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choices can affect others; for the better and sometimes for the worse. Two texts, “Thank You Ma’m” by Langston Hughes and “Sucker” by Carson McCullers, delve into the weight and consequences that people's actions have. This essay will assess instances of characters dealing with their problems and explain how the choices the character makes, in solving their issues, positively or negatively impacts others. In “Thank You Ma’m”, Langston Hughes portrays Mrs. Jones as a loving and caring person who…

family problems or obstacles in their jobs, but either way, everyone has something in common with another person. Roger, in Langston Hughes’s story, Thank You Ma’am, and Waverly in Rules of the Game by Amy Tan, relate in this same way. Hughes’s story occurs in Harlem, New York, whereas, the excerpt, takes place in Chinatown, San Francisco. Thank You Ma’am is about a young boy, Roger, who attempts to steal a woman’s pocketbook due to his absence of money. Instead of being successful, the woman…

a benifit to humans health.My first quadrant I decided to use a poem because it’s short and I can freely express my thought about cannabis.In the poem,”Thank You Cannabis” its basically shows that graditude that the author/me has towards cannabis for improving and aiding several desieases or disorder that a person can have.When it says, Thank You for treating my anxiety & depression” or “For fending off my panic attacks” .The graditude comes from people who have these disorders that consume…

Has an adult ever helped you in your life as a teen? This can happen in both fictional stories and in real life. We read 4 stories about adults helping teens. Thank You Ma’am by: Langston Hughes, about a boy with a bad home life when a stranger helps him. The Drummer Boy of Shiloh by: Ray Bradbury, about a scared drummer boy in a battle. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by: Maya Angelou, about a girl who isn’t herself anymore. Lastly, The Medicine Bag by: Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, about a boy…

and “I Wouldn’t Thank You for a Valentine” by Liz Lochhead express their views on love in similar yet contrasting ways. In these poems they acquaint love through structure, imagery, and symbolism. To start with, “Valentine,” the structure of the poem has been skillfully controlled to accentuate Duffy’s key focuses. For example, I agree with The Prime Minister Gordon Brown claims, “She is a truly brilliant modern poet who has stretched our imaginations by putting the…

The short story “Thank You Ma’am” by Langston Hughes and “The Six Rows Of Pompons” by Toshio Mori have a common theme which is with a good leader leads to responsibility. In both of the stories the to people that teach the two younger kids in the story how to be more responsible. In “Thank You Ma’am” by Langston Hughes the main character Roger Gets taught respect. A quote that shows he got taught responsibility is “The boy wanted to say something else other than “Thank you, m’am” to Mrs. Luella…

In our small world, there is something you can do to improve things. In the story “Thank you Ma’am” it talks about how Mrs.Jones a working class woman who helps Roger, a boy that stays alone in night and steals. She takes him in her apartment and tries to improve him. She helps him to choose a better path in life. The author compares two people that are in poverty. He describes that even two people of the same class can help each other and they can show kindness, honesty, sincerity and other…

Paths cross for a reason, whether being negative or positive the outcome can never be undone. The day Roger chose Mrs. Jones as his next victim of his petty crimes in the short story “Thank you ma'am” by Langston Hughes his path was changed for the better. When roger attempted to steal Mrs. Jones pocket book she caught him but didn't just let him loose, she brought him home, gained his trust and taught him an important life long lesson that needed to be learnt. Roger was forever changed for…

Thank You For Arguing this Analysis Essay Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion is a book that should be read by all due to its benefits. It is an entertaining book while teaching us how to persuade someone easily to agree with you in an argument. The author, Jay Heinrichs, teaches us the basics on how to argue effectively, and that we can learn the art of persuasion from Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson. Thank You For…

Characters are the reason a story has a conflict and a plot, and in order for us to learn a lesson and understand a theme of a story, we need to be able to understand what the characters have experienced and what they’re feeling. “The Tell Tale Heart”, “Thank You Ma’ am”, and “The Scarlet Ibis” are all short stories in which characters and their decisions drive the plot, conflict, and themes. The description of the characters’ personality is known as characterization. There are two types…