11th January 2011 Jenny White “Reading – Response to Prose” “Of Mice and Men” written by John Steinbeck 1937 The novella “Of Mice and Men” was written by Nobel prize - winner John Steinbeck in 1937. It was a written genre of a novella so it could be transposed as a stage play. The story is structured in six sections which could be six scenes if it were a script for a play. The title of the book comes from a poem by the 18th century Scottish poet Robert Burns “To a Mouse”. The poem
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in the South during 1942‚ Zora Hurston gives the reader a first-person point of view of her valued yet constricted childhood as an African-American. By using diction from a young girl’s perspective and her manipulation of point of view‚ Zora enriches our sense of her childhood. Most importantly‚ the time period of a belligerent WWII foreshadows Zora’s conflict to try to break free from authority and her audacity to speak her mind. From the beginning of the narrative‚ Zora shows a sense of nostalgia
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Critical Response on Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass Both Douglass and Jacobs were inspirational icons for the African-Americans in American history. Their contributions to the abolition of slavery and liberalism of the African-American race in the U.S. are very notable and important too; not only for honor but also important to American literature. They both lived during the period of the Antebellum (1820 - 1865) when the abolition of slave trade was a big issue in the country. At this time
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Internet has served all information instantaneously. I also noticed about what Carr said about the Internet changed the way we think because unconsciously the Internet serves us all answers swiftly. This convenience makes us easily losing our focus on reading a long article. People now tend to skim rather than to read and understand the whole article‚ which means it is the beginning of the Internet’s bad effect. It made me think that Internet has become something crucial in our life that maybe we cannot
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doors is used by Hurston in order to display the chances‚ and options one has after escaping the room that had all those doors that would have led to many different paths much earlier. Tea Cake and Janie sit in the store drinking Coca-cola when Tea Cake offers to Janie if she wanted a passenger train or a battleship using the questions “Which one do you want? It all depends on you.” (101) The freedom of choice is finally in Janie’s hands as Tea Cake asks her “Which do you want?”. Hurston projected the
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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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facing the reality of people differences. Zora mixed feelings about her identity are common among people‚ especially adolescents who are trying to figure out who they are and what it means. As I read Zora’s essay‚ I remember that I started to understand Rwandan ethnicity’s gravity and many conflicts behind it‚ when I was in the secondary school. I was shocked that many students would not socialize or even talk to anybody who was different from them. After reading Zora’s essay‚ I realized that rather than
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Hurston creates the character Mrs. Hurston to display what Janie could have turned out to be if not for Janie’s kind personality. Mrs. Turner is a part black women‚ with a “slightly pointed” nose‚ “thin lips” (140). These physical characteristics is what sets her apart from the other black people‚ the same can be said about Janie’s hair. However‚ Janie does not feel much different from the people with completely black heritage because it is not important to her. Instead Janie focuses on each person’s
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The Official English Question page: 88-90 James Crawford‚ in his article “The Official English Question‚” evaluates whether it is proper to declare English as America’s official language. Historically‚ there has not been much success in trying to declare English as the official language. In 1923‚ there was a bill designating the national language to be “American‚” designed to offend the British Empire but the bill was never passed. In 1780‚ John Adams faced opposition when he tried to set
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Accounting 381 Reading Assignment 1: Accounting and Professionalism Due: Tuesday‚ January 12‚ 2010 (at beginning of class). Please be prepared to discuss the questions and your responses in class on this date. Required: Answer the following questions based on your examination of the readings listed below. This should be completed on an individual basis. Your discussion should be no more than 2 pages in length‚ single-spaced. You do not need to use a particular format to prepare your
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