Vidrine 24 February 2010 Off the Bus: A Thematic Analysis of Vivian Gornick’s “On The Bus” Sometimes all we need is for someone to listen; Gornick realizes this as she travels back and forth on a bus from New York to a school three in a half hours away. While traveling to and from school‚ she meets an exhausted woman in her mid twenties named Jewel‚ who is traveling from Cleveland to New York to visit her sick mother. Over the few weeks they share on a bus together‚ Gornick listens to Jewel
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Stifter had told her that she was just going to flunk him. As soon as Marry had shared the bad news with her son she had suddenly noticed a big change in his life. Her son started taking his English class seriously and at the end of the semester he got an "A". In this example the author shows us what students will do when they are afraid of failing. Marry believes that this principle to threaten students has worked in the past and should be used again. In-order for students to
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You’ve Got Mail is based on the 1940 movie Shop Around The Corner‚ except it’s an electronic update. The plot is funny with some element of romanticism. Joe Fox of Fox Books opens up a book superstore in Manhattan Upper East Side. Joe is untroubled that his bookstore is driving out smaller bookstores. Kathleen Kelly‚ an owner of a smaller bookstore‚ Shop Around The Corner‚ declares war on Joe and his cruel antics. What Joe and Kathleen don’t know is they’ve been secretly talking to each other
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This excerpt from “Johnny Got His Gun” by Dalton Trumbo analyzes the relationship between a growing young boy‚ Joe‚ and his father. The author tells us that every summers since Joe was seven‚ he and his father would come to this same place to camp and fish. Joe is now fifteen and his friend‚ Bill Harper‚ is coming tomorrow and for the first time Joe is wanting to fish with Bill instead of his father. Through third person point of view‚ short‚ simple sentence structure and purposeful selection of
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Analysis of “Bus Riders” Gloria Garchitorena-Goloy The poem‚ “Bus Riders”‚ Gloria Gatchitorena-Goloy‚ is a symbolic poem written in free verse‚ the central theme of hardship can be found in the poem’s use of imagery‚ language and connotation of every word by which the meaning is implied. In her poem‚ these three fundamentals of writing smoothly work together to create a piece that represents the exhaustion and depressing characteristic of commuting by a public transportation like the bus. On the
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The Street That Got Mislaid by Patrick Waddington Marc Girondin had worked in the filing section of the city hall’s engineering department for so long that the city was laid out in his mind like a map‚ full of names and places‚ intersecting streets and streets that led nowhere‚ blind alleys and winding lanes. In all Montreal no one possessed such knowledge; a dozen policemen and taxi drivers together could not rival him. That is not to say that he actually knew the streets whose names
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Cloning describes a number of processes used to create genetically identical copies of a biological entity. Although these processes can occur naturally‚ such as in some plants and or bacteria‚ the type of cloning that is most known is the ‘artificially copying a whole organism’ cloning. According to the National Institutes of Health‚ scientists remove a mature somatic cell‚ any type of cell‚ except a sperm or egg cell‚ from the animal the scientists desire to copy. The chosen DNA is then transferred
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Got on bus at MacArthur Bart station until the Fruitvale station Introduction- The East Bay area is an economically diverse community with many satisfactory and unsatisfactory aspects. Each city had its differences and distinctions in people‚ settings‚ and cleanliness. As the bus left the station and went around the corner I could tell that we were in a low poverty city. With loose trash and debris in front of houses and apartment buildings‚ the area looked torn down and not very visual pleasing
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censorship debate. On the one side there are the people who want to protect their children from pornography and violence‚ and on the other people state that the Internet is the only medium which still openly accepts freedom of speech. Censorship is always wrong‚ no matter how unpleasant the material being considered. The Internet is a complex‚ living organism inhabited by people from all nations‚ ages‚ cultures‚ political and religious backgrounds. Despite international differences‚ languages and other
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How Elephants got their trunks This report discusses the evolution of the Elephant. The fossil evidence is described and the theories of Evolution known as Lamarckism and Darwinism are compared and evaluated. Neo-Darwinism and punctuated equilibrium are also defined. Introduction Curiously‚ the evolution of the Elephant was considered by the 3rd American President‚ Thomas Jefferson. During his presidency the remains of a Mammoth were excavated and brought to his attention. The historical context
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