...instructive to the readers because of the destruction that took place in her life. Personally speaking, a reader would side with Nel because of all the good she seems to portray, but she was not always perfect. Nel found herself in mirrors looking at her nose in disgust because her mother, who was so upright and orderly, did not like her nose. Her nose reminded her mother, Helene, of the broadened nose her husband genetically passed down to his daughter. In her childhood, she convinced herself that she liked herself just as she was. For example, Nel stated “I’m me,” several times until she drifted off to sleep. She made this statement to help herself realize at an early age that she can be no one but herself. Throughout the novel, Nel convinces herself she is fine, or good just as she is; no one had the ability to tell her otherwise. When Nel and Sula became best friends, they were “one.” Secretly, Nel desired to be a part of Sula’s household because of the disorder and numerous families that lived within that one building. Nel wanted to escape from all of the good she has lived in. Simultaneously, Sula admired the organization of Nel’s home. For once, Sula could sit still and be at peace. Nel lived in such a perfect and well-kept home that a reader would assume she would also grow up to be a wholesome and good individual. On the exterior, she came off as a good person, but inside, she...
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...Ryan Hasenbeck American Experience Family Feud in Salem In 1692, nineteen people were tried and executed as witches and hundreds more spent months in jail as accused witches. No one knows what exactly caused these Salem Witch Trials, but there are many theories ranging from the most ignored girls of Salem wanting power to actual witchcraft. The most likely theory about these trials however, is that there was a rivalry in Salem politics. Two families, the Putnams and the Porters dominated Salem politics, and there is evidence that the Witch Trials were a method used by one family to attack the other. A power struggle between the two most powerful families in Salem evidently caused the hysteria of the witch trials because the Putnams felt overshadowed by the Porters, the Minister supported by the Putnams was losing power, and there is a relationship in the location of the accusers of witchcraft verses the accused and defenders of the accused. Salem was a very split colony, dominated by two powerful families, the Porters, and the Putnams who lived in their shadow. There is evidence that proves...
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...RAYMOND CARVER CATHEDRAL Student’s name Institution Summary Raymond Carver gives a story of a blind man who his wife met during her singlehood but during their relationship. His name was Robert. Robert who was going to pay a visit to their home courtesy of his wife. Robert is a blind man from Seattle who Raymond’s wife had been working for ten years ago. Raymond’s wife had seen an advertisement on a newspaper of a blind man who needed to assisted in his office in reading of documents such as reports and studies and since she had no job and was in need of money she contacted the man and was immediately taken for the job. During this period Raymond was in a relationship with his girlfriend who they had been friends from their childhood days. Raymond was in a military training therefore he had no money hence this gave the girlfriend a reason to look for a job. After summer period ended Raymond’s girlfriend was back and then they married. She did part with her employer who then married Beulah. Robert had lost his wife who they had lived inseparably for eight years. This time he had paid a visit to his wife’s relatives and then decided to visit his old friend who had once worked in his office as a secretary. Her work was organizing the office and reading the documents to the man. They communicated through tapes which they mailed to each other. Raymond was not passionate about blind people since he had not interacted with them. He says...
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...Do you know Malala Yousafzai one the most strongest voices ever. She fought the taliban using her strongest possession her voice. She fought for girls rights to go to school. The taliban furious at her they attempted to assassinate her. The taliban had gotten on malala’s bus and shot her in the head. With god on her side she lived through the brutal attempted murder. Firstly Malala is a crusader because she up for girls rights that couldn't get the education they needed. According to “Malala The Powerful” the taliban had took over the village where Malala and her family had lived. During this time they banned girls schools. To strike fear the taliban they started murdering teachers, bombing school, and executed people who had despite their...
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...How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Summary How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is about a family moving from the Dominican Republic to America, and why they moved. This book goes backwards on the timeline starting at 1989 going back to 1956. It starts when they are back visiting their family in the Dominican Republic to when they lived there and just left for the U.S. In the novel, the main characters are Don Carlos (Papi) and Doña Laura (Mami) and their four daughters: Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is all about the family and what they go through experiencing the new world. The family moved from there enormous house in the DR where they had maids who would do everything for them and...
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...Women and the Industrial Revolution Harriet Robinson, who worked as a factory worker in Lowell, once wrote in her autobiography that “[mill life] lets...[society] see the women as active participants in their own lives” (Halsall 2). Nothing could be more true. Lowell, Massachusetts, a city filled with mills powered by the Merrimack River, became the country’s dream- a place where industry and economy flourished (“At the Clang”). As with Lowell, girls from New England flocked to mills and factories in search of a better life and new opportunities (“At the Clang”). Although some may claim that factory life was a negative experience and hurt the mill girls, it is clear that the Industrial Revolution impacted the lives of American workers in a positive way, for they gained more independence, stood up for their rights, and, overall, were able to become more informed by working in factories and mills...
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...to teach himself. Douglass lived with the Auld for about seven years, even though his mistress stopped his teaching, Douglass continued to learn how to read and write with the help of his little white boys he friended. At the age of about 21, Douglass reads “The Columbian Orator”, this book made him harden towards the men who enslaved the people of Africa. He becomes very aware of the wrongdoing of slavery and is determined to...
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...and books are always coming up with new strategies to help parents cope with children’s expectations for life and other material goods. “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros and “Cinderella” by Anne Sexton both show how kids grow up expecting perfect situations in life like fairytales; the main difference is that Cisneros’ story shows a young person waiting for the parents to provide her with happiness whereas in Sexton’s piece the young girl shows initiative to make her dreams a reality. In “The House on Mango Street,” by Sandra Cisneros, a child details her living situation with her parents. She talks about how they lived in apartments and moved around before finally moving to a house. The house the family finally moves to does not meet her expectations that were created by her parents. Although the house is “a real house that would be ours for always so we wouldn’t have to move each year” (Cisneros 392) it has lots of problems and things seem to break a lot. At one point her teacher passes by the house where she sees the girl playing and reacts in a way that makes her embarrassed of her home. The story ends with her expressing a desire to move to “A real house. One I could point to.” (Cisneros 392) but her parents just say this is how it is for now. “Cinderella” by Anne Sexton starts by giving examples of...
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...Engelsk grammatik - en kort oversigt Klik på et emne i indholdsfortegnelsen – eller udskriv hele grammatikken NAVNEORD (substantiver) 2 Ejefald (genitiv) 2 KENDEORD (artikler) 3 UDSAGNSORD (verber) 3 Regelmæssige udsagnsord (verber) 4 Uregelmæssige udsagnsord (verber) 4 Mådesudsagnsord (modalverber) 5 Udvidet tid = ING-form 6 Omskrivning med 'DO' 6 Passiv 7 TILLÆGSORD (adjektiver) 8 BIORD (adverbier) 8 STEDORD (pronominer) 9 Personlige stedord (pronominer) 9 Ejestedord (possessive pronominer) 9 Tilbagevisende stedord (refleksive pronominer) 9 Henførende stedord (relative pronominer) 10 Spørgende stedord (interrogative pronominer) 11 Ubestemte stedord (SOME og ANY) 11 Påpegende stedord (demonstrative pronominer) 11 Revideret april 2016 NAVNEORD (substantiver) Navneordenes flertalsdannelse (substantiver i pluralis) De fleste navneord danner flertal med et s Ental: room Flertal: rooms 1. Navneord, der ender på -s, -ch, -sh, -ss, -x eller z, danner flertal med -es: bus - buses, church - churches, bush - bushes, kiss - kisses, box - boxes, quiz - quizzes 2. Nogle ord, som ender på -o, tilføjer -es i flertal: tomato - tomatoes, potato - potatoes 3. Hvis ordet ender på konsonant + y, kommer det til at ende på -ies i flertal: family - families, baby - babies (men ikke, hvis der står en vokal foran y'et: boy - boys) 4...
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...Once upon a time there was a village of people. They lived in a utopia, everything and everyone were the same everyday, forever. Within that village lived four young girls who really wanted a change. Their names where Autumn, Summer, Spring, and Winter. One day they decide they couldn't except that everything was going to be the same for the rest of their lives, so they decided to set out on a quest to find a new change. A couple of days into their journey they were beginning to be discouraged. That is when they ran into a fairy who sent from the clouds to grant the girls their wish. The girls didn't know exactly what they were going to wish for. Eventually the fairy told them that she would show them what they truly wanted. She allowed each...
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...Engelsk grammatik - en kort oversigt Klik på et emne i indholdsfortegnelsen – eller udskriv hele grammatikken NAVNEORD (substantiver) 2 Ejefald (genitiv) 2 KENDEORD (artikler) 3 UDSAGNSORD (verber) 3 Regelmæssige udsagnsord (verber) 4 Uregelmæssige udsagnsord (verber) 4 Mådesudsagnsord (modalverber) 5 Udvidet tid = ING-form 6 Omskrivning med 'DO' 6 Passiv 7 TILLÆGSORD (adjektiver) 8 BIORD (adverbier) 8 STEDORD (pronominer) 9 Personlige stedord (pronominer) 9 Ejestedord (possessive pronominer) 9 Tilbagevisende stedord (refleksive pronominer) 9 Henførende stedord (relative pronominer) 10 Spørgende stedord (interrogative pronominer) 11 Ubestemte stedord (SOME og ANY) 11 Påpegende stedord (demonstrative pronominer) 11 Revideret juli 2013 NAVNEORD (substantiver) Navneordenes flertalsdannelse (substantiver i pluralis) De fleste navneord danner flertal med et s Ental: room Flertal: rooms 1. Navneord, der ender på -s, -ch, -sh, -ss, -x eller z, danner flertal med -es: bus - buses, church - churches, bush - bushes, kiss - kisses, box - boxes, quiz - quizzes 2. Nogle ord, som ender på -o, tilføjer -es i flertal: tomato - tomatoes, potato - potatoes 3. Hvis ordet ender på konsonant + y, kommer det til at ende på -ies i flertal: family - families, baby - babies (men ikke, hvis der står en vokal foran y'et: boy - boys) 4...
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...Malala report Malala began fighting for women rights when she was 11. She started sharing her opinion against no education for girls in her country by posting on a blog, about how she felt and why. She posted how it wasn’t fair that girls shouldn’t be allowed to have an education just because they lived in Pakistan. She started saying things like how she thought that girls should be allowed to have an education no matter where they lived, and how the girls should be treated better than staying home, taking care of the livestock, and having children. What Malala fights for is not only for women’s rights in general but for women’s rights in education. Malala is a courageous woman, with a strong opinion, and feelings for what she believes in. People love her for that, but they hate her for that too. Malala was 14 when she got shot in the head and neck on October 9,2012. The bullet barely grazed her brain and almost killed her by inches. As her father put it: "When she fell, the person who attacked her wanted to kill her … She fell temporarily, she will rise again, she will stand again. She can stand now." From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/26/malala-yousafzai-everybodys-daughter-father After the attack, all the surgeons from Pakistan were at war to save Malala’s life. They managed to take out a bullet lodged in her neck. Unfortunately with a threat hanging over the family, they decided to airlift Malala to Britain, and hopefully have her recover...
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...oppression due to society, gender, culture, social class, etc.. The novel takes place in a small town told in the perspective of an adolescent girl named Esperanza as she grows and matures, facing different coming of age issues. In the vignette “The House on Mango Street” we are given an example of oppression due to social class and society. When a Nun confronts Esperanza, she causes Esperanza to feel ashamed. Cisneros writes “You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There. I lived there. I nodded.”(Cisneros 5). The way the Nun talked to Esperanza really affected her and made her feel like there was something wrong with where she lived and how...
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...to lead to the witch trials and the ending of the novel. Girls in Salem had countless expectations, including the expectation to be perfect children. They were trained, even as children, to act like mature adults. The problem is that when a child is forced to act like an adult at such a young age, but aren’t treated as adults, they may feel ignored. When a child is ignored, they do irrational things to get attention, and occasionally, these things can get people hurt. The first step in these witch trial was the unjustifiable and defiant acts. One of the girls had an affair with a man, which meant rebelling against the entire...
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...witchcraft brought on by a group of young girls. Over a hundred people, especially widowed middle-aged women, were accused of performing witchcraft and were jailed, nineteen people were executed . The accusations that led to the Salem Witch Trials were brought on by a combination of preconceived knowledge on the topic, religious beliefs, and precocious imaginations. These accusations shed light on the natural human need to find explanations for misfortunes occurring during the time period and to justify themselves in a Puritan dominated society. In 1689, only three years before the events that occurred in Salem, a similar case of possession happened to the four children of John Goodwin of Boston. The children, the oldest aged thirteen and the youngest five, began displaying symptoms of a diabolical illness and caused the adults in the community to gather together to not only pray for the health of the children but to determine the cause of their illness. It was soon discovered that the eldest Goodwin child had an argument with the elderly women who did the family’s laundry and received harsh words and insults from the laundress . The accused was Mary Glover, a single woman who had emigrated from Ireland to New England. During her trial, Glover spoke in her native tongue, Gaelic and often whispered words. This was seen as characteristics of a witch in the eyes of the court. Soon after her execution Puritan minister Cotton Mather, who questioned Glover before and during the trial...
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