1. Choose a passage that contains striking imagery. Analyze the passage and explain the effect on the work as a whole. "I reached out and clung for life with my good left hand like a claw, grasping at moving legs to raise myself from the dirt. Desperate to save myself in a river of people saving themselves. And if they chanced to look down and see me struggling underneath them, they saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious" (306). Kingsolver creates an image of a swarm of people desperately tossing aside each other to save their own lives. She depicts Adah as being ten...

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... grew up in a happy and comfortable household. She married my great-grandfather, who worked as an official for national railroad, and as the World War I was spreading throughout Europe they were striving to keep normal life. Shortly after the WWI they had three children, and in 1928 my great ... . Grandma Stefcia learned about it from a third party, and never saw her children until the War was over. She survived numerous bombardments of the city,Warsaw Uprising?, and all the hardships of the war. I never heard her complaining about it though, she considered herself extremely lucky when al...

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... about my grandmother, as I never saw any of my grandparents. My grandfather John Bass, was the overseer of a large plantation in South Carolina before the Civil War. They owned a lot of slaves. After the slaves were freed, my grandfather was out of work, so he and Uncle Ashley Rhodes, my grandmothers' brother, ... said. I was only 3 when he died. Dad left $7,500 in trust, to be divided equally among his children and 480 acres of land. I had a half sister, Lucy Pitts, (lived to be 108). She received the same as anyone else. Wieghbourne, my oldest brother, borrowed Lucys' part of her inhe...

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... cows at the White House every morning.   Julia Grant 1826-1902 Ulysses S. Grant's wife was cross-eyed, and owned slaves during the Civil War while her husband served as general of the Union Army.   Lucy Hayes 1831-1889 Rutherford B. Hayes' wife was the first to ban all alcoholic ... 1880 Chester A. Arthur's wife was a contralto singer who developed pneumonia after a concert and died 20 months before her husband took office. Arthur's sister Mary Arthur McElroy served as White House hostess and later joined the anti-suffrage movement. Frances Cleveland 1864-1947 Grover Cleveland's wife w...

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... the country of the Philippines and he became used to speaking English and becoming a part of the U.S.A. When Tatay became an adult, the Second World War had just begun and becoming familiar with the U.S. and friendly with Americans, he did not hesitate to join the Navy and fight for the country. The ... United States saw that we was a good fighter and recruited him to the United States Navy where he fought during the world war as a headquarter guard and loyal soldier. He quickly earned the rank Captain Valdez and was granted United States of America Citizenship for fighting under the All...

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... the country of the Philippines and he became used to speaking English and becoming a part of the U.S.A. When Tatay became an adult, the Second World War had just begun and becoming familiar with the U.S. and friendly with Americans, he did not hesitate to join the Navy and fight for the country. The ... United States saw that we was a good fighter and recruited him to the United States Navy where he fought during the world war as a headquarter guard and loyal soldier. He quickly earned the rank Captain Valdez and was granted United States of America Citizenship for fighting under the All...

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... the country of the Philippines and he became used to speaking English and becoming a part of the U.S.A. When Tatay became an adult, the Second World War had just begun and becoming familiar with the U.S. and friendly with Americans, he did not hesitate to join the Navy and fight for the country. The ... United States saw that we was a good fighter and recruited him to the United States Navy where he fought during the world war as a headquarter guard and loyal soldier. He quickly earned the rank Captain Valdez and was granted United States of America Citizenship for fighting under the All...

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... the country of the Philippines and he became used to speaking English and becoming a part of the U.S.A. When Tatay became an adult, the Second World War had just begun and becoming familiar with the U.S. and friendly with Americans, he did not hesitate to join the Navy and fight for the country. The ... United States saw that we was a good fighter and recruited him to the United States Navy where he fought during the world war as a headquarter guard and loyal soldier. He quickly earned the rank Captain Valdez and was granted United States of America Citizenship for fighting under the All...

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... the country of the Philippines and he became used to speaking English and becoming a part of the U.S.A. When Tatay became an adult, the Second World War had just begun and becoming familiar with the U.S. and friendly with Americans, he did not hesitate to join the Navy and fight for the country. The ... United States saw that we was a good fighter and recruited him to the United States Navy where he fought during the world war as a headquarter guard and loyal soldier. He quickly earned the rank Captain Valdez and was granted United States of America Citizenship for fighting under the All...

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Barbara Kingsolver's writing in The Poisonwood Bible is more than mere historical fiction. It is true that Poisonwood is set in a past time, but the work's themes of ... and even physical violence. The British Admiral who refused to kowtow to the Chinese Emperor comes to mind as one of these cultural misunderstandings gone awry; eventually leading to war. Despite the many differences, there seem to be several general aspects of society shared by nearly all, chief among them being religion. The Price family, especially Nathan, ... and is oblivious to the needs of others. By the time the Pri...

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