Ha‚ from “Inside Out and Back Again” and refugees in the transcript “Forgotten Ship” feel inside out through the process of them trying to leave their home country and escape to a new‚ safer country. For example‚ “The first hot bite of freshly cooked rice‚ plump and nutty‚ makes me imagine the taste of ripe papaya although one has nothing to do with the other.” (Lai 78) Ha has not had freshly cooked rice or any hot food in a number of days so is giving her a feeling of inside out because she is
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U.S. is “Make America Great Again”. When looking at this famous slogan we see the combination of 4 specific words‚ in order to understand any concept ever‚ we must know the definition of words of depth. The word “again”‚ as defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary‚ serves the purpose of an adverb‚ directing to a certain time. Merriam Webster dictionary defines the word again as‚ to a previous position or place. To explain the meaning behind “Make America Great Again” we must assess the previous
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to leave‚ they leave behind many dear possessions. When that happens their lives start to turn “inside out”. But‚ when they mourn those losses and finally accept that those losses are gone‚ their lives finally start to go “back again”. In the novel “Inside Out and Back Again”‚ Ha; a girl who just turned 10‚ lives in south Vietnam during the war. Ha and her family face the challenges of leaving their home and being discriminated by their new community. As Ha matures through the year‚ she learns to let
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Inside out and back again Refugees are people like us. They just went through a hard time by fleeing home and then finding home just like Hà. Hà is a Vietnamese girl who fled her home because of war. In the articles‚ “Children of War‚ Refugees Who‚ Where‚ and Why” and in article “Canada‚” there is a war and families fleeing and becoming refugees. In the novel Inside Out and Back Again by Thanna Lai‚ Hà’s life gets turned inside out and her family has to flee their home and become refugees. Hà’s
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resiliency. The main character‚ Ha‚ from Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai‚ dealt with numerous difficulties when adjusting to her new school in Alabama. Refugees often battle with not being accepted by peers when arriving to their new school until they meet and become friends with new people. When a foreigner is adjusting to a new school‚ they often feel like they don’t fit in. For example‚ in the book‚ Inside Out and Back Again‚ “I eat candy in toilet.” Ha doesn’t really know
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In “Let America be America Again”‚ Langston Hughes speaks on his opinions of the American Dream. Throughout the poem‚ Hughes compares his hopes and dreams for America with the reality of life for those outside of certain cultural‚ religious‚ and societal groups. This is a dramatic and diverse poem‚ fluctuating from peaceful moments to angry explosions. The author starts by mentioning of the key vision of America‚ where there is the hope for liberty and equality. Yet for the oppressed races‚ American
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into a culture that is now being forced onto them. The everyday struggles of a refugee‚ or a person forced to flee their home country‚ are exceptionally described in the book Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai. She follows a young girl from Vietnam through her futile attempts to acquire her old life back again‚ all while dealing with near-death experiences‚
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In the lyric poem‚ or song‚ "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa‚ the author describes the person he has a strong connection being gone for a very long time. The audience can infer that the author is used to seeing this person often as he says "It’s been a long day without you‚ my friend" and he thought he would never see them again. Through the use of the authors diction the audience can infer when the author sees his friend again he then realizes that love always finds a way and home is where the heart
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Though there are many themes in the song Tell Your Heart To Beat Again‚ the one that helps express the most important thing in life is that living can be hard. S2L3 says that the world makes you feel like you’re being covered by a shadow. However‚ the song doesn’t mean that something is constantly blocking you from the sun. Figuratively‚ the shadow stands for your hardships following you around such as; depression; pain; anger and frustration. This shows why the theme of the song is that life can
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Out of these works‚ I have read Let America Be America Again and Invisible Man. Let America Be America Again was written at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and describes the oppression of African Americans despite America being the land of the “free.” I think this poem is important because it embodies the on-going fight for equality of African Americans. Invisible Man depicts the story of an African American man who lived his life as a model citizen‚ but now lives in an underground hole. The
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