IMMIGRANT CHRONICLES By Peter Skrzynecki STUDY NOTES *** Studying poetry Poetry appeals to our understanding through our imagination by making us see what the poet has seen‚ hear what the poet has heard and experience the poet wants us to feel. Useful Literary Terms Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds close together – for a special sound effect and/or emphasis | Allusion | a reference to something from history/ literature/ religion that adds meaning to the
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Jump to: navigation‚ search The initial page of the Peterborough Chronicle. Translation of this scanned page. [1] | Wikisource has original text related to this article: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the Chronicle was created late in the 9th century‚ probably in Wessex‚ during the reign of Alfred the Great. Multiple copies were made of that original which were
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In Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ there is a murder. Twenty-seven years later‚ a man tries to figure out why the murder took place. All throughout the story‚ Marquez changes the time around; the way he does this is through the man trying to solve the murder. The man is asking witnesses to tell him what they remember about the day of the murder and what events led up to the murder. The story is all mixed up though‚ and the pieces of information that he finds are not in chronological
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Love At First Chip Love At First Chip Love At First Chip Ruth Wakefield invented the chocolate chip cookie in the early 1930’s. The phenomenal cookie was an accident. Wakefield thought that by adding some chips from a Nestle chocolate bar would make the cookie dough like a chocolate cookie‚ not a chocolate chip cookie. Ruth Wakefield graduated from Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924. She was a dietician and lectured on food. Wakefield then went on to open
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The book “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” is a great book that is very good in early child development. The book was published in November of 1985. Although the book is old there have been many other adaptions such as “If You Take a Mouse to School”‚ “If You Give a Cat a Cupcake”‚ and so much more. I chose this book because it was a book it was a book I use to read when I was younger. I think this may have been one of the books that helped me to be able to read on my own. I chose the book because
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Why I am Late for English Class Hastily‚ I dashed through the door of my English class trying to avoid the mandatory three deduction points for being late‚ however my watch displayed 6:05 pm. Out of breath‚ I tried to sneak into my chair as if I had not been late at all‚ then I heard Mr. Foster firmly ask‚ “Ms. Sanders‚ why could you not arrive on time today?” “If I can be here at 7:45 am‚ work ten hours‚ and manage to arrive here on time‚ so can you.” I responded to him by saying‚ “If
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“Chronicles of Ice” by Gretel Ehrlich “Why did we trade in our ceremonial lives for the workplace? Is this a natural progression or a hiccup in human civilization that we’ll soon renounce” (Ehrlich 91)? Gretel Ehrlich asks these deep questions in her short informative essay “Chronicles of Ice” (2004). Ehrlich tells of her travels to The World Heritage glacier Perito Moreno‚ Argentina. In this short narrative‚ the author uses pathos and strong human related metaphors‚ to relay the direct correlation
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oven‚ fresh off of the cookie sheet. So‚ what’s so wonderful about cookies? It begins with intense basketball games and living with 8 other people and only having one bathroom. It’s about late night homework sessions and once having broken arms together. It’s associated with bank robberies and local shootings. It’s about fibbing‚ hurting‚ yelling‚ sweating‚ throwing and aching. All of this screams cookies. Humiliation-deserved evil or heart fluttering pride‚ toss me a cookie. Scrape‚ bruise or gash
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A Semantic Calculator for Bias in Rhetoric When this piece was written‚ Stephen Burd was a senior writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education and had been working in that capacity for nearly a decade. In this context it makes sense that he would write on such things as the "working-class student". White male‚ middle-aged‚ middle-class‚ bachelors degree in history- all of these are attributed to Mr. Burd (though none of these things are explicitly referenced in his writing). In this piece there
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really did it. I searched for the recipe‚ made the dough by myself‚ waited in front of the oven‚ and invited my host parents to taste it. “This is going to be great! I’m sure you will find your date.” My host mum said to me while she was eating the cookie. Back then‚ I felt really confident. However‚ in my calculus class‚ I suddenly got nervous: what if nobody eats it and everybody laughs at me! “Don’t waste your cookies! Give it a shot!” another piece of me tried to persuade myself. Finally‚ I
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