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    Silver or Lead

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    country. Works Cited Javdani‚ Marie. “Plata o Plomo: Silver or Lead”. The Brief Bedford Reader. Ed. X.J. Kennedy‚ Dorothy Kennedy‚ and Jane-Aaron. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins‚ 2012 402-408.Print

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    Boys: Short Story Analysis

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    growing up and has turned a thirty year frame into a condensed linear chronological format. Moody offers the reader a different view point‚ introduces repetition and the stressing of words creating a certain movement influencing the readers experience. Rick Moody starts off with “Boys enter the house‚ boys enter the house.” (Moody 94)‚ through his specific word choice “boys”‚ the reader is presented with a sense of familiarity‚ quickly presenting his intimate subject‚ the process of growing up

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    message is a bit subliminal in nature but still a heady one. Aristophanes realized that audiences don ’t come to plays to be preached at but to be entertained. To this end‚ he uses comedy and comical characterizations to delight the spectators/readers. The principal form of comical characterization he depended on was stereotyping. As the main theme of the play‚ the female stereotype of woman ’s only power base being sex was strongly employed. The main character Lysistrata and all the women

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    Hirsi Ali’s experience as a woman in the traditional Muslim world. As both authors transition from their former oppressive environments to freedom‚ they both depict their experience using similar strategies. Douglass’s and Ali’s first view of New Bedford and Germany initiate the deinternalization of their oppressions enabling them to view

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    no sense. She believes that marriage should just be a symbolic uniting of two people that wish to unite and share their love and lives. She uses a great point arguing how love in marriage is a relatively new thing. She argues this point asking the reader to remember the times of arranged marriages‚ times when men openly had many wives‚ and that gay marriage would be much better than all of those things. She goes on to talk about how anyone else in the world can get marries‚ so why not gays? She expresses

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    On Class and Gender

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    design your own clothes and discuss them with craftsmen and –women‚ fashion is your own business.” Works Cited Kennedy‚ X.J.‚ Dorothy M. Kennedy‚ and Jane E. Aaron. The Brief Bedford Reader. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martins‚

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    The Truth About War

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    Cited: Owen‚ Wilfred. “Dulce et Decorum Est.” The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s‚ 2011. 852-53. Print. Wikipedia contributors. "Wilfred Owen." Wikipedia‚ the Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia‚ the Free Encyclopedia‚ 6 Dec. 2011. Web. 6 Dec. 2011.

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    October 7th‚ 2013 “How to Tell a True War Story” In the short story‚ “How to Tell a True War Story‚” the implicit problem that is created about the story by its first line‚ “this is true‚” is that the readers may think the line is sarcasm and not believe the information being said. The readers will question if the story is true or not. Throughout the story the narrator says how many war stories are not true so I do not know what to believe. The author‚ Tim O’Brien‚ says that nothing can be believed

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    Misfit Vs Brown

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    This leads the reader to almost forget about the Misfit as a factor in the narrative. When the family wrecks their car as a result of the grandmother’s impaired judgment‚ the Misfit and his comrades witness the wreck and stop‚ seemingly to assist them. The Misfit initially

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    writers‚ but Mark Twain‚ William Faulkner‚ and Flannery O’Connor where three authors that individually shaped their periods of Southern Literature. To understand how history shaped Southern Literature into what it was then and what it is now‚ a reader has to know that Southern Literature is basically literature written by Southern writers about the issues and lifestyles of the South. The characteristics of Southern Literature include; common southern history‚ the importance of family‚ the importance

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