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    In the poem from Marge Piercy’s If I had been called Sabrina or Ann‚ she said‚ the narrator’s tone towards her name and how it affected her life was very mournful and downcast. Her choice of diction portrayed that she was absolutely disgusted with her name. A quote that supports this claim is‚ “Useful‚ plain; impossible for foreigners‚ from French to Japanese‚ to pronounce.” She is indicating that her name is dull‚ uninteresting‚ and unreasonably hard to pronounce. Because of the title of this excerpt

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    The Man Who Was Almost a Man Dave Saunders lives in a world where all of his individual rights and privileges are completely stripped from him‚ strictly because of his ethnicity. His family and everybody around him live similar lives and that it working on a farm day in and day out and not seeing any profits. I feel Dave is humiliated with the life he lives and is sick of how he appears to society. He wants to seem manly‚ and therefore he decides to purchase a gun‚ making him look powerful to those

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    Literary Terms and Theory defines the word Character in the literary world as a person depicted in a work. (“Character”) is a brief descriptive sketch of a personage who typifies some definite quality. (Macmillan 79) In the story “The Man That Was Almost a Man” Wright’s writings are figurative birth pangs of his own life‚ which is perhaps why his choice to tell this story in the “third-person limited” is fitting‚ Dave Saunders is that voice. The setting is the rural south in the second quarter of

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    Milkweed‚ “Until Then I Had Only Read These Things In Books” and “The Guard” all are about children experiencing the terrible life during the Holocaust. After reading these stories you can learn how these experiences had some in common some not. Among the three stories‚ there are many similarities. The first similarity is that two of the stories narrators are scared of the Jackboots. For example in “The Guard” the narrator kept his/her head down and make no contact with the guard. The narrator was

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    I woke up and could not remember what had happened… … I woke up and could not remember what had happened. All I could feel was a knock out in my head‚ extremely painful‚ as if lightning had struck me and split my head into two. I was searching for Ethan‚ but the moment I took a deep breath‚ the stench of the crimson blood in the surrounding rushed into my nose‚ stopped me from identifying any other smells in the atmosphere. There is no a single beam of light in the room which made me feel uncomfortable

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    Ononiwu Ikenna George Instructor’s Name: Albert Mugambi Rutere Assignment: Narrative Essay Date: February 28‚ 2011 EXCITING EXPERIENCES I HAVE HAD IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA My stay in American University of Nigeria (AUN)‚ so far has been an exciting and fun filled one right from when I was admitted till date. At AUN‚ I have lectures in comfortable and conducive classes‚ have met people from different Countries of the World‚ made a lot of friends‚ engage in extracurricular

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    If I had to change the dress code violation I would change being allowed to wear hoodies‚ hats‚ and bandannas. Here is the reason why I would change these dress code regulations. I feel like hats need to be worn because it can complete the style you’re going for. Or maybe something happened to your head so you decided to wear a hat to cover that one spot. I also feel that hats can bring more satisfaction because others may like it. I don’t see what’s wrong with wearing a hat you can see their

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    The book Almost Home is about a little girl‚ Sugar Mae Cole and her mother‚ Reba. They lose their family home after Sugar’s grandfather dies and Mr. Leeland her gambling father who comes and goes leaves again. Sugar adopts/rescues a dog‚ Shush‚ who makes this journey with them and later becomes a therapy dog and is a real support for Sugar. They stay with Reba’s cousin for a little until they are not welcomed anymore and leave for a shelter. They stay there for a while and then they make a big move

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    Slide 2: Poem‚ Had You Not Had you not hinted It would be appropriate For me to kiss you Beneath the silver moon‚ I may have avoided you And Prufrocked myself through life— Singing nothing but an etherized song. Had you not suggested Spring was a good season For us to make love‚ I might have buried myself In a library trying to find why Henry James’ delicate wound Kept him on the sidelines‚ While the match played out Before his fearful eyes. Had you not intimated I had but precious

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    arm growing. This shows that she is starting to realize what she has found‚ or in other words she is growing up. Eveline is also growing up through the story because she “fashioned a bikini from a pair of pink knickers and an old vest” which she had

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