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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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    Our Character Betrayal

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    The last paragraph on pg.477 in Solzhenitsyn’s The Evolution of Our Character it has a very deep focus with betrayal and lying. “An overpowering plume of betrayal. It was unavoidable. If you wanted to survive‚ lie. Lie and Pretend.” That is a quote I will be focusing and elaborating in the essay as well as tying that quote down from the reading of Our Muzzled Freedom from The Gulag Archipelago. During the ruling period of the Bolsheviks‚ which were‚ led by Stalin there was a lot to fear in the government

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    Eliminated Our Society

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    would be eliminated because it’s the center of a lot of our society’s problems today. If money were eliminated there would be no social inequality‚ there would be no poverty or anymore starving children‚ men‚ and women. There would also be less violence and crime in this world. Money wouldn’t divide us any longer. We would be valued for whom we are and not by what we wear or what we have or by amount of money in our wallets or bank accounts. Our value would be in ourselves. Greed would also be eliminated

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    Our Nig Analysis

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    Harriet wrote “Our Nig” which is considered autobiographical because it is the story line of her own life‚ except she implemented the character ‘Frado’ in place of herself. Harriet was in Boston during this time‚ working on her literature and dressmaking. Our Nig was published on September 5‚ 1859‚ this was known as the first published book by any African-American. For women writers in

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    Jesus as Our Savior

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    God Is Our Strength - Not Trusting In Our Own Strength Exodus 15:2 The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. He is my God‚ and I will praise him‚ my father’s God‚ and I will exalt him. Deuteronomy 4:37 Because he loved your forefathers and chose their descendants after them‚ he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength‚ Deuteronomy 6:5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Deuteronomy 11:8

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    The Fault In Our Stars

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    and never will be and that love will go on forever for the lovers even if one is no longer with the other in life. This quote is proven true by John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars. John Green uses the literary elements: symbolism‚ theme and conflict to prove that death does not end a relationship. In John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars‚ It is about two cancer patients‚ Hazel-Grace Lanchester and Augustus Waters falling in love while both battling cancer and sharing an interest in finding out an ending

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    Our Casuarina Tree

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    and can no longer afford the luxury of mediocrity if we are to forge ahead. This rapidly changing nuclear age requires our youth to be intellectually far more alert and competent than their predecessors‚ and therefore every young man and woman today studying in schools‚ colleges and universities must aim at academic ability of the highest order. In a developing nation like ours‚ where large numbers are still unable to acquire even primary education‚ those undergoing higher education constitute a

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    Our Time Essay

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    Alex Leen 9/5/12 English 110‚ 11:00 Final Draft of paper 1 In the essay “Our Time” by John Edgar Wideman he often takes a break from the narrative to address that he has many problems as a writer. He does this to try to consciously address these problems and hopefully solve these problems. He believes that if these problems are not rectified he would destroy any chance he has at telling a truthful account of his brother’s story. To rectify these problems he employs a variety of unique techniques

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    Notes on Our Town

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    In a brief sum up‚ Our Town is a play based only on imagination. If you don’t have an imagination‚ you’ll be staring at a bare stage because there are few props on stage. It is a play based on life; its shown as how the author sees it‚ relates to it and lives in it. He shows us that we take our lives for granted as we watch two families in the 1900’s. The author is Thornton Wilder. It was written in 1934-1938‚ United States and publishes in 1938 by Coward-McCann‚ Inc. Wilder’s play defies most conventional

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    Our Environment Today

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    Our Environment Today Our environment is getting worse day by day‚ and we are suffering for other peoples and our mistakes. It’s getting harder and harder for our families to stay healthy with all the bad things we are around every day. We are affected by our environment‚ and more people are getting sicker and sicker. This could affect our families and our future one day. We might not be able to see all of the bad things in our environment‚ but they are for sure there. “Although certain groups

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