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    Personal Response to Elizabeth Bishop The poetry of Elizabeth Bishop appeals to me because she writes about things which are relevant‚ in a remarkably vivid and vital way. Bishops misfortune in life has inspired her to write distressing poems in which she describes to us the loss she suffered at an early stage in her childhood. She also tells us about her deepest and darkest moments in life. Out of Bishops troubled life‚ her poetry was born. Bishop has a painter’s eye and she vividly describes the

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    ENGL 1123 P18 A Critical Response to “Censorship: A Personal View” In the article “Censorship: A Personal View”‚ an introduction to her book Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writer‚ Judy Blume‚ an advocate in the anticensorship movement‚ shares her experiences dealing with censorship and the banning of books throughout her career as a writer of children’s books. In this article‚ Blume explains how being told not to do or read certain books increases temptation and desire

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    establishment of AIG‚ some institutional voids occurred. In 1949 when the communist party took the power in China‚ the government owned an insurance company. But this was sort of useless since almost everything was owned by the state. There is a second relevant void‚ namely the lack of training for insurance agents and as a result of this‚ a lack of educated insurance agents. This was attractive for foreign companies. Another thing could also be mentioned as a void‚ namely the total lack of connections

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    A personal response to the poetry of W.B Yeats In my opinion W.B Yeats is one of Ireland’s greatest poets. His work is saturated with descriptive imagery‚ deep personal feelings and political opinions. This patriotic poet also gives us an insight into life during the 1900’s as well as his own personal life. The poetry of W.B Yeats contains powerful metaphors and imagery that have a very memorable quality to them. There are also dynamic contrasts in every poem which makes him stand out amongst

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    Personal Response to Bonilla-Silva Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is a professor of Sociology at Duke University with the associations of race. In America race is known as an enormous issue for many years. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva discusses the new racism in his book‚ The Linguistics of Color Blind Racism: How to Talk Nasty about Blacks without Sounding “Racist”. Color blind to racism is held to have led to the segregation of the white race from other minorities called white habitus. Color blind racism and white

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    Brave New World Personal Response Writing Folder English 3U By: Abdo Elnakouri b) “But in Epsilons‚” said Mr. Foster very justly‚ “we don’t need human intelligence.” For a society to function‚ is there work to be done where it would be better that the worker didn’t think? I think it would be ok if we had robot workers that didn’t think and did boring jobs because they’re not human beings. There would be no problem in my mind to have programmed robots to do jobs that are not fun or enjoyable

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    ill-tempered and thrives on people fearing him. He feeds off of people’s misery‚ and doesn’t take any blame‚ probably because he figures nothing is his fault. “Serves him right‚” Cole mumbled when they first told him of Peter’s condition.” (Pg.8) Touching Spirit Bear. Cole brutally beat Peter up and 4-6 people had to pry him off‚ then he spit on Peter. This book is about Cole‚ because it’s about giving hope to all the children or at least anyone‚ that even when you get in trouble their will always

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    Journal Response: Barn Burning William Faulkner style’s stands out one more time with this work. It is very remarkable the effort he does by implementing symbolisms‚ visual descriptions‚ and the lack of certainty in his sentences‚ as if he wants us to imagine and figure out what he really wants us to think in that moment. For instance‚ at the end‚ it seems that he wants us to find out what happened to Sartoris and his family after he escaped and his dad got killed. Through his fiction‚ he shows a

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    looked around. The street was deserted except for me. The plan was working; and it was not the first time that I went on a mission like this. We planned these robberies in sparse‚ quiet neighborhoods that did not have many people‚ stores‚ or emergency response teams. Together‚ the five of us made up a team that is sweeping the nation. We rob the most unsuspecting stores‚ which do not have security cameras or money vaults. We find that these stores surprisingly have the most money in their registers. After

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    Cold Comfort Farm By Stella Gibbons What was a main theme in the novel and how can it be applied to my lifestyle? Cold Comfort Farm is a novel centred around recently orphaned Flora Poste who goes to stay with her cousins living on a farm. I thought that a reoccurring theme in the novel was shown in the way in which Flora got people to look beyond their horizons and imagine a more realistic lifestyle. Thanks to Flora’s encouragement and manipulation the characters living at Cold Comfort Farm

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