“Making a Fist” “Making a Fist” is lyric poem by: Naomi Shihab Nye‚ in her poem she describes the speaker as an adult woman. The woman is reflecting on her past memories of her experiences with her mother‚ as a young seven-year-old girl. The main characters are the speaker who is an adult woman reflecting on herself as the seven-year-old girl‚ asking her mother questions about dying. The character felt like she was going to die during a car trip traveling north of Tampico (a seaport in eastern
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law‚ vulgarity‚ sex‚ obscenity‚ profanity‚ costume‚ dances‚ religion‚ locations‚ national feelings‚ titles and repellent subjects. (History of the Motion Picture Rating System) When scenes in films dealt with crimes committed against the law‚ the Hays Production Code stated that the crimes could never be presented in such a way to throw sympathy with the crime as against law and justice or to inspire others with a desire for imitation. The code goes into specific detail on several different crimes
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be this riot of colours and the joy of beauty‚ certainly not for months to come. If the bee misses this spring and fails to collect the nectar‚ its larder should remain empty. So‚ we must make hay while the sun shines. When the sky is overcast with clouds or when there is heavy downpour‚ we cannot make hay. We can make it only when there is sunshine. We can strike only when the iron is hot. When the iron becomes cold‚ there is no use of striking it‚ however hard it may be. So‚ we must do things
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5. “eight dancers dressed as swans.” – Mary Cornish Numbers 6. “Always wants a hug and never gets enough”- Ronald Koertge Sidekicks 7. “whose perfume swayed in the air‚ turning the modest flowers scarlet and loose.” –Peter Meinke Love Poem 8. “Their whisper rises from beneath the stones to fuse into a single… light.” – Yves Bonnefoy Passer-By‚ These are Words… 9. “He wanted to go inside them and live.” Naomi Shihab Nye Rain 10. “But listen harder‚ use your imagination…”
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“First Poem for You” is a poem by written by Kim Addonizio‚ an American poet. This poem “First Poem for You” is a closed-form poem but written as an English sonnet. The poem a person who loves the tattoos in his or her lover’s skin. At the same time the tattoos scares him or her by their permanence. The thoughtfulness and the depth of details expressed in this poem makes us conclude that the persona or speaker in this poem is a female. The speaker is certain about the permanence of the tattoos on
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Flat Broke with children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform is a book that talks about the person struggles of women in the welfare system. The author Sharon Hays‚ she is a professor in the Department of Sociology and at the University of Virginia. She wrote different books including‚ Inside Welfare: Gender‚ Family Values‚ and the Work Ethic‚ the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood‚ and‚ The Changing Face of Fifty: Women at the Halfway Point. I chose his book because of the title‚ I felt like
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The poem "Cross" by P.K.Page describes the sorrow of witnessing a stony couple who can barely remember why they are angry with each other after a week-long battle. They won’t discuss it or resolve it because "neither/can come to that undemanded act of love-/kiss the sleeping princess or sleep with the frog--/and break the spell which holds them each from the other." So the couple ends up like "two on a desert island‚ back to back‚" an emotional chasm dividing them which neither is willing to bridge
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miss Antonios and my fellow classmates. Today I am going to explain to you how I used at least one form of intertextuality in my poem called ‘chilling with the boys’. I used various language techniques to create my rap poem; this includes juxtapositioning‚ hyperbole and a simile. The first technique that I am going to explain that I used to create my distinctive rap poem is juxtapositioning. “Dad comes by my room‚ and thinks I’m studying‚ quickly go to my desk‚ and act like I’m doing homework
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The Hays Code in Film Noir The Motion Picture Production Code‚ commonly known as the Hays Code‚ was adopted in March 1930‚ though it was not truly enforced until four years later in 1934. This set of rules had tremendously influenced the way Hollywood movies were made for a number of years. This code was based on the ethics and norms if that time. There were three main principals of the Hays Code. The first was no picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standard of those who see it
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First the Land Was Ours Yellow M 260 The Family Man Yellow M 61 Life-Cycle Blue L 86 Doctor to Patient Blue L 231 Prison Alphabet Blue L 150 Reflections on a Benevolent Dictatorship 1. What opinion is Dawe expressing through this poem? That dictatorship is bad 2. What is the character reflecting about? The character is reflecting about a benevolent dictatorship‚ and how it resembles people who are incapable and live in a mental home. And about all the bad things that had Happened
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