Nickel and Dimed -- Section 2 Reading Quiz J. Kinder 1) Explain what confuses Ehrenreich about the “law of supply and demand” in Portland. 2) Explain some of the physical difficulties of being a dietary aide at the nursing home. 3) Explain some of the behavior rules that the management of “The Maids” has for the employees. What do you think they are intended to accomplish? 4) Explain how Ehrenreich felt The Maids’ cleaning methods were lacking. 5) Choose one co-worker
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lot showing that she is hurt and not responding. The murderer left evidence of blood‚ but they will never know who did it. The overall theme or message in this song is doing important things while you can before you lose them. There are five literary devices in this song that include: metaphors‚ hyperbole‚ imagery‚ and refrains. The metaphor is‚ “As he came into the window/It was the sound of
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The Mennonite community of East Village has separated themselves from the outside world to keep their traditions and beliefs strict for its members and keep outsiders from interfering. Miriam Toews presents Nomi Nickel as the narrator to view the community of East Village from the perspective of an insider who recognizes issues and examines them. Toews’s writing‚ specifically from Nomi’s point of view‚ allows the audience to examine the culture from the insider’s standpoint. Toews’s own Mennonite
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Throughout Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Vonnegut chooses to use special literary techniques that better explain his own encounters in war as well as help his readers bare the horridness of war. Vonnegut adds black humor in his text to benefit readers as well as “an author-as-character” perspective to set barriers and help protect his own memories in the war. Without adding these two specific devices‚ Vonnegut could possibly have lost reader’s interests in the book or lost his own interest in writing the
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for keeping secrets. Fourteen months after Kitty arrived‚ my brother Nicholas was born. His nickname is Nickels because he always has coins jingling in his pants pocket. His brown hair had a slight wave to it‚ and he grew up to be six foot two inches tall. He loved roaming the hills around our house and took our hound dogs with him everywhere. Thirteen months after Nickels was born‚ my sister Ivareen arrived. We call her Ivy. She has a petite build
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Madame Bovary 1. Discuss the theme of social class in Madame Bovary. Is Emma a sophisticated aristocrat in a bourgeoisie prison‚ or is she simply a Middle-class girl obsessed with a richer life? In the world of the novel‚ are these distinctions meaningful? I believe that Emma is a middle class girl obsessed with a richer life. This is because Emma‚ at one point in the play in more concerned about Charle?s making money and looking good after the ?success? of Hippolytes foot operation. However‚ after
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Joyce has used the name Daedalus as a literary vehicle to give the reader a sense of deeper understanding about Stephen as a character in "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ". There is a link between Stephen Dedalus and the Greek mythological figure Daedalus and this becomes apparent to Stephen when he hears his friends say his name in Greek. When Stephen compares himself to the "fabulous artificer" their similar plight reveals itself. The correlation between Stephen’s need to escape Ireland
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The poem “How to Listen‚” written by Major Jackson is about stepping back and listening to life. The speaker of the poem is describing how he or she is going to take the night to listen to life around him at a tavern; this person is willing to learn about life in a quiet way. As you read the poem‚ you will discover that there is not a rhyme scheme. The poem consists of eleven lines in one stanza. In the simile‚ “I am going to cock my head tonight like a dog‚” (Jackson 1) the reader is exposed to
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Edgar Allan Poe used literary devices of setting to create a dark ‚threatening tone in his short story Tell‚Tale‚Heart Which are mood and atmosphere‚time‚and population. The most powerful tool that poe used was mood and atmosphere. One example was when the old man’s room blocked out all ray of light.This enhances the darkness and threatening because it makes the reader feel scared at night in their room.(pg.538:2). Another example of fear darkness that Poe used was how the murderer
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In Raymond Carters’ “Popular Mechanics” the way he foreshadows and uses literal response sets the mood of the text. Carver foreshadows the fact that the inside of the house is full of “darkness”. He also uses literal response with the way the unnamed man replied to his wife. That causes the reader to feel the seriousness of the man. This affects the readers experience because it really makes them feel the intensity of the scene. Carvers’ choice of words set a dark mood for the story. The last sentence
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