... about the definition of specific genres, the conventional definition tends to be based on the idea that texts within a genre share particular conventions of content and form, such as themes, settings, structure and style. However, the nature of genre leads to several problems inherent in the defining of genres. Certain genres are looser and more open ended in their conventions than other genres and some genres have many conventions while others have very few. Furthermore, literary texts that overlap and mix genres blur the distinction between them. Genres are not discrete systems consisting of a fixed number of list able items. Consequently, the same text can ...
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... haunted her. I felt so sorry for her. First her family was split apart, after that she stars seeing fire, then she got beat for screaming fire and they tied her up, if they would’ve taken her to the hospital she would’ve been killed. What as freaky was how she could see that there were big flames and fires in their near destiny. Eliezer’s Father never showed any emotion until their town was effects by the Nazis. He was strength for the Jewish community. He helped everyone prepare to be evacuated. He was a leader and he helped him neighbors and friends as much as he could. I knew when he was in the back yard talking while they were in the ghetto that som ...
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... in So This Was Adolescence is comparison/contrast. In this style, the author compares or contrast the character with specific mannerisms of others. The next style is imagery. Imagery helps the reader to visualize what is happening to the character. Annie Dillard uses both of these styles to tell her story. The first style is comparison/contrast. Dillard utilizes comparison/contrast to compare herself to characters in books. She longs to become a woman such as those in romance novels. “I envied people in books who swooned.” She shows that by comparing herself to these characters that she strives to pass her adolescent stage. When she would become frustra ...
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... a smaller amount of people are going to need to know how to do a lot more different things than they already know how to do. And to do all of these new jobs they are all going to have to be trained in some manner or another. Then they are going to have to be able to train others on how to do these new positions. Management executives are now pushing for more effective training, by budgeting for it and asking for progress reports. These companies that are really serious about training spent about 30% of their training budget on research. This includes follow-up and evaluation of the training programs. These programs are now disproving the six main myths about tr ...
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... the pipes, scopes, and shotguns just sitting around the house. That is where the parents of these kids are the problem of the human race. Another example I showed through the book was in the stupidity of many people in the south who treated blacks as dogs. They sold, bought, lynched, and murdered many thousands of African American people. Not even thinking that the blacks had feelings, hopes, and dreams just as they did. We sold them like a car or food at the market. Like when the King sold Jim to the Phelps Plantation for forty dollars. He traveled with Jim for so long, just to sell him like “that”. Even when they sold the slaves and Huck told ...
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... is what makes life hard. It tests you to see if you will make the stand for freedom, or be oppressed. African-Americans were oppressed for hundreds of years, and when it couldn’t get any worse, they found and fought with their leaders for what they believed in, freedom. Both the Egyptians and Hitler oppressed Jews for 5000 years, when he decided to wipe out their entire race. Women were oppressed for many years until they decided to fight for equality. is hatred, but must not be confused with prejudice. In the above examples, these people were pushed down further and further until they took a stand for what they believed in. still exists today eve ...
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... separate from the public domain and was not very different from work, but was linked with domestic duties and family relations. It was during this period that to survive families had to send their sons and daughters into the labor force to supplement the earnings of the father, while the mother cooked, cleaned, cared for the children and manufactured goods in the home. The typical wage-earning woman of 1900 was young and single. The young single working women experienced time and labor similar to men’s rather than married women’s. They needed to, as Peiss puts, "carve a sphere of pleasure", out of daily life in the harsh conditions of the shop floor ...
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... any action with the ideas of many groups and rights. In a dictatorship, like the Soviet Union, a person like Stalin can determine every key aspect of most individuals’ lives. The more violent a Stalin is, the more power a Stalin has; and the farther from Utopia are the lives of the common people. Napoleon’s ideas and actions in Animal Farm were similar to those first of Lenin and later of Stalin during the development of the Soviet Union, which resulted in the deaths and terror that deeply affected the lives of tens of millions of Soviet citizens. For example, Napoleon had made other high-status animals confess to things they had never committe ...
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... East Side; in order to buy an apartment there one must provide good recommendations. West Side is less sophisticated and therefore less desirable for it is open to the “new money.” By creating this setting Fitzgerald is trying to make the reader understand that a character like Gatsby needs a certain environment to exist. Although Gatsby’s persona is surrounded by different rumors, and “contemporary legends such as the ‘underground pipe-line to Canada’ attached themselves to his name,” people come to his parties. Money can buy one popularity and friends, at least temporarily. Most likely many of Gatsby’s ...
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... people would be reading and developing their own interpretations of the scripture. The church knew that the stories and ideas of the Bible could effectively be passed on through sermons and mystery and morality plays. Although they both have the primary mission of conveying biblical messages, mystery and morality plays have considerable differences. The "mystery" in mystery plays refers to "the spiritual mystery of Christ's redemption of humankind" (308). Mystery plays were typically written in "cycles" (a series) that would begin with the Creation, chronicle the major events of the Old Testament through the New Testament and the Last Judgment. The mystery plays "e ...
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