Art as a Second Language Bernice Eisenstein’s novel I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors uses both art and modern language to express the feelings and emotions associated with her family’s traumatic history. Eisenstein blends images throughout her work to help the readers gain a better understanding of the emotional journey that she has undertaken through writing this novel. Not only does she tell the story of her life but she also incorporates the life stories of her family and community. She
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The Sons Veto Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet and his story ‘The Sons Veto’ is based on the rigid class system popular in Victorian England. At that time‚ women were perceived as having a diminutive purpose with little independence. The restrains of society were clearly seen in Sophy’s character. Hardy opens the story with a detailed description on a woman’s hair. He comments on the fashion of that time. Her name was Sophy and she was born in the country village of Gaymead
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Tyler Jones Brown Eng. 12/ p.2 When I was One-and-Twenty In the poem‚ When I Was One-And-Twenty‚ by A. E. Housman‚ the author begins by describing the setting around the time when he was twenty-one. He mentions how an older man had given him some advice. The wise man could possibly be a mentor‚ father‚ grandfather‚ or another male figure in the author’s life. The wise man tells the author‚ “Give crowns and pounds and guineas‚ but not your heart away.” The man means that you can give away
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In Engstrom’s piece‚ “Yes… But I Was Drunk”‚ ideas regarding speech communities are expanded on‚ more specially the speech community of college aged people. It discusses how the way people talk about experiences influences and is influenced by social change. It then dives into the perception of college drinking and how alcohol consumption does not merely lead to bad decisions‚ but instead explains how certain habitual ways of speaking normalize underage drinking and justify bad choices. This same
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I looked up at the black sky. I hadn’t intended to be out this late. The sun had set‚ and the empty road ahead had no streetlights. I knew I was in for a dark journey home. I had decided that by traveling through the forest would be the quickest way home. Minutes passed‚ yet it seemed like hours and days. The farther I traveled into the forest‚ the darker it seemed to get. It was very hard to even take a breath due to the stifling air. The only sound familiar to me was the quickening beat of my own
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about forgiveness is clearly given to us in the bible through the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this story‚ two brothers are promised large inheritances from their father. However‚ while the older brother patiently waits for his inheritance‚ the younger brother asks for his share right away. He ends up wasting all of his money on material items‚ and not saving any for food or shelter. The younger son returns to his father’s house‚ not expecting a warms welcome. However‚ the father is thrilled
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Subject Matter – ‘I was only 19’ written by John Schumann performed by the band the Redgums is a highly emotive and meaningful song. It describes the typical war experience and post war experience of the Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War‚ it show cases the struggles and hardships that the soldiers faced. It explores the atrocities of war witnessed though the eyes of young soldiers. The physical trauma and emotional scaring they suffered upon their return. It is primarily about his conscription
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This summer I was a rebel. I wouldn’t listen to my mom; I would lie to her and yell at her all the time because of people I thought were my friends. This summer I learned two lessons. It all started at the beginning of the summer. I started hanging out with my best friend‚ going to dances with her mom‚ and sometimes even with my mom. At one of the dance I went to there was really loud Mexican music. We were all dancing and having a great time. I met this girl named Brittney and her friend Sofia we
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There was a time back in grade school when I was people had the unjust judgment of who I am as a person because I was a little different from everyone else. I have always been bigger in size than most people and that hasn’t changed today. I would wear different attire than other people because of the area I grew up in and the size of me. I would also be into hip hop music because of who I grew up with; however‚ I was the only one that only listened to hip hop because everyone was raised to
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Ken was my voice teacher. I never admired anyone more than him. He meant the world to me. It would be safe to say that we did not have a typical teacher/student relationship. I was infatuated with him. He was tall dark and had the voice of an angel. But he was eleven years older than I was‚ and he was my teacher. I learned from him‚ I confided in him‚ and I trusted him. I never pictured myself being with him. I never dreamt he would think of me as a ’woman’ and not just a love-stricken seventeen
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