self-knowledge and self-acceptance? In Richard Wagamese’s novel “Indian Horse” self-knowledge and self-acceptance is what I will explore. Comparing and contrasting the journey of Saul Indian Horse to the journey of my own mother Yvonne Nepoose. Initially people go through adverse situations in life that leave them feeling isolated. They feel the need to turn to self destructive behaviors to forget the pain; however‚ this response in turn hurts others as well as themselves. To overcome the pain they
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Reading Response 1: Douglass Fredrick Douglass was a slave who against the closed minded thinking of the society he lived in‚ rose above and taught himself to read and write which changed his life for the better. After his master had forbidden his learning any further‚ he continued to learn by making connections with the local boys in the city which lead to his successful escape from the south. Douglass explains the conflict between literacy and slavery as being connected. Douglass writes‚ “education
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Reading Response: Resisting Hitler 1. What types of connections did you make most often as you read: text to text‚ text to self‚ or text to world? How did making connections increase your understanding of the magazine article? The connection I made most of as I was reading Resisting Hitler by Susan Campbell is text to world. I think this is because in today’s society‚ there are many rebellions all over the world‚ making it easy for me to recall these kind of acts upon reading Resisting Hitler
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line in fact – it captured me. The first chapter of the book is titled ‘one hundred and thirty six days before’. I felt extremely curious upon reading that‚ as I questioned what we were leading up to‚ and what myself as the reader was waiting for. ‘One hundred and thirty six days before what?’‚ I asked myself. This made me extremely eager to continue reading. For me‚ as I was coming to the chapters that are a few days ‘before’‚ I was in total suspense‚ and could not put the book down. I think that
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The Chrysalids Reading Response Chapters 4-6 There are a few patterns that I noticed in the Chrysalids the one that really jumped out at me was the idea of “normal” the entire story is based around the idea of “normal” and gods image. It’s repeated all throughout the book‚ Sophie gets her foot stuck in the rocks she doesn’t want her shoe to be removed because she fears David will think of her having six toes as something abnormal‚ in Davids house where there are no paintings on the walls instead
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The Comedy of Errors: Reading Response 2 Act 1‚ Sc. ii of Comedy of Errors begins the cascade of confusing identity that is played up throughout the play with the interaction of Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus. Through this brief interaction‚ particularly lines 53-94‚ the hierarchy of social status is shown between the two characters. A section of this scene also reveals Shakespeare’s playing with the time period it is supposed to be set in. The significant theme of Comedy of Errors
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“What’s in a Name” Reading Response Within the story Gate’s describes the difference between his family and other black families in town‚ he says‚ “we had stopped off at the Cut-Rate Drug Store (where no black person in town but my father could sit down to eat‚ and eat off real plates with real silver wear).” Gates’ family social status is different from other black families in Piedmont‚ West Virginia due to the fact that his family has “financial security.” His father works two jobs in order to
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I had never ridden a horse before. Trotting away in the middle of a Costa Rican plain‚ I could feel my bare ankles stinging from the stirrup rubbing against them. We had been riding for a solid three hours in the unbearable heat. Suddenly I felt my body falling backwards‚ my horse was running. I grasped onto the horn for dear life. Thinking back‚ they did not teach me much about how to ride a horse before I jumped on‚ so I had absolutely no idea what to do. “Should I jump off?” It seemed like a
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"Ode to an Orange" by Larry Woiwode took place in the winter of 1940s. It was "the winters of the forties" which I felt was very important in setting the background. It was a time of war‚ rationing of food‚ limited transportation‚ a difficult time to import items from other states and then adjustment from war of peace. Winter did not just represent cold‚ snow‚ wind‚ gray sky‚ limited sunshine‚ but a limiting of the senses. With this in mind it have also been difficult to obtain an orange that would
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Seeing is not believing Yirong Wang This is an essay that introduces a new perspective to us to decode ancient visual arts. The author reminds us that there are other ways of decoding visual figures alongside the “Beazley method” so we need to undermine stereotypes in our minds in appreciating ancient Greek vases. Let’s first talk about “Beazley’s method”. The basic principles of this approach are that we can distinguish the artists through their stylistic skills on the vases. The author thinks
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