"You who eat three times a day and see your children well and happy around you cannot understand what a starving Indian feels! We were faint with hunger and maddened by despair. We held our dying children and felt their little bodies tremble as their soul went out and left only a dead weight in our hands. They were not very heavy but we were faint and the dead weighed us down. There was no hope on earth. God seemed to have forgotten."
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The tone created is that of despair and sadness.
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According to paragraph 8 of Red Cloud's speech after wounded knee, he decries the killings of Indians and tries to explain how weak and tired his people were, seeing their young ones dying in their hands.
Red Cloud who was an advocate for peace was distraught and deeply saddened by the treatment of the Indians and the extreme hunger they faced.
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Janto is a form of grinder in the Himalayan region of Nepal, Sikkim, Darjeeling and Bhutan, which is made of up of stone. It is a type of rotary hand quern.
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The line in the above excerpt from Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" that shows that Tan changes her language depending on the audience is: “The talk was about my writing, my life, and my book, The Joy Luck Club, and it was going along well enough, until I remembered one major difference that made the whole talk sound wrong. My mother was in the room.”
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is naked feet warm by the fire, rubbing them at first, of course, with snow. The fire was a success. He was safe. He remembered the advice of the old-timer on Sulphur Creek, and smiled. The old-timer had been very serious in laying down the law that no man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below. Well, here he was; he had had the accident; he was alone; and he had saved himself. Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man who was a man could travel alone. But it was surprising, the rapidity with which his cheeks and nose were freezing. And he had not thought his fingers could go lifeless in so short a time. Lifeless they were, for he could scarcely make them move together to grip a twig, and they seemed remote from his body and from him.
Chaucer describes different characters focusing on the positives and negatives of the people in an entertaining way. The different states included in the tales are England's clergy, the nobility and merchants.
It shows bad examples like the abuses of the clergy with the reference of the nun and the way she dresses.
A good example could be the Plowman's case. A worker that according to the author lives in pace and is a man of God. He respects the Lord and likes charity helping the poor.
