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    The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and “A Band-Aid for 800 Children” by Eli Sastow both delineate the subject of family separation. Although the authors use similar techniques to demonstrate this subject, the techniques used also have a distinctive difference. In the two texts, there are a few similar techniques used. In the text Red Umbrella and “A Band-Aid for 800 Children” the authors use the same techniques of figurative language, tone, and theme. In Red Umbrella, the text says, “My

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    Many charities in the United Kingdom do help the local people from homelessness to cancer relief, but recently international aid - helping others in different countries is one of the most hotly debated areas in the voluntary sector. The aid agencies actions and their attachment or lack of it from governments are all under scrutiny. International aid agencies attract more donations than any other charitable cause bringing in £486 million in 2001-02. This beats donations

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    and Non-Fictional Text that Portray the Same Theme The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and “A Band-Aid for 800 Children,” by Eli Sastow both have the similar theme that sometimes you have to take risks in order to better your life. Both authors portray the same theme by using the same and different techniques to teach readers to take risks in life. The Red Umbrella and “A Band-Aid for 800 Children,” use similar techniques to express risk taking. The Red Umbrella uses word choice to explain

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    portray the story. The texts that are being compared is “The Red Umbrella” and “A Band-Aid for 800 Children”, they both have to do with immigration, but are very different in many ways. “Red Umbrella” and ”A Band-AId for 800 Children” both portray the subject similarly. In “Red Umbrella” It quotes ““To the U.S.,” Papá answered. “It won’t be for long, but you’ll be safe until things get better here”. In ”A Band-AId for 800 Children” it says “The arrangement means they can

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    ripping off a Band-aid. It can be rough and hard and maybe a little scary during the process of reaching it, but the pain ends once a person gets to the dream. While ripping off a band-aid it will be sore, but the pain is always worth doing if the end product is as great as getting exactly what someone may want such as their dream or no more pain from a band-aid. Although it is a very scary thing to consider doing. The anticipation can be scary when you are leading up to tearing off a band-aid. In the

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    “A Band-Aid for 800 Children” by Eli Sastow and The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez both show the topic of family separation. The authors of these two texts use similar and use different techniques to portray the topic family separation and how it can bring seriousness and anxiety to people. The authors use similar techniques to show the topic of family separation. The authors both showed a tone of seriousness and anxiety in their texts that portrayed family separation. The author of

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    Band-Aid Battle Exposed. The gravel comes in contact with the knee grazing it ever so slightly, but just enough, to bring the crimson blood to percolate from the naked and raw flesh, just waiting to be infected. The older sister runs into the house in a stir of panic as she hears the abating cry of her little sister. She rushes into the medicine cabinet of the bathroom, gripping the box ever so tightly rushing back to a pool of tears sitting on her driveway. Hurriedly, she peels back the thin paper

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    I personally view social work as a structured, multi-faceted platform that provides necessary, practical assistance and aid to those who direly need it. This comes in numerous different forms and reaches across all walks of life, but ultimately, the unequivocal similarity that all social workers in any branch of social work share is the ability to plant and foster seeds of positivity and growth in even the darkest, bleakest of places. I have experienced the transformative power of this very work

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    texts have the same opinion or feeling about immigration, like some people think that other shouldn’t move to live in a different country but some either don't care or think that other people should be allowed to move. The two texts Red Umbrella and “Band-Aid for 800 children” both portray what they think about immigration in very similar ways and different at times in the texts. Here are some ways that the texts are similar towards the subject of immigration. Both of the texts talk about how

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    Immigration has been a problem since 1880, and it is still a big conflict for the world right now. Immigration can be thought of in two different ways, a positive way and a negative way. I am comparing The Red Umbrella and “Band-Aid for 800 Children” they both have a subject on immigration. These two texts are very similar and different at the same time because one of them is a story and the other is from a article. There are multiple ways the articles are similar, one might be fiction and the other

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