Most of the time I have to deal with the fact that racism still exists. A specific example of this was an incident that happened not too long ago in my apartment building. There was a day I forgot my keys to the main floor of my building where the elevators are, while I was waiting for someone to walk in to kindly open the door for me and old lady walked in from the inside of the building. I knocked on the glass door and motioned for her to kindly open the door for me but she just looked at me and pretended she didn’t see me. I thought she just didn’t hear me so I thought if I just knocked a little harder maybe she would but each time I knocked she looked at me with a blank face and turned around.
Bethany wants to cal her dad but when she calls it says the phone is out of service. Even when she tries her mothers and her own phone it says that they are out of service and her father didn’t leave any numbers to be reached on. Chapter 3 Myrlie shows Bethany where her room is and then she tucks Bethany into bed. While she is lying in bed she is thinking about how she was surprised
Kristina and her boyfriend finally get an apartment together and the also move in Kristina’s son, against her mother’s wishes. Things are very tense in the tiny apartment due to a shortage of meth and the lack of income and it finally peaks one night when Kristina and Trey are especially irritable and it ends in a physical confrontation and Kristina calls her mother to take the baby back home with
English 1301: Rhetoric and Composition I Instructor: Yaroslav Malyuta Course Information: ENGL 1301 – 062 TR 7.00-8.20 pm PH 302 Office/Hours: TR 11.00-12.30 Email: malyuta@uta.edu Phone (Messages Only): 817-272-2692 ENGL 1301 RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION I: Introduction to college reading and writing. Emphasizes recursive writing processes, rhetorical analysis, synthesis of sources, and argument. ENGL 1301 Expected Learning Outcomes. By the end of ENGL 1301, students should be able to: Rhetorical Knowledge * Use knowledge of the rhetorical situation—author, audience, exigence, constraints—to analyze and construct texts * Compose texts in a variety of genres, expanding their repertoire beyond predictable forms
Clarisse grows on Montag and he enjoys seeing her, but once he gets used to seeing her, she is nowhere to be seen. Some time later, Montag and the fire crew encounter a house owned by an old woman overwhelmed with illegal books. They check the attic and piles of books erupt from it. Montag keeps a falling book before any of the other firemen notice. The old woman doesn’t want to exit the house and her books so she lights a match and sets
Therefore, he prescribes for her a rest-cure. The rest-cure demands her to sit alone without thinking of anything or interacting with society. Instead of that, she should eat, sleep and sit in the upstairs room of a luxurious house which her husband rents. The wife tries to adapt herself, but unfortunately she become very nervous and angry with her husband for not doing anything for her: “I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes” (par.24). The narrator describes the wife’s room, which has four views to refresh the air and a wonderful view the wife can see the beautiful landscape through.
It mentions that Leroy once bought his wife a new piano as a gift and how happy she was and lovingly she touched it as she played it. The piano symbolizes the love he has for her and how over time as she stop playing the piano and their love starts to fade. She was gental and caring to the keys as she was to the marrage before everything changed. The past tense of the sentence show the fact that that was then and this is now, and their love is gone. :… He used to stay in the house with Norma Jean.. Now he is home alone most of the time.” It is clear that she doesn’t want to spend time with him like they use to.
In Chapter 2, when George notices her standing in the doorway of the bunkhouse she has "rouged lips" with red fingernails and red shoes with "red ostrich feathers." She leans against the doorway "so that her body was thrown forward" and smiles "archly and twitched her body." Her pretext of looking for Curley is false; Slim tells her that he has seen her husband going toward their house. After she leaves, Lennie remarks, "She's purty," and George scolds,"Listen to me,....Don't you even take a look at that bitch. I don't care what she says and what she does.
What You Say: Language Context Matters Resource ID#: 56900 Primary Type: Lesson Plan This document was generated on CPALMS - www.cpalms.org In this lesson students will analyze three texts (Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue," Richard Rodriguez's "Se Habla Espanol," and Zora Neale Hurston's "How it Feels to be Colored Me") looking at language, tone, and style. Students will be scaffolded through use of graphic organizers and a Socratic Seminar to culminate in an essay about tone. Subject(s): English Language Arts Grade Level(s): 9, 10 Intended Audience: Educators Suggested Technology: Computer for Presenter, Internet Connection, LCD Projector, Overhead Projector Instructional Time: 5 Hour(s) Resource supports reading in
146 – 166. (In-class quiz and writing on reading) Week 8 Oct 9 Final Drafts of Comparison/Contrast Essays Due Today with EWC Tutorial slip attached Due Today Read PCW pp. 327 – 343 on Cause and Effect as a Rhetorical Mode. Also, read “Why Boys Don’t Play With Dolls” by Katha Pollitt, pp. 361 – 364, and “The ‘Black Table’ is Still There” by Lawrence O. Graham, pp.