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Octavia E. Butler takes her readers through the journey of the only black vampire of her species, the Ina, to rediscover who she is as well as fight for her life and her right to live in the novel Fledgling. This vampire Shori is the result of a genetic experiment combining the DNA of the Ina as well as that of an African American human. She loses her memory after the community where her mother, sisters, and their respective symbionts lived is burned down as a blatant hate crime against Shori…

This first encourages the reader to think of Paul as a troublesome child whose sole purpose is to make other’s life an uphill battle. He is presented as an abnormally compulsive liar and an arrogant teen that hates school and everyone around him. Later, however, the reader is presented with Paul’s own psychological conflict with himself and society. He regards himself as a person whom society does…

but instead a rallying force for the government when he says, “What Top Gun, Rambo and Red Dawn did for the ‘80s, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather and Peter Jennings set out to for the new millennium” (34). He makes this connection in order to transition the reader from a more popular discourse to one of a more educated politics and history. In reference to alternative media sources Saldana argues, “They are the voices crying in the wilderness. Just like John the Baptist. But then, we know what that got…

In Daniel Levitin’s recent article for the Los Angeles Times, Levitin teaches the reader about different types of procrastination and helps the reader prevent the habit of procrastination. Levitin has a very impressive background and has many professions. Levitin is best known as a neuroscientist, a profession that studies the brain and how it influences behavior. On September 22, 2015, Levitin wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times titled “Which kind of procrastinator are you?” Levitin…

faced with the obstical of being too large from drinking a bottle of liquid, this presents a problem for her as she desperately tries to get into the garden ‘lying down on her side, to look through into the garden with one eye’ (17) This gives the reader more of a understanding about how large she has become, the imagery of Alice lying down but not being able to do anything else other than peep through the door is very vivid, even though it is such a short description. The omniscient narrator…

conveys how she surpasses the new generation, and continued her tradition as though she did before. Faulkner’s use of a first person-plural narration potrays Emily Grierson as a mystery, because we never enter Emily’s thoughts. Faulkner leaves the reader with subtle implications, that allows them to make their own interpretations of what they gained from his writing. As we know, in “Rose for Emily”, Emily is struggling with the loss of her father and the abandonment of the guy she was waiting to…

The mortgage crisis occurred due to banks lending large mortgages to people who thought this was acceptable because the value of their homes would only rise. 2. When the value of homes started to decline, banks asked for payment on mortgages which in turn, forced people to make all their assets, including stocks, liquid to pay their debts (Davies, 2008). 2) With the stock prices bottomed out because of mass forced selling, they began to rise after the government bailouts of the financial…

The mood allows the reader to interject himself in the story. With word choice, imagery and tone, the writer develops a sad mood. For example, When Irving describes Tom's house: "They lived in a forlorn looking house, that stood alone and had an air of starvation. A few straggling savin trees, emblems of sterility, grew near it; no smoke ever curled from its chimney; no traveler stopped at its door. "(259). Words like forlorn-looking, alone, starvation, etc., give a really sad and lonely…

Don Corleone appeared at the very start of the film, which was the wedding party of Don’s daughter Coney, and the beginning scenes already fully demonstrated the Godfather’s high and divine place. As Sicilians never refused any requests on a wedding day, many people came to the Godfather for “justice”, one of whom was Bonasera, an Italian-American undertaker. The film started by his famous line, “I believe in America”, at which time the screen was still dark; then his face and forehead appeared…

Purpose: to get people interested in the desert, to inform readers about the dangers of the desert –educational appeal, to make people laugh. You should come and visit the desert but take care of it. Invites you as a recruit to come and protect what’s left of American wilderness. Pg. 17 “Nevertheless all is not lost; much remains, and I welcome the prospect of an army of lug-soled hiker’s boots on the desert trails.” Intended Audience: People new to the desert – first-timers or those who…