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    It is interesting how two family members can share many differences and many similarities. In the novel To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Atticus and Aunt Alexandra demonstrate their care and love for Jem and Scout‚ yet differ when it comes to parenting and views on society. Atticus and Aunt Alexandra both express their love and care for Jem and Scout. Firstly Atticus has more of a relaxed and compassionate love for Jem and Scout. For instance‚ after the attack of Jem and Scout‚ Jem was frightened

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    I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such moving wonder‚ such a luminous dignity”. With these words‚ James Baldwin‚ who mentored and motivated Maya Angelou to write her autobiographical novel‚ I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings‚ describes the hope that Maya Angelou harboured for a better world‚ strongly supported by her love of literature and frequent retreats into the depths of literary worlds. The ever-religious Angelou

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    Bird on the Wire by Cohen Leonard is a personal song that talks about the great challenges of humanity. The poem first starts off saying that people are very free but still confined by comparing us to birds on a wire. Then the song talks about making mistakes and hurting people but always trying make it up. I believe that this is a sad song about feeling out of luck and down‚ and always trying to find yourself from within. I personally really enjoyed the message the second verse was trying

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    The Bird and the Machine Exam 1. In The Bird and the Machine‚ Loren Eiseley reads an article one morning and is confronted by a new world: one which is inherent of technological advancement. In fact‚ he reads that this new world is machine dominant‚ and that machines are to surpass human intelligence and potential in the world. This new world also fuses a new scope on life that‚ for example‚ the human mind is just a mechanical system like a computer and nothing to get superstitious about. In finish

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    AT SWIM TWO BIRDS Theatre going has never like many others been high on my list of priorities. I have always been more into going out with my mates for a few pints‚ or watching the football on television. So when I found out I had to write a review of a play‚ I felt it would be deeply challenging to me. My lack of experience I feel‚ however‚ gave me the opportunity to give a fresh view on the joys or possible hindrances which may face your ordinary Joe soap wishing to try something new‚ by attending

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    man is born equal. I disagree‚ however‚ some are born into more luxurious lives‚ some are born disabled with no way to recover‚ and some are born with a special “ticket” through life called talent. In fact‚ the only time that we are truly equal is in death. No one gets to buy‚ run‚ swim‚ jump‚ or debate their way out of death. This is a fact shown clearly to the reader in Maya Angelou’s book I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings in Chapter 26 when she states‚ “... and all the way I communed with death’s

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    called as the least common kiwi. The brown kiwi prefers dense‚ sub-tropical and temperate forests. The Brown Kiwi is known as to be the smallest bird but lays the biggest eggs than all other birds. Kiwis are flightless birds that live in New Zealand. They have dark brown feathers and it looks ugly. It has no tail‚ and has a long ivory beak. The birds stand up 40cm and weighs for males 4.9 lb and Females 6.2 lb. When the hatchlings have been hatched‚ in their first week they are able to fend for

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    one sentence answering the question for each memoir. Answer (15 points) ScoreAll of the memoirs in this unit are told from the first-person point of view. Why is it important that they are told in the first person How would they be different if they were told from a different point of view Imagine one of the memoirs you read told from a different point of view‚ and use that example to explain both the benefits of telling the storyin the first person and how it would be different if told from another

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    “As I made my way home‚ I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn’t much else left for us to learn‚ except possibly algebra.”(279) Scout says this at the end of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The story is set in Maycomb‚ Alabama in the 1930’s. The main characters‚ Scout and Jem live with their lawyer-father‚ Atticus. Scout and Jem are adventurous kids who become fascinated by their mysterious neighbor‚ Arthur “Boo” Radley. He is the character in their games and plays. Boo

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    Maya Angelou’s occupation Conductorrette from I know Why the Caged Bird Sings is written in the first-person point of view. The narrator is a fifteen-year-old black girl. She wants to find a job that will suit her age but that will also be one the really has an interest for. The narrator decides she wants to be the first Negro on the San Francisco streetcars. Getting the job‚ however‚ wasn’t an easy task‚ and neither was having to deal with the discrimination of her co-workers. In the beginning

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