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    themselves. She writes‚ “they grew more attached to those dogs than they ever did to us‚ and we wondered if we had made a mistake‚ coming to such a violent and unwelcoming land. Is there any tribe more savage than the Americans? Ostuaka shows the emotions of the wife through this italics phrase. The words ‘tribe’ and ‘savage’ makes the reader imagine almost a barbaric group of people. Then‚ she is uses it to describe the Americans through the eyes of their abused and depressed wifes. It creates this

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    Purple Book Blue Life “The Color Purple” written by Alice Walker‚ and published in 1982 won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1983. It illustrates the hardships and emotional trauma that came with growing up and living as an African-American woman. It also addresses many issues within american social culture and gender roles. The novel centers upon the growth and development of a girl named Celie. She was raped at 14 by her own father and then forced into a marriage with a nefarious apathetic older

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    the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for the most famous novel she have every wrote is The Color Purple. She was honored with O. Henry award‚ was inducted into California Hall of Fame in 2006 and receive Lennon Ono Peace award in 2010. Walker was part of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s for women’s to have equality in this world we live in right now. She wrote “The Color Purple” about her ancestors life‚ what they have been through past three generation suffering for slavery‚ abuse

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    grand parents and parents. Thus‚ in order to truly appreciate Moses who need to know the background and character traits of his family. 2. The Tribe of Levi It is important for us to have an understanding of our personal genealogy to know what character sties have been passed on to us from our ancestors. Moses was from the tribe of levi and concerning this tribe‚ we read God’s testimony in malachi 2:4-7 “and ye shall know that I have sent this command ments unt you‚ that my covenant might be with levi

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    Colour vision is the ability of any organism to distinguish different light based on their wavelength of light they reflect .The visual system derives colour by comparing the responses to light from several types of cone receptor in the eyes. Colour enable use to separate object form each other and from their background as different objects tend to have different colour. On the other hand‚ object of the same colour are grouped together. One of the most important functions of the human eye is to

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    I grew up with a Game Boy Color in my hands. No matter where I went‚ I always had the “Grape Purple” device loaded with any Pokemon game. My favorite was a copy of the Crystal version I bought with my allowance from a friend’s garage sale. He had failed to mention that the game didn’t save‚ but I fell in love with the whole experience of choosing a new starter that I just played it over and over again unbothered. It was the first time I had felt like I’d been transported to another world‚ and encountered

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    My Essay In What Way Does The Author Portray The Character Of Kambili By Emely Yafai 9X In the novel‚ Purple Hibiscus‚ Adichie clearly portrays the conflicting unjust treatment of Kambili’s household where her father is head of the family. Where she is ordered to follow a strict schedule. When visiting Aunty Ifeoma and her family Kambili senses independence she has never experienced before‚ she see’s thing she didn’t used to see‚ she is exposed to the different way of life‚ to freedom something

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    Background History and Context of ‘The Color Purple’ “The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife‚ -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood‚ to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American...” (W.E.B. Du Bois) The African-Americans or the ‘Black Americans’ are members of those ethnic groups in the United States that

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    “The Street Of Purple Cloth” By Karen Conally. This poem is about a woman that went on a journey ‚ and found herself in the process . In the first couple of stanzas is where she starts her journey and gets lost but then she finds herself and that she found out where home is‚ home is where you make it. In the saying of “She has lost her way in the street”‚ means that she is lost‚ then this saying “For the first time‚ She understands the words means that she found herself and home. There are

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    you just need to know how to use your power appropriately. I agree with this quote because most people that are great are not the strongest. Instead they use what they have to become great. The quote can be seen in The Color Purple by Alice Walker. In The Color Purple‚ the protagonist Celie lives through a lot of conflict. For most of her life‚ she has been beaten by her stepfather and Mr.____. Her stepfather would beat her “cause he say I winked at a boy in church.” (Walker 5) Mr.____ would

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