Writer Stephen King commits to writing two thousand words a day, and usually, he does so between 8 am to 11:30 am every day. Swimmer Michael Phelps gets up and does warm-up exercises and creative visualization exercises every day before a competition. Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey, who had worked 8 hours per day at each company, created the...
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How do the languages that one speaks at home influence social identity? In Tanâs article âMother Tongueâ, she expresses her recognition and concern over the difference in social attitudes towards her motherâs use of English and American societyâs standard English. By introducing her recent realization of her use of standard English in public but not at home, and giving detailed...
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Title of Work: âMother Tongueâ Author: Amy Tan Occasion: Explain the context of the piece. What has caused the speaker to say what s/he says? Minimum of 3 sentences. Include 3 quotes as evidence and explain what each quote tells us about the occasion. The Genesis of "Mother Tongue": A Personal Revelation âMother Tongueâ was inspired by Tanâs realization of...
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Langston Hughes, an influential literary artist, âexplore[d] the lives of African-Americansâ during the Harlem Renaissance (âMother to Sonâ 177). Because he was black himself, Hughes could write about his first-hand experience of âthe tacks and splintersâ associated with discrimination, and provide the privileged with his perspective (Miller 432). Hughes reveals the impediments blacks faced by writing with figurative language (Miller...
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Orwell is a police officer in Burma. So a police officer's job is to preserve peace in such a place. And the elephant is wreaking havoc, so the locals in Burma expect him to do his job, so he shoots the elephant even though it is against his will. I think it's circumstantial and social motives. Circumstantial for the reason...
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In order to determine one's courage, they first need to explore the many definitions of what it means to be courageous. Harper Leeâs novel To Kill a Mockingbird teaches people that courage does not mean that they live without fear, rather it's about showing bravery to stand up to it. She shows this through the characters; Atticus Finch, Boo Radley,...
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Weâve all done something insensitive to somebody, whether it was out of emotion, or because we didnât know any better. Throughout âTo Kill a Mockingbirdâ, the protagonist Scout Finch is portrayed as an immature, naive child. Because she has grown up with wealth, privilege, and a nonchalant father she doesnât learn empathy. Growing up in a small town in 1930âs...
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In his novel âShibumiâ, author Rodney William Whitaker writes, âIrony is fate's most common figure of speechâ. Irony is present in almost every situation imaginableâfrom the small talk made while waiting in line to the foundation of some of the most well-known, acclaimed pieces of literature in history. Simply put, irony is a contrast between expectation and realityâ when what...
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Pahom was a hardworking man. But nonetheless, he was a poor peasant. He and his wife seemed content living a stress-free lifestyle, and not having much. âWe may never grow rich, but we will always have enough to eatâ, his wife would say. Although Pahom agreed, he thought in the back of his mind that his life would be perfect...
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Anthropomorphism gives human characteristics or behavior like attributes to objects or animals. The use of anthropomorphism is demonstrated throughout the books âThe Jungle Bookâ by Rudyard Kipling and âThe One and Only Ivanâ by Kathrine Alice Applegate. Mowgli from âThe Jungle Bookâ portrays the main character; however, he is not the one demonstrating anthropomorphism as he is what is known...
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In âMaude Clareâ, Rossetti shows a powerful alternative type of woman â Maude Clare. The name is significant as âMaudeâ derives from the word âwarriorâ and connotes extreme strength and power, thus presenting women and their female sexuality as a powerful weapon that only warriors like Maude Clare and women possess. However, there are similarities between this poem and âThe...
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In the novel, âKindredâ by Octavia Butler, and the poem âHarlemâ by Langston Hughes, they both use symbolism to communicate how racism destroys the dreams and ambitions of those affected by its grasp. The poem âHarlemâ by Langston Hughes uses symbolism to communicate how racism destroys the dreams and ambitions of those affected by its grasp. Hughes opens the poem...
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This essay explores ideas on how Scrooge is presented as an outsider throughout the novella and will identify and analyze techniques used by Dickens. Dickens presents Scrooge as an outsider through his initial description of the character. âExternal heat had little influence on Scroogeâ. The use of pathetic fallacy emphasizes the idea of Scrooge being a cold and heartless individual....
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Dynamic characters are people who change over a work a literature, authors use dynamic characters to show change and progression throughout a work a literature. This can be used to get the reader more engaged and have more feeling for the characters. The author of âThe Crucibleâ, Arthur Miller, has used this writing technique to make his characters much more...
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In the play âThe Crucibleâ by Arthur Miller, Reverend Hale makes an internal change throughout the story by shifting his opinion from being convinced the witchcraft was real to making the realization that it was all a ploy for vengeance towards other characters in the story. From the beginning when Hale was introduced, he gave a sense of authority when...
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This paper is going to be about the aspects of juxtaposition in two stories named âA Raisin in the Sunâ and âA Woman of No Importanceâ which have several issues that are both similar and different. The aspect of juxtaposition will show the parallelism in the actions or events in both the plays through the dialogues and the behaviors that...
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Imagine the life of a woman in a rural setting; the feeling of being isolated and underestimated by all men, even those that should praise the ground they walk on. This is the constant feeling of, not only Elisa Allen, but all women in a setting as such seen in âThe Chrysanthemumsâ. The protagonist, Elisa Allen, is a degraded, isolated...
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Through the creation of differing backgrounds, contrasting perspectives among people shape how the system of human society works. Having to be raised in certain ways with distinguished experiences, it is evident that people have various views on concepts. These different perceptions can be expressed in the form of literature and artwork. For example, the poems, âBefore I Got My Eye...
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âTo Kill a Mockingbirdâ is a classic American novel by Harper Lee. The famous story focuses on the Finch family during the Great Depression, and it takes place in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. The protagonist is a young girl named Jean Louise Finch. Most people call her Scout. She is a very developed character and the narrator of...
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âTo Kill a Mockingbirdâ takes place in Maycomb County, Alabama in the 1920s. It views the Great Depression through the eyes of a young girl, Scout Finch. The story revolves around her father, Atticus Finch, risking his life to defend a black man and the hardships he and his children, Jem and Scout, encounter. Harper Lee, the author, creates a...
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It is widely known that there is much more to an iceberg than what is seen floating in the ocean. What is often perceived as raw beauty being carried by the currents is only a small fragment of what lies beneath and represents the iceberg in its entirety. In order to see the whole iceberg, one must take into account...
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âThe Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Editionâ is a book that was written by Anne Frank. She was a Jewish teenage girl who was living in a very difficult time in which Jews were victims of the Nazi laws and persecution during World War II. She received the diary as a birthday present. She wrote on it the...
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Wilfred Owenâs poetry ensures that the poems always remain relevance in society today as conflict through war is still taking lives causing loss and grief uses the empathy of the solider suffering at war to encourage engagement from the readers through the dehumanising ways, and the irreconcilable mourning to demonstrate the intense consequences of war enduring the relevance of war...
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In Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Andy (an innocent man) is sentenced to a double life sentence. There Andy meets Red, a prisoner who smuggles items from the outside world. As Andy is an amateur geologist he asks Red to get him a rock hammer for shaping rocks he collects in the exercise yard. Sometime later he asks Red...
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In Shakespeareâs play âRomeo and Julietâ, the intense conflict between the families of the Montagues and Capulets illustrates the theme of internal conflict present throughout the play. It is this conflict that led to the downfall of Romeo and Julietâs relationship and their inevitable death. In the play, Shakespeare uses a rhetorical question when Juliet states, 'What if it be...
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Main keywords of the essay: David Foster Wallace, commencement speech, analysis, two young fish, old fish, This is Water Essay characters: David Foster Wallace, old fish, two young fish Concept: Inspirational Speech, Essay Size: 959 words, 3 pages. This example is going to analyze the main ideas, and life lessons that are contained in commencement speech âThis are Water.â It...
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â1984â, a novel by George Orwell, represents a dystopian society in which the people of Oceania are watched by the government almost 24/7 and have no freedom which is a society we could never imagine real. But, today citizens of North Korea can be considered the same way as the novel. Though different technological and personal ways of keeping watch,...
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Award winning, American classic âTo Kill A Mockingbirdâ, by Harper Lee, is a must read book in our modern day society. First published in 1960, the book has sold over 40 million copies and is still printed worldwide. Iâm sure the majority of people studied this novel when they were in high school and it is still a major book...
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In âOf Mice and Men- When we first meet candy in the novel, he is described as a â stoop-shouldered old man. Perhaps, Steinbeck is emphasizing that he has been weighed down and almost crushed by hard physical work and the pressures of old age as he nears his end of working life. In 1930s America, old people like Candy...
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William Goldingâs Lord of the Flies is a fictional allegory novel that follows a group of schoolboys, all of various ages and personalities, as they attempt to survive a plane crash on a desert island. As the days pass, contrasting priorities become clear between authoritative characters, which in turn leads to conflict brewing and as a result the unavoidable downfall...
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