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    It’s almost as if Hughes is trying to show that in life, most of the time you just dive right in without thinking about the consequences. But then, life turns around and bites you in the butt leaving you crying, hollering, and in shock from the “cold”. Even though it catches you off guard, frightens and shocks you, you still survive. You survive by fighting, and resisting the urge to sink. The elevator represents life as well, but in a different way. The stanza about

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    It’s almost as if Hughes is trying to show that in life, most of the time you just dive right in without thinking about the consequences. But then, life turns around and bites you in the butt, leaving you crying, hollering, and in shock from the “cold”. Even though it catches you off guard, frightens and shocks you, you still survive. You survive by fighting and resisting the urge to sink. The elevator represents life as well but in a different way. The stanza about

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    Where there is such a rich social history inside this awesome city of New Orleans, current occupants battle to get by with restricted fiscal and civic resources. As a result of the constrained resources residents believe that it’s hard to win a living and bring kids up in a protected, quiet, beneficial and prospering condition. The Red Flame Hunters are a gathering of African American youth from the seventh Ward drove by the helpful Edward Buckner from the First Huge 7 Social Legacy Division. The

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    The band just got back from their second break. You can tell the night has begun to wear on them, but they start back with a killer song to get the crowd back to “hooping and hollering, definitely getting into it,” as Terri would say. Despite the audience’s persistence, the band plays Crazy Train and then Folsom Prison Blues. That did it. The dance floor suddenly filled with people eager to show off their flat footing skills. The

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    In the novel, “Bless Me, Ultima,” by Ruldolnb Anaya, the use of tone in chapter “catorce” shows how Antonio’s peers act. Antonio’s peers acted childish and immature. Antonio just wants his friends to be respectful. The author develops diction through the careless behavior of Antonio’s classmates. As Antonio and his classmates were practicing their play, many students “behaved like a frappes animals” (157) the author uses this choice of words to get across how crazy they were acting. Throughout

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    Baseball is a slow sport to watch if you’re a spectator watching the game. It may even be slow while playing the sport. As I’m watching the boys get ready to start practice, I see conservations going on within the baseball team. I see the boys joking around and having a good time before practice. Then, you see Coach Asmus walk up and the boys get very silent and immediately start stretching. While, the boys are stretching, the boys are very quiet and you see all the happiness go away. Seeing all

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    women (grabbing and looking at their bodies, asking their ages, and posing for photos)," Gregory notes, “were dramatically performed to impel the aggregate cooperation of the men (through laughter, catching the eyes of each other, and hollering and whooping and hollering).” Their

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    Woman Hollering Creek, by Sandra Cisneros gives a vivid and imaginative view into the Hispanic culture. Cisneros expertly weaves ideas and truths of the world, from her insight on economics, religion, and gender. For example, she depicts the lives of mistresses and how their lives affected themselves and others. Cisneros’s conclusion about these women is definitely negative in tone she pities the women in these positions and wishes to reach out to them. Proof of this concept comes from Cisneros’s

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    Grief causes people to turn on each other. In As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner’s use of stream of consciousness narration demonstrates the Kübbler-Ross model of processing grief through the minds of the Bundren family, especially with the youngest children, seventeen-year-old Dewey Dell and six-year-old Vardaman, after the recent death of Addie, their mother. The Kübbler-Ross model of processing grief has five stages (in no particular order): denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance

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    cleaned jersey on that is ready to get all stained in the opponent’s blood, I feel the crowd hollering, cheering, and screaming for us to beat them to a pulp. We can hear the metal cleats of hitting the broken asphalt under the mud-clumped soles from the following practice. The players are silent, thinking of how we are going to play and focused on the one goal of coming back into the locker room hollering due to a “w” in the books. The field is calling our names, waiting for

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