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    something basic like what they did today‚ through other’s words. Some individuals are confident enough to write about themselves and talk freely to the public. In both cases‚ Mary Louise Pratt and John Wideman show these forms of speaking known as “ethnography” and “autoethnography” through their writings. Mary Louise Pratt uses many ideas and terms in her work “Arts of the Contact Zone”.

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    What is a Leap Year? A leap year is a year that has one extra day in it. A leap year occurs roughly every four years. Most years have 365 days‚ but a leap year has 366 days. The extra day is added onto the end of the shortest month‚ February; in a leap year‚ February has 29 days (instead of its usual 28 days). February 29 is called leap day. Why Do We Have Leap Years? A year is defined as the time it takes for the Earth to orbit around the sun once. It takes the Earth about 365 1/4 days to make

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    Scientific objectivity‚ according to Louise Antony and Thomas Kuhn‚ is fundamentally unattainable because of the human epistemological condition. The open-mindedness‚ or freedom from existing notions‚ that pervades almost all definitions of “objectivity” is inherently uncharacteristic of the human mind‚ and Antony explains that scientific reluctance to entertain new‚ controversial hypotheses is one manifestation of this innate mental road-block. When scientists view data that contradicts the central

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    Assignment 1 Interpreting: The Story of an Hour After reading the Story of an Hour‚ I concluded that Louise Mallard is a sympathetic character. I am not sure sympathetic is the best word to describe her. Perhaps caring or considerate would be a more exact word. She is also a little self-centered. Her feeling may be unpredictable but they show signs of a caring and compassionate individual. Louise’s happiness does not come from Brently’s dead; her happiness comes from being separated from

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    Frank Escobar Professor Finnegan English 111-883 25 November 2014 Erdrich’s “The Red Convertible”: America After the War in Vietnam “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich is a story about two young brothers named Henry Junior and Lyman Lamartine that have a strong relationship until Henry junior is drafted and sent away to the war in Vietnam. “The Red Convertible” shows that returning veterans face troubles‚ such as problems with family relationships; war changes Henry’s his personality and causes

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    In Louise Gluck’s poem‚ “The School Children‚” Gluck focuses on the difficulty that mothers face when their children leave and the success they desire from within their children. The poem essentially depicts the power struggle between mothers and teachers‚ as the mothers try and protect their children from the outside world‚ while the teachers expose them to reality. Gluck utilizes biblical allusions‚ negative connotations‚ and fragmented imagery to portray the war over control for children between

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    Madonna Louise Ciccone was born in Bay City‚ Michigan‚ on August 16‚ 1958. Her father‚ Silvio Anthony Ciccone‚ is a first-generation Italian American (with roots in Pacentro‚ Italy)‚ while her mother‚ Madonna Louise (née Fortin)‚ was of French Canadian descent.[2] Her father later worked as a design engineer for Chrysler and General Motors. As Madonna had the same name as her mother‚ family members called her "Little Nonni".[3] The third of six children from her father’s first marriage‚ her full-blood

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    Louise Mallard‚ the protagonist in Kate Chopin’s "The Story of an Hour”‚ was informed before this passage that her husband has died in a railroad accident. She asks to be left alone and goes to her room‚ everyone assumes to go grieve‚ but this passage shows her actual response to the news. Instead of sobbing or any other natural responses to the death of a loved one‚ Louise responds to the news by whispering the words “free‚ free‚ free!” over and over again. Like many women of this time (this short

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    Multi-Cultural Exam One In the short story “In the Hour of the Wolf” (1949)‚ Betty Louise Bell asserts that Native Americans have to be assimilated into the mainstream white culture which causes them to have serious identity crisis issues. When the Indian’s leave their tribe‚ it puts a major strain on how they perceive their old traditions which molds them to be all alike white people. This short story supports the claims of how inferior Indian’s feel to white people because of the emphasized comments

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    Ameer Bachu Miss Kersting Ap Lit 13 May 2024 Persistence is a strong feature in many determined people. It is a feature that allows those who possess it to stay determined in arduous environments. In the excerpt from The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrick‚ two children by the name’s of Mary and Karl encounter components of their environment that test their persistence. It is these elements of their environment that test their persistence‚ which showcases their determination. The persistence that both children

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