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    Memoirs of C K Janu Against The Hegemony Of The Ruling Class C K Janu’s unfinished autobiography “Mother Foster: The Unfinished Story of C K Janu” which is translated by N Ravi Shankar is an eloquent testimony to her courage and her convictions. It is the recounting of her experience in her past. C K Janu is the prominent organic woman leader who managed to gain land for the tribals who were stamped under foot by the elites and the government. She is the leader of the Adivasi tribes

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    Charles Schoenfeld‚ retired in 2003 as a UPS truck driver then took classes to be a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). He passed the exam and began working at a dementia care facility where he says‚ “I fit right in.” During one of Chuck’s last visits to his mother’s apartment he slipped and fell on the kitchen floor she had just “washed” with Crisco Oil. Chuck and his wife‚ Maggie‚ persuaded her to move in with them. During the Wisconsin winters‚ his mother lived with her daughter‚ Jean‚ in warmer

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    2. What is important about my reader in regards to my memoir? That they have an open mind. 3. What rhetorical moves do I need to make in regards to my reader? Purpose: 1. What exactly am I writing about? I am writing a story about questioning my need to believe in a higher being. 2. What is my tone?

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    Castillo did not hold any type of leadership within his community; however‚ he was intelligent enough to know a new world apart from an old one. The New Spain that Castillo and his conquest mates experienced eventually led to the publication of his memoirs and witnessing experience. When Castillo witnessed New Spain for the first time‚ he remembered the god-forsaken words relayed through the enemies of the Aztecs‚ which was that the Aztecs would obliterate them once they had entered

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    The book Seal Team Six Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper is a look at Seal Team Six. A Seal is the Navy’s elite group of Special Forces. This book is written by Howard E. Wasdin who was in Seal Team Six and Stephen Templin. The reason for writing this book is to inform people of what it is like to be a Navy Seal and how Howard E. Wasdin was born to be one. In this book Howard tells the reader about his life from childhood to BUD’s (basic underwater demolition) to sniper school to the battle of

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    In John Bul Dau’s memoir‚ God Grew Tired of Us‚ he tells the inspiring and heart wrenching story of the Lost Boys of Sudan. This two hundred and eighty one page book was published in 2008 in the USA. John’s moving story begins by explaining the tense political situation in his beloved homeland‚ Sudan. Sudan is a country located in Northern africa. John was born in1974 into the Dinka tribe in the agricultural and cattle raising farm of Duk County. The environment of southern Sudan is scorching hot

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    In the memoir Night‚ by Elie Weisel‚ what does "soup" come to symbolize? Soup has many symbolic things in the book but most common one it symbolizes hope. The main character at first at first the character when he first came to the shelter and they offer him food he refused to eat it. He thought that if soup was the only food he could‚ he would rather died than eat that trash. Elie had a little time t be in the camp therefore he thought that things would change to good. However‚ he began to

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    “Les Tiroirs de la nuit” by Adolf Dehn translated as Night Drawers in French‚ was produced in 1976-78 this is a Oil on linen painting. The painting represents a depth effect with the observer in a baby’s room staring outside onto a balcony at a boy and dog with a door leading to the small figures. The room the painting places you in is a light blue room that has a light bleached wooden night drawer with round wood bleach handles night drawer that is on the left of the painting and it extends outside

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    It was nice sunny day in Los Angeles. It seemed like a pretty normal day but to me and my family‚ it was the start of my biggest adventure. We were all very excited. “Can you believe it‚ were actually going to Yellowstone National Park!” my sister said. “Yea‚ it’s pretty cool”‚ I replied. “Get in the motor home!” my father shouted. We all hopped in. My father started up the engine and we hit the road. It was long way. We would have to travel north-east for more than a thousand miles. At first we

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    The novel To Kill a Mocking Bird‚ the memoir Night‚ and the play Romeo and Juliet are good examples of how one can create a plan and the potential obstacles that someone may run into while executing this type of plan. Within the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the main character with a plan was Atticus. His plan at the beginning of the novel was to succeed in winning the Tom Robinson case. The case involved the accusations made against Tom that he raped Bob Ewell’s daughter‚ Mayella. Even though

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