It’s been a few years since my last book report. Probably it was 7th grade or so? Maybe Tom Sawyer or To Kill a Mockingbird? But I can remember the instructions on how to compose a good literary analysis. Compare/contrast, use applicable quotations, cite external sources, consider the author’s style and always, ALWAYS have good [...]
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The following magazine clipping hung on the door of our kitchen cabinet at the apprentice house all season. The caption reads, “In 1939, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal administration assigned photographer Dorothea Lange to travel around Oregon documenting agricultural communities at the height of the Great Depression. Here we see Mrs. Botner of Nyssa Heights in [...]
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