...“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself” (George Bernard Snow). Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees, centered around the development of the life of Lily Owens, a young, South Carolinian girl. Upon running away from her abusive father, Lily unwittingly set in motion a series of encounters and experiences that would later help to define her own character. This novel is the story of Lily’s coming-of-age, a sequence of events of drastic mental maturation, and in each of the most critical encounters and experiences, Kidd emphasized their meanings through the application of devices, such as indirect characterization, symbolism, and allusion. Together, they demonstrated what Lily believed in, what she wanted...
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...Essay: Bless Me Ultima & The Secret Life of Bees They need to find their path in life. They have to struggle betweengood and evil. They must reclaim their past to discover their future. Antoniofrom Bless Me Ultima and Lily from The Secret Life of Bees both faceproblems but in the end, the light at the end of the tunnel shines. Althoughthere are similarities between Bless Me Ultima and The Secret Life of Bees there are, obviously, notable differences. The similarities are pretty apparent between the two books. They areboth a “coming-of-age” story and they both have a couple of plot parallels.For example, Antonio has to find his true calling and Lily has to follow hermother’s past. In both books, mentions of religion are very widespread.Religion is one of the most important factors in the books and it influencesthe story a lot. Another noted similarity is the use of allusions, metaphors,and imagery.Even though there are many similarities, there are some very strikingdifferences. The most noted of them is the difference of the gender in thenovel. Bless Me Ultima , is geared towards all readers, but The Secret Life of Bees is generally a girl’s novel. For example, in The Secret Life of Bees , Lilyfalls in love with Zachary but in Bless Me Ultima , Antonio is not shown to bein love. Also, The Secret Life of Bees takes on more feminine topics. In BlessMe Ultima , Antonio is faced with a decision that will alter his outlook on life, -1- Ivan VargheseLauve –...
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...struggle is inevitably shaped, for better, or for worse, through the experience. Sue Monk Kidd does just that in her novel, The Secret Life of Bees, incorporating literary devices, such as indirect characterization, symbolism, and allusions, which shape not only the main character Lily, but those she interacts with as well. Throughout the novel, these literary devices create a lasting image within the reader of the struggles of racism and one girl’s quest to find the truth about her mother. Early on in the novel, Kidd employs indirect characterization to portray Rosaleen as a rash person, contributing to the atmosphere of...
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...Secret Life of Bees Study Guide Prewriting: Confederacy, rednecks, grits, fried chicken (and waffles), slavery, civil rights, strange accents Kudzu is a quick growing plant from asia that was used for erosion control and has become a pest in the south. Grits are boiled, ground corn kernels usually served at breakfast Sweet-grass baskets are baskets that are coiled tight enough to hold water 3. Malcolm X was a civil rights activist and a religious leader. Saigon is now known as Ho Chi Minh city and was a very important city during the Vietnam War. The Beatles were an english rock band, and they were thought of as one of the most influential groups of the rock era. The civil rights movement was a movement in the late 1900s that wanted...
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...In the novel, May has a wailing wall, on which she expresses the things that upset her in an attempt to ‘let go’ of the sadness. When Lily visits the wall, she pulls out a piece of paper with the writing: “Birmingham, Sept 15, four little angels dead” (Kidd 80). This slip of paper is an allusion to the bombings that occurred in Birmingham. It demonstrates the connection that May was once deeply saddened by this event, so she calmed herself by writing it down and adding it to her wall. I can predict that, on the other slips of paper, there are varying events that depressed May written down, whether it be a normal, daily issue of her’s or an event as harrowing as the Birmingham church...
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...Figures of Speech (Stylistic Devices) What are stylistic devices? In literature and writing, a figure of speech (also called stylistic device or rhetorical device) is the use of any of a variety of techniques to give an auxiliary meaning, idea, or feeling. Sometimes a word diverges from its normal meaning, or a phrase has a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it. Examples are metaphor, simile, or personification. Stylistic devices often provide emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity. A simile is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced with the word "like" or "as". It takes the form of: * X is (not) like Y * X is (not) as Y * X is (not) similar to Y Examples of simile: * He fights like a lion. * He swims as fast as a fish. * He slithers like a snake. * "My dad was a mechanic by trade when he was in the Army, When he got the tools out, he was like a surgeon." What is a metaphor? Unlike simile, metaphor (from the Greek language: meaning "transfer") is language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects. It is a figure of speech that compares two or more things not using like or as. In the simplest case, this takes the form: X - is - Y Examples of metaphor: All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; (William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 2/7) Example: “Henry was a lion on the battlefield”. This...
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...THE WASTE LAND In brief, The Waste Land is a 433-line modernist poem by T. S Eliot published in 1922. It has been called “one of the most important poems of the 20th century.” Despite the poem’s obscurity which it shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures has made the poem to be a familiar touchstone of modern literature. The poem has been written in five parts. The five parts of The Waste Land are titled “The Burial of the Dead”, “A Game of Chess”, “The Fire Sermon”, “Death by Water”, and “What the Thunder Said”. The Waste Land is an allusive and complex poem. As such, it is subject to a variety of interpretations, and no two critics agree completely on its meaning. It may be interpreted on three levels: the person, the society, and the human race. The personal interpretation seeks to reveal Eliot's feelings and intentions in writing the poem. At the society level, a critic looks for the meaning of the poem in relation to the society for which it was written. Finally, the human level extends the societal level to include all human societies past, present, and future (Thompson, 1963). The question of literary value is complex. We must distinguish, first of all, between the importance of literature in our lives and the importance of any specific text. Literature defines and creates our world. In poems, plays, novels...
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...For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org WORDS FREQUENTLY APPEARING ON THE GMAT In your preparation for the GMAT, it is important that you become familiar with the meanings of as many words as possible. This is especially true for success on the Verbal Ability section of the test, but it is also necessary for better comprehension of Reading Comprehension, Reading recall, and Practical Judgment passage, where a few key words may hold the meaning of an entire paragraph. The vocabulary list presented here contains words that frequently appear on the GMAT and many terms that you may encounter in the course of the exam. Study it carefully to familiarize yourself with these words. Refer to it to check the meaning of any difficult words you may encounter in other parts of this Guide. Abase – to humiliate, degrade Abash – to bewilder, confound Abate – to remove, lessen Abdicate - to forsake, give up Aberration – deviation Abeyance – inactivity Abhor – to detest, hate Abject – degraded, miserable Abjure – to recant, revoke Abnegate – to deny, denounce Abominate – to dislike Abort – to be unsuccessful, fail to develop Abrade – to scrape out Abrogate – to abolish Abscond – to bolt, decamp, flee Absolve – to pardon Abstemious – eating or drinking sparingly Abstract – summary Abstruse – profound, hidden, hard to under-stand Accede - to consent Accessory – accomplice Acclivity – incline rising slope Accolade – honor, award Accord – to...
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...G U I D E T E A C H E R’S A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE BY SOLOMON NORTHUP bY Jeanne M. McGlInn anD JaMes e. McGlInn 2 A Teacher’s Guide to Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup Table of Contents SYNOPSIS......................................................................................................................................3 ABOUT THE AUTHOR...............................................................................................................3 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY GUIDE............................................................................3 MEETING COMMON CORE STANDARDS.............................................................3 THE SLAVE NARRATIVE GENRE...............................................................................3 HISTORICAL OVERVIEW..........................................................................................................4 DURING READING.....................................................................................................................6 SYNTHESIZING DISCUSSION QUESTIONS.......................................................................9 ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES.......................................................................................................9 ACTIVITIES FOR USING THE FILM ADAPTATION........................................................ 11 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES.....................................................................................
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...SECRET LANGUAGE of • HOW LEADERS INSPIRE ACTION THROUGH NARRATIVE The LEADERSHIP STEPHEN DENNING John Wiley & Sons, Inc. More Praise for The Secret Language of Leadership “Out of the morass of strategies leaders are given to transform organizations, Denning plucks a powerful one—storytelling— and shows how and why it works.” —Dorothy Leonard, William J. Abernathy Professor of Business, Emerita, Harvard Business School, and author, Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom “The Secret Language of Leadership shows why narrative intelligence is central to transformational leadership and how to harness its power.” —Carol Pearson, director, James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland, and coauthor, The Hero and the Outlaw “The Secret Language of Leadership is not only the best analysis I have seen of how and why leaders succeed or fail, it’s highly readable, as well as downright practical. It should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in engaging a company with big ideas who understands that leaders live and die by the quality of what they say.” —Richard Stone, story analytics master, i.d.e.a.s “A primary role of leaders is to create and maintain meaning for their organizations. Denning clearly demonstrates that meaningmaking comes from stories well told.” —Thomas Davenport, President’s Distinguished Professor of I.T. and Management, Babson College, and author, The Attention Economy “Steve...
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...Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Bloom's Classic Critical Views alfred, lord Tennyson Benjamin Franklin The Brontës Charles Dickens edgar allan poe Geoffrey Chaucer George eliot George Gordon, lord Byron henry David Thoreau herman melville Jane austen John Donne and the metaphysical poets John milton Jonathan Swift mark Twain mary Shelley Nathaniel hawthorne Oscar Wilde percy Shelley ralph Waldo emerson robert Browning Samuel Taylor Coleridge Stephen Crane Walt Whitman William Blake William Shakespeare William Wordsworth Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Edited and with an Introduction by Sterling professor of the humanities Yale University harold Bloom Bloom’s Classic Critical Views: William Shakespeare Copyright © 2010 Infobase Publishing Introduction © 2010 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact: Bloom’s Literary Criticism An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data William Shakespeare / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom : Neil Heims, volume editor. p. cm. — (Bloom’s classic critical views) Includes bibliographical references...
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... | |(This word list is formatted narrow to make it suitable for printing) | | By Raj Bapna | |Dear Friend, | | You now have in your hands a very valuable list of 1,853 most difficult words that can give you an edge over others for your success| |in your exam. This is my gift to you with my best wishes for your big success in exam and in life. | |This list is taken from the vocab books of Vocab-Builder Mind Machine, which is a topper�s ultimate vocab system. | |This list is free to you. | |How to Use This Word List | | The words are given in bold. The meaning is given after the equal sign (=) following a word. We have used the US spellings. The| |British spelling of a word, when different from the US spelling, is given in bracket after BRITISH as shown for the...
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...org Second Printing 2004 Third Printing 2011 ISBN 978-1-57821-072-5 Design and production by Koechel Peterson & Associates, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Scripture quotations in this book are taken from the King James Version of the Bible. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may reproduced in any form without the written permission of the Publisher. Printed in the United States of America. ******ebook converter DEMO - www.ebook-converter.com******* ******Created by ebook converter - www.ebook-converter.com****** “Cosmic Codes was the authoritative resource that we relied on in the research of our PAX-TV/Discovery Channel television special Secrets of the Bible Code Revealed. It’s absolutely packed with fascinating factual information on all of the Bible-related codes.” DAVID W. BALSIGER PRODUCER, SECRETS OF THE BIBLE CODE REVEALED “Chuck Missler writes from a technological and Biblical background in this cutting-edge analysis of the hidden codes of the Bible. This thoroughly researched book assists those investigating the inerrancy of the Word of God.” JOHN ANKERBERG ANKERBERG THEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE THE JOHN ANKERBERG SHOW “Chuck Missler has searched the entire range of the Bible and documented the presence of messages held beyond a simple reading of the text. For many, the information in Cosmic Codes: Hidden Messages...
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...A Conjecture on the Wife of Bath's Prologue Author(s): Richard F. Jones Source: The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Oct., 1925), pp. 512-547 Published by: University of Illinois Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27702906 Accessed: 17-08-2015 10:45 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. University of Illinois Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 182.69.107.77 on Mon, 17 Aug 2015 10:45:38 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions A CONJECTURE ON THE WIFE OF BATH'S PROLOGUE of Bath's the Wife When for the first reading Prologue time, I remember my surprise upon reaching line 193 to find continued for several hundred lines, whereas that the Prologue a tale to follow. With I had expected each reading since, I in adjusting my expecta the same difficulty have experienced found. This repeated experience, ...
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...Life of Chopin PREFACE To a people, always prompt in its recognition of genius, and ready to sympathize in the joys and woes of a truly great artist, this work will be one of exceeding interest. It is a short, glowing, and generous sketch, from the hand of Franz Liszt, (who, considered in the double light of composer and performer, has no living equal,) of the original and romantic Chopin; the most ethereal, subtle, and delicate among our modern tone-poets. It is a rare thing for a great artist to write on art, to leave the passionate worlds of sounds or colors for the colder realm of words; rarer still for him to abdicate, even temporarily, his own throne, to stand patiently and hold aloft the blazing torch of his own genius, to illume the gloomy grave of another: yet this has Liszt done through love for Chopin. It is a matter of considerable interest to note how the nervous and agile fingers, accustomed to sovereign rule over the keys, handle the pen; how the musician feels as a man; how he estimates art and artists. Liszt is a man of extensive culture, vivid imagination, and great knowledge of the world; and, in addition to their high artistic value, his lines glow with poetic fervor, with impassioned eloquence. His musical criticisms are refined and acute, but without repulsive technicalities or scientific terms, ever sparkling with the poetic ardor of the generous soul through which the discriminating, yet appreciative awards were poured. Ah! in these days of degenerate...
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