A BLACK WOMAN’S JOURNEY: FOR COLORED GIRLS Created in 1975‚ For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf‚ focuses on the struggles of black women not only from that era‚ but issues still pertaining to black women 35 years later. Shange’s powerful choreopoem is comprised of seven women trying to "sing a black girl’s song…. Sing a song of life‚ she’s been dead so long"(Shange 18)‚ creating a voice for every woman. None of these women possess a name‚ only a color‚ to show
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Analyze: The Girl The poem that I will analyze is from Sharon Olds‚ The Girl. This poem is quite graphic but it describes a life lesson that two girls had to endure. This poem describes a graphic preplanned rape event. The girls were 12 years old‚ it seems that they were at the wrong place and living a wild life‚ and getting involved with the erroneous people. They partied with their supposed best friend‚ this is what I am getting from the poem‚ they were being chased and after being caught they
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‘’Onelady like looking ‘ like cornrows . of cornrows. shaved heads and side ponytails hair weaves‚ new perms we stay ready to play’’ (2-3)You should imagine being treated differently imagine having to work your way up to become something great.It’s not that easy ‚ when your girl you’re looked down on treated as if you’re not good enough ‚ many have work hard despite the conditions and what people put you thru and what they say to you really learn to overcome it.It’s not fair but it’s life and if
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Are girls too mean to each other ? Are girls really “mean”?That’s the question. Many people assume girls are mean because they just don’t like that person and other people think that’s the way they were made to be. There are many disagreements on whether girls are mean or not. Girls are not mean because they might not savor you. It’s mostly because they either have a low self esteem or think their life or themselves is apathy. Some girls are just insecure and don’t know what to do so they let out
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I have decided to work on two poems. The first one being There is a garden in her face by Thomas Campion and the second She walks in beauty’ by George Gordon and Lord Byron. I will be deconstructing both poems and commenting on them with reference to the techniques used by the author when writing them. The first poem by Campion has a Sesta Rima form‚ meaning a six line stanza composed of a quatrain and a couplet and rhymed a-b-a-b-c-c. It is clearly a love poem. One‚ where the author writes
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My Musical Preference The song I chose is called “What its like” by Everlast. The piece was written by Erik Schrody‚ an Irish-American singer/rapper born on August 18‚ 1969. The first time I listed to this song‚ it really grabbed my attention. The song tells about circumstantial extremities in life and how people react to them. It first tells of a bum‚ begging for money at a liquor store. The song tells of this man begging for money with shame in his eyes‚ suggesting how hard it is for him to do
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What is like to be a teenager (Kako je biti tinejder) Each man’s life is composed of several periods. However‚ the most important are childhood‚ teenage period and a maturity. Childhood is usually blurry in our minds while we remember many things that happened while we were teenagers. What’s it like to be a teenager is hard to respond especially if you are one. Teenagers are hard to define. Their bodies are changing and their hormones are going crazy. They want to do many things but can never
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The main theme of this poem is the disappearance of the author’s brother and how the author’s family dealt with it. The first clue is when in the first stanza the author talks about how her friend demands her to go see the guidance counselor which hints that the author is dealing with something. The second stanza has a line “the dining room table stacked with papers‚ her brother’s face on all of them” and the third stanza “his football team organizes a search party” which both inform us that the
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A GIRL LIKE ME: GWEN ARAUJO STORY The film‚ A Girl Like Me‚ is based on a true story of a transgender teenager who was not accepted by the society. Gwen Araujo was born as Eddie Araujo. However‚ as he got older he started to realize that he was more female than a male. Eddie feels like a girl. Eddie likes wearing makeup and woman clothes. When he wore makeup and woman clothes‚ Eddie’s mother Sylvia gets angry. Sylvia is having a hard time to accept Eddie’s situation. After Eddie started to high
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Response 1. In the second-third of Black Like Me‚ John Griffin continued writing about his unusual and courageous expedition into the deep south where‚ with his darkened Negro-like skin‚ he experienced personally what it was like to be a Negro in the 1960s. Griffin hitchhiked several times and was picked up by white men who seemed interested in learning more about Negros’ sexuality. For example‚ one of the white men who picked Griffin up assumed that he was black and questioned him on personal and
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