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    This symbol reminds those handling the package to keep out of the rain and not to store it in damp conditions. It is normally found on card based packages which would be damaged if placed in contact with water. The broken wine glass suggests that the product inside the packaging could be easily damaged if dropped or handled without care and attention. The contents are fragile! The two hands holding or protecting the package is another reminder that the contents should be handled with care

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    COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale‚ Cengage Learning Full Text: [(interview date 1 January 1996) In the following interview‚ Kreilkamp provides an overview of Kincaid ’s life and literary career upon the publication of The Autobiography of My Mother‚ and Kincaid comments on her relationship with the New Yorker‚ publishing‚ and gardening.] A teenage girl in the mid-1960s abandons her home on Antigua‚ a tiny island in the West Indies‚ bound for New York and not to return home for 19 years. She becomes an

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    because of the English colonist‚ not the 20th century tourist; while Byerman’s article “Anger in A Small Place: Jamaica Kincaid’s Cultural Critique of Antigua” states the blame for the change is due to both the tourists and English colonists.

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    Symbol | Meaning | Example | | delete | | | close up | | | delete and close up | | | caret | | | insert a space | | | space evenly | | | let stand | | | transpose | | | used to separate two or more marks and often as a concluding stroke at the end of an insertion |   | | set farther to the left | | | set farther to the right | | | set as ligature (such as ) | | | align horizontally | | | align vertically | | | broken character | | |

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    Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid‚ 1985‚ Penguin Books Type of work · Novel Genre · bildungsroman‚ Caribbean novel Language · English Time and place written · New York City‚ 1982–1983 Narrator · Annie John Point of View · First person Tone · It varies according to the age of Annie John. As a child‚ the language and imagery is very rich. As she ages‚ the tone grows more serious while also having more comic touches. Tense · Past tense Setting (time) · Sometime in the 1950s Setting

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    Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” and Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” is two fabulous short stories made in the 20th century. It shows how the relationship between young and adult is seen at that moment. There is the mother who mainly gives advice to help her daughter and there is the grandma who traveled a long distance to get help for her grandchild. The relationship’s quality between young and adult are oppositely inverse .The following essay will show the communication‚ the motivation and the perseveration

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    In the pursuit of such an assessment‚ I relied upon the Flesch-Kincaid readability test to provide calculations. The Flesch-Kincaid readability test analyzes a written manuscript and determines the grade reading level‚ as defined by the US government‚ of the piece by taking the total words divided by total sentences‚ and the total syllables divided

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    Jamaica is an island located in the Caribbean Sea‚ south of Cuba. It is one of the Greater Antilles. The first settlers of Jamaica called the land “Xaymaca” which means “Land of springs” (Pillai‚ 2013). It is said that this is where the name of the country came from. Jamaica is known for many things like its beaches‚ wildlife‚ and reggae music. Jamaica has a mix of people from different races‚ religions‚ and countries so its culture is varied. Christopher Columbus discovered Jamaica in 1494

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    Poverty and Hungry in Jamaica “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”- James Baldwin. When a person is living in poverty‚ everything they do daily seems like an accomplishment because it is difficult for them to possess. If a person never really have food‚ it feels like a blessing when the do receive it. Everything seems expensive because the have nothing. What exactly is poverty? Poverty is the state of not having enough money and/or materials

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    people” (Kincaid 92). Therefore‚ when Lucy comes to America she took an identity of a nanny. Therefore‚ Lucy recognizes the domestic laborer constantly being imposed to such practices. This further progresses that femininity was an identical relation with her mother’s standards of life. It shows how her Antiguan identity replicated not just her mother’s occupation‚ but a suitable career woman for a woman. Feminism represented the standards that women had in the patriarchal

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