Compare and Contrast Essay on Short Stories Dragons, witches, princesses and knights. These are the imaginary friends in so many children's lives. For young adults, those fairy tail characters give way to darker characters and more realistic situations. However, what do they all have in common? They live in short stories. Two short stories that are interesting are "Indian Education" by Sherman Alexie and "Thank you Ma'am" by Langston Hughes. "Indian Education" is about a boy who learned a lot
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I. Introduction a. In Langston Hughes' short story "Thank You, Ma'am" talks about a tale of a young teenager who tries to steal a woman's purse to buy himself new blue suede shoes. The woman, Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, scolds and grabs the boy, Roger, and takes him home with her. Roger thinks she might turn him over to the police, but she does not. She talks to him in an understanding way, saying she did things when she was younger that she is not proud of today. While in her boarding
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CONNECT FEATURES Interactive Applications Interactive Applications offer a variety of automatically graded exercises that require students to apply key concepts. Whether the assignment includes a click and drag, video case, or decision generator, these applications provide instant feedback and progress tracking for students and detailed results for the instructor. Case Exercises The Connect platform also includes author-developed case exercises for all 12 cases in this edition that require
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