Shooting Stars The poem ’Shooting Stars’ by Carol Ann Duffy tells a shocking story of a female prisoner held by Nazis in a concentration camp around the time of the Holocaust. The poem is set in 1940‚ Hitler and his Nazi party had taken control of most of Europe and had vowed to exterminate the entire Jewish race. Duffy’s haunting use of imagery and word choice make this poem so memorable and its very strong opening prepares the reader for the rest of the poem. The title choice‚ ’Shooting Stars’
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Saint Maybe By: Shanna Gonzales English 3- 4/5 December 7‚ 2005 Ann Tyler’s Saint Maybe is a complex work that analyzes the grieving process and the human need to reconcile for our sins or wrong doings. At the beginning of the book the Bedloe’s are described as the perfect family‚ much similar to that of a 50’s sitcom. Mr. Bedloe is a hard working husband and caring father. And Mrs. Bedloe is a neat cheerful wife and mother. While their children achieve average to excelling academic scores
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“Falling” was published in 2013‚ written by Ann Cooper Albright. Albright is a professor and Chair of Dance at Oberlin College and president of the Society of Dance History Scholars. Combining her interest in movement and cultural theory‚ Albright is involved in teaching a variety of courses that seek to engage students in practices and theories of the body. Her article “Falling”‚ exemplifies the essential state of disorientation‚ as a way of exploring the theoretical implication of being grounded
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The statue in Ann Petry’s “Mother Africa” has multiple facets in regards to the group’s perceptions of the statue. I will be covering how the symbolic meanings the different groups divided by gender and age projected onto the bronze statue of the woman‚ seeing only the surface of the statues. The statue has singular purpose function for the men in Mother Africa‚ to be a sexual object for their admiration and lust. The statue is not seen to the majority of the men as the white woman that Mannie
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Little Stormy Ann was brought into the baby photographer studio at 8 days new. She has such a beautiful‚ unique name. Apparently‚ it was a favorite name of Dads‚ and I can see why. As she grows up and attends school‚ it’s unlikely there will be another Stormy in her class. This little doll was born on May 16th at 10:18 a. m. weighing 8 pounds 4 ounces. Mom and Dad mentioned that they absolutely adore purple. It’s part of her nursery color scheme‚ so I made sure I incorporated as much purple as
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“Shooting Stars” Critical Essay In this critical essay I will be writing on account of “shooting Stars” by Carol Ann Duffy. Duffy successfully reveals the true horrors of the Second World War using a wide variety of poetic techniques‚ of which in this task I will evaluate and finally conclude with my own opinion. Throughout the dramatic monologue Duffy encourages sympathy towards the female persona by using a range of imagery‚ structure and word choice. The persona appears to be a woman who
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“Space and Subjectivity”‚ written by Ann Cooper Albright was an article about how the connection of female bodily uses space and force to a women’s social status. Subjectivity is a “philosophical term that articulates the self in terms of the perceptions‚ feelings‚ and experiences from the point of view of an individual person” (Gieseking‚ J.J.‚ W. Mangold‚ C. Katz‚ S. Low‚ & S. Saegert). Albright was interested in examining relationships between dancing bodies and space. Feminist philosopher Iris
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Ann Snyder portrays a realistic descent into anorexia nervous - the illness creeps up on Rosemary. She goes through phases of binging and purging as her weight gradually drops down. I enjoyed this story immensely‚ (despite the fairly predictable plot)
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The poem closes with reminders of oppression‚ control and confinement. Possibility that was once limitless for the dolphins now has ’limits’ imposed upon it that will become impossible to bear. The realisation will probably hasten the creatures’ death‚ signalling that there is as much at stake from a psychological perspective as there is from the physical circumstances. Stifling of natural impulse and behaviour can have fatal consequences. The ’plastic toy’ is a further reminder of the indignity
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I grew in the back seat of the taxi cab‚ my dad’s taxi cab. I watched the seats deteriorate‚ the smell of the car worsen after the umpteenth drunk passenger left their Saturday night entree inside of it. The cab had accumulated so many battle wounds‚ but that was its appeal. It had character. It encapsulated the moments that I wasn’t privy to. It was a living memory capsule. I was never able to witness what it was like while it was alive‚ I didn’t know what it was like to have strangers in your car
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