Kanaan Morley Professor Betty Proctor ENGL 1302 6 February 2011 The Mythology Fruit The poem “Blackberries” written by Yusef Komunyakaa in 1992‚ it had plenty of different meanings and opened your mind to a new way of thinking. In the poem the child is only ten and they are picking blackberries from the tree. While picking blackberries the child is in another world‚ eating and gathering blackberries to sell. When standing on the road to sell the berries a car comes by‚ the child soon then
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BAB020 12/98 Levi’s “Personal Pair™” Jeans (A) In 1995‚ women’s jeans was a $2 billion fashion category in the US and growing fast. Levi-Strauss was the market leader‚ but its traditional dominant position was under heavy attack. Standard Levi’s women’s jeans‚ sold in 51 size combinations (waist and inseam)‚ had been the industry leading product for decades‚ but “fashion” was now taking over the category. Market research showed that only 24 percent of women were “fully satisfied” with their
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The Poem‚ “Blackberries” (1992)‚ by Yusef Komunyakaa is a retrospective look In the Day of a life experienced by the author as a seller of blackberries when he was a 10 year old child. It is told from a first persons perspective so as to pronounce the level of Intimacy to the narrative relative to the poet. In this essay‚ I’ll give a brief analysis of my Thoughts on the poem and its effectiveness as an artistic literature. In recounting the nostalgiac setting of summer‚ while
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Shell’s History: In 1833‚ a man named Marcus Samuel began selling seashells in London‚ eventually expanding into a thriving import-export business. In 1892‚ the first oil tanker was commissioned‚ to deliver kerosene from Russia to Singapore and Bangkok. During this time‚ the Royal Dutch was forming to develop oil fields in Asian regions‚ and by 1896‚ Royal Dutch had a fleet of tankers. In 1907‚ Shell and Royal Dutch merged after realizing the benefit of working together. In the early 1920’s‚
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by millions of years of evolution. The choice in animals for the poems did not fall under the laws of natural selection‚ they were hand selected to represent the separate‚ yet connected underlying messages. Paul Muldoon‚ author of “Hedgehog”‚ and Yusef Komunyakaa‚ author of “Night of the Armadillo”‚ both declare society as a negative parasitic being. Both mammalian protagonists bear suits of armor that barely suppress the impending offensive physical/social forces‚ all the meanwhile representing
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• This documentary focuses on the accounts of the Central Park Five‚ Raymond Santana Jr.‚ Kevin Richardson‚ Antron McCray‚ Korey Wise‚ and Yusef Salaam; who were all accused of assaulting‚ raping and sodomizing a women in 1989 who was out for a jog in Central Park. At the time of the crime all 5 men were between 16 and 14 years old. The boys at the time had gone out together with their friends to Central Park and were causing ruckus‚ the friends who were about a group of 25 boys were assaulting
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of the 70s‚ and several of his soft‚ romantic‚ and sometimes mystical singles were Top 10 hits. After eight gold albums in a row‚ his star began to fade‚ and in the late ’70s‚ following a near-drowning‚ he converted to Islam‚ changed his name to Yusef Islam‚ and dropped out of music. The son of a Greek father and Swedish mother‚ Stevens spent his early youth developing a love of Greek folk songs and dances. By the time he entered secondary school‚ he had also taken an interest in rock & roll
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Losing Ones Identity Through HardshipsThe poetry involved in Yusef Komunyakaas Dien Cai Dau is about the hardships of the Vietnamese War. It involves the experiences of both black and white soldiers as well the Vietnamese people. The experiences that the soldiers had in wartime are expressed through the feelings of war. These elements convey the loss of individuality of the soldiers. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell‚ conveys the idea of lost identity through the sacrifice of
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this because it shows how the soldier felt the need to be like them in war. Towards the end of this expect ‚ the soldier seems to gain the courage he was longing for from his eny of the other soldiers. The poem “Camouflage of the chimera “ by yusef komunyakaa is about a soldier’s preparation
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from New York City to resolve a bitterly fought civil rights lawsuit over their arrests and imprisonment in the sensational crime.” (qtd. Jackson). Five black and latino teenagers -- Kevin Richardson‚ Raymond Santana‚ Kharey Wise‚ Antron McCray and Yusef Salaam -- all between the ages of 14 and 16‚ were convicted of rape after four of the five confessed to the crime on tape. The boys pleaded not guilty claiming that the police pressured them into confessing after being awake for 48 hours. In spite
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