Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………..……. Chapter 1.Text and text type: definitions and classifications……………………. Text types……………………………………………………………... 1.2 Beaugrande and Dressler’s typology………………………………..… 1.3 Longacre’s classification…………………………………………..….. 1.4 Werlich’s textual typology……………………………………….….... 1.5 Biber’s text type………………………………………………………. Chapter 2.Text Forms………………………………………………………….... 2.1 The descriptive
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In the literary works‚ The Color Purple‚ Woman Hollering Creek‚ and Seventeen Syllables‚ the characters of Nettie‚ Cleófilas‚ and Mrs. Hayashi experience similar impediments via patriarchal dominance in their cultures that limit their ability to move outside restrictive gender roles. In The Color Purple‚ Nettie‚ an educated black woman from the south‚ who travels to Africa to become a missionary‚ highlights the sexual oppression that links African Americans and the African Olinka. The two worlds
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“The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara was published in 1972. The setting takes place in New York. Starting off with Sylvia‚ the main character along with her friends Sugar‚ Junior‚ Flyboy‚ Fatbutt‚ Junebug‚ Q.T‚ Rosie Giraffe‚ and Mercedes are enjoying their summer vacation. Miss Moore‚ an educated black woman who takes the children to learn and expand their mind. Since Sylvia is telling the story we get Sylvia’s internal conflict about Miss Moore taking the children away from their summer vacation
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The Media’s Representation of Disabilities The essays that Nancy Mairs and Rosie Anaya wrote discuss the media’s lack of proper representations for those with disabilities. Mairs speaks about how people with disabilities have the same sense of normality as those who do not. Anaya talks about how the media representation of physical disabilities eventually has improved but mental illnesses are portrayed on a much worse level creating fear. Mairs wrote her essay in 1987. She discusses how the
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daytime talk show that is aired on NBC called The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The show is on during the week and each day she has a wide variety of guests. The main goal of the show is to make people laugh. The show comes on right after the local news‚ which in todays society is always filled with sad and depressing news. Ellen wants to be the person to make everyone smile after listening to all the negative things being said on the news. Each episode she starts the show off with a funny monologue about
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The theme of “Raymond’s Run” and “All-American Slurp” can both be related because the main characters are both being held back from what their desires are. The main character of “Raymond’s Run‚” Squeaky‚ is held back from obtaining her goal which is friendship. She struggles to get friends because of her arrogant proclivity‚ mostly from instances that occur with her older brother‚ Raymond. This is also the same for the Lin girl‚ from the story “All-American Slurp” because she finds difficulty adapting
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Tom Buchanan is the husband of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tom can be described as an extremely wealthy brute of a man. He is very athletic and successful. Tom is also very selfish‚ and he will do anything to get what he wants. In addition he has absolutely no shame in anything that he does and he thinks very highly of himself. Tom is very judgemental and often forces confrontation. These characteristics can be found in many spoiled and greedy celebrities‚ one
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WWII Minorities DBQ In the mist of the countries involvement in one of the most grueling wars in history new barriers were broken to make room for an equal America. Although true equality was not reached‚ these short four years would lead to the turning point in American acceptance toward diversity‚ both in and out of the work place. The movement of thousands of men overseas create a substantial gap in the work place‚ creating a never before seen chance for women‚ Blacks‚ and immigrants to flood
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Gender’s Role in World War I The World War I officially ended progressivism in the United States and left the nation with great impacts on various groups of the society. However‚ the most significant impacts happened to occur on the role of men and women‚ that the war has altered the status of the genders in the United States. These changes occurred virtually and differently‚ also were somehow permanent and had a long-lasting effect which also helped to inform the nowadays society. The World War
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to adopt backed by numerous studies. After reading the piece by Gary Glenn one can conclude that he is one of the most closed minded persons and very against homosexual adoptions. In the beginning of the article Glenn stars by taking quotes from Rosie O’Donnell and rounding up this segment by saying‚ “Miss O’Donnell is a spoiled‚ privileged adult who put her own feelings ahead of what even she believes would be in the best interests of the children.” (p.1 Glenn) The article was broken up into sections
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