Remember the titans is a film based on a true story of a high school football team in Alexandria Virginia T.C Williams High School was on the verge of integrating and being one of the first schools to integrate in America. However a mass protest was being held against the integration of the school due to the brutal murder of a black student. Nevertheless the school still integrated in the summer of 1971‚ which eventually led to individual change in many of the members of the community. The film portrays
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Remember the Titans is a movie that strongly depicts leadership‚ thus showing a leader in action. This movie displays how a group of football players can bring a town to realize that someone should not be judged by the color of their skin. With the help of Coach Boone‚ played by Denzel Washington‚ a group of high school boys turn from enemies to great friends. This movie displayed a very captivating act of how America’s past is a vital time in our history and must never be forgotten. At the beginning
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Fanning wrote the poem Child Carrier‚ which is one poem out of a set of poems‚ entitled Man Carrying A Corpse. I believe that this poem is about the main character‚ Man. He is trying to fit into a crowed elevator with a corpse draped over his shoulder. When he gets in the elevator a little girl reaches up and touches Corpse’s hand. The Man was startled that the little girl touched Corpse without any reservations. Then the little girl told Man not to worry as she readjusted the large load she was
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Do you remember learning to read as a young child? How about wanting to be able to read like your parents and siblings could? Learning to read‚ for me‚ was something that I had always wanted to do. My siblings and my parents could read‚ and not being able to made me feel kind of left out‚ and like I was missing out on something. When I started Kindergarten‚ the most exciting thing to me was being able to learn to read. I don’t remember any specific instances when I was practicing reading‚ but I do
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hard to master” (1)‚ and repeats it several more times throughout the poem. She speaks in a casual and easy to understand tone‚ despite its perplexing verse form (known as the villanelle). The speaker starts with the loss of ordinary‚ everyday things and gradually moves to the bigger things‚ such as the loss of her significant other. While the speaker claims that losing is something she has long since mastered‚ by the end of the poem‚ we can see that losing her sweetheart did affect her‚ regardless of
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Last Night that She Lived After evaluating my perception of The Last Night that She Lived‚ by Emily Dickinson. The message in this poem is we take life for granted and we don’t appreciate it until we are threatened with losing it. Emily used what seems to me as free verse with no apparent rhyme but alliteration at times. This is a Narrative poem that tells a story about a death of a young woman. In the first verse Dickinson was saying when she wrote‚ "The last Night that She lived
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The two poems‚ “Slam‚ Dunk & Hook” and “Fast Break” both capture the attention of the audience by describing basketball as a game of imagery versus a game of athleticism. In‚ “Fast Break” by Edward Hirsch‚ the author uses vivid diction. Hirsch states‚ “to see an orange blur” (Hirsch). This describes the basketball as a flowing object. His tone is very easy going at this point in the poem. He uses vivid imagery to show that basketball is an art and it isn’t always about the fans and the players but
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Poem Analysis Shakespeare’s Th’expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame Where most poetry since Petrarch had been based on the unavailability of the love object‚ Shakespeare in sonnet 129 writes about exactly what happens when you get what you think you want. But contrary to expectations it is not an achievement devoutly to be wished‚ but rather an inevitable nightmare. It’s quite hard to pin down Sonnet 129 to one specific speech situation. Neither is there any “I” – a clear reference to a particular
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In "Remember Who You Are" by Cathy Guisewite‚ Guisewite discusses the fact that women do so much more then men. In Guisewite’s first passage labeled " Give up the quest for perfection and shoot for five good minutes in a row"‚ she discusses the fact that when women do in actual fact more work then men that they don’t get the credit they deserve. Guisewite also talks about how she would pressure her self into losing weight‚ and at the end of her college education at the University of Michigan she
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The theme of this poem by Krista Wheeler is it is never too late to change and turn your life around. The poem is about a student that is currently making poor choices when it comes to his academic success. The speaker is explaining to the child that what they are doing is wrong and that there is still time to change and make things better. Firstly‚ the poem states “work‚ work so that you will one day become glad”‚ this passage shows that if the child does not give up and continues to work hard he
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