Short Response Islam 219 November 26‚ 2013 Homeland Insecurity: How Immigrant Muslims Naturalize America in Islam “Immigrants must feel at home not only in the privacy of their own homes but also in the culture of society.” (597) The Muslim population is rapidly increasing especially in the western world‚ from converts to those who originate from Islamic backgrounds. According to the article there are about six million Muslims in the United States of America. However‚ despite the common misbelieve
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Work on a character of your own choice. How does Shakespeare create dramatic effect through characterisation? Dramatic effect is the most prominent in the characterisation of Hamlet which Shakespeare portrays through Hamlet’s interactions with others; what they say about him‚ his internal thoughts and dialogue. In regards to his dialogue‚ Hamlet’s utterances are very philosophical thus depicting him as a thoughtful and intelligent character. In act 3 scene 1‚ Hamlet says‚ ‘To be‚ or not
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faith. He has his vision for the spire and will do anything to have it built. He irritates and infuriates people with his unbridled zeal for the building of the spire. This conflicts with other characters in the novel and creates tensions between Jocelin and other characters. He creates a detached nature with the reader and other characters through his actions and his nature. This is clear even from the beginning of the book‚ where in the chapter house the conflict between the Lord Chancellor and Jocelin
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How does Shakespeare create sympathy for Romeo and Juliet? Shakespeare creates sympathy for the two protagonists in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ skilfully using emotive language‚ sonnet form‚ alliteration and metaphor. Before the play begins‚ the audience are told that it will end in a disaster. This creates an emotive reaction in the audience throughout the play as they are reminded of the fate of the two young lovers. This is emphasised by the fact that the protagonists foreshadow their own
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quote chosen to depict loneliness in the novella is intended to show that as long as somebody is there with you‚ everything will be okay. Some may say that they can deal with being alone‚ but that would be defying human nature. Everybody‚ no matter how old‚ big or small‚ or no matter the colour of their skin‚ is always in need of reassurance from another human being. The fact that George having Lennie and vice versa shows that even though they constantly are disagreeing or getting on each others nerves
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How does John Harding use gothic techniques to create horror in Florence and Giles? Horror permeates much of Harding’s beguiling novel Florence and Giles (2010). In a retrospective first-person narrative foretold by young didactic protagonist Florence‚ Harding’s richly textured novel attempts to masterfully create horror through various gothic techniques. For example‚ Harding employs recurring weather motifs to compel his audience ’It was December now and we’d have had a lot of snow’ says Florence
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Jimmy Boyle’s self-portrayal A Sense of Freedom (1977) provides a captivating and truthful knowledge into his life of wrongdoing and imprisonment. The personal history‚ as per Boyle is an endeavor to caution youngsters that there is nothing fabulous about wrongdoing and roughness. It gives a full portrayal of his life from an exceptionally adolescent age‚ with a point by point understanding into his adolescence‚ encounters of unimportant wrongdoing‚ sanction schools directly through to his grown-up
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Second‚ in his essay about Hell‚ Joyce uses intensive imagery to create a scenery of Hell. Imagery is the figurative language that is most prominent in this passage. Without it‚ describing what hell looks like is useless. For example‚ in paragraph six‚ Joyce gives a description of the sensation of hellfire. He states “Every sense of the flesh is tortured eternally and every faculty of the soul therewith: the eyes with impenetrable utter darkness‚ the nose noisome odor‚ the ears with yells‚ howls
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every story that Poe writes is how he can not only create suspense but also how he can maintain that same intensity of suspense for the entire length of the story. In the case of “The Tell-tale Heart‚” Poe creates that feeling of uncertainty since the first line. The reason for this is that although the story starts by saying: “True! --nervous --very‚ very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them
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Steinbeck uses the beginning of each chapter to paint the image of the room or location in which the chapter takes part. The main locations are the place near the pool‚ the bunkhouse‚ the dream farm‚ Crooks’ room‚ and the barn. Steinbeck picks items or feature of each place to help evoke the atmosphere of the place and to symbolise the greater ideas of the story. The idealised setting near the pool is where people start waiting to begin working towards the American dream‚ hoping to live an idealised
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