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    Here‚ Insert Clever Title The art of poetry can be thought of as the conveyance of an emotion‚ idea‚ or experience through the careful and creative use of words. The success or failure of the art is directly linked to the poet’s mastery of word craft‚ and their ability to get in touch with any number of anonymous readers. Masterful poets use a myriad of techniques to establish these connections and‚ therefore‚ create sustainable works. For instance‚ the skilled manipulation of word choice‚ rhythm

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    First of all I’d like to say that all of us have our own ideas and dreams about a perfect home‚ because "home" can’t mean the same to everybody. But I’m sure that for all people home is not just a place to live in. Home is your little world where you live according (согласно) to your own rules and interests. It’s a place where you feel comfort‚ warmth [wɔːmθ] and reliability‚ [rɪˌlaɪə’bɪlətɪ] (надежность) that’s why we say "East or West‚ home is best" (в гостях хорошо‚ а дома лучше) and the English

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    bonds forms between a mother and her daughter. It is a bond that should not be taken for granted‚ for it places an enormous psychological weight upon a daughter’s lifelong character and well-being. However‚ when the inescapable struggles of economic depression and single motherhood arise‚ such a bond is sacrificed. Throughout Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing”‚ a mother looks back at her daughter‚ Emily’s‚ childhood and contemplates the positive and negative elements of their relationship that

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    Esperanza was writing in the beginning of the chapter and she sounds like six years old because she loves to write about her houses that she described many things about her homes that her family and she didn’t always live on Mango street. Before that‚ they lived on Loomis on the third floor‚ and before that‚ they lived on Keeler. She writes‚ “The house on Mango Street is ours‚ and we don’t have to pay rent to anybody‚ or share the yard with the people J downstairs‚ or be careful not to make too much

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    Barn Burning: Sarty’s Transformation Into Adulthood In William Faulkner’s story‚ "Barn Burning"‚ we find a young man who struggles with the relationship he has with his father. We see Sarty‚ the young man‚ develop into an adult while dealing with the many crude actions and ways of Abner‚ his father. We see Sarty as a puzzled youth who faces the questions of faithfulness to his father or faithfulness to himself and the society he lives in. His struggle dealing with the reactions which are

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    “I Stand Here Ironing” Tillie Olsen’s I Stand Here Ironing addresses the issue of a mother’s guilt over how her child turns out and develops into a grown woman. Although she blames herself for the daughter’s problems‚ is it really her fault? While this short story is obviously about the mousy daughter‚ the mother often mentions how she feels guilty for the way her daughter Emily is‚ for the things she (the mother) did and did not do. The ideal mother-daughter relationship is not like the one

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                               It was a dark and kooky night when it happened. My worst nightmare happened. My friends and I were coming home from the big football game with some girls when {pause} my friend dared me to go into the "so called" old haunted mansion on N. Klent and Broadway Ave.. Why he had to do it in front of my friends and some other kids from school? I was trapped and he knew it. So I walked up the old cracked walkway. Went up the stairs as the wood whined under the weight‚ and turned the

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    A Theme is Controlled Though the Setting and the Atmosphere In the short story “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen there is an atmosphere which has an overwhelming feeling of torment and a sense of regret. Taking place during the 1930s and 1940s a single mother has to cope with the Great Depression‚ WWII‚ and the feminist movement of the 1950s while raising her first born daughter Emily. A conflict is created by the lack of understanding the single teenage mother has for raising her first

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    While I read There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz‚ I had literally had to keep reminding myself that these children and all of these people are real. The things that happened to Pharoah and Lafeyette were things that I could never imagine happening‚ much less at their young age. The young children of Horner would make a few extra dollars “offering to watch people’s cars if they parked on the side streets….” This shows the lack of safety present in the children’s lives

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    My House

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    Brain Of Britain Ben: Wake up Kelly. Get up! (Baby voice) Kelly: What who said that. (sleepy voice) (Ben leans over Kelly while she’s in bed and druels over her.) (Kelly openers her eyes gets up and chases Ben round the house‚ then Ben runs into his Mum’s room.) (Their Mum gets up) Mum: Kelly why are you are you chasing after your poor brother like that? (Sleepy voice) Kelly: Because he woke me up again. (Angry voice) Mum: Ben you need to stop doing that and as for you young

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