“A Product of This Town” “A Product of This Town” was a piece that detailed the events surrounding and unfolding from a single event in Jena‚ which caused a hoard of people to descend on the small town. It starts out detailing how the town was a simple town and the thing to do on Saturdays was to drive the “Loop” through the town and just hang out with your friends no matter what their gender or race. One day at the local high school nooses were hung in a tree that had been‚ by tradition‚ the ‘white
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Summary of the Article‚ ”Born This Way: Lady Gaga’s New Album Is A Pop Rapture.” By Alfredo A. Weeks IV In the Slate magazine article‚ “Born This Way: Lady Gaga’s New Album Is A Pop Rapture.”‚ Rosen highlights Lady Gaga’s attempt‚ “ To put out a record that is bigger‚ more emphatic‚ and more ferociously
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The First Chapter of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” is set in the mid 1600s in Puritan Boston. In this chapter he describes these times in a metaphorical manner. He refers to a cemetery and a prison and describes their origins and how they were two of the first things the founders built. He also describes a rosebush in the prison and makes a reference to Anne Hutchinson referring to her as “sainted.” Hawthorne appeals to his audience of peers through their emotions and metaphorical language
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“Horizontal World” author Debra Marquart applies vivid imagery‚ unique diction‚ and a personal anecdote to convey the importance and uniqueness of small towns. First‚ Debra Marquart uses vivid imagery to emphasize the small details that make a town unique. Debra opened the passage with a descriptive view you can only see in the country side in order to pull in the readers and allow them to feel
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The novel‚ ‘Does my head look big in this?‚’ written by Randa Abdel-Fattah the main character had the challenging decision to wear the hijab which came with not only advantages‚ but disadvantages. Amal was concerned about her appearance and what others’ thoughts. Amal feared being judges by others and she also was concerned that she wouldn’t have the necessary courage to commit to wearing the hijab. Furthermore‚ she really did not want to have to justify her decision whenever she went out in public
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them since they have so much faith in him. Another way society pulls him is by punishing Hester as much as they did. Dimmesdale feels guilty because he gets off clean and squeaky while Hester gets a life full of ridicule for her and their daughter. This affects him so much because he feels like she wouldn ’t be in the situation if not for him; also because Hester let him off the hook and took all the humiliation on herself and he wasn ’t even enough of a man to step up and admit to what he did on
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I am a person who deeply loves the world. I am sincerely passionate about the kind and considerate people who live on our beautiful green planet‚ about the rich society‚ the successful economy‚ the clean and unpolluted environment‚ and equal opportunities for everyone. Unfortunately‚ the world I love so much is not the world we live in. Since my early childhood‚ I have been interested in the unexplainable phenomenon of the human society: why‚ being provided with all the necessary resources and
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Syntax H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is a novel written in the first person perspective with quite a variety of sentence structures but is predominantly composed of compound‚ complex‚ and compound-complex sentences. One of the few straight to the point‚ simple sentences in the text is‚ “I felt foolish and angry (44).” This sentence quickly and concisely conveys the emotional state of the narrator at this point in the story. Also contributing to the text are the long sentences that draw the
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again. I could choose the most perfect world for me‚ I would never want to leave it behind. On the other hand‚ I’ll be forever grateful even on my death bed‚ I would still be delighted. But in order to get to my Quality world I must first go through some difficult challenges. I must first graduate from college the rest should go downhill after that. In the meantime‚ my goal is to focus on my education and avoid any and all distractions. My Quality World is a world without violence and racism but as
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or dying for my country. All day long all I see is people dying and I think I am next? Will I be alive tomorrow? I see people jump up out of the trenches alive and then two seconds later fall back down dead. Two weeks ago while sitting in the trenches someone started yelling GAS! GAS! In that instant I feared for my life. I grabbed a gas mask‚ hoping that I would get it on in time‚ so that I would live to see another day. There aren’t enough gas masks for everyone so I had to watch my friend suffocate
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