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    In “The Changeling” by Judith Ortiz Coffer, she describes and depicts the hardships that a daughter goes through attempting to change herself. but it's often very difficult to change the way that people will you through gender and cultural norms. It's through his work that she tells of her childhood and upbringing. From this, we can extrapolate and better understand her experiences as a female writer. The story is about a girl vying for the attention of her father and mother. This girl and her situation

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    Respect the elderly. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one hundred and thirty years old, yet unfailingly manages to fascinate, infuriate, and inspire its readership. The novel rests on many a bookshelf and regularly appears on lists of literary legends- though it is equally likely to top a list of controversial and profane works. Certainly, there is no other book in the oeuvre of Mark Twain that commands attention more deservedly than Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the

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    Since infancy, all people have developed fears about various things in the world that varies from clowns to failure. One’s fear can become so significant to them that it causes them to act with sole purpose of avoiding its development; in other words, allow themselves to be motivated by fear. As Psychology Today stated “there are many things that motivate us. But the most powerful motivator of all is FEAR.” It is no secret that humans all around the world are motivated by fear as authors have capitalized

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    Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao we explore an extensive look at our main character, Oscar. A slightly overweight, highly animated, geek of all geeks, and above all a nice kid who is passionately in love with women. Love and violence fuel each other in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Oscar doesn 't seem to find love until his life is ultimately life threatened. Oscar and our narrator Yunior, are opposites when it comes to Dominican masculinity and act as foils for one another. Having

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    Being the science fiction nerd I am, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien seems to be well suited for me along with The Hobbit as the two combine adventure and unnatural beings. I would like to also read The Brief, Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz sounds like an inspiring book and because it contains the quote “I think there is only life. That’s enough.” Lastly, for the hopeless romantic I am, I would like to read The Hunchback of Notre-Dame as it is a tragic love

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    When things are hidden from the public, or if the public is not aware of something, it is left untold. This happens to many events and people throughout history. According to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s speech, “The Danger of a Single Story,” we need multiple stories so one is not veiled by the single story. When there is only one side of a story, the other side is unspoken. Once the other half is not made visible, it dehumanizes the people who are a part of the unspoken story. They become places

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    Bildungsroman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (German pronunciation: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.ʁoˌmaːn]; German: "novel of formation, education, culture"),[a] novel of formation, novel of education,[2] or coming-of-age story (though it may also be known as a subset of the coming-of-age story) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age),[3] in which

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