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I was not able to watch the video clip off of my computer for some reason, so I’ve decided to write a blog on what I’ve come to notice about satire in the book.
When I started reading this book I saw satire as more of just a funny joke, that caused no harm and […]

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“…we assert that the violent, racially motivated acts on this campus are symptomatic of a pattern of violence and institutional racism at Cornell University. It is only through addressing the root causes of this crisis that we can hope to avert future tragedies.” -Students Hold Rally Against Institutional Racism (Stacy King; First speaker at rally […]

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I personally feel that this is the hardest assignment we have yet to have. Satire is a really confusing word, and I feel that there is really no way to explain it. I do have certain concepts in my head about it and I’m willing to try to express them, but excuse me if I […]

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I thought that the conditions that Frederick Douglas explained were poor, and unfair. The whole idea of slavery, and the fact that they receive much less than their owners in both food and clothing, seems unconstitutional to me. Today if this was to occur in our country, no one person would be able to have […]

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Last night as I was reading I noticed something. I noticed how different the relationship of student-teacher was in the time period of A Lesson Before Dying, rather than today’s relationship between a student and a teacher. Back than all the children were scared of the teacher, they would never call out or be smart […]

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Outside of class I watched the modern day Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing. It was in the Shakespeare language, and was in the modern day, along with popular modern day actors/actresses. Since it was modern I was able to understand it far better than I would if it wasn’t. I never really enjoyed Shakespeares […]

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This book gave me knowledge of romance, honesty, and women suffrage. The scarlet letter, in my opinion, is what truly held Dimmesdale and Hester together. When they were with each other Hester’s scarlet letter did not represent who she was, like it did in the community. When Pearl refused to approach her mother without her […]

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It was interesting to see the relationship between Chillingworth and Dimmesdale. They seem to even each other out with their offerings. Dimmesdale is able to offer spirituality, while Chillingworth can offer knowledge; they both have so much to give but neither of them are able to help one another. Chillingworth continuously chooses to play mind […]

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The beginning of the book went pretty slowly, and contained very little action. This was necessary to set the scene and introduce the scarlet letter “A,” which qualified Hester as and adulterer. Within the first couple of chapters I was able to recognize that the puritans saw sin, evil, and death as something that couldn’t […]

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My group and I have made a fair amount of Progress. The first thing my group and I did was choose our roles for the Act, I’m Murderer #3, we than read through the play in our parts to become familiar with what we were going to be acting as. We than accomplished who […]

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