The novel Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff‚ set in the early 90s‚ is about fourteen-year-old girl La Vaughn who takes on a babysitting job. She needs to work her way through school to save enough money to get through college. She means to study‚ to get a better job‚ to escape the poverty that she is growing up in. She babysits for Jolly‚ a seventeen-year-old mother of two‚ Jeremy and Jilly. The place where this little family live is disgusting. The children are filthy and deprived of all
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In Tobias Wolff’s short story “The Rich Brother‚” we are introduced to two brothers Pete and Donald. They is a major difference between these brother that one is wealthy and the other is always in need of financial assistance. The older brother‚ Pete‚ is a successful real estate agent while his younger brother‚ Donald‚ works as a painter whenever he can. The two brothers are very different in their belief about what is valuable. Pete is a man that has worked hard and values what he has acquired
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Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow” centers on the actions and personalities of Kenny‚ Frank and Tub as they embark on a hunting trip during the winter. Each character faces problems (in character or otherwise) which they attempt to cover up through deception – the central theme in this short story – in order to accept their respective actions. The consequences of these cover ups profoundly change the power of each character over another. Furthermore‚ the characters don’t realize how their lies
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I am returning to school as an older student and since I’ve been at Pitt Community College I have received much respect from the younger people who are my classmates. I wasn’t sure how it would be returning to school at my age and I may be guilty of perpetuating a negative attitude at first towards myself. However‚ I have am enjoying school and learning from my classmates. My man and I bowl at least 2 times a week‚ he is 65 and exercises everyday whether body building or boxing exercise. We love
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Society has many opposing opinions and facts‚ however‚ their thoughts are overshadowed by an act of respect and acceptable behavior; just like the example of the relationship of the characters of Tobias Smollett’s novel‚ The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle: Godfrey Gauntlet and Peregrine Pickle. In their tense argument regarding Pickle’s lover‚ who is also Gauntlet’s sister‚ illustrates Smollett’s balance of controlled emotion and social propriety. Although the two characters express hated contentment
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‘When they woke it was evening.’ evening has symbolic meaning of end‚ ending or finish. Which is represent as John Grady and Alejandra’s situation. Also ‘she sat on the bed and took his hand and looked down at him.’ The word ‘looked down’ sound like negative tone and has symbolic meaning that pitiful‚ pathetic which are probably Alejandra’s feeling to john Grady. There are repetition of ‘tearstained face’ or ‘ her face all wet’. These words created vivid imagery thus reader can more understand character’s
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Amne AlRifai’s “Arranged Marriage: Old School Online Dating” is an article published on her web blog “Unveiled Thoughts”. In this post‚ she describes her perspective on arranged marriage. AlRifai explains how she finds arranged “matchmaking” similar‚ or even better than online dating‚ and she clarifies her point of view through her ‘wisdom’ and personal experience. AlRifai looks at this concept and tries to make the reader see it from another perspective‚ using three arguments: her own tale about
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that all learners do not learn the same and that it is difficult to gauge student learning in a way that is effectively usable with the limited input methods‚ such as standardized testing‚ that educators use as measuring tools. In the article‚ “An Old School Notion: Writing Required‚” Dan Berrett argues that a much more effective gauge of student learning which will ultimately better prepare students for the job force would be to use writing as a means of assessment. Rather than using cold‚ mechanized
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story. Here the narrator speaks directly to the reader‚ giving us information the characters don’t even know. How is this an appropriate conclusion to the story? What final statement is being made about the character? In “Hunters In The Snow” By Tobias Wolff‚ A statement is being made by the narrator at the end of the story when it said‚ “They had taken a wrong turn a long way back” the ending indicates a dramatic irony; Kenny wounded in the truck‚ Frank and Tub eating in the diner‚ truly having no
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My definition of "old-timer" would be someone in their 70s.80s. So I would take the age at which Mr. Old Timer was raising his children‚ which was apparently when he would have been at the age to determine respectfulness of his own children. Let ’s say 25 years old. That generation would have had multiple children by then. If he was born in 1940‚ he would have been 25 years old in 1965. I would take data from his geographic area from the years 1965 and 2010. Each group would have 20 people
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