Two Authors‚ Two Views School is a place where the youth of America goes to become educated to achieve their potential‚ and to further their knowledge of life. People often criticize our school system by saying it’s a place where kids learn to be “book smart” and not “street smart.” Others say that students need to spend more time outside of the classroom to gain further knowledge about the world. These two ideas about education are the main ideas that that authors John Gatto‚ and Dave Eggers have
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A fiction Red to Green by Maile Meloy is a story about a girl named Sam. This story is basically about a girl who is offered a scholarship to a boarding school hesitates to accept it then after what happened while her trip she decides to accept the offer. The main happening that affects her mind to accept a scholarship and leave far away from home happens when Sam‚ her father‚ her uncle‚ and her uncle’s client Layton take the float trip down the river. The reason she was hesitating to accept the
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The Red Guards Beginning in 1966 until 1976 when Mao Tse Tung died‚ he launched The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chairman of the Communist Party Mao Zedong‚ wanted his Red Guards to take over the other Chinese government authorities. Mao wanted to regain power within the Communist Party. The Red Guards were mainly made up of young adults and children. They were all followers of Mao’s ideas. The Red Guard ’s main goal was to get rid of everything that had to do with the old culture in
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Indian Authors in English Language There is no dearth of Indian authors who write in English language‚ as of today. But it was not same a century ago. English literature and writing was still in its nascent phase in India and most of the Indian writers were either used to be Indian born British or Britain educated Indians. The list includes exponents such as George Orwell‚ Rudyard Kipling‚ Jim Corbett‚ Tagore and Sarojini Naidu among others. The post independence decades were largely dormant
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Author Analysis: Flannery O’Connor As a Catholic author‚ Flannery O’Connor had as much passion for her faith as for her writing. She was an accomplished and influential novelist who also composed ample short stories prior to her early death at age 39. An only child‚ O’Connor was raised by her parents‚ Regina and Francis O’Connor in Milledgeville‚ Georgia (“Bookrags” Online). She persistently pursued her literary work‚ publishing her first short story‚ “The Geranium”‚ at the age of 21. O’Connor
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Red Sorghum Red Sorghum is a novel that is set in Mo Yan’s Shandong hometown of Northeast Gaomi Township. Relating the story of a peasant family‚ the novel is about the hardships‚ love‚ hatred‚ and adventures of the peasants of Shandong. Proudly recalling the heroic exploits of his grandparents‚ the first-person narrator begins the story of his family in the year 1939‚ when his father and grandfather set out to ambush Japanese soldiers on the eve of World War II. I believe the author of Red
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“The Red Pony” is the book I read‚ and it is pretty much about a family who lives on a ranch. In the story‚ a young boy is with his father and his ranch hand (assistant) at their family ranch‚ and everyday they have to work on something. When the boy’s father and the ranch hand happened to have a free day with little work to do‚ they decided to surprise the young boy by getting a gift that he had always wanted‚ a horse. The story goes on and on but I wanted to get to my point‚ which is where and
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Academic Writing: The Relationship between the Author and the Audience Academic writing is an ambiguous term. There are several articles that have been written about‚ trying to define it‚ to understand it. Each article represents a different aspect of academic writing. Some talk about the relationship between second language learner and academic writing‚ others argue that academic writing is too impersonal and students fail to communicate in their writings because they fail to grasp the meaning
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Within the poem‚ “The Author to Her Book‚” Anne Bradstreet uses a complex metaphor to describe her attitude towards one of her works that was published without her permission. Throughout the poem‚ she compares her anger towards her book to that of an unwanted child. Bradstreet apparently has the attitude of a perfectionist‚ so she did not think her book was worthy of publication. However‚ she was able to get it back and make corrections. Although Bradstreet has a negative attitude towards the publication
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Mike Dougherty Phelps English 12 12/4/12 Comparison essay Pacifistic Views of Two Authors “War is hell‚ but that’s not the half of it‚ because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.” (O’Brien 180) This is quoted by Tim O’Brien and it basically states the horrors of war and the emotional
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