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"High school students demand wars in easier-to-find countries"
I believe that this article was a satire because first it was on a satire website and it has the elements that make a satire. The 3 elements that they used in my opinion were hyperbole, irony and juxtaposition. In the article the students were over exaggerating on the reason why the United States of America needed to go to war with countries they were familiar with. I say they used verbal/situational irony because when the teacher was telling the senators that they needed to invade a city in America so his students will know the capitals of the states and where they are situated, you wouldn't have expected for a senator to say " I've always wanted to stick it to Hartford (Conn.)," without realizing that his microphone was on. And at last I chose juxtaposition because the students were putting the cause of having war in unknown countries and failing social studies or geography next to each other for more of a comical side effect. "Miss kindergarten America" by Carol Schacter I think that this is a satire because it deals with a seriousness of how beauty is affecting young girls minds around the world. It's using a lot hyperbole's throughout the whole story because they were exaggerating everything in her life like for example of how she starting smoking to get rid of her baby fat and also how this fifth grader, Tabitha, had a coming out party. Use situational irony because the reader might have though that this wasn't a 5 year old, maybe someone older. And lastly it uses understatement, making the issue less important than it really is. "How to write about Africa" This is a satire because it meets all the qualifications of a satire, it making fun of serious events, its funny, sarcastic, and offensive. It uses euphemism for example at the end of the article the author said "Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.", you can tell the author is trying to offend the writer in a sarcastic way. The author also uses humorous diction, in the 6th paragraph the author tells us how we should "adopt a sotto voice" when we are reading and also a "I-expected-too-much" tone. Lastly, throughout the whole article I think they used understatement because they are representing Africa as a country that is just poor with no good things happening to it. "Dating your mom" I believe that this a satire because it is being sarcastic, funny and offensive the whole time. the three devices of human in my opinion are situational irony, sarcasm, and hyperbole. It uses situational irony because you didn't expect the guy to be giving advice to boys on how to court their mothers. In my opinion it is very obvious that the author used sarcasm throughout the whole story, like we all know that he was being sarcastic when he was describing how to look into your mom eyes and to tell her basically how wonderful she is. And lastly it had the element hyperbole since it was over exaggerating on how you shouldn't feel bad about your dad not having their wife anymore, because they should have courted their mother and they wouldn't be in the position he is now. 1. The Nazi's
2. It doesn't talk about it 3. Other countries they helped by providing aid to the ones that were hiding (Palestine) and other countries formed organizations to help the cause. 4. They had revolts and fought back to the Nazi police. Some ran away or hid, also Jewish prisoners rose against their guards and lastly they fought back with several forms of spiritual resistance. 5. It doesn't talk about it 6. It doesn't talk about it 7. It doesn't talk about it 8.It doesn't talk about it 9. I learned that they resisted and tried to fight back. They never talk about how they fought back and it was nice finally learning how they fought back 10. We need to talk about it more so people know that it has ghappen 1) What words best describe a character?
I think the word to use to best describe Lawrence is selfish. I say that because he wants Sarah all for himself; he doesn't like that Little bee is staying at her house and threatens Little bee that he will turn her into immigration. I feel that even though Andrew is dead, he still gets jealous of what Sarah had with him. There's this part in the book where he gets mad when Sarah is talking about how she was clearing Andrews desk and found a book that he was writing and that she was thinking of continuing writing the book for him and that's when he gets mad and walks off to where Charlie and Little bee are playing and tells little bee to go talk some sense into her. I believe that he does truly love Sarah, but is very difficult in showing it and always wants her way. 2) What is Lawrence’s opinion of Little bee? He isn't fond of Little bee, I believe it is because he works with the department of government that deals with immigration and also because he thinks that she isn't doing any good to Sarah; being around her and bringing back memories of what happened back in Nigeria. 3)What does the author mean by saying, "ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. […] Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived"? I think that the author is trying to be inspirational and trying to tell us that even if we get hurt we must fight through the hurt and when we are done hurting we should look back at it and be happy that we got through it and we are still alive. They might remind you of the horrible things that happened but we must see it as a beautiful thing; it can be hard but then you have to remember that getting through the pain or hurt must have been harder than dealing with the pain after. 4) People who read this book will learn _____ ? I think that if people when people read this, they will learn a lot of things. One of the things they will learn is how hard it is for refugees and immigrants when they first arrive in a new county; and how hard it is to get adjusted to everything new around them. They will also learn how just the cause of one event will cause the chain of more surprising events. I feel that this book will open the eyes of many people and make them see things in a different perspective. Look up the definition of magical realism and you’ll read that it is a type of a gender. It is where the author writes magic elements that go with the everyday life of the characters in the book. In “Like water for chocolate” by Laura Esquivel and “The very old man with enormous wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez the authors focused more on magical realism than any other literally gender. These two literally pieces are the most known novels that have magical realism throughout the whole story. They share that in common but they are very different in many ways.
During the whole book Laura Esquivel used taste more than any other sensory detail. I think the reason behind using taste so much, is mainly because the book main thing is about the recipes. I could name many examples but the one that has stuck out to me was at Pedros and Rosaura matrimony ceremony; it goes to show how by just tasting the cake the guest had a range of emotions that made them cry for their lost loves, also causing the death Nacha. And then we have the short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who used very descriptive language, he, unlike Esquivel, was more upfront with his words. Albeit he was upfront with his words, he used very good descriptions to describe what was going on in the story, like take for example when he was describing the way they sky looked during the storm. These two authors both have different ways they communicate to the reader. While Marquez uses more of a formal language, Esquivel uses more informal than anything. If you look at the writing, you can see clearly that Marquez uses more of an “intellectual” and sophisticated diction, for example using the words: magnanimous, and frivolity and then we have Laura that makes the reader feel like they are reading a diary that they found somewhere. Marquez makes his sentences longer and drawn out compared to Laura Esquivel that makes her sentences as short as possible. In “Like water for chocolate” the setting is obviously placed in Mexico. Being placed in Mexico it has great effects on what happens throughout the story and then in “The very old man” the setting isn’t clear enough to guess where it is set in. These two stories also have different ways to present their characters, Esquivel she makes the reader learn more of the characters throughout each chapter and Marquez doesn’t expand on how the characters are like and how they are in their everyday life. Marquez and Esquivel have same genders but with slight differences, that’s why they are both so great. You open the box
you smell the diaspora of sweet, bitter, spicy when it reaches you, your heart will skip a beat like the you first you saw him Like a new born baby, you carefully touch its soft pillowy outer skin reminds you of the inner parts of his hand, holding it from time to time It surprises you how warm and tough it is like he pretends to be it tries to tiptoe out of your hands, when your mouth gets too close similar to you both feel about each other Just by looking at its dotted freckled skin, you fall more in with it alike how slowly my eyes grew accustomed to his caramel skin The lovely curves of his mouth reminds you, of the way of the juicy curves it is made of |