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    Family struggles have been present since before time. Every family has there own challenges that they are forced to face. Two plays show how a family can deal and compensate with their daily battles. A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a play set in Chicago‚ before the civil rights movement‚ about the Youngers. The Youngers lived in a crammed apartment‚ with just enough space for the five of them‚ and are expecting another child. They are depending on their father’s life insurance check

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    Walter Lee: frustrated‚ angry‚ quixotic. Do you have a dream or an idea that you think would work but no one else understands? If you do‚ then you would get along with Walter Lee Younger wonderfully. Set entirely in the Younger living room‚ this play takes place in a run-down apartment in the South side of Chicago during the middle of the twentieth century. Three generations of the family live in this crowded space. Walter Lee Younger is a chauffeur and Lena’s son. He is a slim‚ intense‚ thirty-five

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    Essay questions: how do the novel holes deal with the issue of power? . Intro: Holes‚ by Louis Sachar‚ are a very important novel for students to study when learning about power and justice. The novel explores these two themes closely as we are taken an a journey through \ around camp green lake with Stanley‚ a character who has been wrong fully accused of stealing a pair of sneakers. Through the techniques\ ideas of characterisation setting and themes‚ the author is successful in communicating

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    isn’t really available to everyone‚ not then and not now. The idea of an "American Dream" is examined throughout Lorraine Hansberry’s play‚ A Raisin in the Sun as the theme of the play surrounds itself around Langston Hughes’ poem‚ "Harlem" where Hughes examines if dreams shrivel and dry up like a "Raisin in the Sun." Throughout the play‚ all the characters express their own dreams for their lives. The idea of the American dream is analyzed to the point that at the end of the play‚ although this dream

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    Luther King‚ Jr.‚ he talks about equality for the all men and how he dreams about a world where people can be in harmony with no division of color. The play‚ “A Raisin in the Sun”‚ relates to this subject in multiple facets centering around dreams. The play and speech take place in the same time period of the mid twentieth century‚ where color was a major divide in society. There are many similarities between the play “A Raisin in the Sun” and the speech “I have a dream”. One example of a similarity

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    chapter 5‚ It is explaining Walter’s summer of 1947. Walter’s Uncle Lee came back into Walter’s life‚ when Uncle Lee came he talked out the side of his mouth because he had been in jail so long. Walter and a couple of his friends knew a kid named Richard Aisles who hurt his eyes over that summer so then they decided to try to hang Richard. Then when they was about to hang Richard Reverend Abbott walked in the basement of the church and he was shocked because what he saw . Mrs. Conway called Walter

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    Ottawa‚ April 18th‚ 2013 ENG4C By: Eumar Tovar COMPARATIVE REPORT In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and the discourse I have a dream by Martin Luther King‚ Jr. there are many similarities. These texts are strongly related to each other by three important topics such as Dreams‚ Barriers and Family‚ because they per se give the people the courage to face challenges in life. Dreams are represented in both texts as a part of strong desires to achieve personal

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    “A Raisin in the Sun”; A Study of Walter Younger “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude” – Oprah Winfery. In the film “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry‚ Walter Lee Younger reveals the following three dominant traits which make him a complex character 1) industrious‚ 2) greedy‚ and 3) chauvinistic. Walter displays many dominant traits throughout the movie. In my opinion‚ those there stick out the most. The first dominant

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    HOW TO DEAL WITH STRESS? Stress is the natural strain which we feel when we have to cope with difficult‚ unpleasant or dangerous situations. We can’t completely remove it from our lives but we can learn how to deal with it. There is a lot of techniques to cope with stress starting with relaxing massages and ending with yoga. But the most helpful are these methods which are simple‚ possible to do by everyone and easy to remember. To achieve success in the fight with stress we should remember about

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    A Raisin in the Sun an interesting play by Lorraine Hansberry. Showed the importance of family and the value of dreams and hops for each member of the household. This play revolves around a poor African-American family who live on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. The youngers family Lena‚ Beneatha ‚ Walter ‚ Ruth and their son Travis all lived under the same apartment in a dilapidated bedroom . Walter and his wife‚ Ruth share one room while their son sleeps on the sofa‚ on the other hand‚

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