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    Joseph Conard. F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes many writing techniques to create his own unique writing style and to draw the reader in. To convey his message, he used diction, syntax and smilies. He also used diction to describe many characters and places in his novels. Mental illness and marital issues are focused…

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    Hispanic woman sobbing while watching a film, portrays how minorities can feel out of place with the normal conventions expressed by “white” Americans. Muñoz argues that race, is defined as performativity; how someone acts brown or white. The “feelings of brown,” may suggest that Latin Americans may struggle to perform similarly as their non-colored peers. Hence, as Munoz said, “Feeling brown in my analysis is descriptive of the ways in which minoritarian affect is always...partially illegible…

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    Brianna Carlson Miss Windish Creative Writing 9 September 2017 It’s Hard to be a Good Person. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O'Connor it’s very easy to imagine the story taking place. O’Connor paints the picture with descriptive dialog, but allows the reader to paint it. She tells us broad descriptions of the scenery and the characters, allowing the reader to imagine something or someone to fit the story. In a way she creates ambiguous characters like that. By not describing each…

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    Before McCarthy even begins to start expressing the main character's emotional and psychological state, he deploys the physical elements of the set. Using substantial imagery to establish the fundamentals, elementary descriptive language, like as "the first talus slides under the tall escarpments," creates a casing for the less corporeal aspects of the character. Even conceptual suppositions like the relation of a pendent sheet to the rituals of an occult sect are used to set up a convincing…

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    Dining Hall Observation

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    my classmates and my professor stops to see what all of the fuss is about. My teacher called us back up the hill to tell us that we would be attending a program and that we would have the option of deciding which topic we would like to type our descriptive essay about. As the dining hall closes, students wait in the lobby for the Bridges meeting to begin. The girl with the ponytail is in the dining hall setting up chairs to form a…

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    and people will just pass you by like you mean nothing to them. Especially in this time era where it was a “all men for themselves” type of situation. The time period in which this story takes place is during the Great Depression (1920-1945). It said in the story that the area in which the story takes place is South of Soledad, CA. The two main characters in the story are Lennie and George. In my opinion, Lennie is not the smartest of people. In the beginning of the story, it becomes quite…

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    Ten Little Niggers Essay

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    half century; nigger was used not just to bully but as a non-racist descriptive label in much the same way African American or black is used today (Allan, 2015). By the middle of the twentieth century, nigger had ceased to be appropriate within colloquial language due to the growing opposition to segregation and racism within both white and black communities. The term Colored soon took the place of nigger or Negro in the descriptive sense (Middleton, 2001). Nigger, when used by members of the…

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    now” Also in Merry-Go-Round there is a discomfort about seating arrangements.When the speaker asks “Where is the Jim Crow section/ On this merry-go-round?”, they are really asking where they should sit because they are colored child. These poems place a vivid and long lasting image in your mind by using…

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    American Farmer. Columbus and Crevecoeur share a similar perception of culture and cultivation. Christopher Columbus’ “Letters to Luis de Santangel” prominently features a vivid description on the topography of the natural landscape. Columbus’ use of descriptive language is symbolic of a wild garden or earthly paradise that needs to be explored, conquered, and cultivated. Through his use of forceful language, Columbus demonstrates a desire for conquering and possessing the natural landscape.…

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    would get exciting and better. I also liked the movie better because you could see what the characters looked like and how they felt. They are the same because it always had to be cold instead of hot everywhere Scrooge went. All the ghost took him places in the past present, and also future to show him why he should like christmas instead of hating it so much. He remembers things from the past when he was a little boy. Scrooge tell all the ghost to show him more christmas. Little Tim’s family…

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