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    Multi-Cultural Exam One In the short story “In the Hour of the Wolf” (1949)‚ Betty Louise Bell asserts that Native Americans have to be assimilated into the mainstream white culture which causes them to have serious identity crisis issues. When the Indian’s leave their tribe‚ it puts a major strain on how they perceive their old traditions which molds them to be all alike white people. This short story supports the claims of how inferior Indian’s feel to white people because of the emphasized comments

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    Ameer Bachu Miss Kersting Ap Lit 13 May 2024 Persistence is a strong feature in many determined people. It is a feature that allows those who possess it to stay determined in arduous environments. In the excerpt from The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrick‚ two children by the name’s of Mary and Karl encounter components of their environment that test their persistence. It is these elements of their environment that test their persistence‚ which showcases their determination. The persistence that both children

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    Having Our Say

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    BookRags Literature Study Guide Having Our Say (novel) by Sarah Louise Delany For the online version of BookRags’ Having Our Say (novel) Literature Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-having-our-say/ Copyright Information ©2000-2011 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Literature Study Guide is offprint from Gale’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context‚ and Criticism

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    Have you ever wondered how a poem’s structure can contribute to it’s meaning and effect? Well if so‚ you have come to the right place because today I will be discussing how the poem “Train Tune” written by Louise Hogan’s form and structure contributes to it’s meaning and effect. There are several different elements in a poem that can contribute to it’s meaning; those elements are rhyme‚ rhythm‚ meter‚ punctuation‚ capitalization‚ and many others. All of these elements contribute to how you read a

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    Q2R Mary Louise Pratt

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    Erika English 110 1-21-2014 Arts of the Contact Zone Questions for a Second Reading: 1. In my opinion‚ the introductory story Pratt is telling about her sons and their baseball cards not only gets the reader interested in what is to come‚ but also gets them thinking a little about how worthy their education system. It sparked my interest to learn that her sons were learning their phonics not in school‚ but by reading the names and statistics of players on baseball cards. Later on‚ Pratt

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    An hour‚” by Kate Chopin‚ is a short story about a woman who thinks she loses her husband in a railroad accident‚ but loses her freedom instead. Louise Mallard suffers from heart troubles‚ and has to be monitored every day. When her sister Josephine‚ and a family friend Richards‚ tell her the news about her husband she has to be careful not startle Louise too much‚ as it could hurt her heart. Chopin uses setting‚ point of view‚ and language devices to enhance the central idea of confinement. The

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    In the poem titled “The School Children” by Louise Gluck‚ the author utilizes an industrious tone and the symbol of the apple to establish the understanding that it is hard to maintain individuality in a society where one is expected to conform to the masses. Continuing to conform can only lead to a loss of one’s sense of self. In the first line of the poem‚ the speaker states‚ “The children go forward with their little satchels” (Gluck). The term “satchels” is used in this line and is a small bag

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    Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich because they both show that there is much more to it than that. Both stories symbolizes that soldiers aren’t simply mindless emotionless killers but instead they are young men who gave up there life at home to something greater then themselves. The events of war‚ in fact‚ take a much greater toll on them and it is something they carry with them for the rest of their lives‚ even long after the war is over. In both stories‚ both O’Brien and Erdrich use similar symbolism

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    William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) is one of the best known writers of the present day. He was not only a novelist‚ but also one of the most successful dramatists and short-story writer. The short-story “Louise” was published in 1936. This story is about the woman who used to get everything what she wants using her “weak heart”. The gist of the problem raised by the author in this story is relationship between people. This problem is always urgent. The main idea conveyed by the author is that

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    media‚ movies‚ and film stars like Louise Brooks (Szabo). <br><br>Louise Brooks was a big part of the Jazz Age and had a lot of influence on the women of the 1920’s. Being a film star with a great‚ original personality she is known for being one of the most extraordinary women to set forth the Flapper era. Her sleek and smooth looks with her signature bob helped define the flapper look (pandorasbox/flapper).<br><br>On November 14‚ 1906‚ in Cherryvale‚ Kansas‚ Mary Louise Brooks was born. She had two brothers

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