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    Throughout history‚ literature has been used as a medium to convey controversial political topics. Among these topics are race relations. Works such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ and I know why the Caged Bird Sings have been highly disputed amongst society due to the level of conflicting race relations discussed in these novels. More specifically‚ the language in these novels has been subject to the most crucial judgment. The connotative language used in these novels is not only degrading

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    Meanwhile‚ Crocodile Dundee talks about their tradition of “Walkabout”. According to “Merriam-Webster” website‚ meaning of walkabout is: ¹“An occasion in which an Australian Aborigine goes on a long walking journey on land that is far from towns and cities.” He says that he wandered around for 18 months. I can only imagine how difficult it is for human being. You have to find your food yourself in nature‚ they sleep in the soil‚ they don’t take proper bath and they just go to discover their identities

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    Part of this week’s reading is an article titled Money‚ written by Margaretta Lovell. In this piece‚ Lovell focuses on the relationship between Art and money‚ and just how intertwined the two are. The author explains that although the connection is not a well-discussed topic amongst art historians‚ the bond between money and art persists‚ affecting artists throughout many aspects of art-making. The writer focuses on the theory of Object Biography; a concept that entails how the value of an object

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    Reading Reflection ENG 125 7/5/2011 Reading Reflection The literary work that we discussed this week was interesting to me in so many ways. The chapters talked about different types of literature such as poems‚ short stories‚ and also novels. Throughout the reading I experience literature in a way I have never understood before. Literature restores the past‚ stimulates the imagination‚ glorifies the commonplace‚ evokes emotions and links feeling to thinking‚ upholds a vision of the

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    Academic Study Essay

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    INTRODUCTION Academic study can help us improve our English skills and achieve our goals to contribute to society.This achievements require us to work hard and improve our abilities to adapt to the society. Therefore‚ the essay aims at telling you the aims of academic study.It will then suggest some ways to achieve that . BODY PART Academic study‚ with the aims of developing personal growth‚ contributing to social development and gaining a higher-lever degree‚ is very important. Because when we

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    Literature: Mirror of Society That literature is a reflection of the society is a fact that has been widely acknowledged. Literature indeed reflects the society‚ its good values and its ills. In its corrective function‚ literature mirrors the ills of the society with a view to making the society realize its mistakes and make amends. It also projects the virtues or good values in the society for people to emulate. Literature‚ as an imitation of human action‚ often presents a picture of what people

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    KABAYANI PARK Juliet B. Alan INTRODUCTION: Learning a skill must begin with a meaningful situation. The meaning and significance of a skill to be learned must be concrete and clear to the learners. One of the subject integrated in Makabayan is Sibika/Hekasi. Since‚ some concepts or skills to be taught to the learners in Makabayan is about history and for

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    Plagiarism Declaration I certify that this dissertation is all my own work and contains no plagiarism. By submitting this dissertation‚ I agree to the following terms: Any text‚ diagrams or other material copied from other sources (including‚ but not limited to‚ books‚ journals and the internet) have been clearly acknowledged and referenced as such in the text by the use of ‘quotation marks’ (or indented italics for longer quotations) followed by the author’s name and date [eg (Byrne‚ 2008)]

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    The personal identity of one’s life can be represented in several different ways. The two essays that compare in personal identities are Wanderers By Choice and Chameleons and Codas by Eva Hoffman and Patricia Conrad. Personal identity determines whom and where one belongs in today’s society. One’s identity can be described with an adjective or a noun‚ which in the two essays are chameleons‚ deaf‚ a nomad and an exile. The identity one can have can be classified as a noun. In Chameleons and Codas

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    Every society and culture has different ways of interpreting and defining occurrences by the way their own culture or society functions. "A society ’s culture‚ consists of whatever it is one has to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members"(Geertz 242). The rituals‚ customs‚ ethics and morals that are attributed to the cultures have caused these differences. To understand how the people of one culture interpret a situation or event‚ one must evaluate the attributes

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