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    Critical Essay – “Before you were mine” “Before you were mine” by Carol Ann Duffy is a very emotionally charged poem about loss and cherished memories. The poet explores the significance of the past by looking back nostalgically and celebrating her mother’s previous‚ glamorous life before she was blessed with her child. The poet uses the techniques of tone‚ word choice and imagery to focus clearly on her life before she‚ the poet herself‚ ever existed. Duffy’s overall tone throughout the poem

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    Teds Hughes and mark doty poems are written in animals point of view ‚ Showing each unique animal character and their point of view about this world from their perspective. The poet uses literary devices in their poems using tones‚ personification ‚ and visual imagery to evoke the reader’s emotions and to make the poems more comprehensible. In this two poems the poets made a unique quality of personifying the hawk and the dog because they cannot articulate their thoughts and emotions into

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    felt by the poet. Rhetorical questions are repeated throughout the poem‚ to cause a sense of confusion and frustration felt by the poet as he attempts to belong‚ but cannot. ‘To what star do their footprints lead?’ the star is symbolic of Skryzynecki’s ultimate goal to find a sense of belonging in his family so he may find where he belongs in the world. Skrzynecki’s search for identity through family can also be seen in the poem ‘Felix Skrzynecki’. While Peter Skrzynecki made the journey from Poland

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    Beautiful Losers: A Critical Analysis Essay “ The world looks at graffiti and sees garbage and ugliness”. These were the words of Margaret Kilgallen‚ a talented street artist that felt that the true garbage or “mind garbage” was to be found on commercial billboards. Growing up in the small town of Kensington‚ Maryland‚ Kilgallen was introduced to folk traditions such as Amish quilting and banjo playing; she became adept at the banjo herself. After a BA in studio art and printmaking at Colorado

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    Critical Essay by. Juda Smith I think the nether grave is the best story‚ because it’s very relatable. Majority of kids get bullied and or go through a bad time at least once in their life‚ so they either find ways to escape it or lie to people about how “good” their life is so nobody knows how bad it actually it. People connect more with things they can relate too. Fact. But‚ ‘”A Sound of Thunder” is a better story that can be classified as science fiction because it has something to do with time

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    saviors of Earth‚ on the other hand are treated as children and kept in the dark. “…he [Card] examines why referring to characters as ‘children’ does not necessarily make them well-rendered child characters.” (Kelly 112) In David J. Kelly’s critical essay‚ he starts off be stating that‚ and he continues to explain some of the characters who are referred to as children but are not really “children”. We may see kids Truong 2 as innocent and not know any better‚ but Card believes that behind

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    Boyz N the Hood Critical Essay In the movie Boyz N the Hood there is a constant conflict that follows many of the characters. The movie takes place in South Central Los Angeles‚ which is a very dangerous neighborhood. There are lots of shootings‚ drugs‚ and other crimes which take place there on a daily basis. This is a predominantly African American neighborhood and the movie portrays this idea with all black people. Throughout the movie‚ the conflict of every day violence and crime asserts itself

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    Literature II Research Paper & Journal Table of Context a. Research Paper ………………………………………………………………………………. 2 b. Poems 1. Sir Patrick Spens ………………………………………………………………………… 6 2. Amazing Grace ………………………………………………………………………..… 9 3. Shakespeare Sonnet 55 ………………………………………………………………… 11 4. The Relic ……………………………………………………………………………..… 12 5. The Flea ………………………………………………………………………………... 14 6. The Anniverserie ……………………………………………………………………….. 16 7. The Canonization ………………………………………………………………………. 18 8. Batter

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    Critical Lens Essay “Good people... are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure”. This quote from William Saroyan means that wise people acquire their insight from experiences‚ especially unsuccessful ones. I agree with the quote and the idea of people being knowledgeable because of the hardships and journeys they had endured. The two novels Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger both support the idea of gaining wisdom through

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    All my Sons - Critical Essay ’All my sons’ written by Arthur Miller is a dramatic play which shows actions and consequences and morality and studies the theme of idealism verses realism‚ social responsibility and the American dream. This play takes place after World War II‚ in the year 1947. The play shows conflict between a Father and a son and how quickly a family can fall apart following a serious revelation. Arthur Miller uses techniques such as characterization‚ stage directions and a delayed

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