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    the way people think about the events range from one end of the world to the other. Two examples of this truth happen to be John James Audubon and Annie Dillard‚ both writers experienced seeing a flock of birds in flight‚ but Audubon takes a more scientific approach and Dillard conveys a more casual and awestruck message. Audubon and Dillard both share the amazement and awe felt by watching these creatures of the skies‚ but what separates the two pieces is Audubon’s sophisticated diction

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    4) In the essay “The Death of the Moth” by Virginia Woolf and “The Death of a Moth” by Annie Dillard‚ the two authors use the image of a moth to find out about their places in life. Instead of choosing any other animals‚ they use the death of the moth to describe death as an inevitable part of life. However‚ each author approaches and describes the death of the moth with different feeling. Woolf describes the moth in a calm peaceful setting where energy only rest in the little moth. This will further

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    An American Childhood An American Childhood‚ by Annie Dillard‚ is a happy memoir of Annie’s own life‚ a child of a well-to-do Pittsburgh family. The activities she had as a child‚ such as piano lessons and dance class‚ show her family’s wealth. Instead of having to work as a child she shares stories of fun and learning. This is illustrated on page 30‚ where she is describing the night when her family saw Jo Ann Sheehy skating on the street. As she is talking about how Jo Ann was

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    Than Just a Dead Moth Annie Dillard wrote an essay‚ “Death of a Moth‚” which is from her book‚ Holy the Firm. Dillard’s essay‚ “Death of a Moth‚” starts off with the author talking about a couple of dead moths behind her toilet in her bathroom. Then Dillard starts reminiscing about an encounter she had with a moth on a camping trip she took by herself in Virginia. While Dillard was reading a book‚ a moth flew into her tent and into her candle’s flame and burned. Then‚ Dillard starts analyzing the

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    Summary of “How I Wrote the Moth Essay---and Why” In her essay “How I Wrote the Moth Essay---and Why”‚ Annie Dillard explains how she wrote the first essay “Form Holy the Firm” and tells us the reason why she decided to write it. She concludes the wisdom on writing and expresses her attitude towards the personal writing. Annie Dillard had detailed journals descripting how the moth flew into the candle and got burnt. She was happy about that she had kept notes of what she read

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    is significant because many of the aspects of Annie Dillard’s growing up were uniquely American. Things such as the freedom to do certain things as well as the conditions in which everyone lived were characteristics that were not adopted worldwide. The title is also important because much of the book encompassed Annie’s childhood and the process that she followed in her growing up and discovering herself. Section II: Author The author is Annie Dillard and the book directly concerns her because it

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    three cases‚ that they all are not aware that “the thing is lost through such packaging” (Percy 470). Annie Dillard also discusses how our experience is being filtered as well in her essay “Seeing.” There are many things that keep us from seeing all the hidden surprise in life; they could be biological limitations as humans‚ whether being loved or not‚ culture and language…etc. She compares seeing things with these

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    two literary pieces‚ the message behind them‚ and how they express such message. In both stories‚ Living Like Weasels‚ by Annie Dillard‚ and Nature‚ by Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ the core beliefs of Transcendentalism are expressed in different ways. “Living Like Weasels” is a modern take on Transcendentalism‚ showing that this ideology is still in place nowadays. Annie Dillard writes about her experience whilst in her cabin house in Virginia. Her experience that transcended the norm was shared with

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    An American Childhood Annie Dillard is a Pulitzer Prize winning author for non fiction writing. Dillard wrote about an autobiographic event that occurred in her childhood titled “An American Childhood.” The premise of the story is when seven-year old Dillard and a friend were chased relentlessly by an adult after they had thrown a snowball at a passing car. While in the process of reading Annie Dillard’s “An American Childhood‚” I was interrupted numerous times‚ therefore I had to read “An American

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    It is evident that‚ at present‚ people are spending a considerable amount of time on the Internet‚ and thus spending less time with real people. I strongly agree that although this use of the Internet has greatly increased the level of communication available‚ it has also had detrimental effects on the amount and type of social interaction that takes place. The benefits of the Internet in terms of increased communication are clear‚ with people connected across the globe. In the past‚ communication

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