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    The short story‚ “Flowers” by Alice Walker showed a more suitable examples of description writing between the two stories “The Dog Could Teach Me” and “The Sniper”. The reason for this story containing strong examples of description is because throughout the entire story the reader knew every move the character was making or every setting that was changing. In the text of‚ “Flowers” it states “Frayed‚ rotted bleached‚ and frazzled-- barely there- but spinning restlessly in the breeze”. It’s clear

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    A Response to Childhood In Alice Walker’s essay “Childhood” she tells her daughter about traditions. Traditions are defined as the handing down of statements‚ beliefs‚ legends‚ customs‚ information‚ etc.‚ from generation to generation‚ especially by word of mouth or by practice. Walker uses the harvest to tell the story of traditions‚ and how she learned the traditions. She was taught traditions by her family trough their work habit. Her family worked on a farm when she was a child‚ and passed

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    Personal Responsibility Rough Draft Michele Lewis Meredith Villa University of Phoenix June 4‚ 2012 Is personal responsibility a bygone characteristic of our mothers and fathers? Sometimes‚ it can feel like this is the case. When an individual has problems plaguing them in their lives‚ many blame luck‚ circumstances‚ or someone else. Many times‚ these issues have been caused by the individual themselves. We can only hope that‚ as time goes on‚ we as a society can realize personal responsibility

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    Anthem Rough Draft Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” illustrates a series of ironic connections between great successors of Greek mythology and to her two main characters. The main characters‚ Equality 7-2521 and Liberty5-300‚ both contain very interesting and unique personalities‚ which makes them incompatible with their collectivism society due to who they are and what they believe. Ayn Rand disperses random clues throughout the book that provide evidence and reasoning of why she chose to rename her characters

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    The character of “Dee” in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” comes across as being very shallow‚ selfish and arrogant from the very beginning of the story. As the story progresses though‚ Dee does become more complex and is shown to be struggling with her own identity and heritage. Concrete details are stated about Dee that lead you to know she is beautiful‚ smart and confident. Dee is described as slender with a small waste. She is a light skinned black person with a nice

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    Everyday Use Heritage

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    In this story “Everyday Use”‚ Alice Walker tells the story of a mother and her two daughters conflicting ideas about their identities and ethnicity. She epitomizes the different sides of heritage and culture in the characters of the three people with their different qualities and ideologies in life. The mother is a candid country woman who valued heritage and culture for its usefulness as well as its significance by living and doing simple things in life. She shows contempt for Dees materialistic

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    Set during the early 20th century in the rural south‚ the novel‚ The Color Purple by Alice Walker‚ portrays the life of a poor African American woman named Celie. Since being published in 1982‚ this novel was won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for Fiction‚ but is also considered highly controversial because of the references to sexual abuse and female empowerment. Throughout the book‚ the reader learns from the unexpected events that accumulate Celie’s journey to self-awareness

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    The poem Gray by Alice Walker focuses on the defining characteristic of an indirectly mentioned character that the author explicitly states is an adoration of hers. To develop such a character Walker uses a notion of love or rather the understanding of love as a lens for the reader to be guided into a perceived judgment. By doing so‚ the reader is made to focus on such an aspect that brings attention to a more intricate and hidden connection that otherwise may have been passed over. This connection

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    Everyday Use Analysis

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    Everyday UseEveryday Use” is a short story by “Alice Walker”‚ it is a disdainful short story. A story about two sisters and a mom‚ that the two girls are totally different. Also teaching to stand up for what you want. This story is about a mom and a girl called Maggie that they live alone because the older sibling moved out. In the story Maggie and the mother have not seen how much Dee has changed in over six years. Dee in the short story sees that her sister Maggie and her mother have not change

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    Essay 2 Rough Draft As Archduke Franz Ferdinand heirs his throne along with his wife Sophie during the summer of June 28‚ they were shockingly assassinated by a Serbian native Gravilo Princip. This occurrence led to which we all know as World War 1. This incident struck worldwide as to where many countries took notice as established to declare war. The first country to do so was Austria-Hungary declaring on Serbia in July 28. Different countries declared war amongst each other which continued

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