Year 11 English Unit 1 Outcome 1 - Reading and Responding Border Crossing (text response essay) This outcome is to be completed in class in one lesson. It is your responsibility to hand in all work to your teacher at the end of the lesson. You may bring in the following only: * Plastic pocket‚ dictionary‚ pens. Paper will be supplied for you. One page of hand-written‚ single side notes may be brought into the classroom. Length: 600 to 800 words. Date: Week beginning May 13th
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adversity... when things seem so bad that you’ve got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.” This quote states that life often hands us struggles that we must overcome. Some are often easy and others are rather hard. Mary Oliver’s poem‚ Crossing the Swamp supports the quote stated. Over all Oliver’s poem depicts a struggle of life that one must overcome‚ hence the title. In Mary Oliver’s poem poetic devices are used to achieve the literal meaning as well as establish a relationship between
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"Crossing the Bar" by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson is a poem that expresses a sailor’s death. The poem starts with the sailor getting to know that he is going to die very soon by hearing a call from the symbols "sunset and evening star" and "twilight and evening bell" both which represent the onset of the night. The sailor‚ in the entire poem is actually asking his family and friends not to be heartbroken or to cry when he dies. The phrase "moaning of the bar" refers to the sad sound made by the wind and
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Crossing The story illustrates a relationship between clearly depressed father and his son. We glimpse the father’s deep depression on line 5 “… and he hadn’t been happy in a while”. The father might be depressed because of his own actions‚ on line 20 “and at some point he saw her watching them‚ leaning against the kitchen counter in her bathrobe‚ and when he looked at her she shook her head and looked away.”. We get the impression of it because of the woman shaking her head‚ when watching him.
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Searching Through the Muck Poetic Analysis of Crossing the Swamp by Mary Oliver In Crossing the Swamp‚ poet Mary Oliver illustrates her effective work of poetry. A vibrant relationship with a swamp changes from argumentative to victorious. By creating a scene that every reader can relate to‚ Oliver develops a connection between a deep swamp and life. Through diction‚ imagery and metaphor‚ Oliver forms a spectacular idea of life and the difficulties of making it through the swamp. The darker
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The Story of Crossing Amongst today’s society there seems to be plenty of judgment. Wherever you go it is quite easy to find someone whom will ask or tell you ‘why are you wearing that shirt’‚ or ‘why do you speak with an accent.’ People do not accept others whom do not fit the stereotypical American. In doing so this creates many cultural differences and problems between ethnicities. Some of these problems most definitely include discrimination which can lead to high self consciousness. Much
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Crossing Borders “Crossing Border” is a documentary about four Moroccan and four American university students traveling together through Morocco and‚ in the process of discovering “the other‚” they end up discovering themselves as well. Watching this documentary open my mind of the people around me and how people do judge other people based on their beliefs and background without even knowing who they are‚ and to be honest I used to be one those people as well. In the beginning of the documentary
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Crossing Boundaries Through Rhythms of Life by Wennie France G. Biron The Philippine archipelago is composed of 7‚ 107 islands‚ 17 regions‚ 81 provinces and 136 cities. (Based on NCSB Press Release) Each of these places has varied (by that I mean‚ has their truly owned) history and culture. Each locality has their unique tradition. But what makes them unified despite this diversity is their shared passion for both music and dance. Being a member of a cultural performing group in the most
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The Crossing Essay The video the crossing is about the American Revolution it takes place in the early 1700’s. It is at a point in time where George Washington is the general over the continental army. It is December 23 the times were extremely difficult and General Washington just announced that we will be attacking Trenton on the 25 of December Christmas eve. The rest of the troops are restless and cold. Most of the men don’t understand why we are attacking because we have very little food
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Crossing the Swamp Throughout "Crossing the Swamp‚" a poem by Mary Oliver‚ many poetic devices and figurative languages are depicted. By using these devices‚ Mary Oliver is able to develop the relationship between the speaker and the swamp. The entirety of the poem is a metaphor of a man’s crisis in life. The first part of the poem‚ or until "into the black‚ slack‚" is dark. This portion depicts the darkness’s of life‚ such as death and the hard ships. The third stanza mentions " here/ is struggle
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