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    The House on Mango Street The House on Mango Street,written by Sandra Cisneros, deals with a mexican girl named Esperanza, who grows up and dreams big in Chicago. Cisneros uses imagery, theme, and symbols to describe many things from Esperanza 's perspective. Imagery is used to describe items and people in a meaningful way. Cisneros uses various themes to show various ideas and beliefs. The symbols used describe objects and figures to portray ideas on a deeper level. Cisneros employs unique literary

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    For this assignment, I chose to watch the movie “Up.” As a young boy, Carl Fredriskon, idolized an explorer by the name of Charles Muntz. Carl has a dream of traveling to South America and exploring the forbidden Paradise Falls, just as Charles did. One day, as Carl is making his way down the street, he hears a young female voice screaming his favorite line “adventure is out there!” Out of curiosity, Carl makes his way into what seems to be a clubhouse belonging to a young girl, Ellie, and he befriends

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    My Hometown

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    My hometown is a lonely little island that floats in the middle of the East China Sea. It is a fairly small island where the weather is sunny year long. There is no official language since it is such a small island, rather the islanders speak a mix of Chinese, Korean and Japanese. It is such a small island that we have a population of barely over 1,000 people. Everyone lives a peaceful life, until one day… … It all starts in the morning, where I am watching the morning news with my sister, Eun-Ji

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    Ballroom Scene Analysis

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    House and Ballroom Scene The House Ballroom scene is an intentional, multigenerational and creative community which was founded by the Latino and black LGBTQ people. People from the outside world came to know about this scene through researchers and journalist who were not members of this community. The coverage of this community focused on dance form Vogue and it had strong engagement with the movement against racism, homophobia, transphobia, cultural exploitation and the barrier to healthcare

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    A home means a multitude of things to a multitude of people. For some it is simple, four walls and a roof over one’s head, a constructed mass of wood, concrete, and glass. It is a structure to sustain life. For others, it’s more complex, more of a feeling in one’s heart than a tangible place of residence. For me, it is neither simple nor complex; it is a warm feeling of family and an abundance of love as well as a physical location overflowing with memories. No matter how far anyone strays from a

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    Irony In Stown Analysis

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    Southern gothic literature is known for the irony it produces, how it can derail an entire story, and take the reader for a ride. Southern gothic literature’s definition of irony deals with the history of the south. The irony that is shown in Stown is the tattooes on John's body, but also the fact that the Burt’s ended up buying John’s property after he had passed. Irony in Stown is to keep the reader interested and has them wanting to find out more. Throughout the podcast, many things are thrown

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    “A Rose for Emily” opens up with a very unusual way, the townspeople are at Miss Emily funeral then all of a sudden the readers are jump back into Emily’s childhood. As a child Emily father cut her off from the town, isolated her socially. Giving the townspeople something to gossip, and entertain them self with. The townspeople put Emily a rich, well off young women on a pedestal that was a huge mystery to them. When Emily father finally passes away she goes through a complete breakdown, swearing

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    I waved my mom goodbye and swung my backpack over my shoulders. Then, I let the car door swing shut and raced across the few feet of sidewalk in between me and the house. With the tent in my hand, I skipped up the steps to Anya’s house. Shortly after, I pressed the doorbell button and waited a few seconds for Anya and Lily to open the door. As I walked in, I said hello and hugged them both. It was a warm summer evening and we were super excited to go “camping” on Anya’s back deck. Lily was especially

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    Warning: Child neglect, Child Abuse, Violence, Dark thoughts " You never spend time with our kids Lucy! All you do is write your stupid novels, the house is a mess and the kids are running a muck!" " Oh wah, sorry that I'm not a nanny! What, this isn't my all my fault. You're only home on weekends and all you do is sleep you lazy ass!" It was like clockwork, their mother would spend most of her days writing her newest stories online, while Bailey and her brother Scott has free-rein

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    The Screaming Fire Sirens start to yell, people are screaming, a fire has begun and my brother and mum are trapped. My mum starts to scream “Help me, help me,” but let’s go back to how it all began. As a kid, you must be curious, but for my brother, his curiosity got the best of him and it was not pretty. I think you can guess what happened next. Ding ding ding! If your guess has to do with matches, you are correct. What most people don’t know, is that you can burn in a fire for 7 hours of more;

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