Disabilities can effect anyone‚ which is not based on race‚ gender‚ culture‚ etc. Therefore‚ including a text set about disabilities also offers discussion in classrooms that are related to cross-cultural as well as cross-curricular literature. The story Secret Signs: An Escape Through the Underground Railroad by Antia Riggio‚ which is about a boy who is Deaf‚ but also during a time during the Civil War and Underground Railroad. This story not only addresses cultural understanding my emphasizing the importance
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Trifles by Susan Glaspell addresses ideas about justice and gender deifferences. In the play gender roles are an important theme. Women in the 1900s often took care of the home. In this play the women distrust men and the men underestimate and underappreciate women. Ultimately‚ the audience has to decide if the women that protect Mrs. Wright from punishment are justified. Was murdering Mr. Wright a just punishment for his poor character and the killing of a canary? Perhaps leaving him would have
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The Secret of the Sewer One of the works favorite novels of all time is Les Miserable written by Victor Hugo. Les Miserable is filled with secrets and mysteries. Every page you turn‚ Victor Hugo throws a plot change at the reader. When Marius falls in the barricade the reader would never expect Jean Valjean to leap out into the smoke clouds to save Marius life. If Marius would have never found out that Jean Valjean saved his life by dragging him through a sewer‚ Cosette would have never know that
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RRJ Assignment: “The Secret lion” In this short story “The Secret Lion” Alberto Alvaro Rios invited me into the world of an imaginative Hispanic youth who is going through the coming-of-age crisis. The story is written in the first person point of view‚ and portrays the struggle of the speaker and his friend Sergio against the sweeping force of change that accompanies the transition from childhood to young adulthood. The antagonist is time-time that has the power to transform them into the
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"Suppressed Desires" by Susan Glaspell is a two-scene play about a woman‚ Henrietta‚ who is obsessed with dream interpretation and seems unable to stop over-analyzing the dreams of her husband‚ Stephen‚ and Henrietta’s unsophisticated sister‚ Mabel. Mabel knows so little about psychoanalysis that she think it is "something about war‚" though she has seen a psychiatrist‚ Dr. Russell‚ the same psychiatrist who cares for Stephen. Henrietta respects psychoanalysis until eventually‚ her mind changes about
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The short one-act play Trifles by Susan Glaspell‚ was years ahead of its time. Its time was 1916 but the subject matter is timeless. The aspect of this play that most caught my interest was the contrast between the men and women characters. This is a play written in the early 1900s but transcends time periods and cultures. This play has many strengths and few weaknesses‚ but helps to provide a very accurate portrait of early American women and the issues they dealt with in everyday comings and
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Abby McDermitt The Secret Garden One of the major themes in this novel is the relationship between landscape and a person’s welfare. One of the most important ways that the novel shows this theme is by creating an opposition between India and England. The novel subtly attributes Mary’s childhood sickness to her time in India: "Her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another." India is consistently presented as a place which gives off
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21 February 2011 How Can Love Never Fail? Karen Van Der Zee “A Secret Sorrow uses‚ Characterization‚ Tone and Irony to show that love is powerful and will heal any hurt. Anyone can say that what you hope for always doesn’t come to past‚ and then you may lose hope of it ever happening. It is possible to give up and live in despair or even defeat. This is very similar to Karen Van Der Zee‚ the writer of “A Secret Sorrow portrays in her story. Karen uses the characterization‚ tone‚ and irony
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Chapter 8: The Sun & The Universe: Secrets of the Sun The sun is classified as a yellow dwarf‚ because of both its color and size. The sun is the only star in our solar system‚ and all of the planets revolve around it. The mass of the sun is equal to about one million earths. It can cause solar storms that interrupt much of our technology and means of communication. The amount of radiation that can reach Earth during a solar storm is particularly easy to reach on the north and south poles.
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As young college students we often have jobs that are customer service oriented. We can all relate to what Quentin Schultze is saying in the section “Putting Our Hearts into Our Stations” we he says “My first paid job was cleaning and restocking shelves in a family drugstore. After one week‚ I had mastered the work and grown bored (Schultze 37).” This is so relatable to me. Growing up in Puerto Rico‚ I’ve been working since the early age of 14 and even before then I helped out my mother with her
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