Diction The phrase “cave-dark closet” used to identify the narrator’s hiding place for her cherry bomb and “locked diary” conveys the narrator’s belief that the hiding place that guarded her treasures held a mysterious and mystical aura. The narrator conveys this description of her secluded and selective cache since she states that the “cave” was only accessible through a sea of “parted. . . heavy coats.” This is significant because it is made clear to the reader that the narrator possesses a sense
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of hysteria as close to 20 people were killed because of pure hype and chaos in the region (Campbell). The cold war was the rise and fall of the United States civil defence as peoples fear rose to an all time high due to the creation of the hydrogen bomb (Hubbard). Both the Salem Witch Trials and the nuclear fear during the cold war were examples of hysteria but the total fear that the cold war instilled on people is far more important because it affected a national population in comparison to a meer
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tiny unicycle--a gift I received last Christmas from a close friend. The clown’s short yellow hair‚ made of yarn‚ covers its ears but is parted above the eyes. The blue eyes are outlined in black with thin‚ dark lashes flowing from the brows. It has cherry-red cheeks‚ nose‚ and lips‚ and its broad grin disappears into the wide‚ white ruffle around its neck. The clown wears a fluffy‚ two-tone nylon costume. The left side of the outfit is light blue‚ and the right side is red. The two colors merge in
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A year Down Yonder is about a girl named Mary Alice who goes to live with her Grandma in a small town with only her cat Bootsie and her potable radio that she says is her last touch with the world. This chapter is called Rich Chicago Girl. Mary Alice gets off a train from Chicago. After they leave the station Grandma enrolls her into school on the first day she arrives! Mary Alice sits next to Mildred Burdick who Grandma says to stay clear of but gets into deep trouble with and her horse ends
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Sunday school classes at the church when the bomb went off. There were also 23 other people hurt by the blast in various ways. Many people accused George Wallace‚ the Governor of Alabama for the killings. A week before the bomb went off he made a remark about stopping segregation and that Alabama needed a “Few first-class funerals”. This was told to the New York Times a week before the bomb incident and was published. The man who actually placed the bomb was a man identified as Robert Chambliss
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joyHigh-context Cultures and Low-context Cultures The Joy Luck Club explores the clash between Chinese culture and American culture. One way of understanding the difference is to look at communication in these cultures. Chinese culture can be classified as a high-context culture and American culture as a low-context culture. First I will define these terms‚ then explain the significance of these two categories‚ and finally apply them to The Joy Luck Club. * Culture is the way of living which
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readers and viewers. With a little bit of her own experiences tied into the story‚ we learn the ’fictional’ story of four Chinese mothers (Lindo Jong‚ Suyuan Woo‚ Ying-ying St. Clair‚ An-Mei Hsu) and their daughters‚ all American born (Rose Hsu Jordan‚ Jing-mei Woo‚ Waverly Jong‚ Lena St. Clair). In a feudal China‚ the four mothers decided to avoid having their future children live in such a traumatic country and thus decide to move to San Francisco’s China Town. Yet‚ as similar
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Is the Nightmare Over? The 1960s was a severely changing time in the US. The 1960s has shaped the way the US is today. It was a very changing time period because of many reasons‚ such as the hippie movement‚ the assassination of John F. Kennedy‚ and the creation of children’s toys‚ but one main event that occurred in the 60s was racism. Racism in the 1960s was a huge problem between whites and colored people for years. Propaganda was the main reason; prejudice commercials‚ sperate water fountains
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just like they did during the holocaust to the prisoners in the camps. The tone of this piece has very little sympathy and where it does it goes to the speaker because their garden is being destroyed. The speaker also believes that “the knockout bomb from the Feed and Grain Exchange was featured as merciful” (Kumin line
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the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America”(5). Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior tells the story of Maxine’s childhood as the first American-born child in her Chinese family. In her transition from her Chinese household to the American culture and world around her‚ Maxine finds it difficult to fit in with both cultures. In Woman Warrior‚ Kingston uses
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