The story‚ “The Lesson”‚ takes place in the early 1970’s‚ in New York City. The main characters: Sylvia‚ her friends‚ and Miss Moore live in Harlem. Sylvia is a young black girl that tries to learn the lesson Miss Moore is teaching to them. Sylvia is annoyed with this because she sees it as Miss Moore taking away their summer vacation. Although as the story progresses she learns the lesson that Miss Moore is teaching and it turns her whole life around. Miss Moore is a person who devotes herself to
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effective Figurehead and a leader. Informational: King communicated the plans of action to the people in a structured way by the means of letters‚ speeches‚ and meetings. The speech ‘I have a dream’ delivered by King was a defining moment in Civil Rights Movement. He clearly stated his ideology and mission to the masses which
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Homesickness can be defined as the distress or impairment caused by an actual or anticipated separation from home. The frantic attempt to recreate the previous life leads to depression and a loss of identity. Distraught and alienated in America‚ Ashima pushes her Bengali heritage upon her children‚ Gogol and Sonia‚ in an effort to lessen her homesickness throughout The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. Ashima completely rejects the bewildering American culture that is thrust upon her and becomes depressed
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movements and motions to help them learn like in activities. Bodily kinesthetic is a intelligence to help you to do stuff in different activities like it helps you learn quicker by using motions and hand movements or for some people doing experiments to help you able to understand better. When you actually do something like an experiment‚ you now visually see it and know how it works and stuff. For example in math sometimes when I multiply‚ divide‚ subtract‚ or adding big numbers I could do it in my mind
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In the famous literary work of the past‚ The Nibelungenlied‚ there are 2 notable female characters that stand out the most in the entire story; these being Brunhild and Kriemhild. Kriemhild is the beautiful princess from Worms‚ fiercely guarded by her 3 older brothers; King Gunther‚ Gernot and Giselher. Kriemhild is so captivating and marvelous in looks that any male that may enter the room she is present in‚ falls instantly in love. She eventually marries the knight‚ Siegfried who she is enchanted
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Imagine it is dark‚ and you’re not able to see anything. You are blind and clueless in a dangerous world. But you are with your family‚ your sweet‚ sweet family. They will look after you‚ and will be your eyesight. Then‚ you feel a presence behind you. A figure shadowing on your back. You feel a hot breath‚ one a demon or a dragon would breathe. You scream in terror‚ not knowing who or what the monster was. You then hear the laugh‚ the joy‚ of your brother. He was the predator‚ and you were the
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wakes up he is on a raft with a person he has never met before‚ Timothy‚ and he has no idea where they are or where his mom is. Also‚ on this journey he goes blind and Timothy finds an island they can live on till rescued. In The Cay‚ Phillip’s character reveals that through many conflicts‚ he developed independence‚
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would only ask that he sounds out the words more to get the correct spelling. Jemyiah- At first she spelled polar‚ “palor” once she realized this she self-corrected immediately. I asked her how she knew it was wrong and she said‚ “Because the book is right there‚ I checked and I was wrong.” I thought that was amazing that she was able to self-correct the way she did! She chose the puffin as her animal. To my surprise she spelled it correctly with no help. I know Adele has been reading a few books with
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A leader is a person who commands a group or organization. All leaders have power although some may have more than others. If a leader doesn’t know how to control their power it can lead to chaos within the people they are governing over/ ruling. Stockton and Homer both have a similar style of writing by using the opposite of an idea to prove their opinion. The selection “The Lady or The Tiger” is more effective at communicating the author’s message than “The Odyssey Book XII” because Frank R. Stockton
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Society imbedded in her the feeling of seeing herself as being ugly. “I was ugly‚ so people were going to make fun of me: I thought it was their right to do so simply because I was so ugly‚ so I’d just better get used to it. But I couldn’t.” (Grealy‚ Page 145) Man would constantly approach her because of her figure. Her face will make them openly make jokes and laugh at her. “I though I could use my body to distract people from my face.” (Grealy‚ Page 208) During her early years in school her peers
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