Despite having been written 100 years apart‚ the poem‚ “I am the people‚ the Mob” (1916) by Carl Sandburg and the magazine journal “The Pitchforks Are Coming... For Us Plutocrats” (2014) by Nick Hanauer both explore the theme of rising social inequality and the tendency for history to repeat itself‚ often leaving the issue unaddressed‚ which as both texts suggest has profound consequences. While investigating this theme‚ both texts demonstrate the immense power of the lower class. However‚ they approach
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I am a Californian. I am a family member. I am a friend. I am a student. I am a book lover. I am a music lover. I am shy. I am a dreamer. I am ambitious. I am smart. These are the top ten self concept aspects that represent me. I choose these aspects because these are the things that impacted my life the most or how I believe myself to be. For example‚ the most obvious one for me was that I am a Californian‚ I lived there most of my life and just recently moved to Splendora. However‚ I do still
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I am the Cheese‚ written by Robert Cormier‚ is a book said to be for “young readers.” The author has written 13 book prior to I am the Cheese where he was considered an author for young readers. I liked and disliked his very flamboyant and descriptive writing style‚ the descriptions are too descriptive. I am the Cheese is the only book I have read by this author‚ so I can only base my assessment of his books from this book alone. While Adam‚ the main character‚ is a young man of 17‚ I wouldn’t necessarily
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“I don’t want to be thought of as the ‘girl who was shot by the Taliban’ but the ‘girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.” (Yousafzai 309). People all over the world consider Malala as one of the courageous and strong teenager in the world. She risked her life to fight for women to have the right to have an education despite the opposition of her society. In “ I am Malala ” despite her surroundings and the expected roles of women in her society‚ she
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begging of the qualification so the assessor can see if the learner has skills‚ competence and knowledge to complete the qualification. The assessments are on-going throughout the qualification. The assessments give opportunity for the assessor to monitor the progress and performance of the learner and enable them to record achievements. Within the assessments the assessor can identify learner’s needs. If it is identified that the learner is struggling it will give the opportunity to look at other
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Robert Neville followed a man‚ who was turning‚ into an ocean of unlike humans. In an excerpt from‚ I Am Legend Richard Matheson uses a wide array of rhetorical devices in order to convey the strong action he uses. Matheson uses different types of imagery and similes to describe the man who was leading him in the beginning of the excerpt. Neville hears the man’s voice as "a grating rasp" that is labeled as sonic imagery that the reader can connect to someone/thing in their own life. Furthermore
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In the survival documentary titled I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash a team of rugby players board a plane and it crashes. There are a total of thirty-three people who boarded the plane and sixteen people survive. The documentary deals with loss‚ survival‚ and adaptations. Although seventeen of the plane’s flight attendees had perished on site of the crash or passed away over time the other sixteen attendees had to deal with loss‚ survival‚ and adapting to their surroundings. The plane
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graduation‚ I moved roughly an hour away with my significant other at the time and began working to pay bills. Throughout the last 18 years‚ I’ve worked at several different organizations in several different roles. Recently‚ I’ve decided that I have held out long enough and it is time to invest more into myself by working towards a degree. After a few months of researching and doing some deep thinking‚ I’ve decided that I would like to be involved in a career that helps others. As much as I would love
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These texts talk about how they don’t have a stable home. Text A I Am an Army Brat offers a general idea of what a traveller would feel (line 11) parting from a certain environment. Text B talks about her experience as an alien to all the cultures she has been exposed too. Both these texts share a mutual interest but they differ in audience. The target audience for this poem would perhaps be the military parents or other children who know the struggle of constantly moving (line13). The author of this
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I am Gulsen Ozer‚ and I have faced profound‚ influential challenges to overcome as they allowed me to learn what I have learned. By 2016‚ the world had turned upside down for my family. The Turkish government cracked down on the Gu?len movement‚ and my father‚ Hamza‚ is very much involved in the movement; schools and organizations he is involved in were shut down by the Turkish government‚ leaving many of his friends imprisoned. My father‚ fearing for his life‚ fled Turkey‚ leaving my mother‚ siblings
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