Chapter 1 TKAM · The chapter opens with the introduction of the narrator‚ Scout Finch‚ her older brother Jem‚ and their friend and neighbor‚ Dill · her brother Jem breaking his arm. · She launches into a brief family history‚ beginning with her grandfather‚ Simon Finch. · Scout tells of her days living on the main street with Atticus and Jem‚ along with cook‚ Calpurnia‚ Their mother passed away when Scout was two‚ and she hardly remembers her. · Scout then recalls meeting Dill‚ a seven-year-old boy
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What were the main social effects of the Atlantic slave trade and how is it affecting America now? The Main social effects of the slave led to segregation‚ racism‚ and stereotyping‚ It is affecting America because black people have less education‚ they are treated differently and get less pay. Topic Sentence: In the late 1400s the Transatlantic slave trade was started by the Portuguese but it really didn’t expand until the late 1500s when Sir Francis Drake started to journey with John Hawkins his
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birthday party‚ but me being a little kid and turning into a big kid-- I was like you guys‚ and now I’m not. I can tell you the same thing that our mommys and daddys told us almost a bajillion years ago. The playground is not the same anymore. The big kids can share their toys‚ or push us off the swing set. But the same problem our mommys and daddys had when they were little kids is still a problem all around the playground-- I was told that toys do not come from Santa‚ but from our parents. You guys
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you. / Daddy‚ daddy‚ you bastard‚ I ’m through.” This final line to Sylvia Plath’s poem‚ “Daddy”‚ shows her anguish and hatred towards her father even after his long-ago death. One can blatantly see all throughout this poem that Plath is expressing intense emotions towards her father’s life and death but finally comes to terms with him in the end. She was also illustrating her feelings of resentment towards her husband with her harsh and vivid words. (“Analysis of Sylvia Plath’s ‘Daddy’” 1). The
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1) Daddy by Sylvia Plath You do not do‚ you do not do Any more‚ black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years‚ poor and white‚ Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy‚ I have had to kill you. You dies before I had time— Marble-heavy‚ a bag full of God‚ Ghastly statue with one grey toe Big as a Frisco seal And a head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In the waters off beautiful Nauset. I used to pray to recover you. Ach‚ du. In the
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grandparent shows the importance of nature and the Home Place to their family. When J. Drew’s grandfather or “Daddy Joe” returned from war he was wounded both physically and mentally and needed a place to turn too. “Daddy Joe left the war behind and turned his attention to family and farming” (Lanham 43). Having a connection with nature can provide a lot of health benefits. It gave Daddy Joe more structure and a reason to get out of bed while also reconnecting with his family. J. Drew’s grandmother
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Shame Gregory experiences both external shame and internal shame. Gregory conveys his message by revealing how his life in poverty took a toll on him as a person. He shares many incidents to support his message. The girl that he wants the most does not even notice him. He is invisible to her and not even worthy of her acknowledgment‚ unless he is good. He explains how the students at school segregate him‚ as well as his teacher‚ because he is poor. He ends with his internal shame caused by his
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will leave them.”-Lola Haskins Dearborn North Apartments Chicago. Illinois 14. “galaxies swallowed by galaxies‚ whole solar systems collapsing‚ all of it acted out in silence.”- Nick Flynn Cartoon Physics‚ Part 1 15. “Certain thrills stay tucked in your limbs.”-Daisy Fried She Didn’t Mean To Do It 16. “a troop of angels had been shot and dissolved when they hit the ground.”-David Berman Snow 17. “Then light. Then hands. Then breath.”-Andrew Hudgins In the Well 18. “That’s the
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army so I got to do a lot of site seeing when I was young. I have family in Alabama on my mother and daddy side. As I got older my mother had to get out the army because she got hurt doing some type of task and they put her on the disable list for a long time. While my mother was put on the disable list in the army she was also pregant with my sister. So when my mother had my sister my mother and daddy seem like they hated each other and later on became divorce. When my parents got there divorce I did
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Poems typically talk about the main human emotions that are expressed namely love‚ and reminiscence. Songs usually collate with poems because most have similar meaning also focus on main human emotions like love‚ and reminiscence. Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden speaks about how on sundays the speaker’s father had to wake up and work in the cold‚ yet nobody ever thanked him. In the song When I’m gone by Eminem he stresses on his daughter Hailie he doesn’t have time to spend with him. In those
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