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    The Story Sweat was really depressing to read and on top of that to defend the antagonist. For the early 1920’s the story shows that there is hope for women who are being domestically abused. I don’t know much about the statistics but I know that spousal abuse was one of the many reasons for the prohibition which was during this time. Something that really stood out to me the first time I was reading this story was that Delia was a working woman. She wasn’t a delicate flower stay at home mom‚ but

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    Tone Loc

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    Tone Loc Many of you today may not know of the artist I’m going to talk about today but may know of his work. He is pretty popular with certain types of people I’ll let you be the judge on that. Tone Loc didn’t always have the best child hood in fact a hood is just might what you call it. Tone loc was a very unique some would say typical person as you read more you’ll soon see just how different he is.

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    Ehrenreich Tones

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    Barbara Ehrenreich tones Using tone in writing is really important because it convey a message that the author want to express to the reader. The tone Barbara Ehrenreich uses in the book “Nickel and Dimed” is changing rapidly because she wants her reader to really see the realistic of what she has to face. She put herself into the life of a minimum wage circumstance to see if she can survive or not. She go to different location in the country but they all have the same point that the job she take

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    Ulysses Tone

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    How would you describe the speaker’s tone in "Ulysses"? In Ulysses‚ written by Alfred Lord Tennyson‚ is a poem giving courage and hope. In this poem‚ the desire of Tennyson to reach out further more than he can‚ and to get away from the same everyday life are expressed. The tone of the speaker in Ulysses is not soothing but forcing for the hope. This can be seen from the end of the poem‚ “Come‚ my friends‚/ ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world./Push off‚ and sitting wll in order smite” (lines

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    Ozymandias Tone

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    As humans‚ we often think about power‚ but never think about how lonely you will be with it. The poem Ozymandias‚ written by Percy Shelley‚ is a poem about political power. Shelly uses a mocking tone to describe the desire of achievement of morality while criticizing the arrogance of Ozymandias for wanting dominance and demand praise. The setting is complex in this poem; despite that‚ there is a two people point of view illustrated in the situation. The traveler describes an antique land while Ozymandias

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    To A Mouse Tone

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    Robert Burns‚ author and speaker of “To a Mouse”‚ reveals a deeper meaning of mankind and the relationship between him and a mouse. The poem begins with Burns plowing a field and finding a mouse after destroying its nest. The poem’s apologetic tone was introduced during a passage located directly after Burns finds the mouse and can be seen through Burns’ use of diction‚ rhythm‚ and vocab. The passage shows the audience a view of Burn’s perspective of not only his relationship with the mouse but with

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    Dominant Tone

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    Dominic Barone Mr. Nelson English 110 18 September 2014 Dominant Tone Sensory Details Exercise IDEA #1 Where is the place you are thinking about describing? Football field at twilight Who‚ if any‚ are the people there? Football team‚ coaches‚ and myself What is the main feeling that you intend for the reader to feel as he or she reads your paper? Anticipation and nervousness of the upcoming game What point of view will you use?  (For example‚ will you refer to yourself and what you see as you

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    Retrieved from http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/238130 on 14 Feb 2015. Compare and contrast the narrator of Zora Neale Hurstons "How it Feels to Be Colored Me" and either Toni Morrison ’s main character‚ Sula‚ or Alice Walker’s Dee. First looking at Zora she is the writer and main character in “How it feels to Be Colored Me” story. It is basically her life up to that point in history. Zora brings from the days she was little child in Eatonville‚ Florida sitting on the front porch interacting with

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    Tone In Poetry

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    Is life too long‚ or just too short? Tone is the mood of a poem‚ many authors use the tone to convey the true meaning of their pieces of writings. In these two poems both authors use different tones to portray the theme in both articulate ways. The poem‚ ‘’Loveliest of Trees‚’’ by A.E. Houseman is set at the time of the 1800’s in England‚ around Easter Time.’’ And stands about the woodland ride/ wearing white for Eastertide’’ (3-4). The poem is about an individual who is twenty years old‚ and

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    American Literature: Langston Hughes´"I ‚too"‚ ZORA NEALE HURSTON´s “The Gilded Six Bits” and EDITH WHARTON´s“Roman Fever” Unit 5 :Exercises:Test yourself On Langston Hughes: “I‚Too” a) The artists of the Harlem Renaissance developed a sense of race pride and heritage in their search for newness of theme and form. They looked to a collective primitive past present still in linguistic or musical expressions. Hughes made of straightforwardness and simplicity an aesthetic

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