the margins: "The Lesson" of Toni Cade Bambara by Katy M. Wright "What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain’t in on it? Where we are is who we are‚ Miss Moore always pointin out. But it don’t necessarily have to be that way‚ she always adds then waits for somebody to say that poor people have to wake up and demand their share of the pie and don’t none of us know what kind of pie she talking about in the first damn place." --Toni Cade Bambara‚ "The Lesson" African American
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which only complicates the family situation. The family is not affluent enough to provide for another life‚ so Ruth prepares to abort her child. B. Transition + another main point that supports your argument in your thesis: In The Lessons‚ Bambara reflects the racial injustice and socio-economic inequalities life of African American. 1. Children in The Lessons are black and poor a. The story is a lesson and a window for the reader into Bambara’s reality‚ as much as it is a lesson and a window
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A) Gorillas in the Mist is the non-fiction story of a Kentucky woman’s experience living among the wild gorillas of the Virungas Mountains. The conservation parks that she worked in are located in areas that cover parts of the three African countries of Rwanda‚ Uganda‚ and Zaire. Dian Fossey was inspired to devote her life to these primates by the famous anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey‚ who funded her research. Through her stay in the wild terrain Dian soon thinks of as home‚ she educates us on
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Since Tony Hoagland wrote “The Change”‚ there have been copious amounts of praise and attacks by whites and African-Americans and tagged as a racist piece of art. When first reading this poem‚ offense will be taken and thoughts of racism will be brought to your attention. However‚ Hoagland’s intentions were not race. His intentions were to cause discomfort when reading this poem. Hoagland uses syntax to make readers feel offended and the narrator in the poem is not a racist but actually an observer
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Sometimes gangs offer a chance to be a family when families aren’t there for you. Without friends‚ you don’t know what love and affection are because you aren’t getting that at home. You are forced to look elsewhere. I believe that if you don’t get love at home and are treated bad‚ you will go somewhere where you can get those things. In the book‚ The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ Johnny Cade didn’t get those things at home. He found a gang of boys that gave him what he thought he needed. He needed to fit
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Biology Mountain Gorilla Murder in Africa If you have ever looked into the eyes of a gorilla‚ you realize how human they look. That is because people and gorillas are ninety-eight percent genetically identical. There are two species of gorilla: Eastern gorillas and the mountain gorillas.”Gorillas are patchily distributed in east central and equatorial West Africa‚ separated by the Congo River and its tributaries‚ Eastern gorillas (including mountain and eastern lowland gorillas) are found in portions
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Through Tony Hoagland’s poem‚ “The Truth‚” the speaker reaches the conclusion and becomes satisfied with the idea that he is “in the land of the unfinished‚” despite his many efforts “to get inside.” In the initial three stanzas‚ he describes the image of the wasps “shrunken to death” and “perishing” is reoccuring. In the fourth stanza‚ he analyzes the role of the wasps in a macro perspective. In the last four stanza‚ he draws a parallel with his actions of “trying again and again/ to get inside”
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While both sides are arguing over the issue of the language understanding‚ some believe that Koko‚ the gorilla who is learning sign language‚ is intelligent enough for communicating‚ some believe that she is just randomly using the signs‚ and a trained monkey could do better. These arguments will not be solved unless there is a clear‚ agreeable definition for both sides. Some people think that Koko isn’t at a toddler level‚ much less at kindergarten level. However‚ Koko does understand some common
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As I do every Sunday morning‚ I awake to read the Tonys - Tony Becca and Tony Cozier - before I prepare for church and the upcoming week. Each Sunday‚ my four-year-old daughter’s hair needs to be washed‚ she needs to get a bath‚ her clothes pressed‚ and her breakfast prepared before she’s off to Sunday School. Oftentimes‚ I’ll catch Becca’s article in the wee hours of the morning before the world awakes and disrupts my peace and quiet with its crazed rush after dawn. For Cozier’s piece‚ I’d have
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