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The book, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, questions how two extremely similar lives have completely opposite stories. The author and the other Wes Moore grew up in the same community. One became an accomplished author, while the other ended up in prison. At what point did their paths diverge? Do we turn into “products of our environment?” What drives our judgments and treatments of others? The Author never provides answers to any of these questions. He lets the readers determine their…

Dick Gregory was born in 1932 and was a stand-up comedian, writer, and social activist. The story "Shame" is an excerpt from Gregory's autobiography. He writes the following: "Everybody's got a Helene Tucker, a symbol of everything you want." Of course, one's symbol does not have to be a who, but also, a what. My symbol is the worldwide organization of Jehovah's Witnesses (I will also refer to it as God’s Kingdom). To me, the organization represents family, love, and The worldwide organization…

O Henry was a very famous short story writer back in the 18-1900’s. His stories were known for the surprise endings. Recently I was assigned an unusual but very interesting assignment in my English class: to take a look at 2 of his short stories ‘The Gift Of The Magi’, and ‘The Last Leaf’, and do a compare and contrast essay also using 3 literary devices. Professor taught us to be very careful with how you write this essay, so after spending hours reading the short stories over, I’ve come up…

The short movie “The God Must Be Crazy” tells us the intense conflict between popular culture and indigenous culture and people's thinking about morality. The story was beginning in the most treacherous desert—Kalahari. Kalahari is a beautiful place that far away from hustle and bustle city, and the climate in there are also strange. After the short rainy season, the water was drained by the desert in almost two weeks, and then there was no water to drink. People who live in there named Bushmen,…

Invisible City is a documentary filmed by Hubert Davis. Following the lives of Mikey and Kendell, two youths currently situated in Regent Park’s community housing during the beginning of Toronto’s ‘Revitalization’ plan for the area in 2005. During this development of the city, Davis explores the issues that affect these adolescent boys and their mothers. My initial interpretation of the film is how well the documentary addresses the concerns around public housing. The policy in the film such as…

In my senior thesis, “An Identity Journey of My Own: Transnationalism, Identity Journeys and Liminality in Sandra Cisneros and Reyna Grande’s Work”, I survey Cisneros’ memoir A House of My Own: Stories from My Life (2015) and novel Caramelo (2002). Additionally, I engaged Cisneros work into a comparison dialogue with Grande’s The Distance Between Us: A Memoir (2013) along with her fictional texts Across a Hundred Mountains (2006). As indicated by the title, through an interdisciplinary approach…

The ideas of James Joyce “Araby” and James Joyce “A&P” correlate very well. The two short stories are similar in ways of the plots of the stories. In both stories a young man tries to please and young woman and the women have no desire for their company. Also the young men have epiphanies and fantasises about what they expected to happen. To conclude both of the stories, the young boys awaken themselves and move on to see the bigger picture. Araby summarizes how a young boy experienced his…

The Power of Technology Many different elements of fiction are used in unique ways throughout the book The Circle, specifically the element of Character. The element of character is used to show the variety of differences in each person and show their diverging ways of thinking. . Each person grows and learns as they encounter new experiences and meet new people throughout the book. The diversity of each i character shows a distinct story and a new aspect of how The company, The Circle,…

Reader Response Symbols always play a big role that is hidden within an essay or even in reality it helps the reader either foreshadow or have a better understanding of the plot of the story or even the character. The definition of a symbol according to the website Literary Devices it states, "Symbolism is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense. Symbolism can take different forms. Generally, it is an object…

But one thing that will be always stand out will be put in short by this hymnal coined by William Spencer Walton: “in tenderness He sought me, weary and sick with sick. And on His shoulders brought me back to His fold again. Oh, the love that sought me, oh, the blood that bought me, oh. the grace that brought me…