In Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” the reader is subjected to what can be seen to some as a horrific episode of abuse. However‚ as the reading continues the words and phrases that the narrator uses give the reader a sense that he doesn’t look at this experience as something bad. The speaker is reflecting on a childhood experience involving his father. Both sides could argue as to what this poem is truly about. From my point of view‚ the imagery and language‚ symbolism‚ and tone in the poem give
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Due mainly to the Chinese immigration act of the late 1800s thousands upon thousands of Chinese immigrants were detained in a prisonlike facility on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. Between 1910 in the early 1940s close to 175‚000 Chinese immigrants were processed at this Angel Island facility. These were people that came to America seeking a better life a life free of oppression and poverty‚ a life of freedom to pursue their happiness in whatever form they chose. But for most Chinese immigrants
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Dee Brown. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York‚ NY: Henry Holt and Company. 1971. Pp xiv‚ 445. In the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee‚ which was written by Dee Brown and published in 1971‚ Brown talked about the horrific experiences that the Indians endured while living in America. Residing in the east‚ and faced with numerous threats‚ Native American Indian tribes were forced West by the government during the 19th century. The book explained all of the backlashes they received from
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1). Fiction provides a fictitious story‚ with some life lessons throughout. Non-fiction uses a legitimate story to teach the reader a life lesson. Non-fiction can also be about a certain person’s life‚ and experiences. The book “Roll of Thunder‚ Hear My Cry” is a fiction story about the Logan family‚ who lives rural Mississippi during the Great Depression. Night riders‚ burnings‚ and discrimination put the family to the test‚ but the possession of land provides them with the energy needed to fight
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Nathaniel Khan’s documentary My Architect - a film about discovering who his father‚ Louis Khan‚ was as an individual - shined a lit into his father’s mysterious personal world. Throughout his journey we learn about his father’s upbringing and crucial moments of his adult life as well as the characteristics that defined him. From watching Nathaniel’s documentary‚ I was able to contrast‚ Louis Khan from I. M. Pei as an architect.; Louis’s designs for his buildings were dissimilar‚ he did not have
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Death? What would you do if you found out you were dying of cancer? Would you able to make jokes and laugh it off as though it were nothing? Would your humor be a way of denying the truth? People use humor in different ways. In "The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor"‚ Sherman Alexie tells how one man tries to use humor to deny the reality of his terminal disease. He shows how humor can be taken too far. This story demonstrates how humor can destroy one part of your life as it helps you cope with
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are elaborate paintings of various elements of the black lives matter movement. Others‚ like the police brutality mural‚ have connotations to today’s world and the injustices African American people face on a day to day basis. The mural that caught my eye‚ though‚ was the one depicting one mule on a vast stretch of land which‚ Mr. Ford said‚ is a symbol of the ‘one mule and forty acres’ the enslaved families were meant to receive after being emancipated. Even though the painting may seem bare‚ the
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Deaf People Are Still Disabled In the beginning of Joanna Diaz’s poem “On My Father’s Loss of Hearing‚” she has an epigram. An epigram is a brief and memorable statement about the poem. Her epigram states that deaf people are not disabled‚ but only abled differently. In Joanne Diaz’ poem‚ “On My Father’s Loss of Hearing‚” she contradicts her epigram and goes back and forth between depicting her father as abled and disabled. Joanne Diaz states all of the things her father has lost in the second
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Pregnancy In this journal‚ I have chosen my friend’s mother‚ Mrs Weng to be interviewed as she could still recall her process of pregnancy to parenthood. After Mrs Weng found out that she was pregnant‚ she was very happy as they finally have a baby of their own. However‚ her parents were very worried and they were not very much excited as she is the youngest in the family‚ thus pregnancy seems to be normal to them. During the first three months‚ Mrs Weng felt nausea‚ fatigue‚ and she loses her appetite
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“My Dungeon Shook” is a long letter written by James Baldwin to his nephew James‚ one hundred years after the Emancipation. Baldwin’s letter expresses great resentment towards what he calls the “innocents”‚ or white Americans. He views freedom as something that is still not gained. Still‚ a hundred years after this freedom was given‚ they are under the oppression of the countrymen. He tells James‚ “You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for
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