The person I chose to interview is my Aunt Donna. She grew up during the mid-1960s‚ coming from a family of five. She graduated Rutgers University with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. She then pursued her master degree at Hunter College concentrating in Group Work Metal Health. She was the ideal person to interview because of the way she applied what she studied during her undergrad and grad school to the questions and how she formulated her answers based on her unique
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Figure Of Speech: Characterization: Calpurnia was something else again. She was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard. She was always ordering me out of the kitchen‚ asking me why I couldn’t behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older‚ and calling me home when I wasn’t ready to come. The reason I picked this was because it’s explaining who Cal is ‚ it’s explaining how she was bossy always ordering him out and how she was
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Anna Sidhu September 26‚ 2010 Unit 1 – Lesson 1.1 – 1.11 Aunt Poem Literary Response After reading the poem Aunt by Al Young the inference I can make about the aunt’s personality is that she is not afraid to express her emotions whether those feelings are of happiness or anger‚ out going‚ and a generally happy positive person. The reason I know that she is not afraid to express her feelings is from the line in that poem “O & her anger realer than gasoline slung into fire” and “She
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Visual/Formal Analysis The Liberation of Aunt Jemima by Betye Saar When we look at this piece‚ we tend to see the differences in ways a subject can be organized and displayed. This assemblage by Betye Saar shows us how using different pieces of medium can bring about the wholeness of the point of view in which the artist is trying to portray. So in part‚ this piece speaks about stereotyping and how it is seen through the eyes of an artist. At 1st glance this piece does look like a photograph‚ even a
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parental duties. Luckily for Atticus‚ Calpurnia is around to pick up some of the slack. Without Calpurnia‚ Jem and Scout would not be nearly as well behaved as they gradually become. Atticus’s career would also take a dive‚ with no one to watch Scout and Jem while he works. Finally‚ Calpurnia also takes care of exposing Jem and Scout to new things‚ something every parent should gradually do for their child. In the book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Calpurnia is the closest thing Jem and Scout
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Questions: 1. In what ways does Wayne feel uncomfortable at Aldo’s? Wayne feels uncomfortable at Aldo’s place because of where he and Caroline are seated at‚ where they are seated allows other random people to see what they are eating. This makes him uncomfortable because in today’s society people judge each other by the way we look‚ act‚ eat‚ drink‚ sing‚ talk and many other factors. Other ways that Wayne feels uncomfortable is that‚ Aldo the restaurant owner being very polite to his wife and telling
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Isra Mahmood BA English Hons II – B 599 Paper IV Project The Effects of the Affair of Caesar and Cleopatra on Calpurnia ------------------------------------------------- Introduction After Hatshepsut‚ Cleopatra was the only Queen of Egypt who was seriously referred to as “Pharaoh”. The torrid love affair between one of the highest regarded Queens in history and that of the phenomenal Julius Caesar is considered to be one of the most romantic and grand ones in the world. Cecil B. Demille seems to
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men to look upon her and feel an attraction towards her. She wanted a child more than anything and every time she brought a man‚ the baby never lived (66). Finally‚ when Sissy became tired of bearing dead children she set out to take someone else’s. She eventually found a family willing to give away their baby‚ and Sissy putting up an entire drama‚ took the baby into her hands (266-70). After the drama‚ Sissy settled down and Francie noticed a difference in her old Aunt Sissy. At last‚ it registered
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HOW DOES ALAGIAH CONVEY HIS FEELINGS ABOUT JOURNALISM IN A PASSAGE TO AFRICA? In a passage to Africa George Alagiah conveys his feelings about journalism during the course of his stay in Somalia through the use of various different language and literary devices. In a passage to Africa George Alagiah uses powerful and emotive language to show is views about journalism. An example of this is shown in the quotation: ‘that went beyond pity and revulsion’ ‚ ‘revulsion’ has strong connotations of horror
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of letters from Aunt Fay to her niece Alice who is currently studying English Literature at college. Alice has been told to read Jane Austen but thinks that Austen is “boring‚ petty and irrelevant” (Letters to Alice‚ Page 7). Aunt Fay attempts to convince Alice to read Jane Austen by talking about the life and work of Jane Austen‚ and tries to explain Literature to Alice. She encourages Alice to put off writing her own novel until she is more familiar with proper Literature. Aunt Fay then creates
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