“Valentine” is a controversial love poem written by Carol Ann Duffy. Throughout the poem the poetess compares love to an onion and she does that by using a variety of techniques such as imagery‚ symbolism‚ word choice and structure. All these techniques justify why “Valentine” is an unusual love-poem as they help the poet express her different point of view. Overall‚ the poem is unusual as its title mistakenly leads the reader into thinking that the poem will be typical. I felt deeply moved by the
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The eye of the camera Lucy Walker‚ the director of Waste Land‚ focuses on the perspective of Vik Muniz using the camera lens as an artistic and metaphorical eye to represent his distance‚ understanding‚ and ignorance on the Wasteland. Scenes within this documentary‚ especially in the beginning and middle‚ the camera view is often mimicking the changes in perspective of what Waste Land has within Vik’s point of view. Often the camera shows Vik glancing at an object‚ immediately the camera switches
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The Devil and Tom Walker is a short story about a man who makes a deal with the Native American version of the devil called “The Old Scratch.” In the beginning‚ Tom Walker meets the devil in an abandoned house in a swamp. The devil offers him a part of Kidd the Pirates hidden treasure‚ which is under his protection. Tom’s wife is convinced that Tom should take him up on the offer because they will be richer in the long run. When Tom decides against it because he doesn’t want to share with his wife
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doesn’t make people what or who they are‚ but how they are raised with morals and values makes the person who they become. Everyone in the world matters‚ not because of what they do‚ but by simply who they are. In her story “Being Country” Bobby Ann Mason writes about how it’s like to grow up country. The author describes how her mom uses the land to its full potential‚ including home grown food and all homemade clothes. Life on the farm was different than life of the town folk in many ways.
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Dale Walker was a blessed man‚ he had a wife that adored him‚ a community that admired him and children that loved him. Dale had recently started his dream job of teaching math and science in the local elementary school. He was having the time of his life‚ but this was about to end. What he was about to experience would change his life forever. Dale was about to see how injustice can ruin an individual and hurt a family. It all started one day while he was dismissing his third-grade math class. After
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THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER ESSAY The Devil and Tom Walker tells about an ancient legend‚ reported over town to town‚ about a greedy man made a pact with the devil‚ this legend took place in a town called Charles Bay near from Boston‚ Massachusetts. The legend reports that the pirate captain Kidd buried his threasures around the town local area‚ but he never came back‚ because he was captured and hanged. This site which is elevated from the water and allows a lookout to make sure tha no one is approaching
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A Story called “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker seemed to have conflict in the family‚ between the mother and her daughters. The writer Alice Walker uses the conflict to show that honoring your family is best. Any problem in a situation can make you reconsider what choices you have made. The mother was a loving person‚ who worked more like a man than a woman. She had two daughters named Dee‚ and Maggie. Dee was a girl that really does not have any emotion. She only cared about was appearance. Dee told
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an everyday‚ ordinary person who has done something extraordinary” and the real Captain Americas of the world are the citizens that make their homes a better place‚ whether on a small scale or large‚ their honor-one such person is retired General Ann Dunwoody. In her 2015 memoir‚ A Higher Standard‚ she endows the reader with the wisdom she incurred throughout her rise in the military and personal life to become an American four-star general‚ the first woman to achieve such a rank‚ and relates her
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun." HI‚ there I’m Alex Goldman as you may already know. And I invented what is now called the water-walkers. Now you may think I’m crazy right walking on water‚ but what if I told you in fact is possible with the help of technology of course. But wait what exactly are water walkers? Well‚ that is a question that I get from a lot of you and to answer this simply they are pretty much little fans that have the same power as a golf cart connected to these hyper
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forth the grotesque ending. Despite all the example differing‚ they all foreshadow the ending to the short story. In the beginning of the story‚ Walker uses diction to create an atmosphere that is happy and innocent: "It seemed to Myop as she skipped lightly from hen house to pigpen to smokehouse that the days had never been as beautiful as these" (Walker). As the story goes forth‚ there is a shift in the mood between paragraph four and five. The diction in paragraphs 1-4 was care-free and happy
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