The poem contains literary devices that enhance the understanding of the reader on how different the two characters are. The use of imagery‚ tone‚ and poetic devices reveal to the reader how a rich white woman contrasts herself with a black male she sees on the subway. First of all‚ the imagery is used to describe the character’s appearance. For example‚ the black male is depicted with a “mugger” cold look wearing red. This guides the reader to view the man as dangerous and intimidative. The white
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Juliet Masabah Amy Manley Comp II March 20‚ 12 “A Jury of Her Peers” In a court case‚ is the intention of the crime indication for or against the convicted? While on the other hand it is used to prove the person guilty‚ also‚ it can be used to persuade in defending an act. Oppression is a cause enough to confirm civil disobedience. Our country was founded upon law breaking and rebellion against the British. Therefore began over two centuries of compromising the law‚ in big or in small ways
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Diane Downs: Her Children Got in the Way of Her Love Background Figure 1: Diane Downs. Photograph. Police Officer. Diane Downs’ 1988 Prison Interview. The Oprah Winfrey Show. 22 Oct. 2010 Diane Downs was born in Phoenix‚ Arizona‚ U.S. to Wes and Willadene Frederickson on August 7‚ 1955. In her early life‚ she was molested by her father when she was a little child. She went to Moon Valley High School in Phoenix and met her future husband‚ Steve Downs. At the age of 14‚ she began to wear
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A Jury of Her Peers a story in which themes such as the subjugation of women‚ men’s obliviousness to women’s importance shown in addition to their forced roles are presented as passive subordinates to men by which our protagonists prove this to be wrong. Also being something prominently established because of the setting. The mistreatment only being recognized by the two wives who understand struggle that is being a farm wife. In A Jury of Her Peers men and women’s roles in society are worlds apart
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Anne Sexton’s poem titled “Her Kind” is a popular poem filled with powerful imagery‚ diction‚ and syntax. Her particular use of these elements in different ways contributes to the robotic and non-human tone of the poem. Her use of syntax in the poem is done in a very clever manner. The lines of the poem are short and almost all contain commas. These commas are a part of the syntax because they contribute to the sentence structure. They split up each line into two halves‚ and it almost
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Her First Week ‘Her first week’ captures the emotions of a newly made mother and shows her feelings during the first week she spends with her child. Sharon Olds expresses her happiness of being blessed with a baby girl and shares the experience of emerging into motherhood. The poem transfers the joy and thrill of being with child and portrays the feelings of the mother with her child around. It also shows the beginning of a new bond between mother and child.
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Analysis of “Her first ball” The title of the story is “Her first ball” and it already tells what the story is all about. This story was written by a British writer Katherine Mansfield and it is told in the third-person point of view. The main character‚ who is the protagonist of the story‚ is a young girl named Leila. She is 18 years old and she is from the country. The other main character‚ the antagonist of the story‚ is a fat old man. The secondary characters are sheridan girls: Meg‚ Jose
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Elisabeth Johnson “SHE WHO IS” Monotheism: the belief in the existence of one god or in the oneness of God. E.g.: Christianity Polytheism: is the worship or belief in multiple deities usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses‚ along with their own religions and rituals. E.g.: Hinduism‚ Shintoism‚ Chinese folk religion Animism: is the religious worldview that natural physical entities—including animals‚ plants‚ and often even inanimate objects or phenomena—possess a spiritual
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Letter to Protagonist in "Will She Fit in?" Dear Susan‚ You didn’t attain the title of partner at Crowne by backing down from difficult challenges and dodging obstacles‚ and I’m certain you will apply the same cool headed and sound approach to problem solving to directly address this unfortunate situation with your client‚ Brian Hanson. Clearly‚ Brian’s actions that evening were inappropriate and a violation of your right to not be harassed. But despite the fact that most everyone in your
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Dickinson and her Religion Emily Dickinson was one of the greatest woman poets. She left us with numerous works that show us her secluded world. Like other major artists of nineteenth-century American introspection such as Emerson‚ Thoreau‚ and Melville‚ Dickinson makes poetic use of her vacillations between doubt and faith. The style of her first efforts was fairly conventional‚ but after years of practice she began to give room for experiments. Often written in the meter of hymns‚ her poems dealt
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