“Washington crossing the Delaware‚” are lucid”. Washington crossing the Delaware where his crew and him surprised hessian force on Christmas day. Comparing and contrasting in the painting with a poem of the event where it took place‚ mostly everything that was in the picture was described in the poem. The first paragraph will state how the poem and picture are alike. The Second paragraph will describe how they are different. The poem and picture of Washington crossing the Delaware
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Name: ___________________________________________________________________ Hour: _________ Lord of the Flies By William Golding Critical Thinking/Interpretive Study Guide [pic] Chapter 1: The Sound of the Shell 1. How do the boys end up on the island? They are in some kind of plane crash‚ though the details are not all clear. 2. Who is “the voice” referred to on page 7? What does the voice represent? Piggy is “the voice” and represents the
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Bitter Fruit is a passionate‚ fast paced book about how the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) held covert operations in Guatemala that helped overthrow the democratically elected president Jacobo Arbenz in 1954. This was a time when the US was under a lot of pressure due to the Cold War‚ and because the US feared the spread of communism and the impact it would have on our economy‚ we started to spy on Latin American countries like Guatemala. At this time‚ Americans had invested over 60 million dollars
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Journal-" Crossing Brooklyn Ferry " - Walt Whitman " Crossing Brooklyn Ferry " is a poem told from a man on a ferry between Manhattan and Brooklyn. The journey begins with the man leaning over a railing look into the water. The man ( Walt Whitman ) sees the clouds and the sun set reflected in the water and personifies them as "you". Throughout the poem Whitman will personify many other things in the poem. The business people and workers on the ferry a reflectively "curious" to him.
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employed as symbols through which diverse religious‚ sexual and societal thematic concerns are presented throughout western literature. Winterson presents consumables as microcosmic aspects of Jeanette’s internal struggle in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) concerning her religious and sexual attitudes within her post-modern society. As an extended metaphor‚ oranges are at the epicentre of Louie’s fundamentalist congregation as representations of the strictly heteronormative society that it enforces
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Crossing the Veil Throughout the essays of The Souls of Black Folk‚ W.E.B. Du Bois writes with a fierce‚ didactic tone that embodies the spirit of the African American during the beginning of the twentieth century. There are also moments of an almost soft‚ narrative that doesn’t only show the soul of Du Bois‚ but the souls of all black folk. To be black and American during this time period poses a great struggle to find one’s true identity within the real world. Du Bois asks the
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Important quotes‚ events Ralph 1) “boy with fair hair” 2) “mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclamined no devil” 3) “a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size‚ and attractive appearance; and most obscurely‚ yet most powerfully‚ there was the conch” 4) “all day I’ve been working with Simon. No one else.” 5) “the best thing we can do is to get ourselves rescued” -> PRIORITY 6) Ralph was a “specialist in thought” – “I cant think. Not like Piggy” 7) “The
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Summary: The book‚ To Know a Fly by Vincent G. Dethier‚ is about a scientist who fell in love with the fly. Professor Dethier isn’t like most scientists who are idolized for their accomplishments and rejected for the lack of ability to communicate with society. He was known for being an outstanding researcher‚ and he also had the wonderful gift of communication. The fact that he was fascinated by the knowledge that could be obtained from such a simple species‚ such as the fly‚ also made him popular with
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each explore the concept of journeys using a range of techniques. Transformation and personal discovery are central to each text‚ and this demonstrates that both the journey and the arrival can be difficult in their own ways. Skrzynecki’s poem Crossing the Red Sea deals with the themes of courage‚ change and hope through physical journey. Skrzynecki uses a great deal of religious imagery to compare the immigrants’ voyage over the sea to the Bible story of Moses leading God’s people to the Promised
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The venus fly trap is a carnivorous plant. That means that it gets some of its nutrients from eating living things like insects and spiders. If you’ve never seen a venus flytrap before‚ they look like a flower with mouths at the ends of some of the leaves. The “mouths” look like they have teeth all the way around them and they are opened wide until they are ready to eat. The venus fly trap isn’t going to try to eat until its prey lands on it or moves across it two times. It waits because it doesn’t
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