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    whole has the desire to be better than every other country‚ even if the consequences are unknown. Americans believe our way of living has put the country above the rest‚ for our advancements are much greater than the rest. Barbara Kingsolver in “A Fist in the Eye of God‚” explores the theory that America wants

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    Kingsolver

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    Amanda Williams Kingsolver and Tretheway ‚ have written very readable‚ very digestable books. I enjoyed reading both of the books very much. There are many similarities between the books. Obviously they are both about nature‚ in a catastrophic view. One is fiction and one is not. The second similarity I see is that both books focus on nature as part of society‚ not separate from. The authors draw the readers into the stories; the environment becomes another character within the story. The

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    In How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life by Barbara Kingsolver she discusses how she figured herself out in High school with the help of a Librarian. Kingsolver went to a High school in Kentucky and the school she attended was poorly funded. Kingsolver only had one class choice in school‚ which was Home Ec‚ for the girls. Kingsolver hated that class so that’s when she went to help out the library. The Librarian had her sorting the books‚ what the librarian called the Dewey Decimal‚ and while doing

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    1. A 25 ohm resistor has an average power of 400 watts. Determine the maximum value of the current if it is a (a) sinusoidal‚ (b) triangular. 2. Determine the effective value Vrms of the voltage function given by v(t) = 100+25 sin 3wt + 10 sin 5wt volts. 3. What average power results in a 25 ohm resistor when it passes a current i(t) = 2+3 sin wt +2 sin2wt + 1 sin 3wt amperes. 4. Calculate Irms if i(t) = 50 + 40 sin wt amperes. 5. Calculate Irms if i(t) = 150 + 50 sin wt +

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    “Country of the One Eye God” by Olive Senior After reading “Country of the One Eye God” by Olive Senior‚ I couldn’t help but think that the story sounds all too familiar with the world in which we live today where money devours the souls of people with good intentions. This is a short story of a grandmother‚ Ma Bell‚ who has raised her grandchildren up from nothing. One grandchild in particular‚ Jacko‚ grows to become a rebel. Eloped with bitterness and resentment‚ Jacko gets what he wants by

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God Prepared Reading Section A: Paragraph Responses Race An important assertion that shows up multiple times throughout the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is race. Throughout the story there was constant racial prejudice coming from both‚ the African American race and the Whites. A quote that supports this assertion is‚ “Ah thought you would ‘preciate good treatment. Thought Ah’d take and make somethin’ outa yuh. You think youse white folks by de way you act‚” (Hurston

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    Women and Power "De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see." --Nanny‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God 14 This quote establishes the novel’s unusual perspective on gender difference. It’s the story of a woman’s struggle with power. During this time‚ African American women were looked upon as the mules of the world‚ because the men were considered the "Gods." Society believed that since they were the men of their households‚ whatever they said was the way it went. The novel set

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    convey love in Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ by Zora Neale Hurston. The strongest device is symbolism. Another book that is also relatable to this style is Romeo and Juliet. Hurston’s novel along with Shakespeare’s both use smaller methods to describe the larger device. Romeo and Juliet also has a lot of similarities to Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ through the symbolism of love. In Romeo and Juliet‚ Juliet found her only love in her only hate‚ and Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God found she hated

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    Z O R A N E A L E H U R S T O N Their Eyes Were Watching God With a Foreword by Edwidge Danticat To Henry Allen Moe Contents E-Book Extra Janie’s Great Journey: A Reading Group Guide Acknowledgments Foreword by Edwidge Danticat Foreword by Mary Helen Washington Their Eyes Were Watching God 1 1 Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. 2 Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf… 3 There are years that ask questions and years that answer. 4 Long before

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    Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ shows the development of an African-American woman living in the 1920s and 1930s as she searches for her true identity. Janie was a half-white‚ half-black girl growing up in Florida in the early 1930 ’s‚ living with her grandmother‚ struggling to find her place in life. Janie’s transformation throughout the book shows a change through language and the development of Janie’s voice through the different stages of her life. Their Eyes Were Watching God is a narrative

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