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1. I thought it was about good african american people. It did, especially with the con-artist.
2. I laughed because, throughout the whole story, she was rude and finally someone got her back, but I did feel sorry for her.
3. Mrs. Hopewell doesn’t treat Mrs. Freeman as a slave, on the contrary, a friend. Mrs. Hopewell wishes everything is good and well, and as Mrs. Freeman, she is a free woman, because Mrs. Hopewell treats her as one.
4. They believe everyone is different and that everone of them make up the world. Mrs. Freeman thinks that her kids are the best people ever and a little prude, and Mrs. Hopewell is more humble about things.
5.  Hulga learns that, by reading books, doesn’t make her know everything in the world. She needs to experience life to learn from what it gives you.
6. O’Connor admires Hulga at the end of the story. She satirize Hulga.
7. Christianity is evident in the story. It seems as if O’Connor is only doing what he did to make Hulga realize through this experience.

    9.  O’Connor’s use of satire in the story is appearant to make the characters seem what they really aren’t. The use of satire for Hulga made her feel dependent, but in the end, she realized she needed help, from people other than herself, for once. A satire used as a aritsic weapon is to be read as something and then turn the reader in the completely other direction.

In “Professions for Women” by Virginia Woolf, she talks about, “The Angel in the House.” The Angel of the House tormented Virginia while she was writing, that she couldn’t write as much as she wanted to. The “angel” represents women who stay at home while the men did the working. The “angel” was of the old days and Virginia makes reference to it that the new generation does not know of her so they haven’t gone through what she had gone through. By killing the Angel of the House, it no longer bothered her about her writing and she is now free to write about anything, having “a mind of your own, without expressing what you think to be the truth…”"The angel in the house is dead and no longer lives in the imaginations of either women or men.” I believe that everyone had an angel, men and women, but they cast her out of their lives, in order to make their own lives better. If it wasn’t for killing her, the best writers wouldn’t have written their books and wouldn’t move other people. The “angel” wanted everything pure, but she wanted everyone to be the same also. Writers are never the same; they have different ways of thinking and they share it in their writing. In those days, women were not writers and the voice of the angel in the back of her head was constantly making her question herself to do it or not, but in turn she wanted, needed, to kill the voice that was inside her to make her voice heard aloud to other people. 

A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe reflects to me because the dream,desire that he wants, will never be obtained. The dream is an explanation of what he wants, thus pertaining to me because sometimes I dream of what I want, making it feel so real, but if I try and remember what I dreamt about, I cannot retain it in my memory.

Serenade by Edgar Allen Poe reflects to me because it sounds like it’s talking about gods of nature and how it ties together. Then it goes to talking about his love and how the gods are looking down at the things they love and how they treat them, he too wants to treat his love with the same kind of respect.

Some recuring images on the various covers is fire and pages from books, in the form of someone or something, other books, people burning the books and how they burn them. They also show how a person who is made out of pages from  a book being burned and being sad about being burned. They recur because the books is based on burning banned books. The cover that speaks to me the most is the one below because it shows that someone is actually burning books and how the action is being done.  

Making the bed isn’t really hard to do. It’s tedious like no other, but it’s pretty simple. You take off the comforter, then pillows, then sheets and whatever blankets you have. Smooth out the sheet you lay on. Make sure the sides are tucked underneath the mattress. You can use your hands, but I like to use the sheet that goes on top of you to smack the other one in place. Next you lay the sheet down over the mattress cover. Put the blanket on top of that and ffold the sheet over it. Next put the pillows on top of the sheets and fluff them so they will be comfortable when you sleep on them. After that’s done, you put your comforter on, however you like it. Maybe decorate it with some stuffed animals or other pillows. You can smooth out the wrinkles on top if you don’t like them.

Argument:

1)anecdote for traveling in france

2) luxuriousness of naps

3) americans feel the need to be busy

4) naps= sign of laziness

5) counters 34 by using examples of naps: CEO’s winston churchill and cats

6) productivity

2) They are being transformed by the corporations into an edible product.

4) They are both working on food and sooner or later we’ll become the food and the food will take over the world.

5) Their idea will backfire on them. The cartoonist is trying to get across the point that if we mess with the food supply they don’t know what will happen to the people who eat the food that has been genetically manipulated.

6) He sounds sarcastic about what the corporations are doing to our food supply. The cartoons with the text further explains what is going to happen to the food supply in a cynical way.

Diction Questions:

3) When Woolf states, “a novelist’s chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible,” she is meaning that if you are unconsiousin your work, then you are able to do repetative motions so that nothing will be out of the ordinary. I don’t believe they should, because they need to have orginality and in some way, all the other books will be the same, but different stories. I think that novelists want to be “unconscious” because they want their writing to be the same and distinguish their style from others.

Questions on Rhetoric and Style:

4) When Woolf talks about the Angel in her house she is meaning, let the men write the fierce novels and have all the imagination and the women should be submissive to them and just be sweet and soft.

9) The effect of the remaing sentence in the fifth paragraph, is relating to how people are stuck to write something immediately, or on the spot, but have come up with nothing; in a “trance” as Woolf states.

1. In paragraph 19, what does the statement “sui generis” refer to? How does it relate to

2. Analyze a claim Csikszentmihalyi uses in his essay. What is his argument saying? What could make it better?

3. Analyze paragraph 14. Identify the syntax, and diction that reveals his point of view

4. What does Csikszentmihalyi suggest about the relationship between brain chemistry, genetic background, & past learning (para. 17)? Decide whether or not there are positive or negative effects to the relationship. What might be a better way to recreate another relationship?

5. What is the effect of Csikszentmihalyi’s reference to Martin E. P. Selgiman, American Psychological Association, in paragraph 21? Do you agree with his argument? Analyze the move that convinces his argument, and if there isn’t what could make it better?

Mother-The law says not to jump on the furniture.