Darlene Mendoza Stina Attebery English 1A 3/9/15 My Remembered Event It was toward mid-senior year in high school. Maybe February. I was anticipating which colleges would accept someone like me‚ and trying to enjoy as much time with friends as I could. I was with my best friends‚ appreciating a beautiful Southern California day‚ and had come to realize my last days as a senior were coming to a close. I was a perfect day; big white clouds covered the skies‚ along with the beaming sun hitting the
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‘King Sugar’ as the late Trinidadian Prime Minister‚ Eric Williams put it‚ is what the poem ‘Gasparillo Remembered’ by Anson Gonzalez is about. The economic and personal loss coming from the rise demise of the sugar industry is the central theme of the poem. The title of the poem suggests a duality of reminiscence and loss for an industry that is ‘gone’. The poem is told from the point of view of an old man reminiscing years connected with the sugar industry; fond childhood memories‚ hardship and
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My Husband by Alice Munro. This is a short story told in the first-person narrative. The theme of this story is a simple‚ but good one. The theme is love. Or to put it in broader terms‚ the theme could be described as while sometimes it may come from heartbreak‚ fate can bring is to the person we are meant to love forever. When it comes to exploring the point of view of this story‚ you can ask yourself a few questions. “This story is told in the first person by a teenage girl. What are the strengths
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Alice Munro grew up on a small farm which provided her with a firsthand view of the imagery she would come to use in her writing. One story with a small farm family is “Boys and Girls.” It is an initiation story of a young girl at conflict with the gender roles placed upon her. At a time when gender roles were being challenged‚ Munro writes about a fox farmer’s daughter. The girl wants to help her father‚ but that is a man’s work. Munro’s own father was a fox farmer turned foundry worker turned turkey
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because he wanted to get revenge with the British because they killed his children and British gave his wife to someone else. Colonel Edmund Munro is the colonel of the British troop‚ he has two daughters and they were‚ Cora Munro and Alice Munro. Colonel Edmund Munro wanted his daughter Cora to marry Major Duncan‚
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The poem entitled “Gasparillo Remembered” by Anson Gonzales is a pantoum about an ex-slave reminiscing about the past and the experiences he has had on the sugar plantation and how they have changed. Anson uses imagery and figurative language to highlight the theme of change in his poem. The theme is developed gradually as Anson takes the readers on a step by step journey of life working on the sugar cane plantation to life free of the plantation and the experiences good and bad faced by the people
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culture. The struggle for equality between male and female has been perpetuating for decades and yet no change has occurred because of the rigid social construction of gendered roles. In “Boys and Girls”‚ in the backdrop of a countryside in 1950s‚ Alice Munro depicts the hardships and successes of the rite of passage into adulthood through her portrayal of a young female who goes through the process of growing up. She presents the subject of the profound unfairness of sex-role stereotyping‚ and the effect
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HOW I MEET MY HUSBAND by Alice Munro In literature‚criticism is used when we give our opinion or judgment about the good or bad qualities of something or someone‚ especially books. In my selected text “ How I Meet my Husband” by Alice Munro‚ the story is about a young girl‚ Edie‚ who is hired by Dr. Peebles to work for a higher class family. Edie falls in love with Chris Watters‚ but soon learns that he is engaged to another woman‚ Alice Kelling. One day while Alice‚ Mrs. Peebles and the children
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Bruce Munro’s Light Installations Bruce Munro is a British installation artist. Installation art is three-dimensional and is mostly site-specific. They are intended to change space perception. Bruce Munro has taken installation art to new heights. He does large-scale installations that usually encompass entire parks to create entire exhibitions. His primary medium is light. He uses light to completely transform an area. His exhibitions are very unique. Typically in an exhibition‚ one
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A Day That Will Never Be Forgotten It was the morning of what was about to be a one the most significant days of my life‚ the date was December 11‚ 2010‚ my wedding day. I was still tired and jetlagged from the flight home from my deployment overseas just a couple days prior. It was about to be a busy day due to the fact that I had returned home a week later than planned and everything was going to have to be done at the last minute. Both my wife and I had a lot to do before we were
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