Crucible Reading Response The Crucible is a play based on a society ruled by theocracy. Danforth ‘s statement of “–a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it ‚ there be no road between” clearly demonstrates the Puritan’s prospective of seeing everything in black and white. Arthur Miller’s purpose of writing The Crucible was due to the close resemblance between the Salem Witch-trails and McCarthyism. They are both human tragedies that are driven by human fear. In
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To Kill a Mockingbird – Reading Response #3 As I continue To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ new characters was introduced and the story gets more interesting. As chapter ten begins‚ Scout feels slightly ashamed of her father‚ because it seems like he doesn’t do anything remarkable. Atticus warns Scout and Jem that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird‚ “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird
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Nacirema Reflection Paper As Filipinos‚ we believe that our way of life is inferior to all others but for other cultures they think theirs are superior to the rest. This feeling isn’t something that many people want to have‚ but it happens over time as a person becomes integrated into their own culture. Change is typically hard and being able to look at a completely new culture or way of life as normal doesn’t come naturally to most. However‚ with time and patience many can overcome the ethnocentrism
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” (578). In a sudden transition a feeling of evil and darkness devastated this once so beautiful town. The author describes this darkness as a “strange blight‚” (578). Death soared over the farm animals and the community. Abrupt deaths occurred among the adults and even young children. The sickness was expanding over the town. The birds of the town fled the place of sickness. The birds that did remain were deteriorating and could not fly. The fruit trees were blooming‚ but there were no bees for
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Response to: Body Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture In her book‚ Body Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture‚ Debra Gimlin focuses specifically on how the bodies of women are turned into projects in which the goal is to attain the ideals of beauty. The most important point that she makes is that‚ “Contemporary ideals of female beauty – and the work required to become beautiful – have long-lasting and devastating effects on women” (16). Despite contemporary beauty standards
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Content Williams Ms Masdon English 1102 16 March 2011 Jonathan Kozol’s essay on The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society (1985) claims that based on the beliefs of Socrates and James Madison‚ illiteracy is a moral dilemma. Kozol supports this claim by speculating what a number of tragic outcomes could be as a result of illiteracy. His purpose is to show how a person’s daily life is affected negatively by being illiterate in order to prove that illiteracy in a broad sense is a
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sharing others. This book has characters in it that I was able to empathies with and those‚ of course‚ who I disliked. The way in which Kathryn Stockett has written about her characters is so believable that that the story was untrue and as I was reading this book‚ it didn’t cross my mind at all that it was fiction because everything Kathryn Stockett wrote about seemed so believable. It is told in alternating viewpoints from the three main characters which I don’t usually like in books‚ but this book
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Branding a way of life: Advertising Effect Advertising is the product of the commodity economy‚ since people start exchange commodity advertising has emerged in the world. The first advertising in the world is in ancient Greece at the early stage of the slave society and it is through voice‚ people call that oral advertising‚ this is most original and simple advertising in the human history. The advertising comes out very early proved advertising is useful for consumers and corporation. A great
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In Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles‚” elements such as setting‚ personality‚ and behavior are used to set the mood for this crime story. In this story‚ a woman is being accused of killing her husband‚ and what better than a play to act out such a thing. I feel that through the use of actions‚ costumes‚ and props‚ the visual elements in this play really help to bring out this murder mystery to life. In the beginning of the play‚ the scene starts out with the description of the house and its kitchen
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The short story A&P by John Updike‚ takes place in 1961‚ at a grocery store called "A&P". Sammy‚ the narrator‚ is a cashier at A&P. One particular day‚ three girls came in they looked like they were fresh from the beach still in their bathing suits and did not have any shoes on‚ this was not the typical attire at the usually plain and very “cookie cutter” store. Sammy can’t help but notice them‚ he watches as they walk around and get the stuff they need. He also talks about how the “regulars” react
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