order to capture the reader’s attention thus proving his point and selling his idea to sell infants at one year of age to be eaten. This proposal will help control the population and put the mothers to work. He states “Thus the square will learn to be a good landlord‚ and grow popular among his tenants‚ the mother will have eight shillings meat profit‚ and be fit for work till she produces another child.” He gives very vivid details about what he thinks will help resolve the deplorable conditions in
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personification which shapes more meaning by providing more imagery to the poem. Conversely the quote from ‘A Mother’s Dedication’ depicts that the mother does realise what it is like in the battlefield. She uses ‘God’ symbolically to hope that her son survives from the war. As a result‚ the attitude from ‘Into Battle’ distinguishes itself from ‘A Mothers Dedication’ by their points of views. From the quote ‘by all our fathers fought for in the past’ evokes a feeling of the mother’s patriotism and
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Mother Tongue The essay I want to write on is Mother Tongue‚ which is written by Amy Tan. This article recalls me some adversities when the first few days I came to the United States. Amy is an ethnic Chinese writer who was born and living in United States. She was faced with language problem during her life. In this essay‚ Amy Tan talks about her mother’s broken grammar and the dialogue in English without grammar between her mother and her. But when Amy talks with other people‚ gives a speech‚
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“Congratulations‚ you have a beautiful baby boy!” my mother said as she rubbed my head with the biggest smile I think I had ever seen. Last year I would have never thought that I would be a mother a year later‚ especially not at the age of 16. I could still remember when my brother and sister were little and I would have to take care of them all the time. At least with them the responsibility was not all mines. This was “my child.” I would have to make sure he was fed‚ bathed‚ changed‚ and happy
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that he has mood swings. Overall this quotation indicates the audience that he might be dunk. Point: Eric seems to know how to talk to members in his family as when he says Evidence: “Mother said” Explanation: In this quotation we see that Eric seems to have a lot of respect for Mrs Birling as when he says “mother” may suggest that even though Eric might be drunk he still is polite to his mum which emphasises that he really is generally respectful to the older generation also when coupled with him
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English is a Queer Language Alice Hamilton Jarmila came to me with this puzzle. “Mrs. Green told me her mother is coming to visit her‚ and she is going to stay a week. How can she stay if she is going? How can she go if she is staying?” I could not explain‚ because never before had I realized that “going” may have nothing to do with the verb “to go‚” though the latter has its own present participle which seems identical. This other “going” deals only with the future: I am going to see this
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transcribe write out from speech‚ notes‚ etc. . 6. belie represent falsely 7. wince make a face indicating disgust or dislike Notes: "Wince" also means "draw back‚ as with fear or pain"--this also fits because Tan does not want others to see her mother as "broken" because that‚ especially when she was younger‚ made her feel broken and ashamed. 8. empirical derived from experiment and observation rather than theory 9. guise an artful or simulated semblance 10. impeccable without fault
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getting on reasonably well‚ but with his dads drinking problem things soon got worse. By reading the text‚ we find out that Sol’s mother and father have split up‚ and Sol sometimes wishes he went with his mum. We know this because Sol says ‘maybe I should of gone with her. I wouldn’t be having so many days with bad colours now’. It suggests in the rest of the book that his mother left because of his dads drinking problem. I think Sol was very happy with his dad when they were watching a film together
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Rosemary Muna English 12 12/15/11 “Quick! She is coming. Turn the lights off. Is everyone here?” I yelled. Suddenly the lights went off. “Honk‚ Honk!” a loud sound came from the other side of the house gate. “They are here!” William‚ my little cousin yelled. Everyone took their place in the dark. My parents got out of car and headed to steps. “What is wrong with the people in this house? Can’t they come say hello?” my mom said as she opened the door of the living room. “Surprise!” Everyone
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went to forest with her cousin Cilia and a fool guy named Touchstone in search for her banished father in a disguise of a man and named herself as Ganymede and coincidently meets Orlando while Orlando was expressing his love for Rosalind with the nature of the forest and Heather. With the disguise Rosalind appeared in front of Orlando and said that his love for Rosalind isn’t enough. To prove his love Orlando had to woo Ganymede. Along with this story there were other love stories also. The fool
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