bills by selling commercial space to anyone who had anything to sell. Between low-budget rasslin' matches and re-runs of Japanese monster movies, Turner's Superstation was a televised flea market. It pitched cheap steak knives, records by faux-hobo Boxcar Willie and any gizmo dreamed up by second-rate Ronco imitators. The beauty was that you could order up the junk by phoning and having it sent to your house C.O.D. - that means "cash on delivery" for all you post-Internet babies who know how to buy
Chaya sacrifices herself to give Rivka a chance, not knowing she will see her again. Additionally, in the lunchroom, Yolen writes that Chaya “saw that Gitl had given the child her own bread—and, half her soup be-sides.” The adults are giving younger children food to keep give them a chance to survive the camp and
Imagine being forced out of the place you call home. It’s not that great right? So just imagine the dread that the Indians felt when the Americans forced them to leave. In the 1830 the Americans believed that they needed to expand America west. This was the westward expansion. In order to do this though they needed the Indians to move. the Indians however refused to move, but eventually the Americans forced them out. The removal of Indians was not justified because it was their land first, the
reading was a part of my daily and nightly routine. With out even knowing it, my mom was embedding a love for literature deep in my soul. A desire to learn is not the output from going to school at an early age, but by influences from home life. Children pick up on even the subtlest, minute mannerisms the adults around them carry. I consider myself lucky knowing this fact, for I was a constant witness of my mom reading, writing in a journal, and motivating my brothers to do their schoolwork. Whether
Box Man Final Draft We come alone in this world and one day we will be alone once again; therefore, we must formulate the choice to achieve things ourselves. That is why in the essay “The Box Man”, Barbara Lazear Ascher writes about the evening customs of diverse people that live alone and by observing these people, reflects on the nature of solitude. She demonstrates that solidity doesn’t necessarily mean being lonely, just alone and explains how lonely and alone are unlike. Ascher uses the rhetorical
clerks, textile factories, and railroad workers. Since there were so many unemployed Americans, they had to compete against other unemployed workers. Whose families could no longer support them, rode the rails in boxcars like so many hobos hoping to find a job (Sahoboss). Women and children found jobs were they could, but the men felt bad because they were the one to support their families.The African-American woman was the first ones to not be accepted for getting a job, making the white woman take
Tom Joad and retired Reverend Casey find Tom’s home abandoned and in a state of ruin. They learn from Muley, the Joad’s neighbor, a company is forcing residents off their land. Tom's has decided to move to California. “‘Where’s my folks?’...‘Well, they was gonna stick her out when the bank come to tractorin’ off the place... They're all at your Uncle John's.’” (Steinbeck 46) The passage above displays Steinbeck's conversational, circuitous writing style. The casual way Muley talks to Tom, along
A) Carlos Hoyt Jr. defines racism as "the belief that all members of a purported race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races" (Hoyt Jr. 2012, 225). Racism's meaning is a source of debate among scholars, some historians such as George M. Fredrickson believe the term is ambiguous and loaded (227). Fredrickson believes that the very term itself should be abolished, since it came about
Howl Allen Ginsburg Introduction Why is this poem so fascinating to scholars, students, and others in America, even today fifty-six years after it was published? Indeed it remains of interest because this poem was part of the literary movement that put the Beat Generation on the map, and it also demonstrated, "…in a seismic way," that social change could be driven by literature, Amiri Baraka and colleagues explain in The American Poetry Review. The poem broke form, and challenged cultural and moral
Several years ago I endured a big challenge. Throughout elementary school, speaking and reading out loud did not come easy to me. I struggled with pronouncing words and the thought of saying words that contained a r or a s made me cringe. My challenge impacted my daily life and affected my thoughts on reading altogether. Now as I look back on it, I realize my challenges in speaking influenced my desire to read. One of my biggest fears in elementary school was my teacher, Mrs. Moffitt, asking me