(Google pg 1) Angelou‚ Maya. “Sister Flowers.” In The Longman Reader by Judith Nadell‚ John Langan‚ Eliza A. Comodromos. Eds New York: PEARSON/Longman‚ 2007:pg. 87-93 “Sister Flowers” gives the instant expectation of sadness to the reader. Nevertheless‚ by the end of the second paragraph the reader is drawn into the resilient world of a child. The characters are magically real‚ and the reader can relate with all of them at some level. Future generations will read Maya Angelou admirable
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Readers Response #1 The short story‚ “The Veldt”‚ written by Ray Bradbury‚ is one of the literatures that talks about the effects of technology in a negative point of view. The story is introduced in a futuristic setting‚ a sound-proofed Happylife Home‚ where the Hadley family lives with the advanced technology. The machines are capable of fulfilling all the family’s needs and desires such as cleaning‚ clothing‚ feeding‚ and even rocking them to sleep. In the beginning‚ the technology
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Reader Response- “Streetcar Named Desire” Stella Kowalski is one of the main characters in the Tennessee William’s‚ “ A Streetcar Named Desire”. She is presented as a woman who has an older sister Blanch and a husband named Stanley. She is often overlooked in the play because of her husband Stanley and her sister Blanche are much more dynamic. However‚ Stella plays an important role that without her‚ Stanley and Blanche who are considered‚ as two major characters of the play throughout the story
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The Reader‚ set in post-World War II Germany‚ relates the story of an SS camp guard‚ Hanna Schmitz‚ and her evolving relationship with the narrator‚ Michael Berg. Both the book and the movie deal with serious issues‚ including love and denial‚ guilt and accountability‚ and reconciliation. They both employ several subversive strategies: in presenting Michael Berg’s first love‚ it is impossible not to be sympathetic; we are drawn in. Hanna is the mysterious older woman who initiates the young boy into
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accredited with being some of the most accurate of all the prophets. So prominent is the reality that those who preserved a knowledge concerning Isaiah have done so with a sole interest in his message surely stresses its importance to the contemporary reader. Due to its geographical location between the strong nations of the Egyptians‚ Persians‚ Babylonians‚ Greeks‚ Romans and Assyrians it was rare to have a time when Canaan was not under attack. What is more‚ after the death of Solomon the kingdom
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Citations: Steinem‚ Gloria. "Sex‚ Lies‚ and Advertising." 1990. Mercury Reader. N.p.: Pearson‚ 2013. 45-67. Print. Brady‚ Judy. "Why I Want a Wife." 1970. Mercury Reader. N.p.: Pearson‚ 2013. 74-78. Print. Blum‚ Deborah. "The Gender Blur." 1998. Mercury Reader. N.p.: Pearson‚ 2013. 103-13. Print. Barry‚ Dave. "Guys vs. Men." 1995. Mercury Reader. N.p.: Pearson‚ 2013. 113-21. Print.
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"The Reader"‚ by Bernhard Schlink is set in postwar Germany and tells the story of fifteen-year-old Michael Berg and his affair with a woman named Hanna‚ who was twice his age. After some time‚ she disappears. When Michael next sees Hanna‚ he is a young law student and she is on trial for her work in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Their feelings of guilt and shame lead to Hanna’s tragic death near the end of the story. Bernhard Schlink is trying to portray these two emotions in his book as things
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Vanessa Duell 2/1/15 Mrs. Brothers AP ELA 11 Associative Reader Response for “A Rose For Emily” It must be hard for a person to really love someone and only that person‚ and then that certain person dies. Miss Emily goes through a trial of changes throughout this short story. None of these changes had a positive effect on Miss Emily’s life‚ and her life just seemed to keep getting worse. I can connect to Miss Emily in some ways because I know how it feels to lose a loved one
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Effects on Same Sex School Does anyone think about what is same sex school? Why any students want to go there? Both single sex school and co-ed school have advantages and disadvantages. If we were parents‚ we would think that which school is better to let children go. Some of them do not care about the issue‚ but it may happen some problems to their children. In other word‚ if parents think about it carefully‚ their children will be successful. Going to same sex schools have had several positive
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The Role of the S.S. in the Holocaust All along people have said that Hitler did the Holocaust. This statement is not entirely true‚ and it was his soldiers did. They marched under the Nazi orders‚ and exterminated men‚ women‚ and children alike. The SS started out with humble beginnings. They were founded and started by Adolf Hitler himself. They were started with no intent to harm or kill‚ but to protect Hitler and his fellow party members. They had 300 members in the beginning. They
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