Jordan Johnson Professor Christopher McBride ENGL 303 23 June 2013 Essay Assignment One: Reader-Response Criticism Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” is a short story in which the author attempts to convey several different messages or themes throughout the literary piece. Themes in literary works can sometimes be better understood by analyzing the piece with a specific literary criticism technique. A few of these literary criticism techniques include Marxist‚ Formalism‚ and
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In both “Black Elk” and “Young Goodman Brown”‚ the main character’s beliefs are displayed through their perception on nature. Each story depicts separate cultures; Puritanism in “Young Goodman Brown” and the Native American culture demonstrated in “Black Elk”. The main difference between these two cultures revolves around the basic beliefs in which they are structured. The fundamental faith of Puritanism renders on the idea of the world’s continuous progression; whereas‚ the Native American viewpoint
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“A Particular Cheap White Wine” Response Tim Wise states that white students do receive many unearned advantages throughout their school careers. This is because white children tend to come from families who have the means and resources to ensure quality education for their children. The truth is that‚ as Wise points out‚ the majority of minority students come from backgrounds with less money and less education than their white counterparts. I believe that this cycle is deeply rooted in our country’s
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children these days are not getting the social and emotional learning they need from parents and teachers.(Children today play very violent games. This must be the reason for the increase in violence and crime in most major cities of the world) Recent years have seen huge trends towards adolescence violence in both developing and developed countries. However the issue of whether or not parents and teachers are responsible for has still sparked a heated debate. Some people claim that not addressing
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shooting. It is a first person narrative from the point of view of Valerie Leftman‚ whose boyfriend Nick Levil was the shooter. Interspersed through the novel are newspaper articles about the events. Valerie and Nick have compiled a Hate List‚ a list of people and things they hate; Valerie sees it as an inside joke between the two of them‚ but Nick is more serious. When he brings a gun to school and starts shooting people‚ Valerie puts herself in front of his next victim and is shot in the leg. After this
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violation of the law‚ namely hate speech. By and large‚ it is a broad category that subsumes verbal attacks based on the target’s race‚ ethnicity‚ religion and sexual orientation (Mohr 2013:238). Due to the fact that hate speech is designed to demean‚ despise and ostracize people on the basis of the above-said factors‚ it can be easily seen as a term related both to the phenomenon of insulting and fighting words (Neu 2008). And yet‚ a detailed enquiry into the scope of hate speech reveals that –as opposed
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In this extract from “Young Goodman Brown”‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism‚ imagery and point of view to depict Goodman Brown’s eventual journey from naivety in man’s purity of faith to recognition of man’s disposition to evil. It reveals Brown’s misplaced faith in man‚ who is deficient‚ instead of God. In the dialogue that ensues between the minister and Deacon Gookin‚ we learn of an impending meeting expecting participants hailing from “Falmouth and beyond... Indian powows” (Hawthorne
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The Hate List by Jennifer Brown is about the aftermath of a school shooting. Valerie Leftman’s boyfriend Nick was the shooter‚ she had no idea that he was going to shoot up the school but she was implicated in the crime because she made a hate list of everything her and Nick both hated. Nick had taken his victims off of the list. Valerie was wounded trying to stop him and then Nick took his own life. After the summer Valerie had to come back for her senior year and face the guilt and move on with
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Tim Adams March 21‚ 2013 In the American society there are plenty of friends‚ but there is also the fair share of rivalries. There are also times where friendships turn into rivalry due to sequence of events. This is a common feat especially if two friends are competing for the same goal and one achieves it and the other does not. The higher the completion the worse the ending of the friendship can be. Even in America’s highest office this can happen. The most famous friendship between
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