Literature: Reading‚ Reacting‚ Writing‚ 5th Edition Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell Table of Contents Preface 1. Understanding Literature Imaginative Literature Conventional Themes The Literary Canon Luisa Valenzuela‚ “All about Suicide” Wole Soyinka‚ “Telephone Conversation” Thinking Critically Interpreting Literature Evaluating Literature The Function of Literary Criticism Checklist: Evaluating Literary Criticism 2. Reading and Writing About Literature
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De Gula‚ Shiela Mae BSBA-HRDM 1-6D 3 kinds of business 1 Sole Proprietorship A sole proprietorship places all liabilities for finances and operations on the owner. The owner’s personal property is tied to the business‚ so he assumes a risk against his personal assets should the business experience financial hardship. Annual income tax returns are filed on a Form 1040‚ and the owner must also file self-employment taxes. The profits and losses of the business are reported through the owner
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"A Kind of Revolution" is an article written by Howard Zinn. I found the article from "A People’s History of the United States". Howard Zinn claims to show a series of controversial facts about the Constitution and how it ultimately contributed to the failure of the union because of the issues that were not resolved‚ and therefore caused controversy in the years leading up to the Civil War. Howard Zinn states that the Constitution only addresses how slaves were to be counted in terms of population
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towards learning. There are some groups of students which are aware how essential education is. They put it first regardless of peers` influence. Studying with diligence is typical of them. However the influence of mass media has resulted in promoting a new model of student‚ as someone who is clever‚ crafty and who knows how to cut corners. As a result there are some groups of students who believe that education is not the key. Their attitude towards learning is much differ from these hard –working students
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1723801 English 103-276 January 17‚ 2011-01-17 Two Kinds Amy Tan In the short story “Two Kinds”‚ Amy Tan uses the narrator’s point of view to share a mother’s attempt to control her daughter’s dreams and ambitions. Tan`s short story is an example of how differing personalities cause struggles between a parent and child. Children often fall victim to a parent trying too hard or expectations being too high‚ and in the case of "Two Kinds‚" we see Jing Mei’s mother trying to live her life through
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The radiant rays of the morning sun filtered through the canopy of leaves. My friend and I had gone to the park to play a small game of soccer before retreating home for breakfast. From a distance‚ we could see smoke in the air. However‚ thinking that it was a barbecue someone was having at the park‚ we took no notice of it and happily continued to chat and giggle away. It was when we approached nearer to the park that we realized that there was no barbecue going on. As we looked around‚ we realized
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The central struggle in Amy Tan ’s story "Two Kinds" is a battle of wills between the narrator‚ a young Chinese American girl‚ and her mother‚ a Chinese immigrant. "Two Kinds" is a coming-of-age story‚ in which the narrator‚ Jing-mei‚ struggles to forge her own sense of identity in the face of her strong-willed mother ’s dream that she become a "prodigy." Jing-mei is caught between her Chinese mother ’s traditional ideas about how to raise a daughter‚ and her own development as a Chinese American
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Her Kind Anne Sexton was a profound poet and writer of her time‚ just as well as our time. Sexton used poetry as a gateway to express herself to people. Sexton’s work can be considered as an insight into being a woman. Poetry itself has be considered a way of relieving yourself of your emotions. Many poets have used the works to get a point across or just to inform. Take for instance the poem “Her Kind”. Look how it is detailed and self explanatory. Just reading a poem like this gives people insight
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When I first read this poem‚ I thought the speaker was showing sympathy by saying “war is kind” to people who had lost loved ones in the war‚ or that “war is kind” because it eventually makes peace. But then I realized‚ the more that I think about war and how it is not at all kind makes me believe the speaker in this poem is being sarcastic when he says that “war is kind”. I still believe that he was showing sympathy in a paradoxical way. Society tends to overlook how bad war really is and how gruesome
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clowns‚ pantomimes and cartoons tend to appeal to children‚ though many adults may also find them enjoyable. 1. Animation is a form of entertainment which appeals especially to younger audiences. Animation involves the display of rapid movement in any kind of artwork. 2. Live entertainmentMost entertainment expects or requires an audience to be passive. Such entertainment may include watching a film or theatrical production and other live performance such as circus‚ plays‚ musicals‚ farces‚ monologues
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