Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer Evelyn V. Johnson Grade Levels and Audience: Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence (1994) edited by Marion Dane Bauer presents issues of adolescence and homosexuality in a valuable anthology of short stories. Christine Jenkins (1994‚ June)‚ reviewing the book for the School Library Journal congratulates the authors for successfully conveying “the very mixed emotions that accompany the acceptance of sexual difference at any age that
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“Am I Blue?” In the essay‚ “Am I Blue?” from Living by the Word in 1986 by Alice Walker‚ Walker explains how animals can display similar emotions to that of humans. She brings attention to her readers on how to understand that an animal can experience the same emotions as humans do. Walker compares her emotions to a horse by the name of Blue. Feeling ‘blue’ is also known as feeling sad‚ which is one of the emotions Walker recognizes in Blue. Walker tells a story of how this horse goes through an
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BLUE COLLAR BRILLANCE Are blue collar jobs less appreciated? Mike rose‚ thinks there are no fair share of recognition among people in the working class society. Rose was stressing his point to say that‚ in as much as the white collar job (workers) are perceived in the society as higher educated people it brings conflict among us. Also making the minimal jobs look less valuable and cripple our ability to talk across cultural divides. Blue collar jobs
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A Patch of Blue Elizabeth Kata 5/2/06 145 pages A. This story takes place in the nineteen-sixties. It is an urban setting. The story takes about two weeks. B. The point of view in this story is third person. It is third person because it say worlds like me‚ my‚ and I. C. The story starts out by telling us what has happen to Sileena. Sileena is the main character‚ she is 18 years old and she is blind. She is blind because about thirteen years ago her father had come inexpediently
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Emmanuel Gamboa Mrs. Lynch Short Fiction Period IV September 17‚ 2012 “The Blue Bouquet” and its Critics Short-short stories have been critiqued by countless writers and every single critic has a different mentality about what needs to be in a short-short story to make it a memorable one. There have been countless authors that try to create a short-short story but at the end of the day for one reason or another‚ their story was not considered a short-short. Through the critiques of Alice K
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THE SMALL KEY by Paz latorena It was very warm. The sun‚ up above a sky that was all blue and tremendous and beckoning to birds ever on the wing‚ shone bright as if determined to scorch everything under heaven‚ even the low‚ square nipa house that stood in unashamed relief against the gray green haze of grass and leaves. It was a lonely dwelling‚ located far from its neighbors‚ which were huddled close to one another as if for mutual comfort‚ it was flanked on both sides by tall‚ slender bamboo
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Sharon M. Draper captures the life of an average teen through the realest form of unreality exceptionally well. November Blues tells the story of November Nelson and Jericho Prescott after a horrible accident at their school. November Nelson is an average 16-year-old social butterfly in high school; she had a “perfect” life‚ a devoted boyfriend‚ a caring mother‚ and was well on her way with her “perfect” plans after high school‚ when her life took a turn for the worst. Her father died when she
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The main theme of the documentary “ The Blue Planet” was basically survival of the animals of the ocean. In the film they showed all the different environments and how these animals live in them. They showed what the animals eat and how they live and survive in their habitat. The film was separated in to seven different videos. Each video was about a different ocean environment. The ocean world‚ the arctic‚ the open ocean‚ the deep ocean‚ the coral reefs‚ the tides‚ and the coasts. A portion of
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People want to be successful in their business‚ and they use different marketing strategies to improve their business. In chapter 15‚ the author of The Blue Sweater Jacqueline Novogratz talked about A to Z Textiles in Arusha‚ Tanzania‚ and how they sold their product. In chapter 11‚12‚ and 13 our business book‚ Contemporary Business‚ explain about marketing and how it works. A to Z Textiles used several marketing strategies to sell their net. The first strategy that A to Z Textiles used is product
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Elements of Fiction Characters Alfredo Salazar - Son of Don Julian‚ a more than 30 years old man and a bachelor. He is engaged to Esperanza but him still fleeting to Julia Salas. Esperanza - Wife of Alfredo Salazar. She is a homely woman‚ literal minded and intensely acquisitive. She is one of those fortunate women who have the gift uniformly beauty. Julia Salas - Sister-in-law of Judge Del Valle. She is the other girl of Alfredo Salazar that remains single in her entire life.
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