...drawn to connect the similarities and differences from the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan to “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker. Although each short story has a different setting, ethnicity, theme, meaning, purpose, past and/present characters, we are still able to determine which characters resembles one another as well as the actions that are portrayed from one character in one story that mirrors another character from the other story. These two stories may have the same point-of-view, but can differ in their way of detailing and explanation. Therefore these were the similarities and differences between the two short stories that caught my attention. First thing that caught my attention was the difference in the ethnicity. The ethnicities can influence the way things are done because all cultures are simply not the same and handles situations differently. The story Two Kinds has a Chinese background, which most of us could relate to. Everyday use has an African American background, which most of us could also relate to as well. The stories are told in different perspectives, but they are both in first person. In Two Kinds, the daughter is telling the story of how her mother believed that you could be anything you want, but there was a trick to that. On the first page in the fourth paragraph, it talks about how the mother chooses what the daughter’s prodigy is going to be. That goes to show us that the Mother in this story has the “Upper Hand” or the “ Do-As-I-Say” voice that most...
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...pictures of soldiers, sailors and marines with missing arms or legs. These images touch all of us dearly and we empathize with these wounded warriors. Monetary foundations are created in their honor. They receive “The Purple Heart” medal for sustaining an injury in battle. Generals, heads-of-states, and even presidents line up to shake their hands. The media brings massive attention to their stories and deservingly so. Their lives will forever be affected by the sacrifices they’ve made and by what they’ve gone through. We salute them and call them “Heroes.” However, there are other casualties of war that we don’t hear about as often. They don’t receive the massive attention that is lavished on the others. There are generally no Purple Heart medals waiting for them and no one is lining up to shake their hands. As a matter of fact, we call them by a different name. We call them “Lucky”. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, more commonly known as “PTSD” affects thousands upon thousands of veterans across America. It is not as easily recognizable as a missing limb, but as you can see by Mike’s story, it has a lasting effect on those who suffer from it. From migraine headaches to divorce, Mike can tell you better that anyone that he is indeed a casualty of war. I think that part of the problem is the fact that those in the military (especially men) are trained to be “hard”. They are expected to be “hard”. When you see your buddy killed in front of you, or when another friend loses his arm...
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...“7 years” is a song about growing up and getting older, about getting to know life. The song is very deep and thought – provoking because of its beautiful lyric and its inspiring story. A man between the age of 20 and 30 sang about his life; thought of all the time he had to see how his life was and how he will remember the wonders of life. Not only did the man call to mind his childhood, but he also saw his hopes and dreams in future. The song sounds like a short movie of life. It opens with a mommy told the little 7 years boy to go out and make friends. As a young boy at 11 years, he had that dream like his daddy before him, so he started writing songs and stories. He told his own story through the songs. He understood that chasing the glory...
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...A SORROWFUL WOMAN The following short story is a study of the gradual disintegration of a human personality. In keeping with the "once upon a time" lead, the style is similar to a fairy tale except that "happily ever after" does not happen. The reader should consider the monotonously repetitive tasks taken over by the husband and later shared with the live in girl and compare these with the usual tasks of men in their jobs at the office or wherever. Then, consider how all of this relates to the final "legacy" of food, laundry, and sonnets. Once upon a time there was a wife and mother one too many times One winter evening she looked at them: the husband durable, receptive, gentle; the child a tender golden three. The sight of them made her so sad and sick she did not want to see them ever again. She told the husband these thoughts. He was attuned to her; he understood such things. He said he understood. What would she like him to do? "If you could put the boy to bed and read him the story about the monkey who ate too many bananas, I would be grateful." "Of course," he said. "Why, that's a pleasure." And he sent her off to bed. The next night it happened again. Putting the warm dishes away in the cupboard, she turned and saw the child's grey eyes approving her movements. In the next room was the man, his chin sunk in the open collar of his favorite wool shirt. He was dozing after her good supper. The shirt was the grey of the child's trusting gaze. She began yelping without...
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...Imagine the last time it was common for little girls in a toy store to ask their mommies for toy cars or perhaps something sporty, this type of situation is indeed fading. Instead, we find it common for little girls to run to isles that are glowing with neon pink boxes containing their favorite princess figures that they have seen in their favorite movies. Over the recent decades, society has innocently begun to adapt to the “princess” stereotype that is portrayed by corporations through constant advertising and marketing of these products. Through constant recreation of Cinderella, Major businesses’ profit off of the modern obsession and the ever growing “princess” cringe within adolescents by simply taking the perceived character in a film,...
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...REFLECTION ESSAY Reading and writing do not come easy to me. It’s not that I don’t read well; it’s difficult to find material that interests me. As for writing, I write how I speak, so I don’t think I’m very good at it. Although, because The Norton Reader has such a variety of essays, I found it much easier to appreciate and understand than most books referred to me by friends and family. I chose to read the following * “On Dumpster Diving” by Lars Eighner, because I saw a documentary a few years ago called “Dive!” and wanted to understand the reasons of why people do it. Is it because they are experimenting (for a documentary) or because they have no other choice? * “On Keeping a Notebook” by Joan Didion, because I kept a journal when I was young and I’d like to start again. I thought maybe this essay would give me some tips on doing so. * “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White, because I thought it would be a good read. The challenges I found were few. My biggest issue was my kids. With college starting one week before the rest of the Northwest, entertaining my twin, 7 year-old boys, in their last week of summer, and managing coursework for three classes, was a huge challenge. Even with them entertaining themselves was a huge distraction because of all the noise they make, indoors and out. Noise reducing headphones seemed to do the trick, but then I constantly worried about what mischief they could be getting themselves into. I also found it difficult to...
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...INTRODUCTION Rationale Television is among the most important means of communication nowadays. It is used to communicate ideas to change people’s behaviors by means of several term including selected Filipino Short Film commercials that give values to the viewers. According to McLuhan (n. d.), television is a form of entertainment, and it has educational properties. It teaches all the time, doing even more educating than schools. In addition, according to Shairise (2011) Filipino values, these works call a development of a Filipino philosophy of values so that the ultimate causes and principle to be manifested. Today, the need for the solid Filipino philosophy of values is urgent in order to serve as a fundamental basis not only to speculation of the different sciences but also to the practice for Filipino philosophy of values exist. According to Patton (2006), television commercials have long been an effective means of advertising products. Today they are less dominant in the television landscape due to the rise of TiVo, commercial free cable and other forms of video entertainment. New types of advertising like sponsorship of sporting events featured on television and the placement of products within shows are growing, but traditional commercials still take up significant airtime and account for a large amount of broadcaster revenue. Few television viewers have not been exposed to television commercials. Advertising involves programming that is paid for by companies...
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...Describe your intellectual interests, their evolution, and what makes them exciting to you. Tell us how you will utilize the academic programs to further explore your interests, intended major, or field of study. “Look, Mommy, the sun is playing peekaboo with the clouds,” I told my mother, squeezing her hand and squinting at the temperamental sky. It was my first metaphor, although I was unaware of it at the time; I was three years old. Even before I could read, I harbored a natural affinity for the English language, picking up new words easily and using them in unexpected ways. I would string them together like beads on a necklace, carefully selecting and rearranging them for the most ear-pleasing sentence. For me, words were more than a way to communicate - they were a form of art. As I delved into the written word I began to recognize writing as a powerful tool for expression. I turned to poetry and short stories to capture childhood moments, expanding my vocabulary and becoming skilled at transferring raw emotions and ideas onto paper. My parents encouraged me to make frequent trips to the library, and I often staggered home beneath the weight of a pile of novels. When I entered high school as a published author and poet, my writing continued to mature. Although I still marveled at the versatility of language, I now wielded my pen with a more defined sense of purpose. I understood that words could be used for more than the aesthetic appeal that got me through...
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...Contemporary American Drama This is a term paper assignment for the class “Contemporary American Drama.” In this assignment, I will firstly give a clear definition of drama producing the historical background of contemporary American Drama briefly. Then I am going to introduce the genres we have covered with the characteristics of each such as absurdist, realist and feminist drama. After introducing the genres, I will give a brief analysis of the plays and the playwrights we have studied in class. Finally, I will make a few objective points about my personal performance, the instructor’s performance and the contribution of the course to my academic career. Drama is a literary work generally performed by actors in a kind of stage which involves conflicts and action crisis in it with a plot, characters and dialogues. Setting, costuming, props, blocking, movement, gestures, pacing, intonation are main elements of the spectacle. The distinct period in all arts with drama begins in 1960s. Until 1950s, the words American Drama and Broadway have almost same meanings. In the very beginning times of American Drama, plays were not originals; they were wholly borrowed from London. But after 50s, American Drama changed radically. Actors, directors, and others from Broadway came to America, because now they did not have any job there. After they came, they established their own Off-Broadway companies here. The most popular and affection dramatists of time in America were Eugene O’Neill...
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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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...relationship is never really able to make anybody happy. In the short story "Pool" from 2009, we here about a young couple named Darla and Jon, who is at pool party at their friends' house named Mandy and Trevor. The day before Darla and Jon had a accident in bed and out of fear they went to the pharmacy to get a morning-after pill. Even though they chose not to talk about it, the whole episode affects Darla's experience of their visit at Mandy and Trevor's. Darla is acting irritated at Jon, and it seems like Jon doesn't take the accident yesterday seriously. Darla finds out the two couples live totally different lifestyles and that she would have a tough time living like Mandy, only focusing on being a mommy. The others in the pool try hard to get Darla in there with them, but she uses the excuse that she hasn't brought any swimsuit. At last she's borrowing a swimsuit from Mandy. Here Trevor tells Darla that he knows about the morning-after pill and he makes approach to Darla. They talk about his marriage and that it's not all love and harmony, and afterwards Darla takes off her clothes in front of him, to switch to the swimsuit. We see how Darla has a hard time dealing with her relationship, and how she tries to figure out what to do about, how she's insecure and that the relationship with Jon is not fitting her growing her or making her happy. Characterize of Darla Darla is the main character of the story and is a woman who has a hard time identifying who...
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...Sample Paper Professor Flores CD 125 07/10/11 PRESCHOOL OBSERVATION PAPER Part I Setting July 22, 2009, 3:30 PM, Pilgrim Lutheran Preschool Chula Vista, CA. Addie, almost 3 years old Each classroom was made up of two adults and a specific age group of preschoolers, from 2 ½, 3, 4, or 5 years old. In the classroom where I began my observation there were two teachers and nine children (we later moved to the playground). I felt that the preschool was a very safe environment for the children. The front yards of the school were completely fenced so no children can run off the property. It seemed to be a healthy place for the children to play both inside and out. The preschool is very spacious and it is across the parking lot from the elementary school it feeds into. Approaching the preschool you are greeted by large, blue letters, “PILGRIM LUTHERAN PRESCHOOL”. There is a gate in the middle of the fence with a handle so that only a certain height can reach. On either side of the path to enter the main building is a nice green lawn where the children can play with toys for outside. As the door is opened you hear an alarm beep which to me said this school is a safe place for these kids, the teachers are always aware when someone walks into the building. There is a spacious kitchen where the teachers prepare their snacks for their class. There are four classrooms for the four specific age groups. Each classroom was equipped with desks and chairs suitable for young children...
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...Books for Military Children ENG 290 1422 South Tech Lane, Meridian, Idaho, 83642 November 26, 2013 Mr. Thomas Luna Superintendent State Board Of Education 650 West State Street, Boise, Idaho, 83720 Dear Mr. Luna, We are a concerned group of students from University of Phoenix who want to address a lack of appropriate reading material for our students from military families. These children, and their families, are seemingly always on the move. The culture shock a typical military child goes through every time his family moves can be stressful. Although there are communities within the confines of the base, the world outside the gates can be overwhelming and even scary. Within the gates and fences there is relative safety, and a sense of security. However, outside those parameters are challenges that most children may have no idea how to handle or what to expect when they arrive in their new temporary home. There is a need for children of military families to make friends easily, and to find a community of his or her peers, but many of them find it hard to be accepted into a group when continually viewed as a temporary “new kid.” Rarely do military children have lifelong friendships from their childhood. They will better equip themselves to make friends easier and form meaningful relationships if they would prepare themselves with a sneak peak at the culture they will be living in ahead of time. Our goal is to put more books regarding these issues into...
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...Prologue Ako nga Pala si Natasha Julie Ann Cameron.. haba ng name ko noh? Ashie for short, apelyedo ko po ang Cameron :DD NBSB ako, dahil naniniwala ako na sagabal lang sa pag-aaral ang mga lalaki,. I hate guys except for my kuya, blame my father he left us without a trail, iniwan niya kami nila mommy, what is LOve? -for me epal, darating kung saka di pa ako handa. well, kahit NBSB ako may mga manliligaw parin ako, hihihi. pero no luck na ata ngayon, kasi dati pa yun na mga manliligaw... nag sawa na sa kakahintay. kaya ayon, wala na, pero okay lang.. **/if you want to read it on your mobile fone copy paste niyo na lang ‘toh sa notepad. :D sa ibang phone nababasa ‘toh as it. I mean as MC word talaga pero yung iba ebook so you need to cpy paste this pa sa notepad and then saka niyo isend sa cp niyo.. kung myphone gamit niyo you’re lucky enough. copy paste mo lang ‘toh sa notepad and send mo sa cp mo. okay na! kung nokia naman gamit mo, N70 na o-open siya as note.. I don’t know sa ibang model….AT! hindi ko na rin poi to na edit TT^TT, so sorry sa mga wrong spelling,wrong grammar.etc. hope u understand. thanks! :*** Chapter 1 "Natasha! bumaba kana dito kakain na" - mommy "coming right up mom"- me pag baba ko, hmm, mas safe ng idescribe na si mommy ang nag handa ng food namin kahit hindi, >:) "good morning Kuya" –me lagi ko siya ginegreet, kahit di niya ako ginegreet. close kami pero di niya lang type mang bati pag umaga. :D 1 year agwat namin, kaya close. "Ashie...
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...Copyright Page This book was automatically created by FLAG on May 2nd, 2013, based on content retrieved from http://www.wattpad.com/story/1921085. The content in this book is copyrighted by SezzyBinbin or their authorised agent(s). All rights are reserved except where explicitly stated otherwise. This story was first published on August 16th, 2012, and was last updated on October 13th, 2012. Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated - please email any bugs, problems, feature requests etc. to flag@erayd.net. Table of Contents Summary 1. PROLOGUE 2. INTRODUCTION 3. 1. 4. 2. 5. 3. 6. 4. 7. 5. 8. [Chapter6]Love Letters to him, Date? Part2 9. [Chapter 7]Love Letters to Him 10. [Chapter 8]Love Letters To Him 11. [Chapter 9]Love Letters to Him 12. [Chapter 10]Love Letters to Him 13. [Chapter 11]Love Letters to Him. Again? Part 1 14. [Chapter 12]Love Letters To Him. Again? Part 2 15. [Chapter 13]Love Letters to Him. Again? Part 3 16. SPECIAL CHAPTER 17. [Chapter 14]Love Letters to Him 18. [Chapter 15]Love Letters to Him, A heartbreak? 19. [Chapter 16]Love Letters to Him 20. [Chapter 17]Love Letters to Him, Love Part 1 21. [Chapter 18]Love Letters to Him, Love Part 2 22. [Chapter 19]Love Letters to Him, Love Message 23. [Chapter 20]Love Letters to Him, Girlfriend 24. [Chapter 21]Love Letters to Him 25. [Chapter 22]Love letters to Him 26. [Chapter 23]Love Letters to Him 27. [Chapter 24]Love Letters to Him 28. [Chapter 25]Love Letters to Him -3- 29. [Chapter 26]Love Letters...
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