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Maxine Hong Kingston Brave Orchid
1,009 wordsIn The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, captures readers with her own interpretation of what it was like to grow up as a female Chinese American. As a little girl, she came to America with her family. She shows us how difficult it was to fit into two different societies. In the Chinese society the woman were taught to be silent. "The other Chinese girls did not talk either, so I knew the silence had to do with being a Chines girl" (Kinston, 166). However, In America, Freedom of Speech is ...
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Goal Attainment Story Telling
1,730 words... a target age (kindergarten age). As far as the children were ESL kindergarteners, the books had to contain attractive and colorful illustrations, and the stories in the book should be suitable for both storytelling and story reading. Procedures The researchers obtained consent from the parents of the children, and then storytellers read the story aloud to all the participants from both groups. This was done to establish a baseline for the pretest data collection. After the storytellers have ...
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Abiding Citizens Concealed Weapon
1,785 wordsGun control isnt about guns its about control. Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. This is the premise that a nationally known organization, the NRA stands behind. They believe that our forefathers included t...
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York Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company
3,080 wordsPreface from Lowells Men, Women, and Ghosts (New York: Macmillan Company, 1917) vii-xii. This is a book of stories. For that reason I have excluded all purely lyrical poems. But the word " stories" has been stretched to its fullest application. It includes both narrative poems, properly so called tales divided into scenes; and a few pieces of less obvious story telling import in which one might say that the dramatis personae are air, clouds, trees, houses, streets, and such like things...
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