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    James Baldwin and Richard Rodriguez are writers or authors with similar stories based on racism and religion. Baldwin recounts his stay in a tiny Swiss village where he was the only black man and relates his experience in this village with his experience as a black man in the United States. Besides‚ Richard Rodriguez focuses on race and diversity; his principal concern how Hispanic learn to adapt to American society. For vacation‚ Baldwin went to a Swiss village where he was the only African American

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    "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur is a poem about a young boy who feels very sad for a snowman that is outside in a storm. The boy does not understand that the snowman isn’t real and he thinks that it is suffering outside in the snow storm. Richard Wilbur used a lot of figurative language in "Boy at the Window" ‚ and mostly personification. In "Boy at the Window"‚ Wilbur tried to make the character of the snowman have human and animal characteristics. Instead of putting

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    Reading Responses to a Poem ACI1250A January 21‚ 2013 Reading Responses to a Poem The poem “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver was a very inspirational poem. Oliver creatively uses imaginative language‚ emotion‚ symbolism‚ and romanticism which led to a very positive and upbeat tone in her poem. Throughout this poem‚ the one thing that I focused on was the positive and upbeat tones that this poem contained. By her use of symbolic and imaginative language in “Wild Geese”‚ the reader is opened

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    Spring 2014 SOCSC-120 Response Paper #1 Documents: Letters to Carolyn Van Wyck & Letters to Deidre In a column of Photoplay magazine‚ one of the first film fan magazines created in 1911 in Chicago by Mcfadden Publications‚ Carolyn Van Wyck encouraged women to have fun flirting while remaining classy. In the 1930s‚ San Francisco’s New World Sun newspaper also ran a column answered by Historian Valerie Matsumoto which inspired women to balance both their Japanese and American values. Both of these

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    Mao Zedong Readings Response Paper Being one of the most well-known characters of Chinese modern history‚ Mao Zedong has been constantly debated in both Western and Eastern worlds. Like all historic figures‚ Mao Zedong has been seen in different light: sometimes under glorification and reverence‚ and sometimes as a devil that dragged China into one of its darkest eras. These contradicting opinions can be easily seen in the assigned readings of this course. While Mao Zedong is generally praised

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    Reading response-Antigone In the story of Antigone‚ we see the struggles between right and wrong or individual and government‚ and the conflicts between the males and females. In the other words‚ Antigone ‚ a woman‚ are supposed to have no her own opinions to the her world. She should follow the laws which are made by men. Nevertheless‚ she believes the god’s laws should be more important than the others. What makes this story so special? Antigone‚ a Femal‚ challenges to the male’s

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    Danny Nazzaro Reading Response Paper 3/2/2014 Micah Mintz The Idea of civil forfeiture would seem outdated unless you were part of its sweeping experience. After reading such a story‚ I think it is unfair‚ obscured‚ and a way of America that people do not see. Although it seems ridiculous it does seem to have both negative and positive impacts. Civil forfeiture seems to keep law enforcement agencies running and fund their wants more than needs. The ability to seize money and use it for your

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    Crucible Reading Response The Crucible is a play based on a society ruled by theocracy. Danforth ‘s statement of “–a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it ‚ there be no road between” clearly demonstrates the Puritan’s prospective of seeing everything in black and white. Arthur Miller’s purpose of writing The Crucible was due to the close resemblance between the Salem Witch-trails and McCarthyism. They are both human tragedies that are driven by human fear. In

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    Chinatown Reading Response The film Chinatown‚ directed by Roman Polanski‚ incorporates the image system of blindness vs. seeing to effectively increase the depth and complexity of how the plot is revealed to the audience. The effect of this is the audience feeling that they are not just watching a film‚ they are solving a mystery in time with the characters and what they see is not always the truth. This image first appears in the form of the bi-focal glasses seen at the very beginning

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    “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” -Richard Rodriguez The author is a scholar‚ essayist‚ journalist‚ and television commentator. In this essay Rodriguez writes about his childhood experience as a bilingual child. He tells us about going to school without having a good English education. He is forced to start speaking English at home with his parents and he feels like he loses being so close to his family. “Politics and the English Language” -George Orwell The author is a writer‚ was

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