Bitter Gourd (Momordica Charantia) I. Introduction The bitter melon (also known as bitter gourd) looks like a cucumber but with ugly gourd-like bumps all over it. As the name implies‚ this vegetable is a melon that is bitter. There are two varieties of this vegetable: One grows to about 20 cm long‚ is oblong and pale green in color. The other is the smaller variety‚ less than 10 cm long‚ oval and has a darker green color. Both varieties have seeds that
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Have you ever tried stealing and got caught? The boy in "Thank You M’am" by: Langstons Hughes did. Mrs. Jones‚ the lady the boy tried to steal from‚ didn’t do what most people do. Which is call the police. She then instead took the boy to her home. Most people would disagree with what she did. Although Mrs. Jones could have just called the police when the boy tried to steal her pocketbook‚ she took him to her house‚ which was an important setting in the story. The story is about Mrs. Jones
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My journey to America I woke up to the sound of a singing rooster‚ My grandmother came into the room "oh now you’re awake" I’ve made breakfast she said in Creole. I got excited and ran in to the kitchen‚ but before I had reached the kitchen‚ a smell hit me‚ I already knew what it was. My senses already got my mind imagining what my grandma had made.The smell of coffee was delightful for us in Haiti cause its our every morning medicine‚ Then I smelled the fried egg and sausage my mind went
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Langston Hughes’ “Theme for English B” is an inspiring poem. His 1949 poem shed light on how African Americans felt during this era. His writes about a 22 year old African American college student that was instructed but his instructor to go home and write a page. Langston then proceeds to talk about where the student is from and how he is the only colored student in his class. The student talks about what he likes and that he isn’t any different from other races. He explains how writing a piece
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bildungsroman needs to have many factors in making a narrator/protagonist/character mature. In “Themes for English B‚” Langston Hughes was told to write a poem that explores in three stanzas the development and maturity a youthful narrator into an adult‚ but it is the journey‚ when he was youthful‚ and the journey‚ and it is the poem that makes it a bildungsroman. Langston Hughes‚ the one who is mentioned above‚ recognizes the need for a journey when he said‚ “I have discovered in life that there
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Thus‚ I become very offended when people in society refer to us as wetbacks‚ churros‚ beaner‚ and worst of all alien. In Langston Hughes short essay “that word black” the person that’s dialogue as Simple says “‘[…] Now‚ as I was saying‚ the word black‚ white folk have done used that word to mean something bad […]’” (Hughes 85). By Hughes mention of white people making the word black mean something bad I interpreted it the same for the word alien. People have made the word alien
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ideals and who they identify themselves as. They make the reader think about themselves‚ the society around them‚ and the workings of nature. One such story is written by Langston Hughes explores such things present during a past era that advocated to mold the society that America has become. “Thank You‚ Ma’am”‚ by Langston Hughes explores themes such as hope‚ love‚ and surprise/disappointment as was often experienced by the African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance. The story should be approached
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BITTER COMPETITION : THE HOLLAND SWEETENER COMPANY VERSUS NUTRASWEET (A) In the late 1986‚ the Holland Sweetener Company (HSC)‚ based in Maastricht‚ the Netherlands‚ was preparing to enter the European and Canadian aspartame markets. Aspartame‚ a low-calorie‚ high-intensity‚ sweetener‚ had been discovered in 1965 by G.D. Searle & Co.‚ a U.S. pharmaceuticals company. Having secured a number of patents on its discovery‚ Searle had gone on to develop markets for aspartame as a food and beverage
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Second Chance Everyone makes mistakes‚ but everyone has the second chance to change in their lives. Langston Hughes has written many enlightening stories to tell us positive attitude and lifestyles. In Hughes’ short story‚ "Thank You‚ Ma’am "‚ it talks about a boy named Roger‚ who attempts to steal Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones’s purse but fails. He fears that he can be sent to jail after he gets caught by Mrs. Jones. Instead of ending in jail‚ he learned a precious lesson from his mistake
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Bitter Sugar Bitter Sugar is now one of my most favorite foreign movies‚ other than ‘Swept Away’. It gives me such a great help understanding the political system in different parts of the world. On this occasion I will begin to interpret the film ‘Bitter Sugar’ directed by ‘Leon Ichaso.’ Bitter Sugar is a film that is mostly in my opinion‚ anti- Castro. Although the film was made in 1996‚ it was representing the period after the Cuban Revolution. Hence‚ the film is shot in Black and White. The
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