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    In the excerpt from “In Another Country”, Ernest Hemingway skillfully pulls the reader’s mind into the world of fall in Milan. Hemingway offers many rhetorical devices to his audiences, adapting each one’s mind too one of an Italian in this time and season. The author presents devices such as imagery, diction, and pathos. Hemingway’s most effective form of rhetoric can be found in his inclusion of diction. He begins his writing by narrating “In the fall the war was always there,” The bold choice

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    The Journey to Identity in A Double Impulse and In Another Country The narrator in A Double Impulse, by James D. and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, faces an issue with her identity. She is a young Japanese American in school that is starting to realize that people see her differently because of race. People at her new school don’t expect her to speak English, she isn’t allowed to be friends with some kids because of their parents, and she is not allowed to join girl scouts with her friend. Her whole family

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    In the end of Another Country by James Baldwin, one can now understand the reason to his colorful way of writing. It served more than just the purpose of telling the story, it left a message. Baldwin illuminates how Another Country, the word itself, had multiple meanings for many characters in the book. He also went at how around the 1950s-60s, there was sort of a caste system and much did it matter what race or social status one stands upon. In the end, Baldwin shows readers how moments of elevation

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    In “In Another Country” and the interview with Iraq war veteran, Kevin Powers, there are many comparisons and contrasts. From the way deal with loss from the war, fitting in when they return, and how and what kind of help they get. Some differences are, anxiety with returning home and the wounds they may suffer from. A big comparison of both “In Another Country” and the interview with Kevin, is that they both felt a feeling of not being able to fit in. The narrator in the short story felt as if

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    In both “In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway and “Ambush” by Tim O’Brien, there are aspects that are similar. To get a clear aspect of what both texts look at, Hemingway writes about a short story that is based on the impacts of World War I on soldiers. The short story mainly focuses on how these particular soldiers experienced the traumatic event of having to participate in the war which was both psychologically and physically harmful to them. In “Ambush” O’Brien narrates from a first person

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    One of the main themes in the short story In Another Country is that bravery is not the same thing as courage. While bravery is the ability to ignore fear (or not to be afraid) in dangerous situations, courage concerns inner strength, endurance, and acceptance of things that cannot change. This difference is exemplified clearly in In Another Country; while the three soldiers from Milan are brave, the major is courageous. The author uses symbolism to create this distinction and emphasizes it using

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    As an immigrant from another country, I personally would agree with the fact that there are two sides of me. Spending half of my life in the Philippines and the other half in the United States, my family, home, and community in both of these countries has shaped my life equally. These two different environments definitely clash at times, but they also share many similarities. Very early in my life, my parents had to work overseas in Saudi Arabia and left me and my sister in the Philippines with my

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    1918 World War One, also known as "The Great War," was fought. Over 19.7 million soldiers were injured. The youngest person to join the war was a 12-year-old British boy. Both In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway and Told by the Schoolmaster by John Galsworthy have to do with World War One. In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway is about wounded soldiers receiving a type of physical therapy, the narrator describes how he does not think of himself as a "Hunting-Hawk" like he thinks of the other

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    Surprisingly, there are many advantages and benefits in opening a company in another country. In many locations items are in high demand, but the customers cannot get them due to location. When expanding your location the possibility of getting these good and selling them will be high. Not only will there be a profit being made, but there could be jobs added to the new location and help the people there out financially as well as your own company (Joseph, 2017). Additionally, people like to see new

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    Character Development in Another Country In James Baldwin’s greatest success, three parts of the book make up one story of the life and death of a young man. Being a homosexual, African American jazz drummer, he struggles to find the right path to take him to happiness and sanctuary. The complex characters within the novel struggle to love in the middle of a time of racism, sexism, and homophobia. The character who is seen struggling the most with this is the protagonist, Rufus Scott from Harlem

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