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    how gretchen never says anything, her entourage does it all**** **underline topic sentence*** In Toni Cade Bambara’s, Raymond’s Run, the most intriguing part is the conflict. Based around young girls, they argue using many different tactics. Body language, flaws and snarking comments are obviously used because most girls dig down and find the nitty gritty details that will intimidate their opponent. While most readers would assume that the protagonist and the antagonist have different argumentative

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    800 children by Eli Sastow. They both have some similarities, and differences. They both share a common subject of family separation. The authors portray this subject in similar and different ways . There are similar techniques used in both readings. One similarity is figurative language. One example of figurative language from The Red Umbrella in the text is “ My heart thumped loudly in my ears.” One example of figurative language from Band-aid For 800 children from the text is “Every child is also

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    state, Ephron demonstrates how families in The Boston Photographs want to end their lives since they will have nothing else due to their state of poverty. The first difference between the two pieces of works is that the hope that is expressed throughout the essays. In Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriguez stresses his love of language and his development of a writer and a teacher. Rodriguez strives to better his education so that he can go further in life. It is thought that one can go extremely far

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    traits but just because they some common themes doesn’t mean they had exactly the same experiences, in fact, there was a lot of difference between the two especially in terms of function. If I were to label the two I would pick very different terms, I’d classify the Mongols as an empire and the Portuguese as more of a piracy or coastal army. One of the major differences that make these labels fit so well is the type of geography the two conquered, the Portuguese stayed along the coast conquering

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    elements. Tone, theme and figurative language are examples of elements throughout the memoirs. These memoirs may have many differences, but also have many common traits throughout. The tone, theme and figurative language are the elements that make up the story. Both of these story’s differences and similarities are made up by the literary elements. Without these traits neither story would be the same. The tone throughout both stories have more differences than similarities. “Bonne Annee” had

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    In the novel West Side Story, by Arthur Laurents, we see a forbidden love. This forbidden love consists of Tony (an ex jet) and Maria (the sister to the leader of the sharks). This love story is doomed from the beginning as Tony and Maria come for two completely ethnic backgrounds that can not stand each other. This story of romance would ultimately end as tragically as we would all suspect. Riff (Tony’s best friend) is killed by a stab wound to the chest, Bernardo (Maria’s brother) is killed by

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    My Papa's Waltz

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    feelings that the poets have toward the subject are found deep within the two poems often hidden behind how the character feels toward his own father. Even though these poems were published in different time periods, one feels the similarities and differences within the tone, form, or even the imagery of the poems. “Those Winter Sundays” and “My Papa’s Waltz” were written by two different authors so naturally there are some

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    The book I chose to read was The Giver. One of the differences in their culture compared to mine is the clothing. In their culture, if you are a girl below the age of nine, you have to wear ribbons in your hair all day(51). In my culture, you could have your hair however you want it to be. Another example of difference in clothing is that for their culture, when you’re at a certain age, you get different jackets to help you with independence and interdependence(52). For my culture, you could pick

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    times and the other is about a small child named Larry who thinks he's a lot wiser then he is. However, if you look deeper you can start to find similarities between the two. They have similar themes, and links can be made between them. A big difference between them is the titles. For example 'The Half Brothers' is a very self evident title but 'My Oedipus Complex' is a little more obscure. 'My Oedipus Complex' is ironic because although Larry does have a strong attachment to his mother it is

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    While the Narrative of Frederick Douglass and the Aquariums of Pyongyang both contain similarities they also contain vital differences. Frederick Douglass and Kang Chol Won conflicts were very different. While Frederick Douglass was born into the situation, Kang was forced into this situation by his grandfather plotting against the North Korean government. Another major difference is that Frederick Douglass was discriminated because of his looks and not because of what he had done. During the time

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