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    bodies by working sixteen hours a day in horrible conditions. Victorian writers were more worried about social difficulties‚ unlike Romantics writers. In the opening lines of the first stanza‚ Browning asks “Do ye hear the children weeping‚ O my brother / Ere the sparrow comes with years?” (1-2). I believe that Browning is asking this question to the male owners of the factories that are careless about the conditions of the factories. By using the word ‘brother’ I assume that Browning is questioning

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    very confusing way. The reader has to be actively reading the story or you will miss something which I did the first time reading through it. I was lost until I got to the end and understood the way the author structured the story. I was challenged as a reader at times because the story was written out of order on purpose. Being written the way it was‚ the story gets a more interesting edge and pulls the reader in‚ it intrigued me a lot. After reading it a second time the reader can see that certain

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    ENG-101-W03 “Death by Landscape” by Margaret Atwood 23 January 2013 Reading Response 1 “Death by Landscape” by Margaret Atwood is a short story about a trauma that had a tremendous effect on the life of a young girl named Lois. The story begins with Lois living alone in an apartment. She is a widow with two grown children. Lois collects paintings of landscapes and she likes her apartment because they all fit on the walls. I do not believe that Lois likes the paintings‚ but she seems to need

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    Reader Response for The Yellow Wallpaper Darlene Santangelo August 13‚ 2013 Vocabulary: • Derision – disapproval‚ disgust • Flamboyant – flashy‚ garish • Interminable - unending • Bedstead – hardware/woodenware on a bed • Querulous – irritable‚ difficult to deal with Difficult sentences: I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors‚ but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least. He says that with my imaginative

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    mentally challenged youth‚ only did things that made him happy despite other people’s thoughts. In “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes shows this as well when Charlie tries and tries to gain intelligence even though he has his disability. He always does what he thinks he should‚ even though other people doubt him and his choices. The similarities between " Raymond’s run " and " Flowers for Algernon " include the first person narrator and the dialogue; however there are also differences such as the

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    Jordan Beischer June 14‚ 2012 Flowers for Algernon Essay Charlie Gordon has a very low IQ at the beginning of Flowers for Algernon‚ and a very low IQ at the end. His thought process is exactly the same. Some people would say that Charlie is a static character‚ having undergone no major changes throughout the story. I would have to disagree and say that Charlie is in fact a developing character‚ in

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    only there were no mirrors” talks about how she doesn’t actually want to see how she looks and that life would be easier without seeing how you look all the time. Alice had a brain transplant and since she has a different body she has started to act differently. Her identical twin sister has noticed that she is not herself and she doesn’t like it. “Maybe I’ll start looking like‚ myself again. If I try hard enough” shows that looks are the only thing she is worried about right after her transplant. At

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    Little Bit of Happiness Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ a great American gothic writer‚ wrote many different‚ amazing stories including the classic novel‚ “The Birthmark”. The Birthmark is about Aylmer‚ his wife Georgiana and the birthmark that lays upon her cheek. One day‚ Aylmer asks his wife whether she has ever thought about removing the birthmark on her cheek. She cheerfully says no but grows serious when she realizes that he asked the question seriously. Many people have told her the mark is a charm

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    the levels of violence in Dexter to that of Natural Born Killers‚ I feel like the two are at polar opposite ends of the spectrum. Interestingly‚ both works feature a story line about a serial killer(s)‚ but the way in which they are presented are so completely differently that I am amazed at how different I can feel about the same subject matter (serial killers) all based on the presentation of the material. Take for instance the aspect of visual violence content in each production. With Dexter

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    treated the right way based on their intelligence? I feel that people who have disabilities or just aren’t as smart as other people aren’t respected the same as regular people. In Flowers For Algernon the author displays how people with disabilities are treated badly. Daniel Keyes uses one of the characters in Flowers for Algernon‚ Charlie to demonstrate how people with learning disabilities are treated differently. Charlie had a learning disability in the beginning of the story. Which lead to doctors

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