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    While reading through the sections of Whitman’s poem‚ I chose to analyze the eleventh section for many of reasons. Not only is this section different upon appearance‚ but also gives the reader an interesting image throughout the stanza. Starting with the first stanza‚ Whitman provides an image of twenty-eight naked men standing near the shore bathing themselves. They are explained to be somewhat young‚ friendly‚ and possibly lonely through the eyes of the woman peering afar. Then transitioning from

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    I will choose to talk about “712” and “465” of Emily Dickinson’s poems for contrasting Whitman’s “Song of Myself”. Whitman and Dickinson have three differences of characteristics in their poems. First‚ they have a different way to structure poems. Whitman’s poetic form is free verse. Whitman’s poems are narrative and expansive style. His voice is expansive and talk about A to Z. On the other hand‚ Dickinson is definite structure. Dickinson’ poem style is like distillation. There is a lack of rhetorical

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    When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Walt Whitman 1. Bio: Walt Whitman practically taught himself to read through the works of Homer‚ Shakespeare‚ Dante‚ and the Bible during his time as a printer’s apprentice in New York City. After a printing district fire in 1836‚ Whitman became a teacher‚ and then a journalist. In 1855‚ he published the first edition of Leaves of Grass‚ sending a copy to Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ famous transcendentalist. In 1865‚ the updated edition included Emerson’s letter

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    creating a calm and relaxed environment. However this is then destroyed by the young boy and the accident. While the boy is outside working his sister calls him for “supper”. “At the word‚ the saw‚ as if to prove saws knew what supper meant‚ leaped out at the boys hand‚ or seemed to leap” again the writer is personifying the saw so that it seems almost like an animal at the zoo waiting for feeding time‚ or so that it doesn’t murder anymore trees. Caesura is also

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    segregation police. For the forth day over 300 people were apart of the sit-in. In little less than a week after the Greensboro sit-in started they were spreading all over the southern cities. The majority of these sit-ins remained peaceful‚ but there were some cases that turned violent. One of the sit-ins that became violent was the one in Chattanooga‚ TN; here a fight broke out between the blacks and whites. While the sit-ins continued the students began to boycott stores that had segregated lunch

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    Greensboro Sit-Ins You are one of the many people to enter your local Woolworth’s to join the protests. That was a very common situation in February of 1960. Sit-Ins became a highly influential factor in Civil Rights. They were created and popularized in Greensboro‚ North Carolina in 1960‚ during the Greensboro Sit-Ins. The Greensboro Sit-Ins were a series of protests led by four young black college students that were committed to equality in civil rights. What Were the Greensboro Sit-Ins? There

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    Marcus Scott October/12/2013 As I Walked Out One Evening: An Analysis of the Nature of Time within the Poem W.H. Auden’s‚ As I Walked Out One Evening‚ speaks to nature of time as it relates to the human condition. The poem consists of three separate speakers: the lovers‚ the clocks and the narrator. Each speaker represents a different measure and attitude towards time. The lover’s song paints time to be conquerable and ignorable and no more than a passing annoyance that they are outside of. The

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    Birmingham vs. Sit Ins The Birmingham and Sit inś are two of the most important events in the civil rights movement. They are very similar to each other because they both used children to protest. The Sit ins were started by four college students who wanted to make a stand. In Birmingham the protestors were made up almost entirely of school children. They also both fought economic battles. Sit ins would prevent a restaurant or store from making any income. Birmingham made an economic impact by protesting

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    Time I Snuck Out of the House My parents were strict with us kids at home. I was adopted into my family with three older siblings. I felt I got the brunt of everything when it came to the rules of the house. All of us children had chores that had to be finished before we were allowed to play with our friends. If my parents found out I listened to anything other than the Christian radio station‚ my parents took my radio away. My parents dragged us to church three days a week. I felt as though I was

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    to African Americans to end suffering and have the chance for equal rights. Activists staged marches‚ boycotts‚ speeches‚ and sit ins. The1960s sit-ins in Greensboro‚ North Carolina became the acceleration of The Civil Rights movement in the U.S. The sit-in was a non-violent tactic used in during The Civil Rights Movement because it promoted non-violence protests through out the United States. When whites were integrated with African Americans from the North and south‚ it resulted in them clashing

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