That My Mother Had. Simultaneously‚ the poem conveys feelings of betrayal. Millay’s poem‚ through strong associations with equally as strong words‚ such as rock and granite‚ infers the general theme of the poem and the amount of titular courage the poem’s mother possessed. In lines 3-4‚ a rock is compared to her mother‚ who was born and raised in New England emerged or was "quarried" from other similarly strong willed and courageous people. This courage having been "passed" to the mother as it should
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Reading Savage Inequalities made me think of my school experience in DeKalb County. I lived in South DeKalb where the school was made up majority African-American students. The socio-economic status of the school population ranged from low to high. I had classmates who were homeless‚ but I also had classmates who lived in near million dollar homes. It wasn’t until I began traveling for sports that I began to notice the inequalities in the school district. Our school was dilapidated‚ infested with
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Literary Analysis of “The Names” by Billy Collins In the poem “The Names” by Billy Collins many words are used to paint vivid images of themes of war and sorrow-filled family members of soldiers lost in Vietnam. In literature‚ words are all that an author has to express their feelings and memories. Sometimes words are used in their literal sense to tell a detailed story‚ however‚ in poetry words are most likely to be used metaphorically to express things that don’t often have a specific look or
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The author of Savage inequalities is Jonathan Kozol and this chapters describes life in East St. Louis. East St. Louis is a black community on the Mississippi floodplain. Kozol states that East St. Louis is the most distressed small city in America. The people of East St. Louis are exposed to the burning garbage and foul chemicals from nearby industries. The people are also exposed to toxic waste‚ raw sewage‚ and the dangers of lead poisoning. The city‚ which is 98% black‚ has no obstetric services
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For criteria three‚ examine college-level reading skills as an active part of the writing process‚ I chose the memoir literary Analysis paper titled Triggered-Literary Analysis. The reason I chose this paper was because we were required to read an actual memoir before writing the paper. The most important aspect of the criteria‚ being the analyzing part‚ was found to be one of my strengths. I developed new levels of comprehension and understanding while reading Triggered by Fletcher Wortmann. It
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Literary Analysis: By Christian Jones The author of My First Free Summer Julia Alvarez‚ wrote about the part of the summer she had in which she escaped the Dominican Republic for the U.S. I believe that Alvarez choose to write about this important time in her summer because it was a life threatening experience that most may not have been able to weather. Her father’s involvement in an underground plot and its result of surveillance from the “secret police”‚ the airport “security”
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life path is ever changing ever evolving every action or inaction‚ every event; decision will change things even if it’s only in an insignificant barely noticeable way. The two texts‚ the article “like a horror movie” and the visual “ the migrant mother” use different technologies and language techniques to convey the concept of changing lives. Both texts represent two different situations that have severely changed the lives of the people in the article and the family in the photograph. They
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At the outset of the film‚ General Savage is charged by his superior with a daunting task: improve the already dismal morale of the 918th‚ then fly those crews on daylight precision raids until they can’t fly any more. One of the central themes of the film is the question as to how much stress a man can really take‚ and how General Savage aims to push his men to that limit and beyond‚ if necessary. When Savage takes over the 918th‚ the morale is low‚ but the men are fiercely loyal to Col. Davenport
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Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America Benjamin Franklin describes the cultural difference between the savages and English in North America. “Perhaps‚ if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality‚ we should find no people so rude‚ as to be without as to be without any rules of politeness; nor any so polite as not to have some remains of rudeness” (Franklin 219). Franklin is saying that nations who are polite usually don’t have rules to have a polite society and
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In the poem Hughes uses the device of an extended metaphor to describe the life of the mother. The extended metaphor compares the mother’s life to a staircase. The line “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair” begins and ends the poem. With this line‚ Hughes quickly establishes for the reader that the speaker in the poem has not had an easy life. The concept of a crystal staircase gives the reader the impression of complete opulence. Who might be the type of person whose life is compared to a
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