Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham” is a look into the effects of racism on a personal level. The poem is set in Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The tone of the title alludes to the city of Birmingham as a whole. The poem gives the reader‚ instead‚ a personal look into a tragic incident in the lives of a mother and her daughter. The denotation of the poem seems to simply tell of the sadness of a mother losing her child. The poem’s theme is one of guilt‚ irony‚ and the grief
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Analysis: "Ballad of Birmingham" In "Ballad of Birmingham‚" Dudley Randall illustrates a conflict between a child who wishes to march for civil rights and a mother who wishes only to protect her child. Much of this poem is read as dialogue between a mother and a child‚ a style which gives it an intimate tone and provides insight to the feelings of the characters. Throughout the poem the child is eager to go into Birmingham and march for freedom with the people there. The mother‚ on the other
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Dudley Randall -- Ballad of Birmingham(1966) Response The Ballad of Birmingham resembles a traditional ballad in that it tells a story in a song-like manner. The didactic tone seeks to teach us something; in this case it’s the theme of needless destruction. There are many devices the author uses to create such a tone and to tell such a story. First of all‚ the most visible element of importance is the irony. A kid dying in a church where his mom told him to go to be safe is very ironic
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A Historical Look into the “Ballad of Birmingham The “Ballad of Birmingham is a shocking poem that was written by Dudley Randall about a bombing of an African American church in Birmingham‚ Alabama in 1963. The bombing of the church was racially motivated and resulted in the death of four innocent African American girls and was the turning point in the United States 1960s Civil Rights Movement. In Dudley’s poem he has taken such a sad event and turned it into a poem showing the racially motivated
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by Randall Munroe‚ is exactly what it says on the cover‚ “Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions”. The purpose of the book is to explain in detail answers to crazy questions that aren’t necessary possible on Earth. The book is set up where it provides a questions and then the next few pages are dedicated to explaining the answer. There are also pages every once in awhile with weird and worrying questions that he doesn’t answer but provides a funny cartoon with it. Randall Munroe
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Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Randall Munroe Nonfiction and Humor There are 320 pages First Person Point of View The setting differentiates between each question or even different parts of each question. It’s normally on Earth‚ but sometimes it is on some other planet - or moon. It also changes time depending on the situation. On some‚ it’s millions of years into the future‚ millions of years in the past‚ or at about this day and age. Randall Munroe‚ the author‚ is the one speaking through
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The poem of “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall is about a little African American girl who wants to join the march for the civil rights movement‚ but her mother thinks it is too dangerous. Instead‚ the mother advises her daughter to go to church; however‚ the white terrorists kill her daughter by bombing the church. The mother is desperately searching for her daughter and she finds only her daughter’s shoes at the end instead of her body. The form‚ the meaning‚ and settling of the poem help
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OPERATIVE REPORT Patient Name: Robert Randall Patient ID: 110123 DOB: 01/11/xx Age: 27 Sex: Male Date of Admission: 08/09/2014 Date of Procedure: 08/09/2014 Admitting Physician: Lyndon F. Talcott‚ MD‚ Neurology Surgeon: Shelia Goodman‚ MD‚ Neurosurgery Scrub Nurse: Anna M. Iaccarino‚ RN Preoperative Diagnosis: Recurrent nerve sheath tumor. Postoperative Diagnosis: Recurrent nerve sheath tumor. Operative Procedure: Reexploration of left L5-S1 hemilaminotomy
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Randall Jarrell’s poem “A Lullaby” has both a glaringly bleak and starkly literal tone; it evokes despair about war and human society altogether. Set in an unclear place and time‚ the poem tells the story of a soldier who has sacrificed everything to fight for his country‚ and describes his insignificant life and death with a series of increasingly abstract similes. The speaker’s dismal tone‚ clear from the first few lines‚ makes a grand message about the baseness of war‚ and shifts the reader’s
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The book What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe is a book that includes a series of hypothetical questions that the author‚ a famous American cartoonist‚ tries to explain or answer in a scientific and clear way. However‚ this book is not a good book because it has no plot‚ doesn’t involve developed characters and also has no chronological sequence. To begin‚ the book does not have a plot. This can be seen in the text‚ it states‚ “A brief story the official
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