This book is as good as your favorite book times four. It keeps getting better and better as you read it. The novel Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen-Mah is inspiring because it talks about how Adeline was always working hard even though her family did not like her. As she grows up she gets sent to many boarding schools and that makes her work even harder. Aleline never gave up on her dream no matter what happened. For example‚ “It was announced today that 14 year old Hong Kong schoolgirl Adeline
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Summary and Personal Response: “On Becoming a Writer” Naomi Cranfield Prof. Denise Ogden ENG 115 28 October 2012 Summary and Personal Response: On Becoming a Writer Mr. Russell Baker is a professional writer whose writings have earned him the Pulitzer Prize on more than one occasion. The excerpt “On Becoming a Writer” came from his memoir “Growing Up” (Baker‚ 1982). In this section of his memoirs‚ Mr. Baker is explaining that pivotal moment in his life when he realized he wanted to become
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The Man in the Well By Ira Sher The entire time I was reading this story I couldn’t decide how I felt. The very first paragraph draws you in when the narrator mentions the day he discovered the man in the well. It’s immediately mentioned how the man calls out for help‚ but then skips to how the boy and his friends thought it was important that they decided not to save him. This paragraph almost immediately forces you to do a double take. When you first start reading and hear about the man trapped
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Orenstein’s three year-old daughter entered the “princess phase‚” Orenstein became increasingly frustrated. As a feminist‚ she worried about the negative effects the princess obsession would have on her daughter and other young girls in their futures. In “Cinderella and Princess Culture‚” Orenstein sets out to discuss these effects. She discovers that although it seems as if this princess craze is creating negative gender stereotypes at an early age‚ maybe princess enthusiasts are really benefitting from their
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Butler Yeats. What I like about the poetry is the multi-faceted man who emerges. In Inisfree he is the searching‚ restless 25 year old‚ looking to nature as a kind of redemptive force. In ‘September 1913’ he is the ardent political critic of the soul-destroying materialism. In ‘Easter 1916’ he is again many-sided‚ the man who commemorates the great heroes and is able to confess he was wrong about their existence‚ as well as the man painfully aware of war’s wastage of youthful potential. My favourite
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Journal Response: Barn Burning William Faulkner style’s stands out one more time with this work. It is very remarkable the effort he does by implementing symbolisms‚ visual descriptions‚ and the lack of certainty in his sentences‚ as if he wants us to imagine and figure out what he really wants us to think in that moment. For instance‚ at the end‚ it seems that he wants us to find out what happened to Sartoris and his family after he escaped and his dad got killed. Through his fiction‚ he shows a
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being a success – for the very first time. 9. questions – creating tension; Team 2 10. ‘Sit down!...Don’t look…take a look’ – these imperatives sound like a command but are friendly in tone 11. Is it ironic that the next paragraph is about a man‚ C.Y. Tung‚ who discovers Adeline is a prizewinner before the father? 12. ‘So I was quite pleased to tell him that you are my daughter.’ – those of you who know the
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Personal Response The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn displays many journeys taken by some of the characters in the novel. Some of the journeys include the journey of freedom‚ taken by Jim‚ the journey of maturity‚ taken by Tom Sawyer‚ and the journey of acceptance‚ taken by Huck. Although all of these journeys are relatable to my life‚ I feel as if I relate to the journey of acceptance the most. The journey of acceptance is a lifelong journey for most of us. Many parts of this journey include
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There was once a fair maiden named Cinderella. She lived with her stepmother; Lady Tremaine‚ and her two stepsisters Anastasia and Drizella. Unfortunately for Cinderella‚ she was always treated as a servant and a peasant at home. Due to her never socializing enough to actually have friends she was so desperate that she befriended mice. She was so selfless yet her family was the complete opposite. One morning‚ she was working on the floor with a rag and then there was a knock on the door. As she opened
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Personal Response to Elizabeth Bishop The poetry of Elizabeth Bishop appeals to me because she writes about things which are relevant‚ in a remarkably vivid and vital way. Bishops misfortune in life has inspired her to write distressing poems in which she describes to us the loss she suffered at an early stage in her childhood. She also tells us about her deepest and darkest moments in life. Out of Bishops troubled life‚ her poetry was born. Bishop has a painter’s eye and she vividly describes the
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