Abdullah Noorulhaqq Tara Burge AP English Language Composition A March 10, 2015 One author gives a firsthand account of what it was like to live through The Great Depression. Read this excerpt of John Steinbeck's essay "I Remember the Thirties."Then, answer the following questions based on Steinbeck’s rhetorical strategies. 1. The author says the decade had "a beginning, middle and end." His essay also has this structure. Briefly describe these three sections in Steinbeck's essay.Essentially
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Kellie Stewart What do you do? My job is multifascited as the exec director, I manage the JMJ centers, 2 centers and mobile centers that go around on an RV. Coordinates everything, helps out in centers, go into the community. What JMJ is, what we do, promote that in the community to help secure volunterrs, fundin,g, promote awareness. Do a lot of strategic planning on how we're gonna grow. Trying to figure out what addicitonal programs we can offer. And then go out and do the speaking and build
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I’ve never been the type to own up to them right off the bat. I find it awkward and sometimes too far off, raising a problem when ignoring it was all you probably needed. The thing is I still think about it. You’re not a idiot; it’s pretty obvious. I think you’re amazing and that won’t change no matter what this manages to morph itself into. And in my opinion, it doesn’t need to. But I think about the song, I think about the poems, I think about the unfinished story rotting because I’ve lost what
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I am 47 years old and I live in Texarkana, Texas. I moved to Texarkana about twelve years ago to get away from the craziness in Houston, Texas. So, I decided to move to the country where I now live with my boyfriend, two, toypoodles, a ferret and my boyfriends parents. We all live in the country on 5 ½ acres. Our home is 2 homes in one which are both separated, the parents live on one side and we live on the other. Once you have been use to living the city life and move to the country it can
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for the city. “Sometimes I feel really homesick” (Casal). His job makes him travel a lot to Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora. Hermosillo is 450 kilometers away from Nogales, it’s a 4 hour drive, and he stays in Hermosillo for days or even a whole week. These trips distance Moises from his family. He have miss many important family events like his sons college graduation , wedding anniversaries, and even he has been alone in a hotel room during his birthday, and I know all this because Moises
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In Emily Dickinson's poem, "I Like to See it Lap the Miles," she uses personification, alliteration, and extended metaphors to enhance her writing. First, Emily Dickinson uses personification to make her writing more alive. Personification is when you take something that isn’t living, for this case, a train, and give it human characteristics. For example, she uses, as the poem states: "And stop to feed itself at Tanks" this clearly shows how the train, an important part of the poem, is "feeding"
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DEATH TAKES THE TRAIN by D. M. Larson Copyright (c) 2012 by Freedrama.net A train car is empty. Groups of people shuffle in and settle in to seats to the right. People are talking about their trips and their destinations and how tired or hungry they are. Then after a pause, the Grim Reaper walks on to the train and sits alone at the left side of the train car. MEL Is that who I think it is? MITCH I think so. MEL What's he doing on this train? TINA How do you know it's a he? MEL Death
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stops you noticed her. We don’t take the train. We squeeze into a bubble that goes from A to B. The stops in between are our meditation places; the time: our infinity. The average commute time on the subway for a New Yorker is 54 minutes a day. According to the MTA, 4.3 million people take the subway everyday. This means that daily, the amount of time spent in the subway for people in total is 232 million minutes or about 4 million hours. Practically infinity.
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of humanity live on a train, created by the godlike Wilford, that is in perpetual motion around the globe and at this time the train has been circling the world for almost 18 years. The train is separated into an elaborate caste system, based upon the type of ticket passengers had when they first boarded. Those with first class tickets live towards the front of the train with every luxury imaginable. Those that had 3rd class tickets or were free riders live at the end of the train and lost all of their
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The Amtrak train arrived on schedule at 6 a.m. or so, as I'm sitting in the Boston train station still attaching - as it turned out unnecessary - locks to my luggage. Hustling to the train dragging two large suitcases was a feat. One kept twisting and turning, refusing to stay on its wheels. As if it didn't want me to leave. I hugged my daughter and blew kisses to the baby. Suddenly, I'm welling up with tears. I'd told the entire family that I was traveling for the next two months at least. The
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