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- 4721: Drawing Names In The Lottery
- ... enhance the tone displayed to the reader. Blake uses tones that vary from sad, (war times) to happy (victorious.) Tone can be defined as the emotion or feeling set upon a reader during a novel/short story. Most times, the tone will change. It can change from sad to dramatic, happy to angry, angry to calm, or basically anything else. Tone is important because it sets the theme, or main feeling ...
- 4722: Hugh of Balma
- ... more penetrating than what intellect and reason can provide. Hugh of Balma explains other means of arriving at a truly contemplative prayer. He made much of the usefulness of "anagogic movements" of the soul using short upward movements of mind and heart and fervent aspirations. These movements would then build up and maintain the desire of tending toward God. This type of anagogic prayer and the Cloud of Unknowing, which was ...
- 4723: Thomas Edison and His Inventions
- ... a form of the human voice so that they could then be delivered as telegraph messages. Some researchers had theorized that each sound, if it could be graphically recorded, would produce a distinct shape resembling short hand, or phonography, as it was known then. Edison hoped to make this concept real by employing a stylus-tipped carbon transmitter to make impressions on a strip of paraffined paper. To his amazement, the ...
- 4724: Biography of Anne Frank
- ... German law, Anne was forced to the leave the Montessori school and attends the Jewish Secondary School. On her thirteenth birthday, in 1942 Anne received as a gift from her parents a diary. A few short weeks later Margot, Annes older sister, received a notice from the Nazi SS to report for work detail at a labor camp. On July 5, 1942, the Frank Family, the van Pels Family, and ...
- 4725: Enders Game--enders Empathic A
- ... here, has not only essentially read the mind of the monitor lady, but has also demonstrated his personal knowledge of a universal habit of adults' lying to children about certain things, such as pain. A short while later in the novel, still before he departs for battle school, Ender demonstrates even more dramatically the expediency of his empathic ability. The very day his monitor is removed, Ender is attacked by the ...
- 4726: Everyday Use By Alice Walker
- ... identity goes back to generations and it doesn t start or change within the individual. It is an evolutionary process where each person brings upon some changes. This is best described in Alice Walker s short story, Everyday Use , where three characters, a mother and two daughters, are portrayed differently, each with its different qualities and philosophies on life that are often seen in generations. Heritage is an important part of ...
- 4727: Fahrenheit 451 2
- ... it for him." (pg. 68) Beatty lets Montag keep the book until that night when Montag will return to work. Meanwhile, Montag meets with Professor Faber, a retired English teacher after a phone call cut short. While at the meeting, Faber is extremely careful due to the fact that Montag might not be able to be trusted until Faber notices the book Montag has brought with him, the Bible. Montag goes ...
- 4728: James Baldwin
- ... character splitting, Baldwin is able to split himself into both characters expressing what he was and what he wished he was. The novel was written in a very simple language being one of his first stories before he was famous. The narrator is a very simple person who did everything by the rules unlike Sonny and Baldwin himself. Baldwin had a way of portraying himself and his desires through his work ...
- 4729: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... personality (Gould 9). Roosevelt was interesting: author, historian, ornithologist, athlete, family man. He knew how to publicize himself, as well. Rosevelt was known to act as his own press secretary, using leaks, background interviews, exclusive stories, and more (Gould 9). The press adored Theodore Roosevelt as well. After his election in 1904, Roosevelt felt overjoyed no longer to be a political accident. Far from that, the greatest popular majority up until ...
- 4730: Familiar Mysteries
- ... bring in her ideas and explanations.Although Shirley Park Lowry uses formal form of writing throughout her book she aims at delivering information with simple , understandable language creating an almost friendly tone of explanation .The short , simple , and direct sentances brightly outline ideas and specific matters . From the very beginning to the end , concepts are neatly arranged and and follow each other logically . An interesting fact is that the whole book ...
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