through The barn‚ dives up again into the dizzy blue. I lie‚ not thinking‚ in the cool‚ soft grass‚ Afraid of where a thought might take me - This grasshopper with plated face Unfolds his legs and finds himself in space. Self under self‚ a pile of selves I stand Threaded on time‚ and with metaphysic hand Lift the farm like a lid and see Farm within farm‚ and in the centre‚ me. What objects can you find? Highlight them. Where I Come From Elizabeth Brewster Summary: This poem is about
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Amber Iannuzzi Iannuzzi 1 Professor Scordia English 101 October 3‚ 2014 Character Analysis In “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen (Published in 1961) we get wrapped into a story from a young single mother’s point of view. Tillie Olsen says she wanted people to “. . . focus on ‘society and its institutions’ that force the narrator to suffer anguish” (402). We all know the idea of what society
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Linden Hills and creating offspring to take over for him when he passes away. Luther also shows us his belief in family when he thinks about how lonely he is on Christmas and wishes his wife was there with him enjoying the holiday and everything that comes with it. This makes Luther a positive role model because young men who represent the ages of Willie and Lester need to know that family is important. Family will always be there for you‚ and if you don’t keep them around‚ you’re going to face some
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Mrs. Vitalis Why Do I Come School Why do I come school? I come school to work. Another reason is to learn. Another reason is to have fun. I come school to learn because you can get good grades and get a good job. I come school to learn because if you learn more and get goods grades you can get a good job and earn more money to buy more stuff like a flat screen TV and game systems. I come school to have fun because my teachers to have fun because
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something extra and they work hard to get it. The values of having a lot of stuff or having something you really want are evident in each story. One Canadian value is to have a lot of stuff. Whether that be having a house or stuff to fill it with. “Here Comes Raven Who Sets Things Right” originates with the Indians. The Indian’s version is longer and says that the Raven brings food and sticks to a village before bringing water. “The Loyalist Cow” has no other searchable origins other than the author
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"Where I Come From" is a poem in which Elizabeth Brewster expresses her nostalgic emotions and yearning for the tranquility and yearning for the nature of her hometown. The vivid imagery‚ which stimulates the readers’ senses plays an important role in intensifying the vehemence of her emotions. Brewster also expresses her nostalgia in a way that makes readers empathise with her strong yearning. The lack of rhyming scheme in this piece conveys a sense of fickleness and unsureness. "People are made
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where the first stanza ended; so she has the same line of thought‚ but she moved from one place to another (city to the countryside). She also ends the first stanza with ‘smell of subway crowded at rush hours’ and starts the second stanza with ‘where I come from’‚ this is done to show the distinct change between the first and second stanza‚ with the first being a crowded noisy environment of an expected city while the other being a country life. If you look at the lines in the poem every line except
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why I am enrolled in a college education‚ there are a variety of things that come to my mind. There are the things like getting paid more‚ and because everyone else is doing it come to mind‚ but I came to college for many other reasons. Three of the reasons of why I am here include: Making new‚ lifelong friendships‚ gaining lifetime opportunities‚ and finding my purpose in life. Everyone needs a support system and great friends. College is giving me the opportunity to make new friends that I will
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The article written by Hajrah Mumtaz titled ‘Here comes everybody’ tackles a very pertinent issue vis-à-vis the current age of information: the dissemination of the thoughts and impressions of the common man for the viewership of the entire world. This notion encapsulates the crux of the article where Hajrah herself attempts to provide an unbiased analysis of both sides of the argumentation with relevant examples to support each viewpoint. The significance of this article is indicative in the fact
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Delia Amadiz Dr. Shearin English 112A Due Date: June 6‚ 2011 Short Fiction Reading Log A Mother’s Struggle: Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing” Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing” examines a mother’s internal struggle about the way she raised her eldest daughter Emily. By opening with “I stand here ironing” the author depicts the oppressive world of domestic tasks that engulfed and forms the mother’s life.” The repetitive motion of the iron moving “back and forth” across the surface of
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