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    Essay (Practice) By comparing the ending of Alice Walker’s story “The Flowers” with that of William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”‚ there have been some similarities in the stories. Such as for the main character of both stories had personally faced a dead body. For Myop in “The Flowers”‚ she innocently stumbles onto the remains of a man who had clearly been killed in a lynching. She discovers the body when she saw the man cracked or broken large white teeth in the woods. For Emily in “A rose

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    Both Okita’s poem and Cisneros’s short story show the cultural heritage and physical heritage and physical appearances do not determine what it means to be an American. They are American according to where they live‚ but the way they look they are either Mexican or Japanese. We cannot assume we know where someone is from based on their looks because most times‚ we’re wrong. In the poem “Mericans‚” it is about a Mexican girl who moves to America with her grandmother. Micaela’s grandmother does not

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    Comparing Two Love Poems

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    really interesting to see their true meanings. Love poems are challenging to figure out if they truly are love poems‚ and once I figured out how they were‚ it was neat to see the true meaning of that poem. The poems “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun” and “Shall I Compare thee to a summer’s day?” by William Shakespeare have a common theme but are very different in their approaches. The first thing that I noticed with these two poems was that they are both sonnets‚ they both have fourteen

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    describing and explaining it. Emily Dickinson and John Donne both do this in their respective poems. While they have the same topics‚ these two poems have plenty of differences as well. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “Death‚ be not Proud” address the same topics but focus on different aspects of them‚ have drastically different styles‚ and flow very differently. First‚ when read out loud‚ these two poems flow very differently and have different rhythms. Their accents and pauses come in all

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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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    Flower

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    Flower arrangement is the combination of several elements to produce a visually pleasing display of fresh‚ silk or dried flowers. Flowers are arranged in several basic designs‚ including vertical‚ horizontal‚ triangular‚ crescent‚ and oval arrangements. Other options include a minimal arrangement‚ such as the lazy “S” or “Hogarth’s Curve‚” and free-standing arrangements. Hogarth’s curve is named for English painter William Hogarth who introduced designs shaped like the curves of the letter “s” into

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    The Flowers

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    Compare and Contrast two key themes in Alice Walker’s ‘The Flower’ ‘The Flower’‚ written by Alice Walker is a short story about a young 10 years old girl called Myop who has loses her innocence because of what she had found in the forest. This short story was written during the first half of the 1900’s where there were civil rights in America. Alice Walker‚ who is an American-African writer‚ wrote this story to let the reader be aware of what is happening and how the African-American people are

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    Flowers

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    A flower‚ sometimes known as a bloom or blossom‚ is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta‚ also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction‚ usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs. Flowers may facilitate outcrossing (fusion of sperm and eggs from different individuals in a population) or allow selfing (fusion of sperm and egg from the same flower). Some flowers produce diaspores

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    situation in each poem in which there is needless loss of life. (8mks) 2. Say what techniques each poet uses to stir your emotions in response to that loss of life.(9mks) 3. Say which of the two poems you feel make the more convincing protest.(8mks) Both of the poems “Dulce de decorum Est” and “The woman speaks to the man who employs her Son” are protests against violence and the cruel waste of young lives in society. In this essay I will break down main aspects of the two poems in order to

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    male dominant society she grew on. Her writing maintains hidden meaning in which casual readers would see the surface intentions of her poems and not offend any male readers. However‚ inside her humble lyrics one can objectify flowing amounts of sarcasm‚ irony and negative intensity towards male to female prejudice. This humble yet sarcastic tone can be seen in the poem as an indirect attack pointed towards the male world. These ironic intentions can be seen in the first stanza of Anne Bradstreet’s’

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