Reflective essays explore what the author believes and the of origins of those beliefs. Which sentences in this excerpt from Amy Tan's "Mother
where Tan's beliefs came from? (Click on the two sentences that show this)
Tongue" indicate
You should know that my mother's expressive command of English belies how much
she actually understands. She reads the Forbes report, listens
to Wall Street Week, converses daily with her
stockbroker, reads all of Shirley MacLaine's books with ease-all kinds of things can't begin to
understand. Yet some of my friends tell me they understand fity percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand eighty to ninety
percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother's English IS perfectly clear, perfectly
natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as
hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape
the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world.

What evidence from the radio broadcast the war of the worlds supports theme that human vanity can cause problems

Ineed simplifying this thesis and making it easier to understand for the reader (more concise) "no matter how religious one may be, one’s faith tends to change under unexpected and challenging circumstances."

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet