listen to me‚ I am feeling like a widow. My padrone abandoned me in prison. GOD only you could solve my problem‚ only you could bear me witness upon this crime I have been accused‚ but of which I am innocent. Please‚ if you are God come and rescue me‚ before society hangs me. Amen!’ I am from Togo‚ in west Africa‚ but I can’t remember the village I am from because I got kidnapped when I was little.When I was playing outside my tent with my little brother‚ the ball fell into the bush. I ran after
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I Am is a documentary made by Tom Shadyac who was in a bicycle accident that led to him having suffering from post-concussion syndrome‚ for short period in his life. The life altering accident led him to that ask the questions‚ what wrong with the world‚ and what can we do to change it. After watching this film my assertion was that we are what wrong with the world I am what wrong with the world. In order to change the world we need to tart with our self’s‚ this how we change the world‚ but this
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When reading Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use‚ one is rushed with a variety of emotions. It is hard to distinguish these emotions because each character exudes traits that are not comparable to the other. Furthermore Mama tells the story‚ and the reader is only aware of her true feelings. Although the Alice Walker’s story is told in first person‚ it still allows the readers to develop their own opinion of the characters. “Everyday Use” contains messages varying from the significance of family
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a story written by Alice Walker about two sisters named Dee and Maggie. The story deals with the argument between the mother and daughter Dee about a pair of quilts Dee wants but can’t have because they were already promised to Maggie. The sisters are different in so many ways: their personalities‚ physical appearance‚ and different point of views of their heritage. As family values are so important to both Maggie and her mother than it is to Dee there is a lot confrontation. I will discuss the differences
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I am Malala is the memoir of a fourteen-year old girl’s campaign for women’s right to education. In 2011‚ Malala was shot by the Taliban in a bus on her way home from school. Two Taliban men boarded the bus and asked‚ “who is Malala‚” soon after‚ firing shots into Malala’s head (Yousafzai 9). The Taliban‚ a radical Islamic group‚ wishes to instill a conservative version of Islamic law called Sharia. Malala grew up in a society in which women were treated as inferior beings‚ housekeepers‚ and had
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The Color Purple I choose to read the book “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker. The book talks about the life of an African-American lady by the name of Celie that lived in the southern United States in the late 1930s. It addresses the numerous issues that included the low ranking of American social culture. In the book it talks about how she wrote books to God because the father she had would beat her and rape her. He also got her pregnant and then she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. Her father
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different ways of life. Culture is more than what a person is or where they come from. Culture is who they are including their traditions and customs‚ their art‚ their language‚ and their family. This is portrayed in the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker through the characterization of sisters Maggie and Dee. Dee spent most of her life hating her home. She hated where she lived and possibly even who she lived with. She grew up wanting everything
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Y 11 NOVEL STUDY I AM NOT ESTHER BY FLEUR BEALE Describe a conflict/challenge faced by a character in the novel. Explain why the conflict/challenge is important. Fleur Beale effectively creates conflict between her two main characters 14 year old Kirby Pilgrim and her Uncle Caleb in the novel I Am Not Esther by throwing together two contrasting characters. This conflict is important because it introduces new characters to the plot‚ develops relationships‚ creates suspense‚ and reveals
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Arab guy named Hakim-a-barber. In a way I see how Dee/ Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo and Beneatha from “A Raisin in the Sun” are similar. Both characters try to force education on their families‚ feeling as if they know more because they went to school. The thing with Dee that has drawn interest to me is that she that she feels like she subjugated by her people because of her name‚ ergo her changing it to Wangero. In a scene Wangero tells Mama of this by saying‚ “I couldn’t bear it any longer being named
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(Strip stayed orange. The solution stayed blue.) Adding the Zn strip made the strip turn orange. The solution remained blue. When we added the Ag strip‚ nothing happened. The strip remained light grey and the solution was blue. When we added the Fe strip‚ the strip turned orange and the solution became a light blue opposing the grey strip and blue solution. When we added the Cu‚ nothing happened. The strip remained orange and the solution was still blue. Adding the grey Zn strip‚ it turned
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