Anisa Witham Professor Vettese ENGL 100 D1 17 September 2017 Reading Response 2 Two Ways to See a River 1. Twain uses analogies in this short piece. In the first paragraph Twain says.” A broad expanse of the river turned to blood; in the middle distance the red hue brightened into gold…” (1). Twain is comparing the way the river shined to blood because they both are red. Using analogies puts imagery into the readers head of how the scene looked. If Twain was just to compare this river to another
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“problematic protagonists‚” each of the summer works features a main character whose personality can be found unappealing. In Master Harold and the Boys‚ Athol Fugard explores themes of racism and segregation in South Africa during the apartheid. Hally‚ a white boy‚ has known Sam and Willie‚ two older African servants‚ his whole life and has intelligent conversations with Sam as his equal. After discovering that his alcoholic and handicapped father is being discharged from the hospital‚ Hally lashes
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A Midsummer’s Night Dream‚ there were a couple instances where the three worlds collided. Shakespeare has included the worlds of the supernatural (fairies)‚ the ruling class (nobles)‚ and the working class (the Mechanicals). During the play‚ he has made all three worlds intersect and converge; interacting and often causing chaos and disorder between the worlds. For example‚ when Oberon demanded Puck to obtain the flower‚ to which he will use on Titania‚ he had oversaw a conflict between Helena and
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As revealed in Rosemarie Tong’s discussion of the Marxist analysis of class in Feminist Thought‚ a group of people slowly becomes a class as they struggle together over time (97). It is not until they reach class-consciousness‚ the collective awareness of this struggle‚ that a group can be seen as constituting a class (97). Women are an interesting group to think about with these ideas in mind. Marxist and socialist feminists have frequently debated whether women constitute a class (97). In order
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English coursework‚ James Luxton Explore the ways in which bullies and victims are presented in Lord of the Flies and DNA. Bullies and Victims play vital roles in both the novel and the play. The authors‚ Golding and Kelly‚ both put their characters through similar trials. In Lord of the Flies‚ Golding’s characters turn from normal school boys‚ to savages who are prepared to kill one another to gain power. Golding suggests that under certain circumstances‚ people will naturally begin to become
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readers all over the world. Each character has his own prestige resulting from their substantial influences on the reader and literature. The impacts of these two have a countless amount of people wondering who the leading symbol of a detective in detective fiction is. Although Hercule Poirot is the only fictitious character to ever receive an obituary in The New York Times‚ Sherlock Holmes is the absolute iconic detective character. The sleuths have extraordinary skillsets‚ in which‚ attracts a large
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Ruben Capetillo Period 5 3/13/15 World War 1 essay July 19Th through November 1918 was the time of world war I. The three main causes of of the war where Nationalism‚ Militarism‚ and alliances created by the countries. World war I started like a balloon being filled with little amounts of air‚ eventually its gonna explode though just like the war. A main cause of world war I was nationalism. Nationalism was a cause of world war 1 because the people of their countries believed and would get so hyped
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‘Examine the ways in which childhood can be said to be socially constructed’ A social construct is an idea or concept that has been created and defined within society. Many sociologists argue that childhood is a social construct‚ as it isn’t a fixed‚ universal idea‚ and differs in different areas and time periods- they believe that childhood as we know it is a recent phenomenon. Aries argues that in the Middle Ages ‘the idea of childhood did not exist’. Within modern Western society children
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~The world on the moon and the world of human beings~ Introduction The moon can be found in many literary works‚ and it is an element full of literary and narrative quality. The moon in the Taketori Monogatari‚ which is considered the ancestor of Japanese Narratives by the Japanese renowned writer Murasaki Shikibu‚ is without exception an indispensable part. According to NI‚ Jin-Dan‚ in literature‚ the concept of foreign land‚ which is a relative space to the world of human beings‚ has always
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accused he tried to help and was later held in contempt of court‚ accused of witchcraft and pressed to death. Giles Corey and I are very similar because we are both sarcastic‚ instigators and we are both loyal. Both Giles and I share the trait of sarcasm. Giles Corey was very sarcastic throughout the play. He was very sarcastic when he made jokes to Parris about him being “very good at arithmetic” because parris could add sixty plus six.
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