Indian Education Reading Responses 1. The overarching tone of this piece is shamefully miserable. Sherman Alexie conveys this by using negative diction‚ for example; Alexie begins his first grade excerpt by saying‚ “My hair was short and the U.S. Government glasses were horn-rimmed‚ ugly…” The author uses the word ‘ugly’ to indicate young Alexie lacks in self confidence and is ashamed of his appearance. Alexie continues on saying‚ “… in school the other Indian boys chased me from one corner
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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 in the well
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The Color Purple Alice Walker Entry 1 "You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy." Alice Walker‚ the author of The Color Purple‚ begins her novel with an ambiguous threat. A fairly powerful‚ yet unexplained‚ quote begins a very powerful novel. Before opening this book‚ I had no idea how it was written or what it was about‚ I chose it solely by recommendation. I soon noticed that the whole story was to be told through letters written by the protagonist and addressed to God
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Terrence Hutcherson February 27‚ 13 English 1102: 10:00 10:50 Reading Response #2 The novel As I Lay Dying‚ is a story about a family with conflicting agendas are leaving town to grant their mother’s wishes to be buried in Jefferson. Suggesting that each character is motivated by greed‚ the author‚ William Faulkner tells the story in a way reveals that ulterior motives of each character as they embark on journey. Which sheds light on the selfish perspective of the world in which even the
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“Take the F” by Ian Frazier In the essay "Take the F" by Ian Frazier he writes about the experiences he had living in Brooklyn. He talks about a lot of topics such as city life‚ diversity‚ travel. He shares his moments while he was in Brooklyn. In the essay he talks about the people he was surrounded by‚ the things he did and places
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Anna Garcia 2/12/2015 Reading Response Paper “Boys Don’t Cry” SOCL 3600 Gender and Power Dr. Agnes Riedmann The film‚ Boys Don’t Cry‚ is based on a true story and raises numerous real-world issues in its story of a murder case in Middle America in which the victim was a girl who successfully passed herself off as a boy. Brandon Teena depicts the life and death of a young woman who believed that she should have been born a man. Teena concealed her female gender and successfully convinced almost everyone
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11th January 2011 Jenny White “Reading – Response to Prose” “Of Mice and Men” written by John Steinbeck 1937 The novella “Of Mice and Men” was written by Nobel prize - winner John Steinbeck in 1937. It was a written genre of a novella so it could be transposed as a stage play. The story is structured in six sections which could be six scenes if it were a script for a play. The title of the book comes from a poem by the 18th century Scottish poet Robert Burns “To a Mouse”. The poem
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Revisiting the Stroop Effect: Conditions Affecting Word-Color Response University of California‚ Irvine Contact information Abstract The stroop effect causes interference within people when the color of a word and a word‚ the name of a color‚ are incongruently matched. We tested this phenomenon to see if our results would be held constant as reviewed by existing literature. Our experiment used different conditions which
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Critical Response on Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass Both Douglass and Jacobs were inspirational icons for the African-Americans in American history. Their contributions to the abolition of slavery and liberalism of the African-American race in the U.S. are very notable and important too; not only for honor but also important to American literature. They both lived during the period of the Antebellum (1820 - 1865) when the abolition of slave trade was a big issue in the country. At this time
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Internet has served all information instantaneously. I also noticed about what Carr said about the Internet changed the way we think because unconsciously the Internet serves us all answers swiftly. This convenience makes us easily losing our focus on reading a long article. People now tend to skim rather than to read and understand the whole article‚ which means it is the beginning of the Internet’s bad effect. It made me think that Internet has become something crucial in our life that maybe we cannot
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