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    In The Color Purple‚ Alice Walker illustrates the lives of a female African American before the Civil Rights Movement. A novel that describes female empowerment‚ The Color Purple demonstrates the domestic violence women faced in the South. Walker tells the story through Celie‚ a young African American girl who faces constant hardships until she stands up for herself with the help of her closest friends – other women undergoing the same difficulties. Even though men controlled females in the South

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    subject • State the importance of the subject • State why analyzing the issue is important • State why not understanding the issue can create problems • Transition Question: Turn the assignment into a question beginning with the word “how.” • Thesis Statement: Subject + Principle of Classification _______ can be classified according to _____________________________ (Subject) (Principle of Classification)

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    Many cross country runners try to become faster and cut their race or mile times. When you don’t get a time you want‚ it’s stressful and it makes a runner feel like they are slower than they actually are. As a distance runner‚ I strive to cut my mile time to get better individually so I do not cause this stress upon myself. Through this experiment‚ I tried to find ways to cut my mile time that could be impactful for me and others. While there are many things a person a can do to shave their mile

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    theme that I have now make sense now. Just because My path is different doesn’t mean that I’m Lost. One line from the story in 90 Miles would be when the three brothers were split up they were given and then they said we have to try get back home anyway that they could. They started to try and try to get home to mom and dad. That can relate to 90 miles because they got split up and they can go back to find them Later on in the story Tomás is trying to go to cuba and Julian might be thinking

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    community and race in many ways. Alice Walker‚ author of The Color Purple‚ shows the violence put on the African American race and women during the early twentieth century. Walker demonstrates life during these hard times and how some things still haven’t changed; making the violence and harm inflicted on the black community a major theme of the story. The stereotype of violence inflicted on and in the black community‚ clearly shown through the characters in The Color Purple‚ helps achieve the author’s

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    The Green Mile Set on Death Row in a prison in 1935 during the great depression‚ The Green Mile is the story of paul edgecomb the cell block head guard who develops a relationship with one inmate who has acquired a magical and wonderful gift that is both mysterious and miraculous his name is John Coffey. Even though john coffey is a man of massive size and proportion he seemed to have the witts and mental age of a child. This gift is what sparks the relationship between john and paul‚ this is because

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    Winter Break Annotation Assignment: The Cruelest Miles 1. “Allan left behind a vivid description of mushing in a blizzard. On the final ninety-mile stretch to Nome during the sweepstakes‚ his team was enveloped in ‘air thick as smoke with whirling snow. Gritty as salt it was‚ and stinging like splinters of steel. It baked into my furs and into the coats of my dogs‚ until we were encased in snow crusts solid as ice. The din deafened me. I couldn’t hear‚ couldn’t see‚ couldn’t breathe. I felt as if

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    Background History and Context of ‘The Color Purple’ “The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife‚ -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood‚ to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American...” (W.E.B. Du Bois) The African-Americans or the ‘Black Americans’ are members of those ethnic groups in the United States that

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    honor our friend‚ Alaska Young. I am Miles Halter‚ known to most as Pudge. I transferred to Culver Creek Boarding School from Florida to ‘seek a Great Perhaps’‚ to leave behind the insignificant things I was doing‚ to seek something that was perhaps greater. I collect people’s dying words and “I go to seek a Great Perhaps”‚ were the last words of Francois Rabelais‚ but unlike him‚ I did not want to wait to die to start seeking it. This school has given me very many of my firsts: first friend‚ first

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    Money=Happiness?: The Truth of the Upper Class in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Silver’s 8 Mile Process Piece I enjoyed writing this essay about The Great Gatsby and 8 Mile because the comparison of this modern movie connects to my life a lot. I listen to Eminem’s music all the time and that makes me more attached to the movie and comparative essay. Writing about one of my favorite movies and a great book makes me that much more compelled to explore as deep as I can into the connections

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