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Richard Rodriguez, a Stanford graduate, writer, and teacher, in his essay, “Aria”(1981) argues that the education of bilingual disadvantaged children separates their private and public life, which is detrimental because it delays their development, entrance into public life, and assimilation. Rodriguez utilizes the juxtaposition of the languages of English and Spanish to establish his idea of the public and private life of bilingual children. In addition, Rodriguez displays the feelings exerted…

shifting into a depiction of Jane's thoughts through imagery, which is a stream of consciousness, expressed in long sentences with several subordinate clauses. The internal punctuation of these sentences is rather distinct, with colons, semi-colons and hyphens. The clauses are quite lyrical, using repetition and stress to convey their effects of longing and desperation, despite the “exile limits”. In the Victorian period, many women led a lifestyle similar to Jane; the only work socially…

The play ‘An Inspector Calls’, was written in 1945 by writer J.B Priestley. Its story revolves around a middle-class family called the Birlings, whom are celebrating the engagement of their daughter, Sheila. However, the play undergoes a subtle shift in mood and tone as an inspector lets them know that they have taken part in the suicide of a young lady called Eva Smith. Priestley chose to develop each character in the play in such a way that they all bring a lesson into the drama. Perhaps one…

how quickly the narrator’s mind is racing, frantically trying to justify his actions. Immediately preceding that however, in a very different style, he opens the piece with a pair of lengthy, complexly structured sentences. He makes use of several hyphens and a semicolon, which allow him to extend his thoughts and clarify or revise the things he had said. Furthermore, the narrator often repeats adjectives to place extra emphasis on his description. This can be found several times within just a…

instance, the present of how nature it is to dip Oreo’s into the milk that even baby would do that during their breast-feeding time, or the presence of hidden message on supporting the breastfeeding in public while also marketing the product (Jones, Hyphen Magazine, 2012). Either way, from one’s perspective,…

The 1920s, which was also known as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, was a time of changing attitudes and values. Society became a consumerist society due to the economic growth that took place. Individuals, regardless of race, gender, nationality, and social class believed it was possible to achieve a better life through hard work and dedication. For individuals with this mindset, a better life meant middle-class stability. This concept became known as the American Dream, which appears…

The poem Jugged Hare was written by Jean Earle. It covers the events in which a woman makes her husband a meal called jugged hare. She has to skin and gut it despite not wanting to, however does it to please her husband. It is thought that the poem is based during the 1930s or 1940s; a time where there was great gender inequality. At this time, it was a woman’s role to do housework and please her husband, however challenging the task is. This poem could be about a woman who is starting to go…

The development of a person can occur at any time throughout their life. Sometimes it happens early on during childhood, and sometimes it happens during later adulthood. A powerful and popular type of development is personality development. This type of development is extremely complex and can sometimes be difficult to interpret. A clear-cut example of personality development was during the novel, “The Scarlet Letter,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Throughout The Scarlet Letter, the common…

Sylvia Plath is a famous poet from the twentieth century. Plath has been well known for using a specific handful of techniques in her poems. Such as, writing in first person point of view, writing in free verse, incorporating a complex syntax, using hyphenated words, alluding to Biblical and Greek stories, describing the importance of color, and the use of similes and metaphors. In addition, she also heavily mentioned the concept of death, resurrection, power and control, suicide, and her…

In Lahiri’s My Two Lives she discusses her two lives and the struggles that come along with it. “Like many immigrant offspring I felt intense pressure to be two things, loyal to the old world and fluent in the new, approved of on either side of the hyphen” (Lahiri 97). Combining the methods of narration, compare and contrast and exemplification, Lahiri tells her story. One method Lahiri uses throughout the passage is narration. She uses this to explain her life when she was young, her life…