsai E. McCarthy Fourth Period AP Lang 25 September 2011 Close Reading: Visual Advertisement In this eye-catching print advertisement for Mentos Gum‚ marketers successfully captured the attention of their intended market: those who are interested in bold flavors with natural origins (as I am among them.) This is achieved through the texture and style of the text‚ the meaning the text bears‚ as well as the brightness of the ad itself. Accompanying the extensive usage of the color green

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    According to Close Reading Without Tears‚ many teachers are following the scaffolding suggested by the Common Core language arts standards (Boyles 1). Teachers are using less frontloading before reading. This allows students to dig deeper into the text without teacher prompts. Thus‚ allowing students to develop the necessary skills to become independent close readers. Frontloading or pre-reading‚ has been the topic of many educational discussions. Is it necessary? Many teachers prefer not to use pre-reading

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    Intro This essay is going to be about the story “The Bluest Eye” & the movie “The Color Purple”. In the story “The Bluest Eye” was mostly about A girl name Pecola Breedlove. Pecola was the daughter of Mrs. Pauline Breedlove‚ and Cholly Breedlove‚ also the sister of Sammy her 14 year old brother who ran away. In The Movie it was about the main character‚ Ms. Celie‚ she was Common law wife of Albert. They had 2 kids‚ named (Olivia & Adam). Introducing the other characters in The Color Purple… Shug

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    Admittedly author Toni Morrison is not one of my favorite writers. Morrison’s novels are often dense with symbolism and allegories that are often complex to understand or can be easily misunderstood by a reader. Surprisingly The Bluest Eye quickly became one of my favorites. Like many who read for enjoyment I wanted to see the happy ending. Essentially I wanted Pecola to win‚ longed for her to receive her happy ending‚ felt it would only be fitting if in the end she learned to love herself unconditionally

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    Brittany Carter Jasmine Nicholsfigueiredo English 2116:001 25 September 2014 Life Is Fleeting: A Close Reading of Beowulf (1758-1760) 1758 “O flower of warriors‚ beware of that trap. Choose‚ dear Beowulf‚ the better part‚ 1760 eternal rewards…” This excerpt from Beowulf is part of a speech which Hrothgar gives after Beowulf fulfills his promise and defeats the monsters that terrorized the Danes; those monsters being Grendel and Grendel’s mother. In this speech‚ Hrothgar praises Beowulf and contrasts

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    English Literature 2 Close Reading Exercise: ‘A Sentimental Journey’ A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy was the second and final novel of Laurence Sterne‚ published barely a month before his death in 1768. The novel first popularised the travel writing genre and describes the journey through France and to Italy undertaken by Mr Yorick‚ the parson who first appeared in Sterne’s first and best known novel‚ The Life And Opinions of Tristiam Shandy‚ Gentleman. As its title

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    ultimately leads to disempowerment with the transformation of an individual to the stereotypical views of society. This concept of power is explored in both ’Othello’ a play written by Shakespeare in the Elizabethan period and in Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’. The Shakespearian tragedy‚ establishes Othello as articulate‚ charismatic and self-assured. Othello exerts power in the means of military command. He has the power of heroic achievement and storytelling that makes him one of the “three great

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    English 121 Assignments 2‚ Close Reading Nick Aitken Nicholas Carr’s essay‚ ‘Is Google making us stupid?’ proposes the idea that the human mind is undergoing another big change. He ponders how the intake and response to information we collect and how we process that information is changing‚ which he leads to question how will it eventually lead to an impact on us as individuals. Irony however is not lost on the author as this work was published on the Internet and does not conform to what he

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    Identity. The texts I have chosen illustrate the hazards of Western religion‚ Rape‚ Patriarchal Dominance and Colonial notions of white supremacy; an intend to show how the protagonists of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple as well as Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye‚ cope with or crumble due to these issues in their struggle to find their identities. The search for self-identity and self-knowledge is not an easy task‚ even more so when you are a black woman and considered a mule and a piece of property. Providing

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