Chicago Annotation/Interactive Analysis of Text Summary: In the poem “Chicago” by “Carl Sandburg” he starts with giving the readers an image of what Chicago is like with the different types of jobs and the things the citizens do in their daily lives. At the start of the poem Sandburg explains what people would see in a daily life at Chicago‚ such as Tool making‚ farming and swine wholesale dealers. This shows that the city is full of vigorous people and that they always try to look strong
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Kyle Walker Period 5 Today‚ there are many dreams and traditions that Americas hold. Some of them can be reached‚ some cannot. Some Americans dream of riches‚ some dream of curing diseases. Most of their dreams are from the heart. People dream of having a family‚ with healthy kids. The American dream is really simple to me. It’s having a family‚ house‚ job‚ and one or more cars. Today in society‚ people have different perspectives on what the “American Dream” is. People worry more about how the
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English and it helped benefit the culture of America from the past up until the present. John Milton always carried a flawless response when it would come to earlier writers would write in regards to Milton’s political beliefs and religious beliefs. Now John Milton was an extremely educated person just not in one subject‚ but all subjects that would include things like philosophy (the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge‚ reality‚ and existence‚ esp. when considered as an academic discipline)
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Winter Break Annotation Assignment: The Cruelest Miles 1. “Allan left behind a vivid description of mushing in a blizzard. On the final ninety-mile stretch to Nome during the sweepstakes‚ his team was enveloped in ‘air thick as smoke with whirling snow. Gritty as salt it was‚ and stinging like splinters of steel. It baked into my furs and into the coats of my dogs‚ until we were encased in snow crusts solid as ice. The din deafened me. I couldn’t hear‚ couldn’t see‚ couldn’t breathe. I felt as if
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5. “eight dancers dressed as swans.” – Mary Cornish Numbers 6. “Always wants a hug and never gets enough”- Ronald Koertge Sidekicks 7. “whose perfume swayed in the air‚ turning the modest flowers scarlet and loose.” –Peter Meinke Love Poem 8. “Their whisper rises from beneath the stones to fuse into a single… light.” – Yves Bonnefoy Passer-By‚ These are Words… 9. “He wanted to go inside them and live.” Naomi Shihab Nye Rain 10. “But listen harder‚ use your imagination…”
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The excerpt we read of Kath Weston’s Exiles from Kinship. In Families We Choose: Lesbians‚ Gays‚ Kinship is a description of something immediate to my family. Weston describes the alienation of homosexual individuals within their own families and how generic family structures and values are different for homosexuals because of the low tolerance for that lifestyle that families sometimes have. The people described have to leave and find their own family or kinship groups to rely on for support instead
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In the short story “The Devil and Tom Walker”‚ the author shows greed by the main character selling his soul for a large treasure‚ being a cheap and greedy moneylender‚ and the lack of the main character and his wife sharing the wealth between each other in order to show that people will do anything for money and become rich. “The Devil and Tom Walker” was written by Washington Irving. Washington was a very famous American author. Washington Irving was born in New York on April 3‚ 1783. In his childhood
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Alice Malsenior Walker was born February 9‚ 1944‚ in Putnam county located in Eatonton Georgia. Struggles of being a black woman in the 1960’s and a childhood accident would eventually help her write her most famous book The Color Purple. She would also go on to attempt to thank her brother for giving her confidence and courage to follow her dreams but he died before she had chance. Alice Walker’s work has made her an acclaimed book and poem writer. Alice’s work in both the civil rights movement
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Studying: Then and Now One June day‚ I staggered into a high school classroom to take my final exam in United States History IV. I had made my usual desperate effort to cram the night before‚ with the usual dismal results—I had gotten only to page 75 of a 400-page textbook. My study habits in high school‚ obviously‚ were a mess‚ but in college‚ I’ve made an attempt to reform my note-taking‚ studying‚ and test-taking skills. The first thing I tried to improve in college was note-taking. I took
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Freedom Then & Now I always think what freedom is. Does freedom limit to an individual person or a country? Everyone wants freedom in their own way; hence the meaning of freedom also differs for each individual. Even now some people feel that we don’t have freedom and we are not independent. Freedom Then was to fight for our country‚ fight for our rights‚ fight for justice. As the song “Vande Maataram” means “Long Live the Mother Land”‚ All Indians goal was to partition British India into
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