English 1B Word Count: 1623 “The Stranger Who Was Your Self.” “Feast on your life.” Every time I hear that phrase it sends goose bumps all over my body and chills down my spine. “Love After Love” by Derek Walcott sends strong messages through his multi-cultural upbringing. Walcott was raised in Castries‚ St. Lucia‚ an ex-British colony‚ that reflects a lot through his Caribbean culture in his poems. Mr. Housden believes this poem is about “alienation and belonging” and “homecoming and exile”
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Using ‘Ruins of a Great House’ and one other poem‚ which you have studied‚ compare and contrast how poets present a sense of place. A sense of place can be defined and can be used in many different ways by various different people. To some‚ it is a characteristic that some places have and some do not‚ while to others it is a feeling or perception held by people and not by the place itself. It is often used in relation to those characteristics that make a place special or unique‚ as well as to
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A Far Cry from Africa: Derek Walcott - Summary and Critical Analysis A Far Cry from Africa by Derek Walcott deals with the theme of split identity and anxiety caused by it in the face of the struggle in which the poet could side with neither party. It is‚ in short‚ about the poet’s ambivalent feelings towards the Kenyan terrorists and the counter-terrorist white colonial government‚ both of which were ’inhuman’‚ during the independence struggle of the country in the 1950s. The persona‚ probably
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A broken promise in Walcott’s “Forty Acres” The short poem “Forty Acres” by Derek Walcott‚ compares the heroic figures during the slave era to President Barack Obama. Walcott’s poem is a bout a heroic figure in the African American community and how he overcame all obstacles and rose to power‚ much like President Obama. He discusses the stereotypical thoughts of the white Americans and how most deemed it impossible for blacks to achieve greatness. He also hints at the broken promise made
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HUMAN BRAIN: HOW SMART CAN WE GET? Watch the movie in class and‚ as you watch‚ answer the following questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE53EkxKWpw 1. What happened to Einstein’s brain? The doctor who did the autopsy on Einstein’s brain found unusual folds in the brain. Dr. Thomas Stoltz Harvey took numerous pictures of Einstein’s brain; therefore‚ he proceeded to cut the brain into cubes. 2. What did the Canadian neurologist Sandra Witelson find about Einstein’s brain? Which part of
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a place to escape the harsh reality and many others just wanted their opinion to be heard‚ but in a less obvious way. The poem written by Derek Walcott‚ A Far Cry from Africa illustrates the frustration of being apart of two cultures‚ British and African. The lines "I who am poisoned with the blood of both/Where shall I turn‚ divided to the vein?" (Walcott‚ pg 17) illustrates the speakers confusion of his cultural background. It seems that the speaker doesn ’t feel like he/she is a true Britain or
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A Far Cry from Africa By Derek Walcott Derek Walcott was a black poet writing from within both the English tradition and the history of his people. The speaker is conflicted‚ on the one hand he loves his native homeland in Kenya and he does not want to see his people being slaughtered and treated the way they are now. He also loves his English home‚ but if he stays in Britain‚ He feels that he is letting down his people by not going back to his native homeland to help with defending Kenya from
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Propaganda has always been used as a way to influence the mind and acquire a certain reaction from it. The use of imagery to evoke emotion even has its own specific branch of psychology . Before World War II started‚ and even during the fight‚ the United States constructed various different types of advertisement to instill fear‚ guilt‚ hatred‚ paranoia‚ and silence from American citizens. Such images portray German soldiers and their allies (mostly the Japanese) as vicious sub-human beings who covet
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science today. Within the Yoho National Park‚ the fossil quarries arise in the Burgess Pass‚ the southwest-facing saddle between Mount Wapta and Mount Field. This saddle contains two quarries: The Walcott is the lower quarry; with Raymond quarry just above. First visited by Charles Bishop Walcott in 1907‚ the main shale site known and studied today was deposited at the base of a 160m cliff wasn’t officially discovered until 1909. Fossils found within are estimated to about 505 million years old
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more interested in learning than in just looking smart in school.” Students for instance who want to succeed in high school are always prepared in class‚ they always read their book ahead of time and are active listening in class. On the other hand‚ Dereck suggest that fixed mind students concentrate on the way they look and discard learning even the ones that are important to succeed. For instants kids with fixed mindset‚ know a day’s pay more attention to looking good‚ they pay attention on their
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