...Essay based on ”My Mother and her Sister” Essay (700-900 words) Short story by Jane Rogers., “My Mother and her Sister”., 2006. A Who knows what happiness is? Is it love? Is it money? Or is the idea of happiness in a person truly just an act…? We don’t know. We can only figure it out by trying different boundaries in our lives. A lot of people have trouble with love and finding out, what they want in life and what love is. If love was the answer to happiness, we all had a perfect goal. In “My Mother and her Sister” we are introduced to the protagonist and the protagonist’s aunt Lucy. These two people are similar to this situation. Lucy knows that there is no such thing as happiness, because she has already tried that road called love. The narrator doesn’t know what she wants and she definitely has no idea of what true happiness is or if it even exists? The story is about the protagonist, who has her 75-years-old aunt Lucy staying for some time, after they had attended the protagonist’s mother – Lucy’s sister’s funeral. During her stay aunt Lucy tells the protagonist some perspectives of life as a woman. Through aunt Lucy, Jane Rogers creates a pessimistic view on love, happiness and the role of being a housewife. In the beginning of the short story, the protagonist explains how she remembers her and her brother, Tim’s, school holidays at her aunt Lucy and uncle Bill’s house. She remembers how she saw her aunt Lucy as an “easy, chatty woman, good at small talk and...
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...Brooks begins his essay with criticizing Amy Chua’s parenting with showing how hard she is on her daughters. He’s reasonable throughout but still questions Chua and calls her “soft”. In “Amy Chua is a Wimp,” David Brooks argues that Amy Chua is too soft when it comes to parenting, leading her to ignore the importance in her children acquiring social skills, and that those skills are just as important as academic skills. Brooks begins with highlighting some cringe-worthy situations from Chua’s book. Amy Chua, a well-known “Tiger Mom,” believes western parents...
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...In this essay I will be discussing how the pumpkin seeds that the Author is introduced with in the beginning symbolises Veronica. I will also be discussing the significance of these pumpkin seeds. I will also be discussing the different factors that caused conflict between characters and how these characters reconcile at the end. Reconciliation between Buks and Veronica, Veronica and Author, Buks and Author, will be discussed in details in this essay. The seeds that the Author hold I his hands symbolises Veronica.”Can Oupa explain to me how a little seed becomes a big pumpkin?” (Fuguard, 1996:49) This is a question that Veronica asked his grandfather Buks and he replied and said “No” (Fuguard, 1996:49)” But Veronica continues and says to Buks “You said to me once it was a miracle” She continues to convince her grandfather that she is also like the pumpkinseed. She says “My singing is my life I must look after it the way Oupa looks after his vegetables”. (Fuguard, 1996:49) Buks invested a lot in Veronica as he does in his seeds. The seeds bring him joy and happiness as Veronica also makes him happy and joyful. Buks loves Veronica with all his heart because she is the only family he is left with. This is proven at the end of the play where Veronica says to Buks “Caroline is dead, Oupa. Ouma is also dead.” Yes both of them. There is just you and me left… Oupa and Veronica”. (Fuguard, 1996:48) Buks is afraid to lose Veronica the way he lost Caroline. The reason why...
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...Unfortunately, as time progresses, some African Americans lose sight of their heritage while others hold onto it with dear life. In the case of Dee and Maggie, from the Alice Walker’s Everyday Use, Dee loses sight of her true heritage trying to conform to the telegraphic past of idealized Africa, while Maggie holds on to her heritage by remaining true to her immediate past. The short story begins with Dee coming home from college. Now, she is more informed about her heritage and beginning to conform to an image to fit the African culture....
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...Ideas Learned from Graduate Student Orientation Course Starting a new degree program can be a challenge, especially if one has been out of school for some time. There is an old saying, “Well begun is half done.” (“Proverb Hunter”, 2012) Having a good foundation and ideas at the beginning allows easier and more efficient transition throughout the program. The ideas obtained from the Graduate Student Orientation Course are not something new. However, they can be compared to the missing pieces of a treasure map that has been put away up in the attic. Finding a treasure without them may be possible, but very challenging. By having those missing those missing pieces, the path to the treasure can be clear. I obtained many different ideas from the course, but there are three main ideas, which I believe will be very helpful through my degree program. They are (a) time management, (b) effective writing skills, and (c) use of CSU Online Library. Time Management According to Eerde (2003), managing time gives a person a sense of control of time. When a person has a control, it reduces tension and stress. Minimizing those two factors results in a positive performance and outcome. Being stressed about completing a certain task usually results in procrastination. One will try to find a justification to not complete the task right away, because the task will seem too overwhelming when he/she does not have adequate control of time. When the task can be justified as something...
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...even in fields in which looks have nothing to do with the professional duties. Q4. Why do people object to banning discrimination based on appearance? How does Rhode address these objections. A4. Banning discrimination based on appearance because of people who are diseased, maimed, mutilated, or deformed where exposing themselves in public. Rhode address these objections if they expose themselves in public view, under the penalty of a fine of a dollar for each offense. Q5. According to Rhode, how effective are laws that prohibit appearance discrimination? What positive effects might they have? A5. The laws are unevenly enforced; they have had a positive effect by publicizing and remedying the worst abuses. Purpose and Audience Q1. Does Rhode assume that her readers are aware of the problem she discusses? How can you tell. A1. Yes, because she say, We all know that appearance matters but the pride of prejudice can rejected for a job. Q2. What preconceived attitude about appearance Does Rhode assume her readers have? A2. The attitude about appearance Rhode assume her readers have about the essay is negative because when researcher ask people to evaluate written essays the same material receive lower rating. Q3. Where does Rhodes state her thesis? Why does she state it where she does instead of earlier in her...
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...Sarah Travis ENGWR 101 Inst. Kronzer 13 Sept 2014 Reflective Essay Language has fatal consequences, from my own personal experience, when working in healthcare, speaking unprofessionally can cause me to be terminated, although it may be challenging to change the way you speak a language, you just have to deal with what the employer wants from you or you will lose your job. According to James Baldwin, language “is the most vivid and crucial key to identity: It reveals the private identity, and connects one with, or divorces one from, the larger, public, or communal identity. There have been, and are, times and places, when to speak a certain language could be dangerous, even fatal” (650). Baldwin explains that there is a time and place that certain language should be speaking because language has fatal consequences. I agree with Baldwin, there is a time and place for everything. I also agree that language can be dangerous, even fatal. In James Baldwin’s essay, “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” Baldwin confronts the topic of “Black Language.” Baldwin states, “Language incontestably, reveals the speaker” (Baldwin, 648). The language one speaks can say a lot about a person. People may speak the same language, but it is always going to be different based off where the speaker comes from, what type of person the speaker is, what the speaker does as their career, and what the speaker has experienced in their life. Baldwin states that his argument has...
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...Korea, tells in this essay that is named “Facing Poverty with a Rich girl’s Habits” about new immigrant comes to America, How can she absorbs new environment, difference of culture and wealth is important or not. Writer has a few most important points in this essay. First of all she wants to answer wealth is important or is not? After her father bankruptcy, her life is very difficult and they flow to America without any penny. One day you will be rich but another day you will lose all of your things. Lost thing is not big a problem. Once she flew from Korea, she lost everything such as home, friends, relation and wealth but she might satisfy now, because she has new friends, a new home, and a new job. Our forefather told me that “If you lost the things, it is not a problem, if you lost the ethic, it’s a problem, If you lost your health, it’s big a problem”. I agree with that. Secondly, Illustrated in essay that different culture, social, life style and character between Korean and American students. For example, when the teacher entered in classroom, no one batted an eye but in Korea students and environment of school are different. Another important point of writer, however she became citizenship of America, she celebrates Korean national celebration day, to love national food, national song in her soul and cannot forget her memorize that when she was in Korea. Furthermore, she said that how new immigrants can settle in America, how they can inherit...
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...day to day basis on how her life has changed. According the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is the most common disabling neurological disease of young adults. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neuroinflammatory disease that affects myelin , a substance that makes up the membrane (called the myelin sheath) that wraps around nerve fibers (axons). Mrs. Mairs’ life has been changed to the point where her daily life is impacted by her disease, but not to the point where she allows the disease to define her life. She still tries to do daily activities and has adjusted her disability. She herself doesn’t say that her life is nothing but worry-free. but she does say that if anyone should be well adjusted to having MS, it’d be her. Her essay brings up a lot of points about being disabled, from the linguistics of identifying disabled people to how...
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...Have you ever attempted accomplishing multiple tasks all at once and lose focus on what you were doing? Are you listening to music, shouting at your siblings or children, online shopping, checking emails, and texting friends and wondering why you’re still stuck writing your first paragraph in your essay for an hour now? Multitasking may seem like a simple tool to use to accomplish numerous tasks at once; however, that essay may have already been completed if you were to simply focus on one task at a time. Is all the multitasking even worth it at this point? Multitasking can be a wonderful tool in certain people’s eyes, but it can be deleterious to the task at hand. “Multitasking Can Make You Lose…Um…Focus” is an article written by Alina...
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...Effective Essay Writing 14 August 2011 What characteristics make these essays expository? Art of Cookery This is definitely an expository essay because it is actually listing steps to successful restaurant. The thesis at the beginning of the essay states the reasoning behind why the following steps are needed to create an attractive dining experience. The steps are mostly relating to how the dining area is set up. How to Filet a Fish This expository essay was an informative piece that detailed the parts of fish and how to filet it for food. The essay tells how different fish are cut and prepared. The best part about this essay was that it gives details on whether it is appropriate to filet or steak or cook the fish whole. Identify the type of organization each author used to develop the essay: topic, time order, space order, or informative process. I believe that the “Art of Cookery” essay is a topic essay because it organizes the logical things needed to set up an attractive dining area. It was difficult deciding if this was topic or informative process but since it didn’t seem to list the data in step by step process I felt that topic seemed more accurate. Topic and informative essays seem to me to be similar and may be easily confused. The “How to Filet a Fish” essay is most definitely an Informative essay. The essay tells exactly “how to” decide what cut is appropriate for what type and size. The essay meets all...
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...This essay is my first introduction to Adrienne Rich, a writer I have wanted to read for a long time. It was written in 1971 for a conference and later published in College English 34.1 in 1972 (this is the version I am reviewing) and in Rich’s collection On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978. There is also a revised version of this essay online. What I know about Rich is very little. Margaret Atwood describes her as a proto-feminist and, from reading this essay, I can see why. Rich is one of these women who successfully managed to be both a writer and a woman in a society (the 50s) where the norm for a woman was still to change nappies and cook your husband’s meal. In this essay, she discusses how she managed to find her female voice. She begins her essay by considering the exhilaration of living in a period of “awakening consciousness”. This, she believes, can only come out of knowledge of the male-dominated structure of society and of literature. She deplores the fact that too many women have adopted a masculine style of writing in order to be accepted as writers, men being the judging audience. She argues that in order to find their own voice, women need to be aware of the myth of the woman as represented in past literature and need to then subvert these representations, what she calls “re-vision”. “Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for us more than...
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...Peer Review Form Essay Author: Alexandra Willis Essay Title: Home Means Las Vegas Reviewer’s Name: Eddie Jones 1. How does the essay prompt you to think differently? (For instance, do you see something with more complexity, more beauty, more ugliness, or more intensity than you did before?). Explain what the essay helps you see differently. (If you have a difficult time answering this question, say so; perhaps the essay has not yet gone far enough.) The essay is fine and it is fully detail written. 2. How could the essay begin with more intensity? (For instance, if the essay begins with a broad statement such as Children are curious creatures, could it instead begin with a specific narrative or a more focused or surprising statement?). The essay doesn’t need intensity because it starts out with a great topic and she explains it as you read the essay. 3. Can you identify the thesis statement? Find and write down the one sentence in your peer’s paper that you feel is acting as his or her thesis. No but this is a sentence that might be it. To those who visit this city may think it is nothing but parties and a never ending supply of drinking and gambling. 4. Which details placed throughout the paper do not seem related to the thesis of the essay? Why not? In this paper it is well written and it stays on the topic and it is well explained the essay goes with the topic. But she needs more detail and supported sentences. 5. Which details placed throughout...
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...The essay that I chose to read was “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl Habits” by Suki Kim. In this essay the author explains of a life altering experience where her and her family was living a life where money was of no object, a life where they were millionaires. They lived in a hilltop mansion with gorgeous scenery and perks that people of lower financial class were not privy to such as chauffeurs, private school and special aides to assist with homework. The author further explains how her life of luxury takes a dramatic turn. Suki goes into detail about how they lost everything in one quick swoop. Her father’s businesses all failed and were bankrupt. She explains how in her country of South Korea that bankrupts was a crime that was punishable with a jail sentence. In a last ditch effort to avoid him going to prison they fled their country with no money to America. They relocate to Woodside, New York. The realization of her new life shows apparent when she explains how she hated her new brownstone home that they are forced to relocate to. She also takes a moment to introduce us to her first “friends” Andy and Billy. The author then gives the reader the new and different experiences she faces as an immigrant in a brand new place. The young girl who had wealth and opportunity was now no more than another face no special than anyone else. She talks about the racial changes in her life as far as being labeled as Asian and learning that there is a conception that as someone...
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...our home through Google Earth, and Netflix. Even our social media sites are inundated with tales of our friends regaling their exotic vacations, and news reports from far away countries. However, in the essay, The Loss of the Creature, Walker Percy wonders if this new found technology creates preformed ideas of a certain locale, and get in the way of experiencing the true essence of the location. To an extent, Percy is correct, however, there are aspects where these "preformed ideas" are a bit helpful. The title of the essay,...
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