Amy Tan writes‚ in this essay‚ about the language that she and her mother used in their family while Tan was growing up. She makes a great effort to explain that their language‚ English‚ was never "broken" or "simple" as most people would say about it. Although she could speak perfect English‚ her mother could not. But‚ she grew up with her mother’s English way of speaking‚ and therefore learned to consider it as a natural language. She is trying to make a point here by saying that there is absolutely
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Sabrina Choung Professor Boeck RWS 200 February 6‚ 2015 Reading Responses Colombo Pg. 139-140 1. Moore provides evidence to support his contention that America is a nation of idiots by stating‚ “There are forty-four million Americans who cannot read and write above a fourth grade level –in other words‚ who are functional illiterates” (Colombo 122) and also explains how he feels as if America wants to keep individuals “stupid” and “ignorant” (Colombo 123). I do agree with his statement that there
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The Comedy of Errors: Reading Response 2 Act 1‚ Sc. ii of Comedy of Errors begins the cascade of confusing identity that is played up throughout the play with the interaction of Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus. Through this brief interaction‚ particularly lines 53-94‚ the hierarchy of social status is shown between the two characters. A section of this scene also reveals Shakespeare’s playing with the time period it is supposed to be set in. The significant theme of Comedy of Errors
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Reading Response: Resisting Hitler 1. What types of connections did you make most often as you read: text to text‚ text to self‚ or text to world? How did making connections increase your understanding of the magazine article? The connection I made most of as I was reading Resisting Hitler by Susan Campbell is text to world. I think this is because in today’s society‚ there are many rebellions all over the world‚ making it easy for me to recall these kind of acts upon reading Resisting Hitler
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“What’s in a Name” Reading Response Within the story Gate’s describes the difference between his family and other black families in town‚ he says‚ “we had stopped off at the Cut-Rate Drug Store (where no black person in town but my father could sit down to eat‚ and eat off real plates with real silver wear).” Gates’ family social status is different from other black families in Piedmont‚ West Virginia due to the fact that his family has “financial security.” His father works two jobs in order to
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stood out strongly would be grief… Dominique: Define what you mean? Joey: (sighs) I was about to… Well there were two different griefs within the novel. The grief of the family and friends of Susie. But also her own grief being apart from the ones she loves and cares about‚ watching their sadness would be heartbreaking. The fact that our country experiences death of teenagers‚ in fact New Zealand has the second highest rate of teenage death in the Western world is also pretty sad. All the families
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The Ways We Lie Response After reading the article “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson I have discovered the ten different ways we as human beings lie to one another. Additionally‚ I have also learned which ways of lying are more harmful than others‚ but most of them seem to have their upsides and downsides. After reading‚ I came to the conclusion that “deflecting” is probably the least harmful of all
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uses our eyes‚ sensory impressions‚ all this to stimulate against the bleakness of "north Dakota winters." The two young boys are really symbols of heightened imagination and senses in that they see objects‚ such as an orange‚ in a very different way than an adult. The children say‚ "We’re getting a cold‚" instead of saying‚ "We want an orange." The orange was as precious as a piece of candy and they felt that an excuse must be given to obtain it. The orange again takes on a new role as a role of
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In Ode to a Nightingale Keats introduces the reader to his discontent with the void of feeling he is experiencing. In the first line Keats says how his‚ “heart aches” which the reader would interpret as pain; however the second half of the first line he describes‚ “A drowsy numbness”. This tells me that Keats is uncomfortable with the “numbness” he experiences. In the second line Keats says‚ “as though of hemlock I had drunk”. Norton foot notes tell us that hemlock is a poison that acts
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“Imagination in A Christmas Carol” Graham Holderness says A Christmas Carol categorically that the writer’s imagination fails. Scrooge is allowed to slide into a rarefied limbo of Christmas sentiment and Christian charity‚ so abstract as to be empty of life and meaning. His encounter with the three ghosts is far more credible‚ far more realistic‚ than this closing vision of life of permanent goodness‚ which scarcely resembles human life at all. In one respect‚ of course‚ this misses the point
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