Hurston uses dialect in her novels to enable the user to have a deeper insight into the culture in which the novels are set. Dialects are used to preserve oral traditions of a particular group. She uses dialect to preserve the African-American oral traditions to be passed on to the reader. The use of dialect makes the characters more interesting‚ especially to the African-American society. It is obvious that the book was meant for a black audience who read using the southern dialect among blacks
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The soliloquy that had the most impact on me by helping me understand Hamlet was from act four‚ scene four. The soliloquy occurs near the end of the play when Hamlet is away from home‚ observing Fortinbras’s army in battle. As Hamlet watches brave soldiers fight for their king’s honour‚ he critically examines his own character‚ questions himself and plans for his future. Personally‚ this soliloquy had a significant impact on me because Hamlet experiences a wide variety of emotions. At the beginning
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Princess Carter A Special Poem For My Baby Shower Guests. Before the diapers‚ smiles and cries‚ before you see my shining eyes‚ Before the cuddles and the coos‚ I share this day with all of you. Each of you brought a wonderful gift‚ everything on baby’s list. Mom is glad to share such bliss‚ I can’t wait to share a baby kiss. I’m not here yet‚ but I’m on my way. Thanks for being here today. Princess Carter A Special Poem For My Baby Shower Guests. Before the diapers
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How can she be me? The girl in the photograph does not look like me‚ her face is young and her collarbones peek out underneath the straps of her swim suit‚ how can she be me? Determination is written across her face as she prepares to step behind the blocks for her first race of her second season. She has yet to realize how many hours she will spend in her future‚ swimming the same distance. It was supposed to be just a casual sport‚ something she would do to make friends in the summer. Who could
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branched out to non-fiction and poetry in order to try to be able to win an award. This made me begin to fall in love with poetry and develop an understanding and respect for non-fiction. In fact‚ in fourth grade‚ I won the Honorable Mention in Wyoming for my non-fiction book. It was titled “How to Feel Better When your Family is Gone.” The book was about losing family members who have passed away and how to cope with the loss. After having the experience of earning the Honorable Mention‚ I began
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shaped me and made me who I am today. I am defined by my troubles in the past‚ my family‚ my education‚ my goals‚ and money. A lot of things have happened in my life that put me where I am today. I have been through an abusive family‚ exposed to inappropriate things‚ had run-ins with the law‚ and experienced a lot of things in my life. There are so many interesting stories in my life such as the time I was taken from my parents because of abuse and how my life changed from there. I feel these stories
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How Sports have Helped Me Grow as a Person Football is an extremely dangerous sport that younger kids shouldn’t not play anymore‚ for it teaches nothing good for our youth and it only allows them to hurt each other. In today’s society these are what most of the documents try to display about football. They make it seems as if it is barbaric and good for nothing; only causing harm to our younger generations. What these documents don’t show you is how much good playing football can be for our youth
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As I stepped into the mud colored cattle car‚ just the sight of it had made me wince. As I entered‚ it was like the other passengers were staring at me with shame‚ since if you were in the cattle car you had to of done something bad. I quickly put my head down. I could just feel the sticky wretched smell of feces and body odor in the car. My mother and I put our suitcases on the shelves‚ heaving them with all our strength to the very top shelf. We waited hours for in the dark‚ crammed‚ and smelly
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Affirmative Inaction: Colored College Admissions Students are increasingly being admitted to colleges based on the color of their skin‚ rather than their actual talent that sets them apart from others because of Affirmative Action programs. Affirmative Action is defined as: “any policies that (a) attempt to actively dismantle institutionalized or informal cultural norms and systems of ascriptive group-based disadvantage‚ and the inequalities historically resulting from them‚ and/or that (b) attempt
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make you feel like your heart is about to break‚ especially
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