blogspot.com/ Where I Come From‚ Elizabeth Brewster The main idea in the poem is that a person’s character is always formed‚ at least in part‚ by the place where he or she is born: “People are made of places.” Wherever you go in life you will carry with you memories and echoes of your birthplace‚ whether it is a city‚ as in the first stanza‚ or the quiet Canadian countryside where Elizabeth Brewster herself was born in 1922. We are‚ however‚ also influenced by the places we have visited. Imagery
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where i come from - elizabeth brewster Discuss the way brewster uses language to convey her ideas about the link between identity and place. The main subject of the poem is the contrast between the city and the countryside where the speaker came from. Although there is no straight forward judgment made‚ the poet very cleverly‚ leaves subtle hints by showing a big difference in the tone of the two stanzas‚ which leads us to believe that she speaks in favour of the countryside‚ yet at the same
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Bucket List (A discussion of 3 things I would like to accomplish before I die) Dying is a strange thing. Some people are deathly afraid of it‚ while others look forward to the day they will leave this earth. Everyone wants to leave a legacy of some kind and would like to accomplish a few things before they pass away. People use the idea of death to live life to the fullest. They say that you only live once so you might as well live while you are young. People create crazy life goals of things they
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In his talk "I Leaped from the Stratosphere‚" Alan Eustace describes his experience of flying the stratosphere and falling back down to Earth. When his project to accomplish this first began‚ his question was if someone could linger in and explore the stratosphere. Usually‚ when the stratosphere was visited‚ it was by astronauts flying through it in a rocker. To accomplish his goal‚ Eustace contacted the Paragon Space Development program and asked if it was possible to have a human linger in the
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Mockingbird “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around it” says Atticus.(Lee‚ 30) In Harper Lee’s‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ racism is shown as a big part through the eyes of a modest little girl named Scout. Scout learns numerous things by trying to learn something from another person’s perspective. She tries to think of things that could have happened if racism didn’t exists and how people would react and treat
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Location(s): Era: Record Any Other Sources of Information: In your own words‚ summarize biographical information about the author and record the source of your information below: How might the author’s background (biographical information) have influenced his or decision to write the novel and/or influenced the writer’s message? Record Sources of Information: 1 SECTION 2 Key Characters: Choose three characters‚ other than George and Lennie. Find two concrete details for each
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Essay I: Southern Literature 1. Conventional representations of the South tend to portray the region in a simplistic manner and to reduce Southerners to stereotypes of shiftless hillbillies‚ indolent belles‚ and intolerant bigots. While many of the stories we have read invoke similar stereotypes‚ the authors seem to subvert these conventional assumptions to present more complex and sympathetic representations of this region and its inhabitants. For this topic‚ you are to choose one of the texts
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English H 9 P.2 1/30/15 “Where I’m from” I am from the old chair in the lonely corner who nobody pays attention to‚ From family pictures and the rich smell of coffee. I am from the bird that flies free and without worries‚ Sea breeze and cinnamon. I am from the tulip that blossoms whenever it wants. The deformed tree that grew up along with me in my porch‚ Whose long limbs I remember As if it they were my own. I’m from celebrations and really long nights‚ From my cousin who nobody takes seriously
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Where I Come From – Elizabeth Brewster From the title of the poem‚ we can assume that Elizabeth Brewster’s “Where I Come From” is about the place or places where the writer was born in or where she spent her whole childhood. We also assume that she is going to describe‚ tell memories and her opinion about the completely different places. Although the opening line “People are made of places” can be loosely described as form of alliteration‚ the repetition of the “p” sound is particularly effective
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existence into a message which promotes reader based reflection. His strongest works are debatable‚ but his poems with the strongest messages remain clear. "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer‚" "A noiseless patient spider‚" and "A Clear Midnight" each present a fascinating insight into the nature of human existence. "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer" describes a speaker who is unaccountably disgusted by an astronomy lecture‚ but feels better once he leaves to look at the stars. This discontent
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