I am Ann Pingrey-Korthas…a daughter‚ sister‚ wife‚ mom‚ teacher‚ and student with life experience that has created a well rounded‚ open minded‚ and compassionate person. I started my first job at 14 years old. I was a receptionist and entry-level accountant. The training was all on the job; there was no pay exchanged. After a period of time‚ my performance was of such high standard that I was offered a paid position doing what I had been trained. This was a position created just for me. I felt honored
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In the novel Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson the characters face many conflicts. Conflict is the struggle for a desired outcome or achievement. It is the adversity a person faces while going through with an action for or against something. Mattie‚ the main character‚ faces three challenges in the novel that help her mature from an unruly child to a mature young adult. Mattie’s perseverance while facing the challenges of the yellow fever in 1793‚ grows her maturity and understanding of life.
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In the story “The rabbit hole” the author Ann Beattie‚ challenge us to think about the conflict among family members when dealing with an aging parent with a serious illness. As a person ages In today’s society there is a role reverse between parent and child. Children are taking care of their parents and assuming all the responsibilities and decision making about their parents health care needs. The story raises a question about family relationships among family members‚ more specifically the
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In a competition between man and nature‚ nature more often claims victory. Pitted against tsunamis‚ earthquakes‚ and volcanic eruptions‚ nothing man made is permanent. In an excerpt taken from Ann Petry’s novel‚ The Street‚ the main character Lutie Johnson is antagonized by the tumultuous winds that inhabit the town‚ along with the frigid cold. Using such literary elements as dark imagery‚ descriptive selection to detail and appalling personification‚ Petry successfully captures Johnson’s relationship
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Stealing Stealing by Carol Ann Duffy was written in the 1980’s after Duffy had seen her neighbours snowman stolen from their front garden. Getting inspired by this‚ she had written this poem reflecting on the problems that occured in that moment‚ hence it was the time in Britain where unemployment was high due to Margaret Thatcher’s (the Prime Minister during the 1980’s) government policies. The poem starts with a rhetorical question‚ "The most unusual thing I ever stole?" This question seems
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In this excerpt from Ann Petry’s The Street‚ the wind is the central antagonist. The narrator efficiently utilizes a third-person omniscient narrator to relay to the reader the bitterness of the cold‚ along with the adamant determination of Lutie Johnson. Through the use of chillingly descriptive imagery‚ and figurative language including resplendent personification‚ the narrator successfully conveys the perilous nature of the cold to enhance Lutie Johnson’s temporal and sensory experiences. Imagery
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1. ‘LITTLE RED CAP’ ‘LRC’ is a poem written by Carol Ann Duffy‚ and is the first poem in the anthology ‘The World’s Wife’‚ published in 1999. By interpreting the fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood in her poem‚ Duffy recounts her ten years of marriage to Adrian Henri‚ who was twenty-three years old her senior. She places herself as the character of Little Red Cap and Henri as the wolf. Duffy also alludes to fairytales such as ‘Sleeping Beauty’ in ‘Queen Herod’ or more traditional stories like ‘The
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To take a look in early life of these women. Delilah and Elijah‚ parents of Harriet Ann Jacobs. They both deceased in her early years of life. She and her younger brother was left to be raised by their maternal grandmother‚ Molly Horniblow. Harriet was born in Edenton‚ North Carolina in the fall of 1813. At the age of six‚ Harriet was unaware that she was born into slavery and that she was the property of Margaret Horniblow. Before the death of her relatively kind mistress‚ she was taught how to
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Sometimes not all people have hope and are happy but other people that are spread that to them. Some of this happens in the historical fiction book Fever 1793 written by Laurie Halse Anderson. There could be many options about this like it couldn’t affect another person. But I believe that my reason is the one that makes the most sense. In life when you are hopeful it spreads to other people near by. For instance in the book Fever 1793 Mattie wants to go to the market. So another character
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task is books‚ which can be used to strengthen a child’s cognition‚ language‚ and understanding of the world around them. One such example is A Wonderful Wind from Disney’s “Out & About with Pooh: A Grow and Learn Library.” This book was written by Ann Braybrooks and demonstrates how a book‚ when written with appropriate developmental steps in mind‚ can be an excellent tool for helping children ages five to seven learn and develop in the physical‚ cognitive‚ social‚ and emotional domains. Before
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