...MARIGOLDS By Eugenia W. Collier. The scene of the marigolds are brightly blooming every summer in the field always remind me of a short story with a title “ Marigolds” by Eugenia W. Collier. Using a lot of nature symbols, and description to tell a story under a fourteen-year-old girl perspective, Collier was successful to lead readers return back her childhood memories as she lived in impoverished, dust and darkness but keep looking forward to better things in life that was a bright blossoms marigolds never faded in hope. This story is about a fourteen-year-old girl, Elizabeth who grew up during the Great Depressing in impoverished rural of Maryland. Her family was struggling in making a living as do all neighbors around. Elizabeth and her younger brother Joey like to running around and teasing Miss Lottie with her marigolds that she tenderly take care of every summer. The moment she transferred from a kid to woman, and ended up her innocence was when she awoke at midnight and heard her father crying with her mother because he felt useless. She got upset and went to destroy all the marigolds of Ms. Lottie. After that, she realized she was wrong and ashamed for what she has done. The main character of Marigolds was Elizabeth. She was fourteen turning fifteen, and stepping out her childish mentality into and adult personality. The first sign of her growing up moment was when she felt “a bit silly” as kids whizzed a pebble into the marigolds. And the rising action...
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...story, “Marigolds”, by Eugenia Collier, the marigolds represent hope and all positive aspects. In the novel, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, there are profuse amounts of symbolism, yet the most noteworthy being that of alchemy which represents Santiago's, or the protagonists, need to rid himself of impurities. These symbols are similar seeing as the marigolds are too perfect amongst the destruction surrounding them, making them an impurity which Lizabeth, the primary character in “Marigolds,” destroys as her right of passage; equivalent to Santiago having to rid himself of impurities to...
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...Even a short story taking place during the Great Depression and a novel about a young man's journey across a vast desert can have similarities. In the short story, “Marigolds”, by Eugenia Collier, the marigolds represent hope and all positive aspects. In the novel, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, there are profuse amounts of symbolism, yet the most noteworthy being that of alchemy which represents Santiago's, or the protagonists, need to rid himself of impurities. These symbols are similar seeing as the marigolds are too perfect amongst the destruction surrounding them, making them an impurity which Lizabeth, the primary character in “Marigolds,” destroys as her right of passage; equivalent to Santiago having to rid himself of impurities to...
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...The change from childhood to adulthood can be perplexing to perceive. In “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, the author provides an example of this transition through the main character, Lizabeth, and her relationship with Miss Lottie’s marigolds. Lizabeth lived in the time of the Great Depression where anything that resembled beauty seemed out of place. To her and the other children in her community, the marigolds were the beauty amidst the ugliness of their poverty. Without truly understanding the significance of their existence, she went and destroyed the flowers. The destruction of the flowers caused her to consider Miss Lottie’s motive for planting the marigolds in the first place, which results her in the loss of naivety and the gain of compassion of her and Miss Lottie’s situation. To begin with, Lizabeth slowly started to mature when she apprehended the consequences of her actions and felt remorseful for them. In a part of the story, Lizabeth initiated the onslaught upon Miss Lottie’s marigolds, and after the assault, she did not “join the merriment” with the other children and felt “ashamed” instead. Unlike them and her very own brother, Joey, she felt responsible for what...
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...Marigolds The plot of Marigolds by Eugenia Collier is basically to teach us all a lesson about growing up. In the story, one of the main characters, Lizabeth is going through hard times with her family due to The Great Depression. Her father has lost his job and is no longer the main supporter of the family. Because Lizabeth’s world is so upside down she seems to be having a hard time with the fact of growing from childhood into womanhood. In this story, Lizabeth gets peer-pressured into throwing rocks at the only beautiful thing left in her neighborhood, her neighbor, Miss Lottie’s Marigolds. After getting herself together, she realized what she did was very wrong. Lizabeth felt much regret towards her actions and was very disappointed in herself. The Necklace In...
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...certain terms and concepts that identify the difficulties the main character, Holden Caulfield, went through. Now in the beginning of the story, it shows or portrays Holden having a hard time fitting in with society because of the way they treat each other and in a way it's like giving up his innocence and being exposed to things such as phonies. However, the main reason it is difficult for him to fit in is because he wants kids to be safe from society and stay with their innocence, in a way this connects with how “ The Catcher in the Rye” is a story of Holden coming of age. This is also about how Holden wants kids to stay in the time period of innocence that they’re in now before...
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...is better to say that it is a pleasant gift to mankind. KINDS OF FLOWERS: God bless HIS creation with a large variety of flowers. Each has different color, smell and features which attracts the human eye towards themselves. In Pakistan flowers like lily, lotus, rose, marigold, jasmine and sunflower with thousands of its diversity is found. Daffodils are the specialty of European countries. Many fruits or seeds are preceded by kinds of flower. Mango blossoms are found in summer. Mustard flowers grows in winter. USEFULLNESS OF FLOWERS: Nothing is created useless in this world. Every creation has some purpose and advantage. Similarly flowers are very useful as well. Smell of flower make air pleasant to breath. From flower scent is extracted and is preserve as a perfume and air fresheners to fill our life with beautiful fragrance. From them garlands can be made also and it is fashion to wear garlands in gatherings or functions. Flower are used as a best way to express feelings. These are considered as symbol of love, friendship etc. For example red roses are used as symbol of love. Purple rose is a symbol of royalty and majesty. Yellow rose is a symbol of relationship and care. White rose is a sign of innocence and transparency. They are also given to sick persons to wish them to get well soon. And it works a lot as its sight smell and touch has a quick healing property. Flowers are used to decorate our houses this gives symbol of happiness we feel at that occasion or event...
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...really gets a chance to tell her own story, it is told for her by those around her, because that how history has been written, by those who are remembered, those who are important enough to be remembered. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is told primarily through the eyes of a wiser older Claudia MacTeer recounting events which occured during her childhood over one year, with three other narrators inserted within the Spring section. The four separate narrators all tell the tragic story of Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl who desires blue eyes in order to be beautiful. However, the point of this novel is not to recount the loss of innocence of Pecola Breedlove, instead the novel explains that Pecola is not the most important person in the town, her life is a tragedy, yet the story is not about Pecola, it is a story about Claudia and “why the marigolds did not grow that year “ (FIND THIS QUOTATION), Pecola just happens to be in this story. Shifting the main character from Pecola, a girl whose life is filled with unfortunate unparalleled circumstances, to Claudia is an unique way to tell the moral of the insignificance of the individual. In the many contemporary novels, with plot-driven storylines, main characters are seen as singularly important, like in Harry Potter by J.K. Rowlings, where the title character is the only one who can defeat the villain, and has certain skills and powers which are unique to him alone. This form of wishfullfillment is stipped away through works such...
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...BIOL 020 Lesson 4 Assignment Name___________________ PSU ID___________________ Questions for Submission (75 pts total) Answer each of the following questions as completely as possible. Your answers should be no longer than a few sentences. (5 pts) 1. Define the terms gene, homologous chromosome and allele. How are they related to each other? (10 pts) 2. What are the evolutionary advancements associated with land plants? (5 pts) 3. In the taxonomic hierarchy there are many ranks. What are the two terms called that make up species name? Who came up with this idea of a binomial name? Give an example. (10 pts) 4. What is taxonomy? What is the three-fold purpose of taxonomy? Briefly explain your answer. (10 pts) 5. What are the main groups of land plants outlined by your text and this commentary? Which of the algal groups is believed to be the progenitor of these groups? (10 pts) 6. What are some of the major groups of algal? Describe one of the groups’ ecological and economic significance. (25 pts) 7. To liven things up a bit, complete the following “Language of Flowers” exercise. Using flowers to send messages was a popular Victorian practice. Use the table in your text along with the table below (taken from www.languageofflowers.com and the Kate Greenway book) to construct a bouquet to send a message to someone you know, knew or would like to know. Write a short essay or letter (one to two pages should do) with the message you wish to send and...
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...180 THE SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW E S S A Y VIRGINIA WOOLF IN IRELAND: A SHORT VOYAGE OUT by Kathryn Laing o, it wouldnt do living in Ireland, in spite of the rocks & the desolate bays. It would lower the pulse of the heart: & all one’s mind wd. run out in talk” (Diary 4: 216)–so Woolf declared in her diary during her one and only journey around Ireland in May 1934. For her descriptions of the landscape and the people she met (mainly the Anglo-Irish gentry) are as ambivalent as her now infamous reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses. But Woolf’s response to Ireland, and more particularly to Irish writing is only part of the story. As a contemporary, how was Woolf read in Ireland, if she was read at all, and what, if any, impact has she had on Irish writing? For the contemplation of “Virginia Woolf in Ireland,” both as a traveler and a reader of Irish culture, politics and literature, and as someone to be read through her various publications, provokes a proliferation of research possibilities about both writer and country. In this essay I wish to sketch out a preliminary map of these possibilities, showing some of the potentially complex and intriguing routes that require further exploration, in relation to Woolf studies, in particular the European Reception of Woolf, and in relation to Ireland and its own literary history. So the paper is divided into three sections: briefly, Virginia Woolf literally in Ireland, reading Virginia Woolf in Ireland from the 1920s...
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...When American schoolchildren are educated about Europe between the years 1936 through 1975, they are taught about the aftereffects of World War I and about World War II. Europe, in high school history classes, ceases to exist after 1945 and the close of World War II unless, of course, one is learning about the Cold War and the Berlin Wall may be mentioned. They do not learn, however, that World War II era Spain—because Spain was neither an ally or a foe during the war—went through enormous conflict of its own. The three-year Spanish Civil War and the fascist dictatorship that followed are largely kept out of the American history books. Yet, the world is privy to much of its legacy through literature, art, film, and personal memory. Spain certainly remembers three hellish years of war and thirty six years of repression under Generalisimo Fransisco Franco, but how is General Franco remembered by the rest of the world? What legacy did he leave internationally? 2 It is a confused and varied one: to those closest to him he was a husband, father, and statesman; to Hitler, he was an obstacle on the road to world domination; to the Jews who fled from Hitler he was a hero; but to the many Spanish minorities and to his opponents in the Spanish Civil War he was a monster. 3 The answers to the questions posed are addressed in a variety of sources. One of these sources is the book Hitler Stopped by Franco, by Jane and Burt Boyar, who write a relatively straightforward book that explores many...
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...Instructor’s Manual to Accompany The Longman Writer Rhetoric, Reader, Handbook Fifth Edition and The Longman Writer Rhetoric and Reader Fifth Edition Brief Edition Judith Nadell Linda McMeniman Rowan University John Langan Atlantic Cape Community College Prepared by: Eliza A. Comodromos Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New York San Francisco Boston London Toronto Sydney Tokyo Singapore Madrid Mexico City Munich Paris Cape Town Hong Kong Montreal NOTE REGARDING WEBSITES AND PASSWORDS: If you need a password to access instructor supplements on a Longman book-specific website, please use the following information: Username: Password: awlbook adopt Senior Acquisitions Editor: Joseph Opiela Senior Supplements Editor: Donna Campion Electronic Page Makeup: Big Color Systems, Inc. Instructor’s Manual to accompany The Longman Writer: Rhetoric, Reader, Handbook, 5e and The Longman Writer: Rhetoric and Reader, Brief Edition, 5e, by Nadell/McMeniman/Langan and Comodromos Copyright ©2003 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Instructors may reproduce portions of this book for classroom use only. All other reproductions are strictly prohibited without prior permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Please visit our website at: http://www.ablongman.com ISBN: 0-321-13157-6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 - D O H - 05 04 03 02 CONTENTS ...
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...Acclaim for Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke “Just as dark and outrageous as his previous work. … His voice is so distinctive that he exists as a genre unto himself.” —The Washington Post “Palahniuk’s language is urgent and tense, touched with psychopathic brilliance, his images dead-on accurate. … [He] is an author who makes full use of the alchemical powers of fiction to synthesize a universe that mirrors our own fiction as a way of illuminating the world without obliterating its complexity.” —LA Weekly “Puts a bleakly humorous spin on self-help, addiction recovery, and childhood trauma. … Choke’s funny, mantra-like prose plows toward the mayhem it portends from the get-go.” —The Village Voice “Oddly, defiantly, addictive.” happily —Daily News “[Choke] shines a flashlight into America’s dark corners. … As darkly comic and starkly terrifying as your high school yearbook photo.” —GQ “Palahniuk is a gifted writer, and the novel is full of terrific lines.” —The New York Times Book Review “[Palahniuk’s] most enduring trait … is that marvelous quicksilver voice of his. … The exuberance of his language makes it still worthwhile to brave these often chilly and dark waters.” —The Oregonian “Choke is another welcome antidote to antiseptic consumer life, and you can’t blame it for grabbing you by the throat.” —Maxim “Palahniuk is a cult writer in the truest sense.” —Entertainment Weekly “His subversive riffs conjure a kind of jump-cut cinema of the diseased imagination, resulting...
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...The Lucky One - Nicholas Spark CONTENTS l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Epilogue Chapter One Clayton and Thibault Deputy Keith Clayton hadn't heard them approach, and up close, he didn't like the looks of them any more than he had the first time he'd seen them. The dog was part of it. He wasn't fond of German shepherds, and this one, though he was standing quietly, reminded him of Panther, the police dog that rode with Deputy Kenny Moore and was quick to bite suspects in the crotch at the slightest command. Most of the time he regarded Moore as an idiot, but he was still just about the closest thing to a friend that Clayton had in the department, and he had to admit that Moore had a way of telling those crotch-biting stories that made Clayton double over in laughter. And Moore would definitely have appreciated the little skinny-dipping party Clayton had just broken up, when he'd spied a couple of coeds sunning down by the creek in all their morning glory. He hadn't been there for more than a few minutes and had snapped only a couple...
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