Lake For years there have been no fish in the lake. People hurrying through the park avoid it like the plague. Birds steer clear and the sedge of course has withered. Trees lean away from it‚ and at night it reflects‚ not the moon‚ but the blackness of its own depths. There are no fish in the lake. But there is life there. There is life. Underwater pigs glide between reefs of coral debris. They love it here. They breed and multiply in sties hollowed out of the mud and lined with mattresses
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To combat the cultural stereotypes associated with the black community the emergence of BET was desperately needed to change the portrayal of African Americans in film and television. With nearly 32 million homes subscribed to BET‚ black Americans finally had a channel specifically for them. Despite the previous success of positive portrayals of African Americans on television such as The Cosby Show‚ finding black programming on television was rare and hard to come by. There was no television network
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Visual Analysis Paper This is an anti-smoking advertisement geared towards parents of young children. The advertisement is overall plain and simple; it gets straight to the point when you look at it and utilizes a dark theme. This anti-smoking advertisement is trying to evoke a sense of “parental guilt” into parents who smoke. The way the advertisement is able to do this is through the use of an optical illusion‚ use of text and the use of negative space. The first way the advertisement tries
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Now I am going to talk to you about bondage in Alice walker’s short story "Roselily" The word bondage which I will be talking about has the meaning of restraint or being used a slave therefore not having free will. This is what the main character; Roselily will be subjected to in the short story. Alice Walker ingeniously structures and skillfully tells the story in the sequence of wedding vows. Roselily is about a rural African American from Mississippi trying to escape poverty and disgrace by
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2 Modern Day Miracles The Miracle of the Sun The Miracle of the Sun is an alleged miraculous event witnessed by as many as 100‚000 people on 13 October 1917 in the Cova da Iria fields near Fátima‚ Portugal. Those in attendance had assembled to observe what the Portuguese secular newspapers had been ridiculing for months as the absurd claim of three shepherd children that a miracle was going to occur at high-noon in the Cova da Iria on October 13‚ 1917. According to many witness statements‚ after
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place in Spotsylvania County‚ Virginia on May 8th till May 21‚ 1864. The soldiers engaged were 100‚000 union and 52‚000 confederates and 18‚400 union casualties and 13‚400 confederate casualties. Some of the battle took place “hand to hand.” In the blackness of the night the men stumbled upon unfamiliar country roads‚ falling into ditches‚ tripping‚ and floundering in
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distinct person who isn’t shaped by Asian societal norms. I express that through my visual’s symbolism‚ diction‚ and rhetorical question. I have used two bold colors for symbolism. In general‚ black represents evil while red represents danger. The blackness can represent many things in a person’s mind and most of which are frightening. The black color is to help trigger that terrified feeling within the audience‚ hopefully to parallel with what I feel when being stereotyped. As the girl wearing a red
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get used to be on their own and finding their way around through life “And out beyond the tomato stake patch of the yachts‚ with their orange lights” juxtaposed to the darkness symbolised in stanza 6 “the longer white feel nervously about in the blackness” this is also symbolic of a negative time as the person is nervous in a dark world trying to find the light to turn their world positive again. The technique shown in these quotes can be symbolism‚ juxtaposition and the re-occurring motif of the
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I can remember standing in line at the F G Clark Activity Center at Southern University. The “mini dome” as the students called it‚ was a smaller version of the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. It was November 2008. There was an air of stillness‚ yet a hopeful felling on my HBCU campus. Like many of my fellow students standing in one of the two lines separated by the first letter of our last name‚ we would be voting for the first time for President of the United States. On the Ballot Senator Barack
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to touch the ceiling of the cavernous hole could cause it. But Frodo knew there was no other way through or around the towering mountain so‚ savouring the last breath of sweet‚ clean air he would have for a long time‚ he continued on into the blackness. It was as if a gaping mouth had swallowed him up as‚ after only a hundred metres or so‚ any remnants of light that had managed to trickle into the gloom were extinguished. However it was not long before Frodo remembered the gift he had been given
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