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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Alice Walker’s The Welcome Table is a short story that gives a historical and cultural look at how segregation in the south influenced people’s lives. The story portrays an old black woman as the main character. It has plot‚ setting‚ characters‚ symbolism‚ theme‚ tone and imagery that the author skillfully narrated in the third person omniscient point of view to create the story. The reader experiences an insight into behavior that was caused by segregation in the State of Georgia in the south.
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Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound Comment: I am surprised when I saw the “poem”. I didn’t know it’s allowed to only have two lines. But I think it is pretty though. Simplicity and brevity is always beautiful. I like how he used the word apparition. Given that he’s in a transport station‚ faces appear and disappear from your sight as they hurry around. I think it’s the perfect word to use. Fun fact: In the poem‚ Pound describes a moment in the underground metro station in Paris in 1912; Pound
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Geo 300 Instructor Peggy Lee‚ Reading Response 1 Question 1: Chapter 1 1) Identify and explain four basic causes of the environmental problems we face. a. “Population growth‚ wasteful and unsustainable resource use‚ poverty and failure to include in their market prices the harmful environmental costs of goods and services.” (p.15) 2) What is exponential growth? b. “Occurs when a quantity such as the human population increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time
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I found the process of writing the reading responses quite tedious; especially when it came to my first reading response. My first reading response was focused on the article‚ “What Every American Should Know”; inquiring whether the use of Hirsch’s list to determine if one is culturally literate is well-thought-out. I found coming up with witty counterarguments tiring and difficult‚ the end result being I had to create an outline (which I barley do)‚ to aid me in the development of this ‘blog post’
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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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Melissa Hoang 3Poetry#1 Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Alone” is the real reflection of how his life had been. The poem is about how Poe led a life much different from those of the same age around him; and how he could never fit in. It is a clear representation of his feelings of sorrow that he went through due to being the “odd one out” or a “misfit”. The first few lines of the poem emphasize on how he missed out on his childhood since he never really got a chance to live a normal life‚ “From childhood’s
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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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