analysis of the passage Neat People vs. Sloppy People (外文学院02级2班 王思 020214214) Abstract: Suzanne Britt’s work Neat People vs. Sloppy People is a passage of comparison. In this passage‚ Britt distinguishes neat people from sloppy people in the moral aspect. She used kinds of figures of speech such as paradox‚ hyperbole‚ metaphor and so on in the description and comparison‚ making her work so distinguished. Key words: neat people‚ sloppy people Ⅰ.Brief account of the author
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How did the Tiananmen Square massacre affect China and its people? The Tiananmen Square massacre or the June Fourth Incident was a series of protests and demonstrations in China. These student-led demonstrations reflected the anxieties that young people had about the country’s future‚ regarding the issues of rapid economic and social change. These protestors would do things like going on hunger strikes‚ sit-in or occupy public spaces. They did all of this so they could achieve their goals of “A Communist
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9 Clever Ways to Deal with Negative People The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil‚ of pain‚ and hunger‚ and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson After years and years of observation and self reflection I came to the realization that the best way to face life’s challenges is to take a good look at yourself‚ assume responsibility for whatever it is that you are thinking‚ feeling and living. If you don’t
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Analysis of ”Good People” by David Foster Wallace‚ 2007 The short story is set at a park by a lake. “They were up on a picnic table at that park by the lake‚ by the edge of the lake‚ with part of a downed tree in the shallows half hidden by the bank.”1 The downed tree sets the mood to be sad and dark. We also learn that the main characters Lane A. Dean‚ Jr. and his girlfriend Sheri Fisher are sitting very still on the picnic table2‚ which tells us that the atmosphere is quite intense. It does not
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are many stereotypes that pertain to black people. One that really stands out is "If you want to hide something from a black person hide it in a book" which the white man is trying to call us African Americans illiterate. Which is ignorant is so many type of ways. But yet we do nothing more to make that statement false by not being educated‚ well organized and full of wisdom. Years ago‚ when slavery was in its actions African Americans where always thought of as less. White people came up with
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stupid and harmful is‚ “People don’t change.” Although everyone has ingrained personality traits‚ we aren’t held captive by them. Believing that we can’t change encourages us to accept our weaknesses. How many people with substance problems claim they aren’t capable of stopping? It’s much easier to continue a harmful behavior when responsibility is placed on an outside force like genetics or an “addictive personality”. Saying people can’t change is the same as saying people can’t learn. When you learn
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The definition of a sense of identity is the condition of being oneself and not another. In Ordinary People‚ Judith Guest refers to Conrad Jarrett as "A newborn fawn without his mother (46)." Ever since Conrad lost his brother‚ Buck‚ in a tragic boating accident‚ he feels guilty and that he is to blame. He loses his sense of identity‚ but with the help of Jeannine‚ Dr. Berger‚ and Calvin‚ he is able to reevaluate himself and become an "ordinary person" once again. Con’s definition of himself changes
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How Mesolithic People Were More Advanced Than Palaeolithic People. The Mesolithic people were more advanced than the Palaeolithic people in many ways‚ including weaponry‚ lifestyle‚ hunting etc. The Palaeolithic era lasted between 2.5 million B.C to 12 thousand B.C‚ to when the last ice glaciers melted and agriculture began‚ bringing in the Mesolithic era‚ which lasted between 12 thousand B.C to 8 thousand B.C. Even though the Palaeolithic had the longer era and discovered and created
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Representations of Africa 23 October 2012 A Man of the People: Conflict in Independent Nigeria Independent Nigeria witnessed increasingly abominable conflicts arising at both the social and political level. At a time when “the national question“ was at the top of the government’s agenda‚ the search for political power‚ namely at the regional level‚ stymied any progress. How could a “national identity” be established when the people identified themselves primarily based on their ethnicity? Without
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Americans as inferior people who could be exploited for the colonists’ benefit.” The early European colonizers of the Americas came to the New World to find sources of wealth for themselves and their country. They were greeted by Native Peoples who were later used as forced laborers to the benefit of the colonists. Most European colonizers behaved with arrogance and cruelty wherever superior power enabled them to rule over and exploit the area’s Native People. To justify their behavior
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