ELA 30 – 1: Personal Essay October 16‚ 2012 Gaddiel O. Matira Is it fair to hold individuals responsible for a choice society pressured them to make? Canada might have been one of the best places in the world but for me and Tim‚ Canada is a lot more than that. For Tim O’ Brien’s “On the Rainy River”‚ Canada is freedom: freedom from the draft letter that pressures him to go to war‚ freedom from the war that he never understood and always hated‚ freedom from the dirt‚ tent‚ and mosquitoes‚
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The Prince: Analysis and Response Machiavelli‚ born in Florence in 1469‚ remains one of the most controversial authors to this day. His work demonstrates his expertise with military power‚ political success and historical events. His experience and understanding is a sum of all aspects of his life—from serving on the commune of Florence to carrying out his own military missions. Even when Machiavelli was accused of conspiracy and sentenced to a period of exile and torture‚ that did not keep him
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In Toni Morrison’s eye-opening novel‚ Beloved‚ readers are given an insightful look into the lives of ex-slaves‚ who’s freedom never was able to erase the past scars of slavery. Morrison uses this novel to show that the hardest part of being a slave may have finding a way to live with the constant reminders of the pain that was endured. Morrison‚ using her novel‚ is able to show readers the actions that occurred during slavery that have not been put into textbooks or history lessons. She describes
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Title: The Catcher in the Rye Author: J.D. Salinger Text type: Extended written text – novel In the novel The Catcher in the Rye‚ written by J.D. Salinger‚ I found the idea of self-isolation from human relationships that was portrayed through the protagonist Holden Caulfield very interesting. While over the course of the novel‚ which is set into a timeframe of three days‚ Holden interacts with many others‚ we see that he does not have a close relationship with any of these people other than his
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Beloved by Toni Morrison is mysterious and full of foreboding details. The author excels in creating a nonlinear exposition by continuously switching points of view‚ alluding to character experience‚ and writing in an ambiguous fashion. A majority of the novel is written in an omnipotent third person format‚ regardless‚ the narrator rarely clues in the readers. Throughout‚ there are shifts in perspective‚ this allows the reader to view the story from different angles‚ although there is a refocus
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going off the phrase‚ “You learn something new everyday.” that would suggest that I would have learned 2‚324 lessons from school alone. To only say that one of the 2‚324 lessons shaped me more than the rest would be false. They all have shaped me and made me into the person that I am today. However‚ talking about all of the lessons that have shaped me is not logical‚ I will share a lesson that I learned from my seventh grade math teacher‚ Ms. Canfield. I was selected as “special” at a young age
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Symbolism in Toni Morrison’s Beloved Toni Morrison’s Beloved is one of the most powerful works of literature that chronicles the episodes of slavery that happened in American history from the point of view of a black narrator. It tells the story of a slave named Sethe who escaped from her master’s plantation and found refuge in Cincinnati. She reunites with her daughter Denver and finds new love in the person of Paul D. Just as when she thought that she would finally live a brighter future‚ Beloved
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Mathematical Connection Mathematics has had an incredible impact on technology as we know it today. Understanding this impact aids in understanding the history of how technology has developed so thoroughly and what significant events happened to facilitate such an advanced society. A better understanding can be derived by analyzing the historical background on the mathematicians‚ the time periods‚ and the contributions that affected their society and modern society as well as specific examples
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How do we live with our inescapable pasts? Toni Morrison’s Beloved seeks to find out through the experiences of Sethe‚ a former slave living in 1870s Cincinnati. She is traumatized by her past of slavery and having killed her own baby. “But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more‚ it left her no room to imagine‚ let alone plan for‚ the next day” (Morrison 83). Sethe does not think she can be forgiven for these atrocities in her life. Beloved alternates
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In a descriptive and well explained literary analysis of the book Beloved by Toni Morrison‚ the audience will analyze plot structure‚ character development‚ background information‚ and the various themes included in the book. Toni Morrison has won many awards for her book such as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction‚ the American Book Awards‚ and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award all of which were awarded to him in 1988. The book Beloved takes place in 1873 in Cincinnati‚ Ohio where Sethe‚ a former slave
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