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    Sartre's A Hanging

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    Humans‚ in its creation endures constant changes. Similar to life‚ death in its entirety is a surefire cause an individual must come to terms with. Throughout the stories‚ “A Hanging” by George Orwell‚ “The Wall” by Jean-Paul Sartre‚ and in “War and Peace”(book 12 chapter 11) by Leo Tolstoy‚ it is evidently portrayed that when prisoners are informed of their sentence to death they enter a state that have negative impacts on themselves. Initially when‚ one has the knowledge of his inevitable and

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    Content Williams Ms Masdon English 1102 16 March 2011 Jonathan Kozol’s essay on The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society (1985) claims that based on the beliefs of Socrates and James Madison‚ illiteracy is a moral dilemma. Kozol supports this claim by speculating what a number of tragic outcomes could be as a result of illiteracy. His purpose is to show how a person’s daily life is affected negatively by being illiterate in order to prove that illiteracy in a broad sense is a

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    Serrano‚ Edric “HIDDEN INTELLECTUALISM” Reading Response Journal In the article “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff‚ The Author is telling us that knowledge can be seen not only from academic thinking but also in the form of “street smarts”. Graff explains that we know some “impressively street smarts” but does not do well in school‚ but Graff argues that “street smarts” are just as important as “book smarts”. Many people think that it is such a waste‚ that “street smarts” should be taking

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    The Help Reading Response

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    sharing others. This book has characters in it that I was able to empathies with and those‚ of course‚ who I disliked. The way in which Kathryn Stockett has written about her characters is so believable that that the story was untrue and as I was reading this book‚ it didn’t cross my mind at all that it was fiction because everything Kathryn Stockett wrote about seemed so believable. It is told in alternating viewpoints from the three main characters which I don’t usually like in books‚ but this book

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    Reading Response #8

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    Branding a way of life: Advertising Effect Advertising is the product of the commodity economy‚ since people start exchange commodity advertising has emerged in the world. The first advertising in the world is in ancient Greece at the early stage of the slave society and it is through voice‚ people call that oral advertising‚ this is most original and simple advertising in the human history. The advertising comes out very early proved advertising is useful for consumers and corporation. A great

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    In Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles‚” elements such as setting‚ personality‚ and behavior are used to set the mood for this crime story. In this story‚ a woman is being accused of killing her husband‚ and what better than a play to act out such a thing. I feel that through the use of actions‚ costumes‚ and props‚ the visual elements in this play really help to bring out this murder mystery to life. In the beginning of the play‚ the scene starts out with the description of the house and its kitchen

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    Reading Response for a&P

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    The short story A&P by John Updike‚ takes place in 1961‚ at a grocery store called "A&P". Sammy‚ the narrator‚ is a cashier at A&P. One particular day‚ three girls came in they looked like they were fresh from the beach still in their bathing suits and did not have any shoes on‚ this was not the typical attire at the usually plain and very “cookie cutter” store. Sammy can’t help but notice them‚ he watches as they walk around and get the stuff they need. He also talks about how the “regulars” react

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    Reading Response 2013

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    Name: Michael Champion Title: What does it feel like? Author: Michael Morpurgo Text Type: Short Story Date Read: 8/2/18 2) This story is about a young girl names Sofia‚ who lives in a village. One moment she was going to school‚ the next moment she is hiding in the toilets and watching soldiers‚ taking everything and burning everything in the village. A grieving solider comes into the toilet and finds Sofia in the toilet‚ and has compassion on her and tries to save her. She realises how

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    Lynn Dang Pre-AP English II The Book Thief 1. “His manner The quiet air around. When he turned the light on in the small‚ callous washroom that night‚ Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father’s eyes. They were made of kindness‚ and silver. Like soft silver‚ melting Liesel‚ upon seeing those eyes‚ understood that Hans Hubermann was worth a lot.” The significance of this passage is the description of Hans Hubermann’s eyes as the color represents his worth and personality. It

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    In “A Fable for Tomorrow‚” Rachel Carson‚ a professional writer‚ scientist and ecologist‚ illustrates in her essay a small town in the heart of America being breathtaking and a site of beauty before the act of man desolate and ruin the environment with pesticides. The town is vibrant‚ full of life and color with fields of farms‚ animals and wild life. The author describes the town by seasons as having colors of flames abroad the oak and maple trees in autumn. In fall‚ foxes and deer travel across

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