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    and getting further in it, my opinion on that slowly started to change throughout the book. The novel Feed is extremely satiric and is under the Science Fiction genre written by as stated before M.T. Anderson. Feed takes place in the near future, maybe about fifty to a hundred years from when it was written. Also it represents Anderson’s thought on how future America and Americans will be. You can tell this by the actions, thoughts, and carelessness of almost all the characters throughout

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    Summoning of Everyman” Summary Everyman is a play which was written to express the importance of morality, to whoever read it or experienced it being performed on stage. Some scholars say that it was written sometime in the late 1400’s, while others insist that it is a translation of a Flemish work called “Elckerlijc”, which was written by Peter van Diest in 1495. Everyman is an allegory play which is heavily based upon Christian religious perspectives;

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    How does it feel to be a problem ? is a book addressed to everyone,but particularly to those who think that America is the land of care-free young adults who have nothing to worry about.Being Arab in America has never been easy. Being young Arab living in America is quite something. When I first laid eye on the book,which was given to me by my great English Dr. Sameer Ismaeel, Al-Najah university,I thought it was another book of how miserable Arabs are in the United States.These stories are fimiliar

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    151,600 people die each day, but did you think your family member would be one? Sign Language, written by Amy Ackley, is among the most heartbreakingly beautiful novels I have ever read. Abby, our main character, goes through a very depressing period in her life. She has to conceal her anger and depression to comfort her family. The tragic loss has put the family in jeopardy.This book is unique because it shows the realistic feeling of losing someone, spans over a 3 year period and it is divided

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    Written By; Richard L Rose’ 9 June 2011 Commentary: On 6 June 2011 in the Moore County courthouse I witnessed These actions where a 12 year old boy being coached by his father, tore apart a family. It all started over this young boy to lazy to take out

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    be, anyway, a perfect society. Otherwise, how John feels about being considered since his childhood as a stranger, rejected by his surroundings and remaining alone. It was written with a depressed tone and intends to aim a general audience, especially teenagers. In my suicide letter, a semi-formal first person perspective language was used and contains phrases like “Every time I get home, it's as empty as my soul” and “Sometimes I turn my gaze to my whole life”. The vocabulary I used is not sophisticated

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    The Drive Successful people become motivated by something, that keeps them going when things get tough. Malcom X wanted to improve his writing, Lupe Quintanilla wanted to learn English, and I am motivated to receive a higher education. Drive, that is what all of these individuals have in common. Something in our lives lead us down the path to better our education it was a tough road but being motivated kept us going. In Malcom X’s short story, A Homemade Education, it talks about how Malcom

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    “The Paradoxical Commandments” give both similar and different advice, but this advice is directed at two different audiences because of the way it is presented in the poems. The largest difference between these poems is the demographic they are written for. “If” is undeniably male-dominant in comparison to “The Paradoxical Commandments” which has advice directed at anyone who chooses to read it. The first indication that “If” has advice specifically given to males is in line three when Kipling says

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    ordinary; something that is not strange. However, in life we all have our own definition and version of what normal is. Some people find going to school and studying everyday normal but others find working for a living normal. Some people use vulgar language and some go to church and don’t. We all create our own personal versions of what normal means to us. In the 1980s, the Kentucky school board in Graves County thought the book, As I Lay Dying was the furthest thing from what they considered to be

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    Welcome to Windham High School’s very own theater production of the incredible play A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry. To further understand the play please read the text below about the background of Hansberry’s life, living conditions in the era that the play took place, and reviews written about the play. Lorraine Hansberry was a playwright and a writer. She was born in Chicago May 19, 1930 in Chicago, and she grew up in the Woodlawn neighborhood in the South side of Chicago

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