1) Julie‚ Ray‚ Helen‚ and Barry are four close friends‚ Julie and Ray being a couple and Barry and Helen also being one. Being high school students‚ they went late one night up to a clearing in the forest to hang out. When driving home‚ they had been a little drunk and were still kissing‚ they ran over a ten year old kid‚ David Gregg‚ who was riding a bicycle. Ray had been driving. The four kept driving until they reached a telephone‚ where an anonymous ambulance was called for help for the child
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the autobiography of Maya Angelou‚ an African American woman raised in the early 1900s‚ and an inspiration to all. As a child‚ she knew her parents had sent Bailey and her to live with their grandmother‚ and believed it was her fault. At the young age of six‚ she meets her father again who takes Bailey and her to meet their mother in St. Louis. For the first few years of her life‚ she suffered from the guilt of being sent away and worse believing that her mother
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I am who I am I am delicious‚ but not so nutritious. Nutritionists hate me. I will make you chubby. You can choose to fill me or decorate me with goodies. I am very large‚ but can be as small as a quarter. I am as old as time itself and developed a love for all. I have plenty of sugar and love to be passed around. I have plenty of purposes; some very sentimental. I am there for break-ups and when you need a sweet tooth fix. I am your best friend. I am a worldwide love. I can be shaped into anything
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that they deem essential to put across to their readers. Francine Prose‚ the author of the excerpt I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read‚ is just by being skeptical of using literary works to teach values because of the way many English classes target the values of the author rather than the literary work itself. By using the two examples of the novels Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ Prose expands her argument by proving to the reader that many English teachers
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In the autobiography‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ Maya Angelou writes fondly of her mother Vivian Baxter. Maya writes about her mother with admiration of her beauty and grace. In one instance‚ Maya and her brother Bailey compare their mother to the Caucasian actress Kay Francis because of her magnetic personality. The praise Maya gives to her mother is similar to the praise Bee gives to her mother Bernadette in the novel‚ Where’d You Go‚ Bernadette? by Maria Semple. In the novel‚ Bee shows
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thoughts to educators‚ students‚ and parents about high school’s reading and why most teenagers disdain reading‚ in her essay “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read”. Francine Prose believes that reading is extremely important in learning‚ therefore it is “important to make sure that high school students are actually reading literature.” (p.90) She is discontented when she found out that educators are not giving students the
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December 8‚ 2014 “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read” Analysis In “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read‚” Francine Prose argued that high school students are beginning to hate reading even more than before because they aren’t taught correctly how to understand more complicated texts. She blames the education system for requiring students to read “middlebrow entertainments.” Francine Prose gives many examples that go to support her argument‚ that students despise literature because they don’t understand it and
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morning ‚ I am Giang. I am here to show you my opinion about the topic : The only thing people are in terested today is earning money. I’ll only take about 5 minutes of your time . If you have any questions ‚ pls ask me at the end of my talk . As you know Mrs Huong totally agrees that People are hooked in earning money today. But Mr Hoc disagrees. I think everything has two sides in it. I partly agree that money is very important in our life. That’s the reason why peole are only interested
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“I don’t work‚ I am just a homemaker!” The above statement is an often spoken and heard expression. Does that mean the homemaker does not contribute? The silent contribution made by housewives to the economic development of the country remains to be calculated. The role of housewives in managing homes was invaluable. Imagine a case where we have to spend to you engage professionals to undertake domestic work at home. We know it would cost us a lot. Then we would understand the role played by housewives
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In the book All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten by the American author Robert Fulghum‚ Fulghum lists simple lessons that could make the world better. Some people disagree and think life is too complicated to fix with these lesson‚ but those lessons he wrote down can make life easier. Life can be so much easier if we can play and work some every day‚ put things back where you found them‚ and hold hands and stick together. If everyone follow these life lessons life would be so easier
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