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    turn upside-down? Would you jump to your death or climb back up? “The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window” by Joy Harjo is a poem about a women who is lost in this big world we live in and trying to find herself while hanging from a thirteenth floor window. While this woman is hanging there she starts to have flashbacks about her life starting from her childhood up until now. The author goes into detail about why this woman is thinking about killing herself because of all the pressures of

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    The woman I am in my Dreams Lexi MacConnell 1.) What we can infer about the narrator based on the contrasts she reveals is that she is a short woman‚ who wears sensible average clothing‚ she is unconfident with lack of sex appeal. 2.) The woman in the narrator’s dreams is a tall well-dressed woman who is very social; she is concerned with her own needs. This woman in her dreams is very confident‚ she is able to overcome obstacles and it’s her way or no way. We know this from the poem

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    Feared by her Innocence The woman from America‚ that moved to Africa to live with her husband‚ seemed to be a strong and independent woman even though “She descended on us like an avalanche.”(109) “People are divided into two camps: those who feel a fascinated love and those who fear a new thing.”(109) Most people wished that she would go away someday but as time passed she grew on the hearts of the people in Africa. The woman from America had an impact on the lives of the people in America

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    devices‚ Mawer illustrates the dynamism and transparency between the house and Liesel‚ as the Glass Room metamorphoses from “the Glass Room into the Glass Dream” (304). As Liesel’s relationship with Viktor dwindles into chaos‚ the fidelity that once existed turns into a state of nostalgia‚ as the Glass Room becomes an illusion of the life that she desires‚ yet can never have. From the beginning of construction of the Glass Room‚ the idea of beauty and perfection resonates within Liesel’s mind creating

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    The White Porch: A Journey From Child to Woman The poetry of Cathy Song is a flowing collection of soft spoken and colorful imagery. She gently weaves her thoughts into an imaginative yet graceful story that has an overall sensual tone to it. Cathy invites the reader into her personal sanctuary of memories. She allows the reader to share in some of her most personal and critical moments in life. Some may think these things mundane but‚ when reading her poetry you can feel how utterly important

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    experienced before in my life. I believe this was life changing for me and opened my eyes on how thankful I am to be doing what I am today. Deciding to work with disable veterans was one of the best experiences I have ever been a part of. Every Monday‚ from October 31st to November 28th at two o’clock‚ started the same for me. I would go outside to get my veteran off the bus. I would take my veteran into the back gym at the ARC. The gym was always playing music with some college students working out on

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    fourth husband was a partier and a philanderer‚ and I was young and carefree and very headstrong. Give me a little wine‚ and I’d sing and dance all night long. You remember that old story about the ancient man named Metellius who beat his wife to death because she drank too much wine? Well‚ he sure wouldn’t have stopped me from drinking! I always get horny when I’m drunk because sex and alcohol usually go hand-in-hand. And as any womanizer can tell you‚ women have a hard time fending off men’s advances

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    PHONOSTYLISTIC ANALYSIS Extract from “Hamlet” by W. Shakespeare This poem belongs to the poetic style‚ which is characterized by repetition of lines‚ which form stanzas. The atmosphere of the poem is dramatic‚ majestic‚ tragic‚ the narrator seems to stand at that line when you need to make a decision that changes your life forever As for the lexical stylistic devices‚ this fragment is rich in: metaphors: “the

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    American citizens with disabilities began to join forces in the 1960’s. They all saw the same problem; disabled people were not treated equally. Disabled and non-disabled people nationwide began to band together for the common cause demanding equal treatment‚ equal access‚ and equal opportunity for all. Although this movement began in the 1960’s‚ nothing happened until 1990. In 1990‚ the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) expanded the freedoms and hopes of individuals with impairments through

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    of protest? ’What else can an old woman do? ’ ’We know where we belong ’ These two quotes‚ the first from An Old Woman by Arun Kolatkar and the second from Nothing ’s Changed by Tatamkhulu Afrika‚ both seem to show a sense of abandoned protest and although the poems are from two very different cultures the theme of protest is clear in both. An Old Woman is about an old Indian woman who follows a man just for a fifty paise coin. Kolatkar depicts the old woman ’s protests with poverty and age

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