Cassie Brown English 11 Mr. Seagle 2-1-11 “Wordsmith” and “The Gold Mountain Coat” The poem “Wordsmith” is talking about a boys father who is constantly working on their house. To perfect it. It mentions how he “ he fills and smooths and sands as filling in all of the empty crevices.” While the boy is watching though I can sense some sadness‚ maybe for the fact that his father spends more time on the house rather than with him. He might feel as if the imperfections of the house are more
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“On Sunday (March 1)‚ a small group of armed civilians killed a Serbian wedding guest and wounded the priest.” The war broke out between Sarajevo and Pale after the attack of armed civilians from Pale on Sarajevo. Comparing to Zlata’s Diary with the book The Freedom Writers‚ both the books has wars in different issues but has similar consequences. Zlata’s Diary has a conflict between two countries which created the war. The Freedom Writers Diary has gang wars because of discrimination between races
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family written by Lisa See is an inspirational narrative depicting her Chinese families experiences and struggles immigrating to the west coast of America during the 19th and 20th century. The author was effective in telling her families story. There were similarities and differences between the Fong family’s experiences and the Chinese community’s immigration experiences as a whole. Immigration to America was a phenomenon for
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were left out that made all the difference. The short story Brokeback Mountain (1997) written by Annie Proulx received a lot of attention when it was first published in the New Yorker. The story is about the relationship between Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar‚ two cowboys who develop a forbidden love for each other and have to live separate lives. They first meet when they both get hired to herd sheep on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming. The movie adaptations by the director Ang Lee‚ came out 2005
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In the story “The Gold Mountain Coat‚” By Jody Fong-Bates‚ Sam Sing is a stingy‚ demanding and controlling man‚ whose actions posed the question‚ was Sam Sing capable of compassion? Each evening‚ after his restaurant had closed‚ Sam‚ a tall and a bleak Chinese elderly man with many wrinkles wearing gold rimmed glasses that matched his gold teeth‚ would be found sitting alone in a booth in the back‚ carefully calculating his daily profits of his prosperous business. If the day’s profits were successful
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your homeland? Many people make this decision on a daily basis. However‚ which traditions and values would you choose to teach your children? Would you teach your children their homeland traditions or their new country traditions? In the book‚ On Gold Mountain by Lisa See‚ Fong See struggled in being accepted publicly as a member of American Society and he also struggled with trying to keep his Chinese traditions and values with his families. In his second marriage‚ he succeeded in being accepted by
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Compare and Contrast: Beach or Mountain Vacations Jennifer Burmester English 121 Alisa Moore October 3‚ 2010 Beach or Mountain Vacationing People take vacations all the time. There are many choices to choose from. I think that two of the most common places are either the beach or the mountains. Both places offer a ton of activities. The activities in the mountains cannot offer the same activities as the beach as well as the beach not offer the same as the mountain. There are
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Arianna Cosme English 1005 - Tessier Compare and Contrast October 15‚ 2014 Summer vs. Winter Although summer and winter both occur when the Earth is titled toward the sun‚ there are very different seasons. The first and most obvious difference between summer and winter is the weather. During the summertime the days are warm and sunny. Temperatures range from 70° and above with a slight breeze‚ making it enjoyable to be outside. Toward the end of summer people tend to worry about hurricanes
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Compare and Contrast United States and Canada All countries in the world are unique in different ways. We never take time to compare between two countries unless we have a chance to visit them. United States and Canada are two neighboring countries which shares several amenities and beauty. The two countries have several similarities but are different in many aspects. A comparison between the two countries based on geographical climate‚ language‚ economy and political system make these differences
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Compare and Contrast - China and Korea Most American people can’t recognize the differences and similarities between China and Korea. When I came to the U.S‚ many people guessed my nationality‚ but most of them gave me a wrong answer. Because of the racial mixture between the two distinctive groups‚ people can confuse a Korean for a Chinese. Many Americans think that Asians are Chinese because China is well known as the biggest Asian country and has the highest population in the world. Both China
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