Name:Wendy Moderow Date:12/30/14 EN46b Unit 6 Critical Analysis Essay Grade: _____/100 Directions: Compose a critical analysis essay that focuses on an essay’s theme and how the literary elements contribute to the development of the theme. Your critical analysis essay must focus on one of the following essays: "How to Write with Style" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (from Unit 1) "The Organization Kid" by David Brooks (from Unit 2) "Why We Crave Horror Movies" by Stephen King (from Unit 3) "I Have a Dream"
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In "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl‚" Elizabeth Wong explains three common differences between Chinese and American schools. The scent of the schools‚ the subject material‚ and the language are all reasons the character in this essay liked her American public school over her Chinese school. While sitting among her classmates in an empty auditorium‚ the only smell present was the scent of Chinese medicine and imported faraway mustiness. She demised this smell and longed for the scent of French
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The Struggle to be an All – American Girl ELIZABETH WONG “The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl “by Elizabeth Wong is about how a mother wants her kids to learn their native language. It’s still there the school I want to 10 years ago‚ even with the new painting and fence. Am talking about the Chinese school on Yale Street. My brother and I used to go to Chinese school‚ because their mother wanted them to learn Chinese‚ but we really wanted to play with our friends. We walk to school with tears
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Wong‚ “The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl” is about a girl with a Chinese ethnicity struggling to be an “All-American Girl”. She refuses to learn her native tongue. She presents a series of experiences in her story that explain her transformation from a Chinese girl to an American girl. Wong thought of her heritage as “a source of embarrassment” due to many aspects in her life that made her feel like an outsider and my friend can relate to her experiences. Wong wants to give up on what makes
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League While America was at war in Europe‚ many Americans were stocking up on supplies like food‚ water‚ and clothing while worrying about shortages of these materials necessary for living. “America was in the middle of World War II. Baseball was at risk because‚ as citizens saw generously paid athletes "swatting balls while their loved ones were dying on foreign shores‚" interest declined and criticism went up” (Peterik‚ Adam). With top notch players participating
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of the Wong and Zoellner Essays Different essays can have different purposes and audience‚ but that doesn’t mean that they can’t have similarities. Two short essays written for the newspaper by two different writers tell of their personal experience to convey their message. The essays by Wong and Zoellner relate the writer’s personal experiences and have similar genre‚ but have different readers and social and cultural contexts. In The Struggle To Be An All-American Girl‚ Elizabeth Wong writes
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In “The Struggle to be an All American Girl” by Elizabeth Wong‚ Elizabeth Wong wanted to assimilate and embrace American culture. However‚ her mother forced her to learn about the Chinese language. She had to go to Chinese school which‚ for her‚ was such a dreaded place that she would kick and scream that she didn’t want to go. She hated almost everything about the school. The auditorium had a stench of old Chinese medicine that was putrescent compared to the sweet smell of her American teacher’s
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his job and she saw that as an opportunity. Since Katie was the only person that worked in the office area who knew that Manuel quit‚ this was her opportunity to make some extra cash. There was no computerized time clock so the employees had paper time cards. They turned in the time cards to Katie and she signed off on them and sent them to the corporate office. Once the paychecks were processed‚ the corporate office would send them to Katie and she would distribute them. She cashed the first
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Writing the Struggle African Americans have struggled throughout history. This struggle has written upon by authors such as Fredrick Douglass‚ MLK‚ Malcolm X and Barack Obama. Their struggle has been an experience that not all of us know. This project is about their struggling lives. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15‚ 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. From a young age‚ he realized the struggles that African Americans had. He became a pastor at his father’s church in 1947. There he talked about
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Through her study‚ Elizabeth Croll claims there are ‘missing girls’ in China and South Asia‚ because of the diminishing ratio of female to male infants in these countries. A common trend throughout these countries; which has contributed to the ‘missing girls’ in statistics‚ is the belief held that sons are preferred over daughters. This belief is encouraged by the cultures of these countries; boys were believed to be of more importance as they could keep the family name‚ preventing extinction of
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