What makes a complex society? A complex society is one that has made innovations to adapt to its environment and become a powerful civilization. A complex society has a division of labor‚ and not everyone is treated equally. They often have a governmental system and a belief that they revolve the civilization around. Complex societies create new technologies to account for the lives of their people. They also have a lot of people and have to create cities and structures to inhabit these people. Some
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In “Sister Flowers” by Maya Angelon‚ I can connect with the main character in the text‚ because she was a teenage girl who received support from a person when in a time of depression. To me‚ I can understand this reading and also agree with most of what it had to say regarding the views of the world; I can connect this to what I consider is important‚ and I can explain why I enjoyed reading it. Although‚ I did not have the same experience as Marguerite‚ I understand that having someone there next
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women named Maya Ying Lin was given the privilege to build one of the most breathtaking memorials in America. The Vietnam War took about 60‚000 American soldiers. Many American citizens on the return of the soldiers mistreated them and insulted those who fought for our country. Why would American citizens mistreated their soldiers‚ then build a memorial to honor them? “Always to Remember : The Vision of Maya Ying Lin.” remembers the most devastating war in America‚ and the vision of Maya Ying Lin
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Jessalyn Jordan 11/4/2008 Journal English 321 (271) Role of the Grandmother and Christianity in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” In Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is hard to Find”‚ the reader is met with many important characters that all foreshadow the gruesome ending. The first character and perhaps one of the most important is the Grandmother. The Grandmother is described as a loud mouth Christian who “pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet..in case of an accident‚
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Maya Deren’s film “Meshes of the Afternoon” shows a women’s struggles with her relationship through her dreams. In her dreams there are three different options that she’s debating and a hooded figure that keeps reappearing. In this film the same woman is seen in four different roles. First she’s walks into the house and falling asleep in a chair‚ and then in her dream there are three other versions of herself. The first version gets pulled down the stairs by a force which makes me think she’s being
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A Good Man is Hard to Find The grandmother is the central character in the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find‚” by Flannery O’Connor. She is also a very well rounded and dynamic character. She shows various characteristics and reveals various remarks as they story progresses. Some of her qualities include selfish and a pushy person. She is also kind of manipulator in a way that she insists her family to change the plan. At the beginning of the story when we first realize her desire to visit
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new perspective on life. Have you ever felt alone and like nobody could relate to your problems in life? If you read‚ that feeling might just vanish. In the two poems by Maya Angelou‚ they both state something about being scared by life. Life Doesn’t Frighten Me by Angelou talks about how nothing can scare them. On Aging by Angelou talks about pitying the writer as they get older and how thankful they are to be breathing. Life may throw many things at us‚ but how do we want to react to it? Becoming
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Amy Tan’s "Fish Cheeks" and Maya Angelou’s "Champion of the World" Maya Angelou and Amy Tan discuss religious problems and culture differences in their literature. The authors have captured these differences by their past experiences of friends and family. Both authors come from a diverse culture‚ but both face the same harsh society of the American culture and beliefs. The Author’s both tell about situations in their short stories of being outcasts and coming from different racial backgrounds
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In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ Maya Angelou describes her experiences growing up as an insecure black girl in Stamps‚ Arkansas in the 1930’s and later moving to California in the 1940’s. Maya’s parents divorced when she was three years old. Her older brother‚ Bailey and Maya were sent to Stamps‚ Arkansas to live with their grandmother‚ Anne Henderson. Anne‚ whom they called Momma‚ ran the only general store in the black section of Stamps‚ Arkansas. Momma became a strong moral female
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In Flannery O’Connor’s "A Good Man Is Hard to Find‚" the protagonist in a unnamed grandmother who considers that the highest virtue of all is to be a lady. She is constantly placing judgment upon others. However‚ her manipulation in these instances gets her and her family in trouble. The grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is hardly the plump‚ white-haired‚ cookie-baking woman expected of a grandmother. Rather‚ she is a manipulative‚ selfish‚ petty character who believes being a lady
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