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    In the poem Anyone Lived in a Pretty how Town E. E. Cummings plays with jumbled syntax‚ a seemingly random rhyme scheme‚ and the paradox of non-identical repetition to convey his message about the ordinariness of daily life‚ the passing of time‚ and the inclusive anonymity of people we encounter in our lives. Anyone Lived in a Pretty how Town describes the daily lives of the people who live in a certain‚ nameless town. The town is not named and neither are any of the townspeople‚ other than to give

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    do you get to read and learn about someone who revolutionised poetry and english and changed it forever! For my poet I chose E.E cummings the reason why I decided to chose him was upon further research and understanding about his growing up and his life really spoke out to me. Being born into a family with liberal parents and as a young adult the influence from World War One really showed upon his writing as in most poems he somewhat talks how the world is going crazy. He actually volunteered in france

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    Student 2: Rhetorical Analysis-1‚ Annotated Bibliography-6‚ Commentary-16‚ Memoir-23 Student 2: Past experience Rhetorical Analysis: Walden‚ ‘Where I Lived‚ and What I Lived For “Where I Lived‚ and What I Lived For” Is the second chapter from Henry D. Thoreau’s book Walden‚ found on pages 81-98 originally published by Princeton University Press‚ 1854. This edition is the 2004 reprint of the 1971 copyright with an introduction by John Updike. The critical memoir was penned in 1845 by Henry David

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    the situation. However before the war even ended‚ in 1865 he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth‚ a loyal Southerner. With the South in cheers for his death‚ they fail to realize that he was their only hope for a better Reconstruction. If he had lived‚ he would had been so much lenient towards the South‚ unlike the Radicals‚ and the states would have complied almost immediately. As a wise man as he is‚ he knows what to say and what not to say. Getting the South back into the Union was the biggest

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    Kush Patel AP US History Miss. Guzman Period: 7 Ever wondered how farmers lived in the 19th century? The government passed laws that favored the wealthy.Technology was making vast strides but mainly in urban manufacturing. The technological advancements that were made available were sold to the farmers at ludicrous prices. Economically‚ the prices of agriculture was declining and as a result‚ farmers often lived in poor conditions. But‚ farmers not were represented in government‚ urban industry

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    In The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright‚ strong descriptive language was used to help the audience clearly envision the true treachery of the main characters situation. The imagery was also used to help set the dark tone of this story as everything that can go wrong does‚ and presents the world as having a never ending cycle of injustice. The singing from the church is first seen as a positive from the man‚ which also depicts God and the church as a type of savior to the man

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    Like many of her poems‚ "The Last Night that She Lived" contains poet Emily Dickinson’s exploration of dying and human emotion. Rather than romanticizing death‚ however‚ Dickinson utilizes death as a simple process in human life. She achieves this by creating a tone progression in the speaker‚ beginning with excited hope in disappointed realization‚ through the use of exchange active and passive figurative language and structure patterns. Dickinson basically marks the shift of the speaker’s

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    My life is the definition of boring‚ so I’m pretty sure that you will enjoy my whole two page essay about it; take note of the immense amount of sarcasm dripping out of me. Anyway‚ ever since I was little I’ve had one goal in mind and that was to be an ideal Indian child that my parents would be proud of. You know... do the whole typical good kid stuff like make all A’s‚ get involved with school and various extra-curricular activities‚ get awards‚ be respectful and what not. So far I have completed

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    We Have Always Lived in the Castle revolves around Mary Katherine Blackwood‚ an eighteen year old who lives in a mansion isolated from the village with her sister Constance and her mentally ill uncle Julian Blackwood. Mary Katherine‚ often referred as Merricat by her sister Constance‚ is an odd adult who has a cat named Jonas. Constance takes care of Merricat and Uncle Julian. Both Julian and Constance haven’t left their home in over six years due to a family tragedy that killed most of the Blackwood

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    E.E. Cummings‚ I have unraveled your poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town”. I really enjoyed the uniqueness of the puzzle you created. The narrator of the story tells the narrative as if they don’t care‚ moreover‚ the story itself is about a lot of people not caring. The only people who act out are Anymore and Noone‚ they fall in love and worry about no one but themselves‚ as the disregardful outside world continues to repeat the cycle of life and death by no means. Mr. Cummings‚ I appreciate

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