Extension 1 English Assessment Task 2 Part 1: Written Report The Poisonwood Bible 1) Write a brief synopsis of the text. Identify the textual form‚ genre and provide the details of publication for your text. Barbara Kingsolver’s‚ The Poisonwood Bible‚ follows the lives of the Prices‚ a missionary family‚ who in 1959 leave their American lives for a small village in the Belgian Congo. Published in 1998‚ America‚ The Poisonwood Bible takes form as a fictitious historical‚ post-colonial text‚ denouncing
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1) Theme 1: Females seen as unequal to men • “The education of his family’s soul is never far from my father’s thoughts. He often says he views himself as the captain of a sinking mess of female minds” (Leah‚ page 32) • “He warned Mother not to flout God’s Will by expecting too much for us. ‘Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes… it’s hard to say which is worse‚ seeing it run out and waste the water‚ or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes” (Adah‚ page 50) • “When his
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A Formalist Interpretation of Windows by Bernice Morgan Conflict: * Character vs. Character (Leah vs. Ruth) – she feels unwanted by Ruth; unwelcome in her home. She has little respect for Ruth’s lifestyle which is filled with second-hand drama‚ meaningless shopping – little overall purpose. * Character vs. Self (Leah = old and tired‚ misses Estonia‚ misses husband) Protagonist - Leah * Changes throughout story * At the story’s start‚ she feels at peace‚ even grateful for the notion
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Orleanna Price narrates the introductory chapter in five of the novel’s seven sections. The narrative then alternates among the four daughters‚ with a slight preference for the voice of the most outspoken one‚ Leah. The four girls increasingly mature; as each adapts differently to African village life and the political turmoil that overtakes the Belgian Congo in the 1960s. The Price family packs up their belongings and heads to the airport to begin their flight to the Congo where they are going
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negative situation. Bernice Morgan addresses this idea through her short story Windows. The story follows the main protagonist‚ Leah Levitawitz’s journey out of her own darkness. She
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Asian Economic and Financial Review 2(7):741-750 Asian Economic and Financial Review journal homepage:http://aessweb.com/journal-detail.php?id=5002 AN EXAMINATION OF THE FACTORS THAT DETERMINE PROFITABILITY OF THE NIGERIAN BEER BREWERY FIRMS THE Okwo Ifeoma Mary.1 Ugwunta David Okelue2 Agu Sylvia Uchenna. 3 ABSTRACT This paper examines the internal factors that determine the profitability of the beer brewery firms in Nigeria. An OLS in the form of multiple regressions were applied
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him as an American born Chinese. Through Greg and the other Americans at Jin’s elementary school‚ Jin learns that he does not fit in with the Caucasian crowd in this coming of age story‚ yet his unwillingness to associate himself with Wei-Chen and Suzy has disconnected him from his identity as an Asian. Although
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Organizational Citizenship Behavior Checklist (OCB-C) Suzy Fox‚ Loyola University Chicago Paul E. Spector‚ University of South Florida The original Organizational Citizenship Behavior Checklist (OCB-C) was a 42 item instrument designed to assess the frequency of organizational citizenship behaviors performed by employees. It has since been refined and shortened first to 36 items and then to the final 20 item scale that we recommend (Fox‚ Spector‚ Goh‚ Bruursema‚ & Kessler‚ In press). The OCB-C
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“…Because daddy goes to the White Club”: Social Structural limitations in Michael Apted’s 42 Up. In the documentary 42 Up by Michael Apted‚ he shows 14 children at the age of seven‚ and every seven years Apted will come back and document their life and it is to give a glimpse of England in the year 2000. In my paper I would like to argue the way social structures has affected the way the children live their lives and how difficult it is to break out of their classes. The participants of the
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discovery is confronting and challenging for Leah. In the quote” I’m being taken to village so primitive they file their teeth and eat raw meat.”‚ the inner monologue is used to reveal Leah’s frustration about going to China to find the mysterious” China coin” and her confusion about what this discovery means for their family. However‚ as time goes‚ this discovery experience allows Leah to get much closer to her mum. In the dialogue‚ ”It’s over.” Leah took Joan’s hand and squeezed. “we’ve have been
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