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The link below from Generations United, a national organization "focused solely on improving the lives of children, youth, and older people through intergenerational strategies, programs, and...
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This book is about an eleven-year-old girl named Melody who has a condition called cerebral palsy. Because she cannot speak, walk, use the bathroom on her own, or feed herself, people assume that...
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In Goethe's Faust Mephistopheles tempts Faust by appealing to his desire for knowledge and control of nature. Faust then falls prey to sensuous delights after Mephistopheles promises him a moment...
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Auden's poem is named for the day World War II began. The poet uses a blunt, conversational tone, communicating both a sense of despair over what led to the war and a clear vision of what he argues...
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In terms of structure, this poem is one long stanza. It is written in the AABBCC (and so on) rhyme scheme. That means each consecutive pair of lines rhymes with each other. In poetry language,...
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The relationship of gender and society is complex. First, it is important to understand the difference between "gender" and biological sex; the latter has to do with anatomy, while the former...
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The poem is written as a second-person narrative. This technique involves the reader directly by describing the experience as one in which the reader is involved. The reader becomes, in the context...
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The poetry of John Clare, who was born in England in the late 1700s as the son of a farmer, documents the end of the open fields and grazing lands and the effect of the Enclosure Acts in England....
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Of the thirteen sonnets assigned, the two that are most famous and perhaps most beloved are Sonnet XVIII and Sonnet CXXX. These sonnets are easy to understand and have wonderful wording and...
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In "Of the Churl that Won Paradise," it is first important to define the term "churl." A churl, according to Dictionary.com, is a "rude, boorish, or surly" peasant, someone who does who does not...
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Chuck Palahniuk uses a number of structures to show the chaotic inner world of the narrator of Flight Club. The story is structured as a flashback; it begins as the narrator is with Tyler Durden on...
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I would rather be like Benjamin Franklin than Jonathan Edwards. From Franklin's Autobiography: 1. "During my brother's confinement, which I resented a good deal, notwithstanding our private...
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Bryan Stevenson's book discusses the ramifications of the death penalty, the treatment of juveniles in prison, and the plight of black men within the American justice system. The book begins by...
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Below are some sources that relate to how writing connects with people and society. I've provided three relevant sources, and you can use these sources (including the "References" section at the...
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This poem focuses on the eve of St. Agnes, a night when, according to legend, a young maiden can receive a vision of her lover. At the opening, we see the story from the point of view of the...
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"The Divided Blanket" is an interesting tale among the three fabliaux. In this tale, a father gives his son everything he owns so that the son can marry the sister of three knights. Later, when the...
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A major theme or moral presented in Jacques de Baisieux’s French fabliau, “The Tale of the Priest's Bladder,” can be summed up in the simple phrase, “Don’t trick a trickster.” In many...
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This question is very subjective. I would strongly recommend reviewing the book and thinking about which story or statistic was most surprising to you, then explain why. That is what the prompt is...
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The author of Across a Hundred Mountains takes a moral stand against the cruelties of immigration. When Juana is on the bus heading to the Mexican-U.S. border, she notices a young boy sitting on...
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One of the social issues in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is the attempt by governments to force their people to believe certain ideologies by banning any work that opposes this...
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In the novel, the border between the United States and Mexico is not just a border but a wall. Referred to as "el otro lado," or the other side, the border divides families forever. It separates...
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Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye and Esther Greenwood in The Bell Jar are both miserable in the midst of academic privilege and material wealth. Esther Greenwood says at the beginning of...
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One of the main themes in the novel Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande is the strength of family ties. Juana's father, Apá, travels across the Mexican–U.S. border to "el otro lado," or...
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"Puerto Rican Obituary" is the obituary speech that the speaker might have given for the five Puerto Rican people he gives only first names—"Juan/Miguel/Milagros/Olga/Manuel"—in the poem. He...
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I believe that this question is asking about Juana from John Steinbeck's novel The Pearl. Juana is Kino's wife. One thing to note about Juana is that she is both physically and emotionally...
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Homer, being Greek, wrote the The Iliad from a viewpoint mainly favoring the Greeks. Yes, he created some admirable Trojans, such as King Priam and Prince Hector, but it was Greek culture to admire...
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If you were to go through the trash of the main character in Noggin, Travis Ray Coates, you might find the whiteboard that he used to write on when he was in the hospital and was regaining his...
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Marie de France's "Lay of the Werewolf," a courtly romance, focuses on upper-class people: aristocrats and royalty. The story presents us with a baron, a lady, a knight, and a king as the main...
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"The Raven" and "Annabel Lee" are both poems by Edgar Allan Poe that address the desolation experienced by a man who has lost his love. In both of these poems, the speaker is experiencing profound...
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There are so many images and ideas in the book that you might find affecting, emotionally and intellectually. For example, Paul Karasik does a very touching job of portraying the way in which his...
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The idea of the "hero" is a little difficult to pin down. Most people tend to think of a hero as someone of great physical courage who is not afraid to risk death in order to save others or to...
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Grace Nichols's and Kamau Brathwaite's poetry is about claiming a distinct Caribbean identity separate from that of Western Europe and the United States. To this end, the poets use local vernacular...
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There are similarities in the ways Plath, Redfield Jamison, and Styron portray mental illness. For example, they all feel fraudulent and doubt themselves. Plath, who is living in New York City to...
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In Three Ages of The Woman and The Death, there are four figures. The central figure is a fair-skinned young woman, seen admiring herself in a mirror. Also the brightest figure in the painting, the...
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Throughout much of the canon of postcolonial literature, the clash of cultures one character experiences leads to mental and/or physical trauma. Some examples are Okwonko in Chinua Achebe's Things...
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In Hedda Gabler, there are several different types of greed. George Tesman, Hedda's husband, and Eilert Løvborg are greedy for a certain type of esteem as writers and scholars and for greatness in...
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Dystopian stories arise from imagined settings in which a society has sought to create a perfect way of life—a utopia. However, because trying to create perfection tends to result in a loss of...
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When Jesse visits the 7th floor of the prison, where everyone is forced to lie down, he reflects that "all of the inhabitants lived in a position that was at total odds with the rest of the world,...
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In the novel, the devastating effects of war and prison negatively impact the main characters. In my answer, I will discuss two characters from the novel: Jesse Pasadoble and Anvil Harp. Jesse...
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Time slows down in the prison scenes of the novel, and while the body is inert, the mind travels. Véa writes of men in prison: Their beds were geared for long distances, for trips to Alpha...
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In the novel, the author demonstrates the debilitating effect of poverty through the character of Calvin Thibault (whose streetname is Biscuit Boy). As the story progresses, we discover that Calvin...
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Repeated trauma in the characters' lives in Gods Go Begging makes them hardened and incapable of experiencing real joy or human connection. For example, the chief medical examiner in the coroner's...
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In the first scene of the book, the two dead people cling to each other as if they are embracing. Véa writes: Pronounced dead on a cold city sidewalk, they held on to each other as the gurney...
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When Jesse visits the prison, he goes to the ward in which the prisoners have to remain recumbent. In this strange environment, it's almost as if time is slowed down. Véa writes that the prisoners...
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The late American historian James Truslow Adams famously originated the phrase, if not the concept, of "the American Dream." As Adams defined it, "The American Dream is that dream of a land in...
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It sounds like you have a great understanding of the structural differences between graphic and traditional novels, including uses and effects of such differences for the author's purposes. Perhaps...
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Assmann distinguishes between two forms of communal memory, the shared memories of a group of people. Communicative memory goes back only about 80 years and is the group memory of events at least...
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Chapter 16: 1) Mrs. Turner is very clearly prejudiced. How does Janie react to her? Janie humors Mrs. Turner and indulges the older woman's behavior. Janie doesn't try to change Mrs. Turner's views...
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In Fences, Troy is against his son, Cory, playing football in college because Troy believes that the white players and coaches will never allow Cory to succeed in football, just as Troy was kept...
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In the poem, the author uses masculine end rhymes to emphasize her complete devastation after a painful breakup. I keep recalling the messages in my head, Making me wish that I was dead.So here I...