Mac Hoffman HNRS 2013 Paper #3 An Explication of Character: Michael Eisner As the longtime CEO of Disney‚ Michael Eisner was responsible for helping the company reach heights it had never reached before. He took over Disney in 1984‚ at a time in which it was struggling‚ and ultimately expanded the value of the company by taking high risk-high reward endeavors such as ambitious movie productions and the acquisition of large companies. In his autobiography Work in Progress‚ Eisner presents his
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Dana Hall Dr. Doris Davis English 472 March 3‚ 2013 An Explication of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is a poem by John Keats‚ written in 1819 and published in 1820 in Hayden’s Annals of Fine Art. As the title states‚ the poem is an ode‚ a lyric poem characterized by lofty words‚ elaborate style‚ and expressive emotion. The poet achieves this style with use of figurative language‚ imagery‚ and a personification of the urn. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” keeps to the standard stanza
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Explication on "Lying Awake" When reading Snodgrass’s "Lying Awake" I felt completely lost. After reading the first two stanzas it seems as if Snodgrass is talking about someone feeling pressured to do something that they may not want to do or go forward with. In the first stanza he describes the moth as being "squirmed up‚ sniper style‚ between/The Rusty edges of the screen;" This might indicate the moth being someone that is involved in law enforcement or someone who can’t seem to leave a controlling
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English IV Tues. & Thur. Mothers Rain of Gold is a book written by Victor Villañseor who talks about two families that escape from the Mexican Revolution to safety in the United States with the help of their mothers. During the time of the Mexican Revolution families will leave because I want to be safe because during that time it was horrible time to be in soldiers will rape young girls and get them pregnant or something bad will happen to them. A mother will do anything to protect their family
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out loud makes me shudder. "I must stand firm" I instruct myself‚ as the disappointed expression on his face flashes before my eyes. He will tell himself he should have been more involved. That he should have taught me to be more of a ’man’. That letting me wear my sister’s dresses as a kid wasn’t a good idea. He’ll find convoluted ways to blame himself. But maybe‚ just maybe he’ll understand. He was the first man in his family to have an inter-caste love marriage‚ I reason. Will he look at me and
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“Wouldn’t they be surprised when one day I woke out of my black ugly dream‚ and my real hair‚ which was long and blond‚ would take the place of the kinky mass Momma wouldn’t let me straighten? My light-blue eyes would hypnotize them ...” - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Colorism is a standard of discrimination by which people with lighter skin are treated more favorably than those with darker skin. Colorism mirrors white supremacy in that those with lighter skin are awarded privileges
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to have someone die in their life‚ but it’s the worst thing in the world. Just like I am close to my grandmother I wouldn’t know what to do if I didn’t have her in my life. Would I survive? Is the question I always ask myself‚ the girl and I have similarities only thing different about us is that her father died. You never know who it’s going to be it could be your sister‚ mother‚ grandmother‚ and so on. That’s how I think Sylvia Plath “Daddy” is about how she lost that one person she was close to
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A Lifetime of Influence Marguerite Johnson had a harsh childhood growing up in the South during the days of cotton picking and slavery. All of the adversity she encountered when she was young inspired her to write the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In it‚ she depicts what life was like growing up in the small town of Stamps‚ Arkansas‚ and illustrates the daily hardships that were roadblocks throughout her life. Many people help her overcome these obstructions in her young life‚ but it was
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third-person point of view in which you analyze one of the poems assigned (or another in our text BY AN AUTHOR literary analysis in the Chart at the end of Chapter 12‚ and target your chosen topic to one that can be adequately covered in the length assigned. - Your essay must have a defined thesis statement and well-organized supporting paragraphs. Supporting paragraphs must be topical‚ i.e. not just a chronological reading of the poem‚ but organize your paper tightly around specific topics that
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It’s here in a student’s journal‚ a blue confession in smudged‚ erasable ink: “I can’t stop hoping I’ll wake up‚ suddenly beautiful‚” and isn’t it strange how we want it‚ despite all we know? To be at last the girl in the photography‚ cobalt-eyed‚ hair puddling like cognac‚ or the one stretched at the ocean’s edge‚ curved and light-drenched‚ more like a beach than the beach. I confess I have longed to stalk runways‚ leggy‚ otherworldly as a mantis‚ to balance a head like a Fabergé
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