The Old Neighborhood This story talks about a woman named Sharon Hicks-Bartlett visiting her old neighborhood North Lawndale. She has not visited North Lawndale for fifteen years. She was shocked to see how it looked since she left. Sylvan playground as she remembered it was empty‚ full of trash and had curfew signs posted. Old establishments that used to be big are now shut down and abandoned. Movie Theaters wee either torn down or has turned into a church. Everything else was protected by
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"One Today"- Poem Analysis Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama’s second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who’s daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is. Blanco uses several rhetorical devices throughout "One Today"‚ more so in the first few stanzas. An example of figurative language
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Indeed‚ there is an earlier example of Old Javanese literature showing a reference to the shadow play; the opus magnum of kakawin literature‚ the Old Javanese Ramayana‚ supposed to be composed in the middle of the 9th century‚ mentions in canto 24.112 a widu mawayang‚ i.e. a performer who is playing wayang. Following recent findings by A. Acri‚ this canto stands in a complex religious context on a Saiva background. A widu is "a figure standing between a performer and an ascetic" (Acri‚ 2011:55).
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Strategy 1: Mrs. Weaver‚ lectures her students about understanding and interpreting poems the correct away to find the true meaning of poems. Mrs. Weaver‚ allows students to know they are learning strategies to assist a student to understand and appreciate poems and encourage the student to read poetry more effectively. To expand students thinking further Mrs. Weaver discuss the meaning of the poem by asking students questions. She asked a few volunteers to read a few sentences aloud. My beliefs
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Dharker Imitiaz Dharker was born in Lahore‚ Pakistan in the year 1954. She is a poet‚ documentary film-maker and an artist. Her family moved from Lahore to Glasgow when she was less than year old. Presently she divides her time between London and Mumbai. Her other works includes Purdah and other poems (1988)‚ Post Cards from God (1997)‚ I speak for devil (2001)‚ Terrorist at my table (2006)‚ Leaving foot prints (2009). Dharker is also a documentary film-maker and has scripted and directed over
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“cringeworthily” misogynistic. Marilyn Monroe’s innocent blonde characterization in a world of a majority of men‚ but one‚ visually objectifying her would send the feminists of today’s time into a frenzy on Twitter. In some ways‚ the treatment of women seems self-aware from a writing standpoint. To the point where it’s so extreme‚ there’s no way it’s not used as a plot device. But for what purpose? I saw the treatment of women and Marilyn Monroe by men as a self-analysis of the effect women have on
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The poem‚ I chose has a very optimistic point of view. It talks about life and how although we all are going to die eventually‚ and it’s no use dwelling on the past so you might as well live for now. This poem is interesting to me because‚ it gives me a different perspective on life now. This poem really relates with the world we live in because a lot of people have this kind of point of view. But also‚ some people feel so lost that they need to hear a positive message like this. I really like that
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Charlotte Gilman’s short story‚ “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and Margaret Atwood story‚ “Death by Landscape” depicts the mental health of two women. Although the stories represent different points of origin‚ both the wife and Lois demonstrate common themes of depression. While the wife in “the Yellow Wall-Paper” seems to have no certainty of an illness or cause for such disorder‚ she is subjected to isolation and false treatment by her husband to cure her anxieties. Lois on the other hand‚ has experienced
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that the wind is being harsh towards her. The word phantom shows death imagery. The ‘sudden wind could refer to the death of her father or perhaps the sudden discovery of her husband’s affair. This abruptness is supported by the following line because the phrase “a slap in the face” can be used to imply the element of surprise. The lake in Mirror ‘has drowned a young girl and replaced her with a middle-aged woman. Throughout the poem the mirror/lake appears as quite a sadistic character who takes
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Thomas Hardy’s “Channel Firing” is a poem written in 1914‚ four months prior to the start of World War 1. This historical context is crucial to understanding the poem as it expresses the dark and sorrowful foreshadowing of the months before the war‚ creating feelings of tension‚ turmoil and unrest. There were‚ at the time‚ many young men who did not share the common unease‚ more so tension turned to excitement‚ turmoil to eagerness and unrest to anticipation. The split between society in the months
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