There may be many reasons why Ms. Jones takes Roger home‚ but one strong claim is Mrs. Jones intended to help Roger‚ rather than force a blame. “Thank you‚ m’am” by Langston Hughes‚ is a short story about a large woman named Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones‚ who finds a dirty-faced boy attempting to steal her pocketbook. This boy’s name was Roger. After confronting the shameful boy‚ Ms. Jones takes Roger to her sizable house and offers him help in different ways: teaching right from wrong‚ turning
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Vincent Nguyen 8/15/11 Pg. 1 Chapter 1 Entry “…rhetoric offers a grander‚ metaphysical payoff: it jolts you into a fresh new perspective on the human condition. After it awakens you to the argument all around‚ the world will never seem the same.” (6) In chapter one‚ “Open Your Eyes‚” Heinrichs states that argument is an important social element that surrounds everyday life. People who uses rhetoric‚ the art of argument‚ tends to succeed in persuading others to do their bidding. Many
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society now fifty two percent of the population are the people who are in need. Fifty two percent of this people needs to tighten their belt in order to have their daily needs. Among the two stories I would probably agree with the deconstruction of Thank You Ma’am because nowadays people in the society cannot directly give money to someone they don’t even know just to let them buy the things that would pleasure them. I can’t even imagine it! Practically what people need for their daily lives now is money
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Roger‚ the protagonist of “Thank You Mom” is not a bad kid. Roger’s mistake does not reflect his true characteristic. First‚ he was not like the real bad kid who can run really fast‚ also not the kid who is pretty agile‚ who have much muscle which means that it was the first Roger try to steal or rob‚ he is just a kid who fail when he was running away‚ been caught by a woman‚ and been beaten by woman with no power to fight back. It seem like his first crime and he didn’t even prepared for it before
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Have you ever wanted an object very badly‚ but you were not able to get it? Well that’s what happens in the story Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hues. One of the main characters Roger had wanted a new pair of blue suede shoes. Though he did not have the money for them‚ so he resorted to a way of making the money. One dark night he was walking down the street when he tried to snatch a lady’s purse. Instead of taking him to jail or calling the police she was kind to him and took him into her home to clean
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Robert Orsi’s book‚ Thank You‚ St. Jude: Women’s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes‚ chronicles Jude’s Thaddeus’s story and the specific appeal of this Saint of Hopeless Causes to the Catholic women in America. Furthermore‚ the book illustrates the major religious events that happened in the mid-twentieth century. St. Jude‚ who was a virtually unrecognized figure before 1929‚ captured the earnest and faithful consecration of millions of women in various ways. Therefore‚ the reading raises
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in different aspects of other people’s lives. Mrs. Luella in "Thank you Ma’am" and Sherlock Holmes in "The Blue Carbuncle" both give mercy to someone they did not even know because they overflow with love‚ forgiveness‚ and trust. To begin with‚ both figures in the two stories show love to people they have never met before. They offer the culprits mercy by displaying love to them even though they might not deserve it. In "Thank you Ma’am" by Langston Hughes‚ Mrs. Luella Bates shows love to a boy
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Our soldiers leave wars in foreign countries only to fight another war at home. David Finkel explores the hidden pain and suffering of war-families and veterans in his book Thank You For Your Service. Finkel‚ winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of a New York Times Best Book of the Year‚ has spent hours upon hours researching‚ interviewing‚ and simply documenting what a two-decade war does to a soldier and their family. With no specific target audience‚ it is at least suggested those unfamiliar
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Summer reading is meant to be purposeful. Although I did not procrastinate‚ I found the task of reading two books and writing additional assignments daunting initially. However‚ once I began the first reading selection‚ Thank You For Arguing‚ in early July‚ I realized that the assignments were not useless drudgery. I rather discovered that the books had meaning and would further me as a reader‚ writer‚ and learner. Unlike other school required readings like Shakespeare‚ Dickens‚ and Golding‚ this
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