narratives‚ and articles written on practically every subject on earth‚ it is always up to an author to make their work worth reading. This is achievable through the use of literary devices and the clever use of structural elements as depicted by Barbara Ehrenreich in her excerpt “Serving in Florida”. As displayed by Ehrenreich‚ authors of articles use these devices to display their effectiveness. Ehrenreich has successfully employed a variety of structural elements to depict the horrid situations
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This article talks about how the government started to help the poor and identified the bills and laws that were created. It also explains how the middle and lower classes are in traps. Barbara Ehrenreich explains‚ “What I discovered is that in many ways‚ these jobs are a trap: They pay so little that you cannot accumulate even a couple of hundred dollars to help you make the transition to a better-paying job” (Ehrenreich). Many people
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Just E-Cycle In an essay called “Fresh Water” by Barbara Kingsolver‚ the effects that civilization have on mother water are often mentioned and argued upon. She found that it is important to inform the audience on the shortage of supplies that humans need and how the lack of water has created those problems. She encourages all of mankind to conserve water‚ and save our earth. It is important to fix not only the water conservation issue‚ but all issues affecting the state of our planet; such as electronic
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What were the primary uses of Auschwitz from an architectural stand point and the history and tragic event of the site in question. Auschwitz was a place where many tragedies took place‚ from the most unthinkable ways of torture to ruthless cold blooded murder and prosecution. To cover up such an inconceivable thing would be almost impossible‚ though an attempt to erase such a scarcely credible act of callousness would be vital to avoid facing repercussions of wrong doing. As the Soviet Infantry
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orally‚ centring interesting subjects such as tragic love. Typically‚ ballads are fairly simple‚ they do no tend to focus on characterization‚ they have a rapid dialogue‚ they are usually in the form of quatrains‚ and rhyming in abcb. The poem "Bonny Barbara Allan" is a typical ballad since it follows the norm by applying four major elements; it is written in quatrains‚ has an abcb rhyming scheme pattern‚ rapid dialogues‚ and a lack of characterization. Throughout the poem‚ some words’ importance are
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Nickel and Dimed is a book by Barbara Ehrenreich and it explores if minimum wage or low paying jobs in the U.S. met the requirements of basic human needs such as food‚ water‚ and shelter. Before Ehrenreich begins her quest she laid out a few ground rules for the reader which were she cannot use any talents learned from her education or profession‚ she had to take the job that paid the highest and do her best to keep it‚ and she was required to take the cheapest places she could find so long as they
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Can Hitler Happen Again? “Everything changed very quickly in 1933‚” says a survivor of the Holocaust. Suzan Strauss was a twelve year old girl when the Holocaust began. Adolf Hitler‚ was a very powerful man. He killed 6 million Jews‚ worked them to death. Hitler hated Jews‚ he irrationally blamed them for Germany’s defeat in world war I (1914-1918). It happened to a high school in California in April 1967‚ by a history teacher who was teaching them about Hitler and discipline. The teacher and
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the fact that the Congolese believe themselves to be worth less than a banana to the whites. Since Leah possesses two good eyes‚ whereas her father Nathan Price only has one good eye‚ so she is able to see two perspectives of her own life. Not only does Leah see herself as a white woman from the United States‚ she also sees herself as a member of the African community in the Congo. Although she may not fully belong in either community‚ Leah still believes that she somehow belongs. (CH) This quote
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In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Bean Trees‚ Taylor buys a picture book-about a farmer planting carrots under his rug-for Turtle‚ her adopted daughter‚ "who had managed to get through her whole life without a book”(Kingsolver 82). Although Taylor feels very proud of herself for providing educational resources for Turtle‚ Taylor admits that she has no money to buy more than two books‚ and her friend Mattie‚ who knows well about how childhood education influences children’s lives‚ is "concerned that
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Patriotic Front angered many Hutus because Hutu people didn’t want Tutsi involved in the government (Middleton). Tensions started to rise and more conflicts occurred until April 6‚ 1994‚ when the violence absolutely erupted. On this day‚ Juvenal Habyarimana was returning from another country back to Rwanda when his plane was shot down by Tutsi people. Shortly after this event‚ murders and killings were occurring in the country and havoc broke out on the streets. If this event hadn’t occurred‚ it
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