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Ashley Morris
Brant 11-12 MWF
April 28, 2002
Out of class #2
Graduation Epidemic

My high school graduation was one of the saddest moments of my life. Although I was excited about graduating, I did not know what I was going to do with the rest of my life. In Maya Angelou's "Graduation," Angelou was excited and proud of all that she had accomplished. In Flannery O'Connor's "A Late Encounter With the Enemy," Sally Poker Sash was proud that she was finally graduating and just wanted to show that off to all the "upstarts". In the two readings the pupils are contrasting in a few different areas, and a couple of those areas are in pride and feelings that their families have being involved in the graduation.
In both of the readings the pupils have a great sense of pride; however the pride is in different things. In Maya Angelou's "Graduation," Angelou's pride is in her no absences, no tardies, and her academic work. Angelou has worked extremely hard to achieve the thing that......

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