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Story Classification
Details of the Story
100
She spent her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, with her brother, Bailey, and her grandmother. Although her youth was very difficult- she was raped at the age eight and became a mother at the the age 16.
Who is Maya Angelou
100
In this story, Gordon Parks is taking by Flavio through a life changing experience. When Gordon Parks walks through the Favelas of Brazil, his perspective changes of what poor really is and the true definition of a savior.
What is Flavio's Home?
100
"For nearly a year [ after i was raped], i sopped around the house, the store, the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible"(87).
What is Sister Flowers?
100
The expression, in vivid language, of what the five senses experience. A richly rendered description freezes a subject in time, invoking sights, smells, sounds, textures, and tastes in such a way that the readers become one with the writer's world.
What is Description?
100
We side stepped a dead cat covered with maggots. I held my breath for an instant, only to inhale the stench of human excrement and garbage.
What is Flavio's Home
200
He was the son of a deeply religious tenant farmer. He grew up in Kansas knowing both the comforts of familial love and the torments of poverty and racism. Author of Flavio's Home
Who is Gordon Parks
200
In the story, Maya Angelou allows her past life, a young girl who was raped, to meet her present self, a wiser and more experienced.
What is Sister Flowers?
200
"The floor, was rotting under layers of grease and dirt, caught shafts of light slanting down through the spaces in the roof" (96).
What is Flavio's Home?
200
What event leads to another event.
What is cause-effect?
200
We began questioning the people as to where the elephant had gone and, as usual, failed to get any definite information.
What is Shooting an Elephant?
300
She is a writer, occasional college teacher, and freelance editor. She was is the author of numerous inspirational real-life accounts. Also the author of Bombs Bursting in Air.
Who is Beth Johnson?
300
Babara Ehrenreich used metaphor to explain about being a server in restaurants is so hard. In this story she talks about how getting out of the industry is just as hard as breaking out of Prison.
What is Serving in Florida?
300
" I think that we're all mentally ill: those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better- and maybe not all that much better, after all.
What is Why We Crave Horror Movies?
300
Means telling a single story or several related stories. The story can be a way to support a main idea or thesis.
What is Narration?
300
During the past year my youngest morphed from child to teenager. Down came the posters of adorable puppies and the drawings from art class; up went the airbrushed faces of Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet.
What is Tweens: Ten Going On Sixteen?
400
Probably the best known living horror writer.
Who is Stephen King?
400
In this story, it talks about how the truth might not set you free, but lying could lighten the situation.
What is The Ways We Lie?
400
"True, I take occasional breaks from this life, going home now and then to catch up on e-mail and for conjugal visits (though I am careful to 'pay' for everything I eat here, at $5 dinner, which i put in a jar), seeing The Truman Show with friends and letting them buy a ticket" (165).
What is Serving in Florida?
400
Organizing daily chaotic life. Finding instinctive ways to order our environment.
What is Division- Classification
400
it's Friday night and we're at the Olympics, the Junior Olympics, that is. My son is on a relay- race team competing against fourth- graders from all over the school district.
What is Bombs Bursting in Air?
500
A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of the urban policy magazine City Journal. She also wrote Tweens: Ten Going On Sixteen.
Kay S. Hymowitz?
500
In this story, it talks about how we are all mentally ill, but those who are outside of asylums just hide it a little better.
What is Why We Crave Horror Movies
500
"As we got older, the bombs dropped closer. A friend's sister was arrested for selling drugs; we saw her mother in tears at the church that Sunday" (213).
What is Bombs Bursting in Air?
500
When fuzzy generalities and highfalutin abstractions that make writing impressive are not being used. Facts, anecdotes, statistics, details, opinions, and observations are at the heart of effective writing, giving your work substance and solidity.
What is Exemplification
500
We all put of facades to a degree or another. When i put on a suit to go to see a client, i feel as though i am putting on another face, obeying the expectation that serious businesspeople wear suits rather than sweatpants.
What is The Ways We Lie?
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