Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition 2012-13 Syllabus/Brandt INTRODUCTION: An AP English course in Literature and Composition engages students in the careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of selected texts‚ students deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read‚ students consider a work’s structure‚ style‚ and themes as well as such smaller-scale
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The text under analysis is taken from the book “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin. It is a dedicatory letter to his nephew and namesake James‚ entitled in short "On the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation." Baldwin advises his nephew on how to deal with the racist world in which he was born. In spite the horrors of America‚ Baldwin believed the Negro must take the high road and show whites‚ in their ignorance and innocence‚ how to live the good life‚ how to love. The text is in the
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The author to “The Last Dog” is a woman named Katherine Patterson. The theme to this story is that not everything is dangerous or scary. You need to push your boundaries a little past where you’re comfortable to experience more. I liked this story a lot because it was very interesting putting yourself in Broc’s place. Having to leave their boring protected dome to go out into the real world that everyone said was really dangerous. That takes a lot of courage if you ask me! The plot of this story
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Struggles with Racism A Time to Kill demonstrates how much racism‚ inequality‚ and segregation was going on in the early to mid 1960’s. The movie shows how African Americans were divided from white people in every circumstance. Inequality was very common for African Americans‚ and they were shut off from the rest of the public because of the color of their skin. Racism has always been a major conflict and it still remains with us in our society today. A Time to Kill really unfolds how hard it
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"A Time to kill is a movie for everyone tohate or love. There is a handsome white lawyer(Jake) who risk eveything to save a black man‚ who has taken the law into his own hands by avenging’s his daughter’s brutal beating and rape. We see a politically motivated NAACP who uses this tradegy for its own purposes. There is the Klu Klux Klan which preaches its doctrine of hate. The ambitious district attorney who uses the trail as a stepping stone to the governor’s mansion. "A Time to Kill immerse itself
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“All the fears with which I had grown up‚ and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world‚ rose up like a wall between the world and me” is an iconic line from the essay by James Baldwin‚ The Fire Next Time. Baldwin was‚ and still is‚ an icon for the black nation as struggles continue to unfold in American history. His personal narratives in the 1960s and 70s gave hope for the Civil Rights and gay liberation movement‚ since his experiences reflected much of the population fighting
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22 March‚ 2009 “Time heals all wounds.” Slavery is a major issue in the South. Although it may have been abolished sooner‚ racism is still a prominent issue. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mocking Bird‚ there is a myriad of perfect examples of how time will heal all wounds. Even if racism exists in Scout’s time‚ generations will learn from their mistakes as time “heals“ all of the wounds that are inflicted on humanity. The killing of Tom Robinson truly portrays how time will heal all wounds
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discourse of the time focused primarily on the scientific aspects of the apparatus”). It was assumed that films were products that did not have any involvement of human labor until the rise of another discourse in 1907‚ the importance of the labor in film production. The discourse led to a new knowledge which created a “struggle destined to resituate the site of textual productivity for the spectator away from the work of the apparatus itself” Another very important aspect is that at the time all those
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Pete Vasquez 5/9/13 HIST201 The Fire Next Time Through the course of time‚ large groups of people have been enslaved by superior cultures. The Jews‚ whipped to build the great pyramids for the Egyptians‚ slave men who were forced to fight and die as gladiators in the Roman coliseum‚ and the Africans who were sold by their own people to the Europeans‚ all had to endure the cruelties of slavery. The author and narrator‚ James Baldwin has a constant tone of anger toward the white society through
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To Kill or not to Kill | LEN 203 | | Jessa Bogema | 11/11/2011 | A pro’s and con’s look at the death penalty both here in Michigan as well as in the United States as a whole. | To kill or not to kill The concept of the death penalty was first brought to America with the British settlers(*1)‚ and the first execution was carried out in 1608 in Jamestown where Cpt. George Kendall was executed for being a spy. Since its origin in 1608‚ the death penalty has been used 15‚269 times (as
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