I interviewed my grandma‚ Gloria Ann Foley Mason. She is 68 years old‚ I decided to interview her because she is a kind‚ happy‚ funny‚ and a bit crazy! My grandma went to school in 1954‚ when she was in 1st grade. She graduated high school in 1966‚ she graduated college in 1970. She went to school from 1st – 8th grade at St. Norbrooks and DLG. In High School she went to Chartiers Valley‚ when she went to college she went to Edinboro State Community College to get her teaching degree. When she
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The Plight of Female Slavery is a document written by Francis Anne Kemble who shares her experience on the cruelties of slavery in the south. She discusses the brutality of slavery the women and children there and she also gives her own views on the subject. According to Mrs. Kemble these women were being extremely mistreated and it was caused by the harsh working conditions and lack of health concerns from their masters. These women were forced to return to the fields 3 weeks prior to giving
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How does Carol Ann Duffy Present Different Feelings about Love in “Hour” and “Quick Draw” Caroline Ann Duffy had made it a common opinion in her writing that she believes love is a crawl thing. However in both “Hour” and “Quick Draw”‚ she talks about love in an appreciative way. Although in the two poems‚ it has two very different circumstances in a relationship. Similarly both poems‚ is themed around a relationship‚ however the differences being that Hour describes the situation with a vast amount
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Compare the ways in which Caroline Duffy and Sheenagh Pugh write about and present women in their poems ‘Standing Female Nude’ and ‘Sweet 18’. One may note how the portrayal of women in society is one of the pivotal themes throughout Caroline Duffy’s poetry‚ whether it being one which depicts women’s empowerment‚ isolation or objectification in society. Caroline Duffy is very honest in her poetry‚ she is cynical in the fact that she is renowned for expressing things how they are; as expressed
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Questions over articles. Differentiating Instruction Why Bother? By Carol Ann Tomlinson‚ in Middle Ground‚ August 2005‚ Volume 9‚ Number 1. 1. The author opens the article telling about two of her middle grades teacher‚ one math teacher and one English teacher. a. Briefly describe and compare these two teachers. In this article author has describe both Math and English teachers clearly and their method of teaching. Math teacher has her own teaching method and English teacher has own. If I compare
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“Before you were mine” uses first person and is written using the patterns of ordinary speech as if the poet is speaking directly to her mother. Although much of what she talks about takes place before Duffy was born she makes her presence felt by using ’I’ to start many phrases. ’I’m ten years away.’ The poet seems to have been stimulated to write after seeing an old photo of her mother enjoying herself with some girl friends when she was a teenager. The poem is written in the present tense as if
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Mary Ann Doane discusses the use of voice in cinematic presentation in this article. She determines the acceptance of voice by the viewer by defining the phantasmatic body of a film. This body is the replica created by the technology itself. It is the body of the character and of the film. Voices within a cinematic presentation are assumed by the audience to come from this body‚ even if they are off-screen voices. The acceptance of this off-screen voice by the audience is dependent on an understanding
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‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy and ‘Our Love Now’ by Martyn Lowery. These two poems were my first choice as they both link to the theme of love‚ yet they are significantly different as they show how their ideas of love differ. ‘Valentine’ has the idea that love is original and true rather than hiding behind false pretences i.e. ‘a red rose’ or ‘a satin heart’ (Duffy 1993). Whereas ‘Our Love Now’ has two different perspectives‚ the males idea is that although the relationship is broken it can be fixed
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With particular reference to ‘Mrs. Lazarus’ show how Carol Ann Duffy presents relationships between men and women The World’s Wife originates from the idiom ‘The World and His Wife’ which is commonly used to express a large amount of people‚ however after understanding the feminist concept of Carol Ann Duffy’s work this idiom can be interpreted in a different light. The phrase may actually present men in a powerful position; it personifies the world and by doing so assumes that this great miracle
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I do agree with Ann M. Morrison assumptions. Many times people of different races are pre-judged because of their skin color. On page 235 Morrison’s chapter was named prejudice: Still the Number One Barrier. I can agree with this as well in the chapter she spoke of how more than 12 percent of managers’ responses described how the perception of difference as weaknesses limited advancement opportunities for white women and people of color. I believe this to be true simply because some managers and
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