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    was sent from God unto a city of Galilee‚ named Nazareth‚ to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph‚ of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her‚ and said‚ Hail‚ thou that art highly favoured‚ the Lord is with thee: blessed ’art’ thou among women. And when she saw him‚ she was troubled at his saying‚ and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

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    quirky fusion of kinship‚ locality‚ experience and even spirituality. There is no rule book on how to belong so it must be frequently improvised. Peter Skrzynecki communicates the concept of belonging through his poems ’10 Mary Street’ and ‘In The Folk Museum’ by using such techniques as similes metaphors and person pronouns and I‚ Frank McCourt‚ communicate my ideas on belonging in my biographical novel‚ ‘Angela’s Ashes’‚ through the use of analogy and allusion. By using similes it allows Skrzynecki

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    ‘angel’ like voice on the other. In her book she describes it as‚ “the struggle between my prayers and the evil whispers that I was sure belonged to the devil raged in my mind. I never stopped praying . . . and the whispering never relented‚” (Left to Tell). Going into her experience Immaculee was very religious‚ but these events tested her faith. For those 90 days in the bathroom she never let up on her prayers. Matthew 7:7 states “ask and it will be given to you‚” so everyday she prayed to God asking

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    Souls of Black Folk

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    His choice in poetry clearly illustrates the struggle of colored Americans in the early 20th century. Schiller’s poem metaphorically explains that to “proclaim your might”‚ you must choose a pure and strong route to recognition. This is more or less Du Bois’ vision of progress for colored Americans. His chapter keeps in line with the themes of the poem‚ describing his early times as a teacher in Tennessee. As a student at Fisk University‚ he spent significant time during the summer vacation teaching

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    While Ernest Hemingway’s “A Soldier’s Home” and Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a War Story” are both pieces focusing on war and the profound impact it has on the minds of soldiers that go through it‚ they both differ in many ways. The settings of the stories are dissimilar as “A Soldier’s Home” is set after the war‚ in a typical suburban environment in Oklahoma‚ where the protagonist grew up‚ while “How to Tell a True War Story” is set primarily in war-stricken areas in Vietnam with a few other instances

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    affected by the Rwandan ethnic cleansing War have relived many stories. The ethnic designations of "Hutu" and "Tutsi" became media notorious after the war but one fact remains that whenever the anomalies of war is recounted from whichever perspective‚ it remains fresh and evokes sorrow in our inner psyche as humans since the Rwandan genocide is complex! Here enters the traumatic reliving of a yet to be easily erased memories of one woman’s story of surviving the Holocaust as vividly portrayed Illibagiza-herself

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    The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway and Maus by Art Spiegelman deal with the atrocities of war and demonstrate what one human being is capable of doing to another. But both stories provide a sense of salvation‚ especially through the way their main characters escape. In Hemingway’s The Nick Adams Stories‚ the salvation that Nick finds refuge in is nature. Throughout Hemingway’s anthology of stories about Nick‚ the reader sees how Nick is injured quite a number of times during his duty in the

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    Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities; this article focuses primarily on the visual arts‚ which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting‚ sculpture‚ printmaking‚ photography‚ and other visual media. Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts; however‚ like the decorative arts‚ it involves the creation of objects where the practical considerations of use are essential—in a way that they are usually not for a painting

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    In The Soul of Black Folk‚ by W.E.B. Du Bois‚ we see that the novel itself is a collection of his own articles and writing that he cleverly uses to express his view of African Americans immediately after the emancipation and everything that was still wrong with it. This collection of writing showed the racial inequalities‚ oppression and the everyday day struggle that African Americans were faced with every day. Not only pointing out the problems‚ Du Bois fights for fixing these problems and brings

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    The Souls of Black Folk In the book‚ The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Du Bois illustrates the problems African Americans faced during the twentieth century. This was such an eye opener story to most readers influenced by his words no matter what your race you are‚ black or white. Du Bois says‚ the “problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.”( Du Bois 9) This thought and idea is shown throughout the entire book. What Du Bois is directing this toward is the time after the

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