Book Assessment – Campus Traditions Essay In Simon Bronner’s Campus Traditions‚ the folkloric contributions of the primal scream‚ school rivalries‚ and graduation traditions are detailed as means for students to cope with a specific anxiety or stress to keep them sane in the world of college life. The primal scream is one example of a major contribution to folkloric activity as it addresses the stress of final exams and academics. During final exams students are put under heavy workloads accompanied
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Reader Response- “Streetcar Named Desire” Stella Kowalski is one of the main characters in the Tennessee William’s‚ “ A Streetcar Named Desire”. She is presented as a woman who has an older sister Blanch and a husband named Stanley. She is often overlooked in the play because of her husband Stanley and her sister Blanche are much more dynamic. However‚ Stella plays an important role that without her‚ Stanley and Blanche who are considered‚ as two major characters of the play throughout the story
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Mera Francis History 120 4/8/14 Nat Turner Turner was born into slavery on October 2‚ 1800‚ in Southampton County‚ Virginia‚ on slaveholder Benjamin Turner’s farm. He led and organized one of the bloodiest slave rebellions before the civil war. This was the rebellion that served to change the course of American history. When Turner was born‚ his mother was so determined not to subject him to a life of slavery‚ that she tried to kill him as soon as he was born‚ but when Turner was the age
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Nathan Egert Mr. Maffey 1H - 6/8 25 April 2013 Reader Response - "My Indigo" "My Indigo" is a featured poem from Li-Young Lee’s 1993 book "Rose". The poem is a relation between Li-Young Lee‚ and the history of the Indigo also known as Indigofera tinctoria. The poem strings together Lee’s search for his identity as a Chinese-American‚ and the origin and value of the Indigo. The Indigo originated in India where it was turned into an industry in 300 BC‚ and then it was later discovered and later
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In the story "War" by Timothy Findley‚ it is evident to the reader that the title is not actually talking about the war that is in the story but is talking about a different type of war. In the story the reader learns that the war that is being referred to is the war between Neil and his father. Neil is going though a tough time because his father is joining the army and this is hard for him to understand. Throughout the story the reader is trying to find out what the title really mean and it becomes
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David James Duncan’s A Mickey Mantle Koan Reader Response This essay was by far my favorite essay I’ve ever read. It really hit home with me because I have a brother that I am super close to and we spent a lot of our time as kids playing any sort of ball. I believe Duncan’s heartwarming essay was to alert people about the concept of searching for happiness in “the finer things” when for the most part; happiness can come from the simplest things. This was something that really hit home for me because
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“THE COLDEST WINTER EVER” Reader Response by: Prayogo Algi Utomo 1014025025 Sister Souljah’s style is like no other that I have read‚ her style is so real and honest. I can quickly understand about the novel (The coldest winter ever) I do not have to think twice about this novel like I do in the other novel that have different language from mine. As I read this book I feel like I am in the Winter’s world. Sister Souljah grew up in the underclass urban areas in New York and knows how Winter feels
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Vanessa Duell 2/1/15 Mrs. Brothers AP ELA 11 Associative Reader Response for “A Rose For Emily” It must be hard for a person to really love someone and only that person‚ and then that certain person dies. Miss Emily goes through a trial of changes throughout this short story. None of these changes had a positive effect on Miss Emily’s life‚ and her life just seemed to keep getting worse. I can connect to Miss Emily in some ways because I know how it feels to lose a loved one
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Readers Response to John Updike’s A&P In the summer of 1961 we meet Sammy. Sammy is a 19-year-old clerk at the local A&P in a small town‚ and one day a few girls walk in‚ in their bikinis. Everyone in the store either stares at them lustfully or averts their eyes uncomfortably. When the manager gets back he scolds the girls and tells them that they cannot come back in there dressed that way again. So Sammy quits. I personally enjoy this story because of the dated wordplay and the character
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Expository Writing 6 November 2013 Reader Response to “For Whom the Bell Tolls” John Donne’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is a very deep poem‚ and it’s difficult to understand if you only read it once. It focuses on how all humans have a connection to one another; if one person dies‚ the entire population is affected. In 1623‚ Donne was extremely ill with malarial fever‚ and he wrote the meditation during recovery. He observed that every death diminishes the fabric of humanity. He wrote about the
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