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    Enc 1102 8:00-9:00 13 February 2008 A Father’s Last Request The short story “A Conversation With My Father”‚ by Grace Paley‚ is written asa story within a story. The story is told by a reliable first person narrator. The Protagonist in the story is the narrator. While the gender of the narrator is never stated‚ the tone of the story leads me to believe it is a female. The other major character in the story is the narrator’s sick aging father‚ who seems to be on his death bed. Throughout the

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    The evil of Mao

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    Mao Zedong‚ and also commonly called as Chairman Mao. He is born at December 26‚ 1893‚ and died in September 9‚ 1976. He was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founder of the People’s Republic of China‚ which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death. He lived in a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan‚ Hunan. Mao adopted a Chinese nationalist and anti-imperialist perspective in his early life. On October 1‚ 1949 Mao proclaimed the foundation

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    A Conversation with My Father‚ by Grace Paley This is a story about storytelling. The narrator‚ a writer and her aged‚ ill father are discussing the narrator ’s style of story writing. The Protagonist in the story is the narrator. After reading the story‚ no gender is given of the narrator‚ only assuming by the tone of the story to be a female. The other major character in the story is the narrator sick aging antagonist father‚ who seems to be on his death bed. Throughout the story‚ Paley plays on

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    what could be a possible choice. Even though a farmer and a dancer have similarities‚ they also have differences and deciding which is most suitable may be a difficult choice. A career as a Dancer requires hard work‚ but the career offers many rewards. The job duties and responsibilities are auditioning‚ learning more movements‚ rehearsing‚ and working with choreographers. Their work environment is going on tours‚ stop career around 30’s‚ more work in schools and performing art companies‚ casinos

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    Dance with My Father Dear Lord‚ “I know that I’m asking for too much‚ but could you send back the only man that I trust?” These are the words that I pray every night before I go to bed. When I was a child‚ my daddy would come home from work and I would run up to him and jump into his arms. He would spin me around until I got dizzy to the point where I couldn’t even walk straight. Every time my mother and I would disagree‚ I would go to my daddy to get my way. I always got my way with him

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    is about a penny given by the leading character’s father. The story begins with a funeral. After the father’s funeral‚ the leading character was talking with his sister and couldn’t help recalling the afternoon when everyone thought he was lost. The father was a reticent man who never said “love” and was severe and humorless. So the son didn’t know whether his father liked him and he even didn’t know about his father’s feeling. One day‚ the father gave him a penny. The leading character was so excited

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    My Father‚ A Seafarer” In working on board the vessel‚ he gave his family a living of higher level. Father as the male human parent has the responsibility to find job to make his family live and a seafarer is the general term for men who work on ships at sea. Great fathers make great decisions. Giving his family a better living‚ achieving something in life and fulfilling his responsibilities as a father to his wife and four children are the reasons why my father chose this profession. My father

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    Discuss Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ as a Dramatic Monologue A Dramatic monologue is a form of poetry where the speaker in the poem gives the readers a deep insight into his thoughts. It is different from a soliloquy since a dramatic monologue always has an implied audience. Dramatic monologue although originated well before the 19th century‚ it was popularized by Victorian poets like Browning‚ Tennyson and Dante Rossetti. Browning has experimented with this form of poetry to such depths that dramatic

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    The story in "A Conversation With My Father"‚ written by Grace Paley‚ paragraph 30-35 is a fiction. Although it’s based on a real incident‚ it has everything that it needs to be a fiction. The story has characters and a certain timeline of events. Additionally‚ the story began with a permanent state‚ in which the mother and her son live in the city‚ the son has good grades and he’s a successful young man. Later on‚ the plot gets complicated. The boy became a drug addict and the mother‚ thinking she’s

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    one hundred and ninety two months to realize the unprecedented influence my father made on my life. My father‚ George Dean is who I credit my accomplishments and success after‚ both inside the classroom and everyday life. It was at one hundred and twenty months that I began the journey that would allow me to understand the significance my father has played in my life today. It was fifth grade when I learned that my father has been diagnosed with cancer and the tedious trips to the hospital began

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