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    Billy Collins’ poem “Introduction to Poetry” provides a coded guide to help beginning readers understand how to unlock the mysteries of poetry. The speaker urges readers to read critically with an emphasis on the poem’s structure, sound, and artistic merit, but cautions them against getting so caught up in the search for meaning that they forget to enjoy the poem. Poetry can be a challenge to read for many, and Billy Collins wants to help students overcome this challenge. When reading poetry it’s

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    “Borderlands”, explains a large portion of geographical history and of her own history through just one chapter. She wants the readers to understand the struggles she has had both internal and external, and she does this through her rhetorical strategies. While doing so from the begging of the opener for the first chapter “The homeland, Aztlan: El otro Mexico” the reader will encounter various literary discourse. The usage of writing mostly in English, with Spanish lines used strategically and together

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    being noticed rather it is evident through this poem that she reproved such fame seekers and even chastised them. Rather, “I am nobody!” she exclaims, making the powerful declaration of her nobody-ness and assuming that someone else particularly us readers are feeling the same too. Include

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    In his essay “Animal, Vegetable, Miserable,” he confronts the cruel and immoral abuses animals face from their human counterparts. He does so in a profound manner, reaching through the pages of his essay to really get those wheels turning in his reader 's minds. His primary goal in writing this essay is to get people to focus on the important issue—to re-evaluate years and years of socialized thinking that humans are superior to animals. He even addresses one of the common excuses humans use to

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    in fact, she both begins and concludes her essay with this method. Anecdotes effectively convey her perseverance and hard-work, since the reader receives an intimate view of her life as a whole. The reader is either told outright a mandatory factor in her life or he/she can create an inference. The stories she provides helps to clarify her points. The reader is informed that she is an America/Puerto Rican, high school

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    Nadine Gordimer’s short story “Once Upon a Time” is about a fairy tale that goes terribly wrong. The narrator is initially roused by something that sounds like an intruder. To help herself go back to sleep, she tells herself a “bedtime story.” Here, a South African family lives in a gated community away from rioters and burglars; to keep themselves safe, all of the neighbors build immense walls and genius security systems. The family’s young, curious boy is always fascinated by the security, and

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    This simplistic voice contributes significantly to educating the reader on the issue of cancer in Africa and was likely used by Livingston as a manner of broadening her reader base beyond fellow Anthropologist. This can also be seen with her use of medical jargon, which was clearly intended for an audience of physicians and world health policy makers who can likely make

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    Monstress enhance the story with the framing of the panels, the color palette in the settings, and the detail of her art. The framing of the illustrations enhances the reading experience in a variety of ways. The arrangement of the panels lets the reader know exactly which characters, moments and

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    writes to convey a message to their readers. Genres help convey that message and help authors manipulate the way a reader perceives the text they are reading. Journals for example, like “From Of Plymouth plantation” show the reader what the thoughts of the author were at the time of the writing; letters are written with a sense of urgency and a desire for something. The letter written to King Ferdinand and Queen Elizabeth by Christopher Columbus shows the reader how desperate Christopher Columbus

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    Rowena Rivera brought many of those hidden themes and ideas to the surface. The article gives the reader a quick overview of Denise Chavez as an author. Rivera then goes into many of the hidden themes and ideas in the novel, such as the importance of memories. She also goes on to discuss things like the constant interlocking of Spanish and English. Rivera begins her paper by simply giving the reader a list of many of the works Denise Chavez has written during her literary career. It is through

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