The poet of “I hear America singing”‚ “I‚ too” and “Where is my country” are telling their feelings about America. Their race is different and they have different views toward this country. Although the three poems are talking about America‚ the poem’s theme and the mood are kind of different. “I hear America singing” is a poem that describes the sound of working. This poem’s theme is people who work made America better. The poet is proud of it “Singing with open mouths their strong melodious
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HOW TO TELL A STORY (A) From an instant to eternity‚ from the intracranial to the intergalactic‚ the life story of each and every character offers encyclopedic possibilities. The mark of a master is to select only a few moments but give us a lifetime. —Robert McKee1 Stories are all around us. Stories move us‚ make us feel alive‚ inspire us to be more than we would be otherwise. As famed screenwriting coach and author of the screenwriting bible‚ Story‚ McKee says: “Story is not only our
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Name_____________________________________ Per_____ Date___________________ UNIT IV 1750-1914 Chapter 22 Study Guide- The Early Industrial Revolution 1760-1851 Directions: Using complete sentences‚ answer the following questions. Use the question as the stem of your response. Page numbers are provided. 1. What were the two major causes of population growth in Europe? p.570 2. In Europe‚ people migrated from where to where? p.570 3. The acceptance of what New World food crop was an aspect of the
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The Storyteller (Saki) by H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) Word Count: 2109 It was a hot afternoon‚ and the railway carriage was correspondingly sultry‚ and the next stop was at Templecombe‚ nearly an hour ahead. The occupants of the carriage were a small girl‚ and a smaller girl‚ and a small boy. An aunt belonging to the children occupied one corner seat‚ and the further corner seat on the opposite side was occupied by a bachelor who was a stranger to their party‚ but the small girls and the small
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Many Americans perceive their country differently‚ whether it appears as the land of freedom and liberty‚ or the land of oppression and injustice. In the case of modernistic writer Walt Whitman‚ his poem "I Hear America Singing" expresses America as the land of the hardworking and the humble. He focuses on the idea of the American dream and the specific types of people who are the backbone of this country. On the other hand‚ the view of another modernistic poet‚ Langston Hughes‚ is very different
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the U.S. to pursue his Ph.D. in English during 1985. In 1989‚ out of the fear of Tiananmen Square incident in China‚ Jin decided to remain in the U.S. for his English career. Jin’s first book‚ Between Silences‚ was published in 1990. In Frank Bidart’s book review‚ he concluded Jin’s Between Silence was
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Langston Hughes wrote “I Too” as a direct response to Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing.” In effect‚ the differences in tone inform the overall messages of the poems. By examining the two poems‚ one can see how the tones exemplify what it means to be an American. Hughes’s poem depicts a sense of isolation while Whitman’s poem gives off the sense of inclusiveness. Hughes’s poem presents a situation where the near future will allow for greater inclusion. For example he says‚ “Nobody’ll dare say to
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another and to belong. In the short story “A Few Notes For Orpheus” by Don Bailey‚ looks back on the childhood of a man We‚ as readers‚ experience the separation of the protagonist‚ Jake‚ from his parents. Throughout the story‚ many symbols arise that conveys a deeper meaning towards the central theme of the short story. It shows how even though families are separated through distance‚ they can still be brought together when the situation arises. In the story‚ the telephone and the fishing trip become
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the difficulties‚ overlooked by many people that an Indian had to deal with outside of the reservation are introduced in “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexie‚ who is a writer of Indian heritage. The setting in this short story helps the reader understand why the narrator who is an Indian is faced with the problem of not being accepted in the city. Being an Indian in the 1960’s was not an easy task to take on‚ and the fact that the narrator tries to make it in the real world
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