discrimination and racism. The four poems that I have chosen are all from different perspectives‚ the child’s or parents‚ or from retrospective points of views‚ recalling on the speaker’s life as a child. Chapter 7 : Black Bottom of The Adoption Papers‚ by Jackie Kay‚ is an extract of a poem that I am going to analyse. This poem is about a white mother adopting a black child and how she faces racial bullying by the more “superior” whites in Glasgow‚ Scotland. The Adoption Papers uses the child‚ the white adoptive
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the chickens. He is named Granpa Chook. This chapter is significant for several reasons. As an introduction to the bildungsroman style‚ our hero is situated in a time and a place. His early tribulations are addressed and he is given weapons to deal with them. His ability to think things over is revealed‚ and the chapter ends with one hurdle overcome and the boy set to begin another year at boarding school. This time‚ though‚ he has the magic of Inkosi-Inkosikazi and Granpa Chook‚ "the first living
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Characters: A: The main characters are Tom Joad‚ Jim Casy‚ Al Joad‚ Ma Joad‚ Pa Joad‚ Uncle John Joad‚ Rose of Sharon Joad‚ and Authority figures ( Roadside camp proprietors; Police). B: Minor Characters in the story would include Grandma‚ and Granpa because they went along with them on the ride to Califiornia. Noah‚ Winfield‚ and Ruthie where also important because they were siblings of the joad family and help the family on the ride west. Muley Graves was in the begining of the story‚ but
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him‚ he threw the phone at my head. He might be drunk. When I made lunch‚ I made him a bowl of soup. After I sat down in the kitchen‚ eating my lunch‚ he walked to the sink and poured it down. “Don’t make me food if you’re not able to make it taste decent‚” he muttered‚ smacking me on the upside of my head‚ right where the phone had hit me. “You ruined a clean bowl and a perfectly fine can of soup your mother could’ve made ten times better than you ever could.”
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Chapter One Summary On his Granpa’s farm in the province of Natal in South Africa‚ an unnamed blonde infant is suckled by his black Zulu nanny. She sings to him of warriors and women washing at the baboons’ water hole. At five‚ the little boy’s mother has a nervous breakdown and he is sent to an Afrikaans boarding school. He is the youngest student by two years‚ and is hated because he is the only English-speaker in the school‚ which makes him a "rooinek" (Afrikaans for "redneck‚" a derogatory
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The Grapes of Wrath By: John Steinbeck John Steinback wrote The Grapes of Wrath; a fictional novel based on real happenings. The novel took place after the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. The journey of the Joad family began on their land in Oklahoma‚ and then they migrated to California on Route 66. In California‚ they moved from place to place; they were not stable in one area. The book tells the story of the Joad family’s hardships during their migration to California and the trouble
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As a profound influence on the twentieth century pop art movement‚ Andy Warhol ascended to become a cornerstone in the modern art world. After taking cues from society in the mid-twentieth century‚ as well as conversing with Muriel Latow‚ Warhol did what many artists strived to do but failed. Andy also extracted many of his ideas from other artists and built on them. He put a culture on canvas and revolutionized pop art for a life time. The nineteen sixties‚ seventies‚ and eighties were periods
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series. Explain your answer in complete sentences. You do not need to solve. 5. Jackie deposited $5 into a checking account in February. For each month following‚ the deposit amount was doubled. How much money was deposited in the checking account in the month of August? (1 point) To solve this‚ a geometric sequence is used because the terms share a constant ratio as 2. 6. A local grocery store stacks the soup cans in such a way that each row has 2 fewer cans than the row below it. If there
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think of other members before themselves‚ and Ma expresses this idea clearly with Granma’s death. The Joads have a connection where each member truly has someone to have their back when in need. Tom shares this with Casy and Al‚ Ma and Granma‚ Pa with Granpa and Uncle John‚ Ruthie and Winfield‚ Rose of Sharon and Connie‚ but then there’s Noah who doesn’t feel the same love which is one of the reasons that persuades him to depart from the family. They also have a structure in which Tom‚ Pa‚ Al‚ usually
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Soon enough it lead to her wearing the girls uniform‚ which she felt more comfortable in. Riley’s parents Carol and Chris have always been supportive of Riley and the choices she decides to make about herself and her life. This is constrasted with Jackie and Tony who are the parental figures in Billys life. They were not supportive of billy which made his pathway into a new world even more difficult. Riley says “People get confused as to which one I am”‚ this shows how important her family is when
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