picked to represent my emotions during this unit is a poem that talks about hate. To start‚ the unit itself is boring to me. Learning about gender theory is not something that seems exciting to me. In the poem‚ it says‚ “If this is a play‚ I want my money back.” This signifies the waste of time that this unit is to me. I did not feel like this unit is significant to my learning and so I felt upset that I had to sit through it all. Furthermore‚ the poem states‚ “If this is a kidnap‚ I’m trapped in the
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Algeron Charles Swinburne’s “Love and Sleep” established a theme of his lover’s beauty and his unconditional love towards her through strong diction which creates a passionate form of image. In the poem‚ such words as “lying” (1)‚ “asleep” (1) and “night” (1) implies the speaker is in his bedroom‚ creating a lonely‚ quite atmosphere. In this immersive atmosphere‚ the writer strikes a chord with the readers and graphs the sorrow and yearning incisively and vividly. Moreover‚ the word “saw” (2)‚ being
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Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy feel unappreciated and lost as employees. Jorge is “outside…of [Americans] understanding” and The Secretary is lost in her work and compares herself to objects such as her “hips are a desk.” The employees from these poems have become hidden behind their duties and are slowly sinking into the unknown. “Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits” begins with Jorge’s point of origin. While working as a janitor‚ “no one asks where [he’s] from” assuming he’s “from the country
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Johnny is the main hero in this book. He saves kids‚ he give pony something to think about all his life. Johnny thinks of other people before he thinks about his own life. He wants to help people all the time‚ but out of that he gets beat up. Johnny acts like a hero in two parts of the book. First of all he acts like a hero in the fire where he saves those kids‚ anyone that’s going to risk their lives for someone else is a so called hero. Secondly he acts like a hero when he is on his deathbed
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If you don’t know anything about Johnny Cade now is your time to learn something about him. The novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is about two gangs who have a rivalry with each other. Johnny Cade is very nervous‚ He doesn’t feel loved‚ and he is a very brave kid. First of all‚ Johnny Cade is nervous he was a social person but he was nervous around people that he didn’t know. “He was nervous‚ though johnny was always nervous around strangers’’ (page 22). Johnny might have really nervous but he did
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Johnny and I Imagine walking home from school and seeing your parents fighting through the window. Then imagine it for five days a week. Unlike me this is one of the many struggles Johnny has to deal with. Johnny is a 16 year old fiction boy from a book called The Outsiders. Although Johnny and I have different living spaces we both share many of the same qualities. Johnny is a quiet boy with many personal struggles he only talks when he feels the need. Like when Dally is speaking rudely to
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In “Convergence of the Twain‚” Thomas Hardy describes the greatness of the Titanic and the vanity that embodied its doom‚ radiating an admiring‚ yet regretful tone towards the events of April 14‚ 1912. During the first stanza‚ Hardy talks about the Titanic’s “solitude in the sea.” “Deep from human vanity‚” implying that the reason the Titanic is so deep‚ sunk under water is due to the vanity that created her‚ and ultimately sank her. The headline of the Titanic was “unsinkable‚” typifying
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horrible thing. The book Johnny Got his Gun defiantly proved that point‚ in the sense that it can leave you as a helpless human‚ or even kill you. If you win a war the outcome of it may be good for you but just think if you are in the position where you may not be able to move talk or even know if you are awake or asleep because your whole face has been ripped off by the shrapnel of the apposing enemy. If that isn’t torture than I don’t know what is! After reading Johnny Got his Gun‚ you will see
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Johnny Tremain‚ published in 1943‚ is a children’s novel written by Esther Forbes. First published midway through WW2‚ this is a fictional story about a young boy‚ Johnny Tremain‚ in 1775 during the Revolutionary War. It takes place in Boston while it was in revolt. Esther Forbes wasn’t ever a children’s novelist‚ but rather‚ she was a historian. Forbes aimed for “addressing a nation of young readers who are looking about at their nation at war”. She did an outstanding job at succeeding in this;
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they brought in Johnny Hincapie. Hincapie was an 18 year old who was wrongfully charged with helping in the murder of Brian Watkins in the 1990s. Now at 42 years old‚ and after serving 25 years in prison his case has been dismissed and he is being tried fairly all thanks to the hard work‚ and dedication of journalist and York professor Bill Hughes who published an article in City Limits Magazine in 2010 addressing Hincapie’s wrongful conviction. At the panel they had Bill Hughes‚ Johnny Hincapie‚ Robert
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