...After reading and analyzing "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" by Alice Walker, one observes several different examples of how one's perspective affects different people or situations. The most apparent example is Walker's daughter's perspective on her mother's damaged eye; even after repairing it, Walker still feels slightly insecure about her eye; she worries if it will stay straight for a picture or if it will embarrass her daughter. On the other hand, her daughter says, "Mommy, there's a world in your eye," describing the beauty she sees in it. After hearing this, Alice's perspective shifted from shame to pride, for she writes, "There was a world in my eye. And I saw that it was possible to love it..." Another example of a difference...
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...Children hurt and tease each other, from the clothes they wear to what they look like. Children do not have the maturity to understand or realize how cruel comments can affect someone. When we see someone with a physical defect or someone that may not look “normal”, its human nature to stare, but we have to teach our children to be sympathetic and supportive towards people like this. In, Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self, Alice Walker suggests that a psychological and physical scar can turn ones life into a downward spiral but can overcome it all in the end. Walker begins to describe how quickly she turned into a self-hatred human being in the blink of an eye. She takes us on an emotional roller coaster with present and past memories of her life. Walker depicts herself as a wonderful and beautiful child who at one point could stand proud in front of people with confidence, almost on the verge of cockiness. One day she is wearing beautiful and colorful dresses, and the next she becomes a rough and dirty tomboy. It was her Kelly 2 tomboy change when her life made a drastic turn that resulted in a physical scar and far worse, a psychological scar that she would endure for most of life. As she became older, Walker regained her confidence. She had been given a life-changing opportunity to repair her physical defect. Instantly, she became a happier person, however, it wasn’t until her concerned daughter tells her...
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...Engl. 1301 April 3, 2013 Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self One's perception of themselves is usually influenced by their own experiences. In Alice Walker essay "Beauty: When the Other Dancer self" she describes herself over coming and gaining acceptance of herself exactly the way she is. She narrates in remembrance of the event that forever changed her and perception of beauty. Walker uses superlatives, Metaphors, and tense throughout her writing to deliver her ever-changing outlook toward her own beauty. Walker describes the accident that happens to her as a child to show that one’s mindset can be altered through an intense experience and how her attitude completely transforms from a arrogant child into a newly reincarnated woman who now sees a new kind of beauty from within herself. She uses different points of her life to develop this very idea in separate comprehensible stages. She brings the scene to life when she tells us how she manipulates her daddy into taking her to the county fair by swirling around, with her hands on her hips, in her pretty dress and biscuit polished patent leather shoes and says '“I’m the prettiest!”' As she parades around using her cuteness for her father's approval. Her attitude is further encouraged by the people of her church. She was always used to hearing “'Oh, isn’t she the cutest thing!' This makes us believe that she is satisfied with her looks and shows us that she is confident with the outer beauty in herself. Then Walker...
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...Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self At first I had trouble finding Alice Walker’s thesis in the essay “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”. I read over the first paragraph but no thesis pertaining to the story. I read the first five paragraphs a few times and eventually came to the conclusion that the topic of her story is that she is a pretty girl with “great spirit.” She goes on to narrate by saying “It was great fun being cute. But then, one day, it ended”. This referred to a time when she was 8 years old and was shot in the eye by a bb gun held by her brother. He then said “If you tell, we will get a whipping. You don’t want that to happen, do you?” Ms. Walker often narrates this way, quoting persons from her past and then adding in her thoughts on them in third person. After this accident, she lost her sight and would not look up like she used to; she didn’t have the same peppy attitude she always had. At 14 her eye was fixed and her spirit returned. She began to see the world as she once did and her life seemed to pick up where it left off at the accident. By her late 20’s and into her 30’s after she had a daughter, she came to see the defect in her eye in a new light, she embraced and loved it. In my opinion, this reinforces the topic of her story as her being a woman with “great spirit.” The Great Imagination Heist If I were to grade Reynolds Price’s essay based on the “Rubric for English 101 Essays” outline he’d get a D-. Three sentences make up his...
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...Alexita Professor Jamie ENC 1102 August 4, 2013 Alice Walker Section 1 Biography According to Michael Mayer, Alice Walker, one of the best-known and most highly respected writers in the United States, was born in Eatonton, Georgia. She was the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker. Her parents were sharecroppers, and money was not always available as needed. At the tender age of eight, Walker lost sight of one eye when one of her older brothers shot her with a BB gun by accident. This left her in somewhat a depression, and she secluded herself from the other children. Walker felt like she was no longer a little girl because of the traumatic experience she had undergone, and she was filled with shame because she thought she was unpleasant to look at. During this seclusion from other kids of her age, Walker began to write poems. Hence, her career as a writer began. Walker found the love of her life in 1967, a white activist civil rights lawyer named Mel Leventhal, and they married him in 1967. A year later she gave birth to their daughter, Rebecca. It was not until she began teaching that her writing career really took off. She began teaching at Jackson State, then Tougaloo, and finally at Wellesley College. Walker was involved in the Civil Rights Movement and spoke for the women’s movement, the anti-apartheid movement, for the anti-nuclear movement, and against female genital mutilation. She also started her own publishing company:...
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...to deficiency or impaired metabolism of vitamin D, phosphorus or calcium, potentially leading to fractures and deformity” (Wikipedia). Rickets is passed genetically from the mother to the child via blood. Females do not develop the signs and symptoms of Rickets, however when passed down, the males will. Which is my case. I was diagnosed with Rickets at an early age, but this has not stopped me from living life to the fullest. Take a journey with me through the struggles and trials I have overcome so far. I was born on December 30, 1989 in Germantown, Maryland. Although my mother was aware of her genetic deficiencies that could potentially be passed on to me, I lived a seemingly normal life until I was roughly 4 years old. My mom worked long hours during the day as a teacher for a charter school and my father worked as a hotel maintenance man. I had two older siblings, who were born without Rickets, and a little brother who was developing his own symptoms. My parents started to notice my legs were beginning to bow outwards at my femur. Tests were ran and sure enough, I had Rickets. As a small child, these words were merely empty words to me. I did not know what it meant, I did not feel any different from the other children, and I did not let it define me. So what if I was a little chubby, walked bowlegged, and swayed side to side? I was just a child. My parents and the pediatric orthopedic surgeon began discussing the long...
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...Exercise 1-14：我们将OG和PP2中的题目编排为前14个Exercise, 每个Exercise都是按照GRE考试中阅读部分的出题习惯编排，即每个Exercise 10个题目，形式为（1长+2短+1逻辑 or 4短+1逻辑）。 Exercise 15-24：我们将近年来考试中出现的文章和老GRE中极为接近现行出题风格的文章编排为后10个Exercise，每个Exercise 13个题目左右，形式为（1长+1短+2逻辑）。 练习方法： 建议大家第一遍做能够限时练习，按照考试的要求每个Exercise的大致难度和应该用的时间都标在了前面。没做完6个exercise可以做一个回顾总结，将文章反复做一遍，总结单词，长难句，文章的出题规律，句子之间的关系。 答案显示方法： 如果你打印出来练习：参考答案见P 页 如果你在电脑上练习：windows 系统：Ctrl+Shift+8；Mac系统：Command+8 Exercise 1. 20min While most scholarship on women’s employment in the United States recognizes that the Second World War (1939–1945) dramatically changed the role of women in the workforce, these studies also acknowledge that few women remained in manufacturing jobs once men returned from the war. But in agriculture, unlike other industries where women were viewed as temporary workers, women’s employment did not end with the war. Instead, the expansion of agriculture and a steady decrease in the number of male farmworkers combined to cause the industry to hire more women in the postwar years. Consequently, the 1950s saw a growing number of women engaged in farm labor, even though rhetoric in the popular media called for the return of women to domestic life. 1. It can be inferred from the passage that the manufacturing and agricultural sectors in the United States following the Second World War differed in which of the following respects? B A. The rate of expansion in...
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...N New York London Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 270 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2 Park Square Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon OX14 4RN © 2006 by Lois Tyson Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business Printed in the United States of America on acid‑free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 International Standard Book Number‑10: 0‑415‑97410‑0 (Softcover) 0‑415‑97409‑7 (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number‑13: 978‑0‑415‑97410‑3 (Softcover) 978‑0‑415‑97409‑7 (Hardcover) No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging‑in‑Publication Data Tyson, Lois, 1950‑ Critical theory today : a user‑friendly guide / Lois Tyson.‑‑ 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0‑415‑97409‑7 (hb) ‑‑ ISBN 0‑415‑97410‑0 (pb) 1. Criticism. I. Title. PN81.T97 2006 801’.95‑‑dc22 Visit the Taylor & Francis Web site at http://www.taylorandfrancis.com and the Routledge...
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...ANALOGY EXERCISE A Directions: In each of the following questions,there is a certain relationship between two given words on one side of : : and one word is given on another side of : :while another word is to be found from the given alternatives,having the same relation with this word as the words of the given pair bear. Choose the correct alternative. 1 . Moon : Satellite : : Earth :? (A) Sun (B) Planet (C)Solar System (D) Asteroid Ans: (B) Explanation: Moon is a satellite and Earth is a Planet . 2 . Forecast : Future : : Regret :? (A) Present (B) Atone (C)Past (D)Sins Ans: (C) Explanation: Forecast is for Future happenings and Regret is for past actions . 3. Influenza : Virus : : Typhoid : ? (A) Bacillus (B)Parasite (C)Protozoa (D) Bacteria Ans: (D) Explanation: First is the disease caused by the second . 4. Fear : Threat : : Anger : ? (A)Compulsion (B)Panic (C)Provocation (D)Force Ans: (C) Explanation: First arises from the second . 5. Melt : Liquid : : Freeze : ? (A)Ice (B)Condense (C)Solid (D)Crystal Ans: (C) Explanation: First is the process of formation of the second . 6. Clock : Time : : Thermometer : ? (A)Heat (B)Radiation (C)Energy (D)Temperature Ans: (D) Explanation: First is an instrument used to measure the second . 7. Muslim : Mosque : : Sikhs : ? (A)Golden Temple (B)Medina (C)Fire Temple (D)Gurudwara Ans: (D) Explanation: Second is the pace of worship for the first . 8. Paw : Cat : : Hoof : ? (A)Horse (B)Lion (C)Lamb (D)Elephant Ans: (A) Explanation: First...
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