Royal Murder “Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. “-E. B. White. This quote fits the story ‘On the Sidewalk, Bleeding’ well because the man who murdered Andy simply because of the coat he wore had no idea who he was.
“The protesters were great to us, even though they were yelling at us,” he said, noting that it’s rare for a taping to go so completely off the rails that the skit has to be scrapped. Even Mary Walsh’s now-infamous driveway ambush of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford made it to air. Sarah Shoucri, a native Montrealer who made an appearance in the Bell Centre sketch as a helpful bystander who attempts to bridge the language gap between Majumder and a protester (in Arabic), said the experience taught her that comedy is always hit-and-miss. “There were people who were really over the top,” Shoucri recalled. “One man just came up to the microphone and started gesticulating and he monologued for about three minutes.” Majumder, however, apparently thrives on this kind of challenge.
On the Rainy River Questions 1. The rhetorical strategies of the first seven sentences that the author utilizes had successfully caught the attention of the reader- hooking the reader in place until the story is over. My expectations of the following plot after the opening is that there might be something unexpected and mostly emotional and impacting in some way. 2. The way I could tell that some of the facts were fictional is that O’Brien used very well-known hero literacy diction such as “the secret hero” and “the lone ranger” (O’Brien).
Similes were strategically placed throughout the passage to maximize the impact on the reader. For example: The first simile, “The desperation in his voice, like a man about to sob, surprised him,”helps the reader understand how incredibly important winning this championship is to him. Okimasis is extremely weary but relentlessly carries forward. Another example would be, “The shafts of vapour rising from the dogs’ panting mouths, the curls of mist emerging from their undulating backs, made them look like insubstantial wisps of air,” simile adds to the passage’s imagery. This comment is also ironic because the dogs are not at all insubstantial.
Rebecca Wagner Book Report One English 9 Block 4 9/14/11 Ride Like The Wind True Colors by Kristen Hannah is about a crime that shocks a small town, a terrible mistake made by our legal system, sisters who have lost their way, a boy who doesn’t know how to be a man without his father, and true love. I went on a journey to a corner of Washington State, 1992 where girls look forward to the County Fair and sleep in a dusty stall every once and a while. I loved this book and I could relate to a lot of the characters. It was compelling, passionate, and inspiring. It shows that even through hardships, your family will always be there for you.
“Mama: What you been doing for these three days, son?” (105) Walter replied by telling her he spent his work time just driving, roaming the streets of their small are, and drinking at the Green Hat. (105) Also, after Walter was finally given another chance to prove himself a man, he disobeyed his mother. Lena told him that he could have a share of the money, if he put a small some into a safe bank account for his sister Beneatha. (106) Instead of doing so, Walter poured every single cent of the money into the hands of another man. Karma came back to bite him for his Selfish actions.
In the book, ‘The things they carried” by Tim Obrien, there were many points and ideas. The story was about the main character; Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, who had a disturbing fantasy of a young girl, Martha. It was disturbing to me because of how he spoke of his obsession with her. How he “would sometimes taste the envelopes, knowing her tongue had been there”. (The Things They Carried, Penguin, 1990, Print, line 4) In this short story, he transforms from being almost a hopeless boy into a proud, strong, man.
Carry Me Like Water by Benjamin Alire Sáenz is a rich and touching novel. I think it is an amazing story. The book is a story of interrelated stories with wonderful characters; the thoughtful and deaf Diego who lives in El Paso and is working on his suicide note as well as making friends with a cholo named Mundo who he finds stabbed in a dumpster, Mary or the Virgin Mary and wise, disrespectful Luz. There is also Jake and Joaquin who is a gay couple struggling with Joaquin’s dying of AIDS, Helen and Eddy is the rich couple in Northern California anticipating their first child and Lizzie is a nurse who one day finds out her AIDS patient was her twin brother and that he has given her his gift of being psychic and that she is really a Mexican named Maria de Lourdes. Each character is a mystery
Irony is the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. We see this a tremendous amount in the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. The novel is a story based on one man, named Paul Baumer’s time during World War I. Paul joined the German army with his friends from school. The way Remarque portrays irony is perfect, as soon as you read it you sense that irony is being used. Irony is an important part in this story because it shows how Paul is battling himself, others and everything around him during the war.
Muhammad Ali Kahari Stewart Mr. Long 3rd Block 7, October 2014 Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali Was truly a great influence on America I’m going to tell you about his life and how he became the great influence he is today. Social activist Muhammad Ali/ originally named Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. He showed at an young age that he wasn’t scared of anybody inside or outside the ring. He discovered his talent for boxing at the age of 12 because he was beaten up and got his bike stolen; he told an police officer what happened and that he wanted to like to “punch” the kids that took his bike. The police officer told him he needs to learn how to fight before he would be able to do that, and that’s