Where I come from Student: Valentin Turri The poem is divided in two stanzas and two extra lines. The poet is an old woman that talks about her present and her old past. In the first stanza the poet starts like introducing us in the text‚ explaining us the meaning of ‘’people are made of places’’‚ this means that all we are made of memories‚ places where we come from‚ we carry
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born – “People are made of places”. Wherever you go in life you will carry with you memories and echoes of your birthplace‚ whether it is a city‚ as in the first stanza‚ or the quiet Canadian countryside where Elizabeth herself was born – “Where I come from‚ people carry woods in their minds” – and certainly the picture she draws in the second stanza does seem at first to be idyllic and wonderful‚ strongly contrasting with the city images in the first stanza. This idea shows us that who we are is shaped
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having memory. We should always remember where we come from as a part of our history. Remembering where you come from identifies the meaning of who you really are. “Remember the sky you were born under‚ know each of the star’s stories” (Harjo 802 L1). The first line is this poem symbolizes the whole poem’s meaning to remember where you were born and the stars are each problem that may have occurred in your life. It is important to know where we come from because the world was living before we was born
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Where I Come From - By Elizabeth Brewster The poem ‘Where I Come From’ by Elizabeth Brewster is about how a person is influenced by the environment he is brought up in‚ and how urban life and rural life differ from each other. The poet has used a very critical tone in this poem to convey how people are influenced by the places they have come from rural or urban. She has used a lot of visual imageries and metaphors to convey the busy lifestyle of the city. There is no rhyme scheme in the poem
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WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM The argument of this book {Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation By Steven Johnson} is that a series of shared properties and patterns recur again and again in unusually fertile environments. The have been distilled down into seven patterns. The more we embrace these patterns—in our private work habits and hobbies‚ in our office environments‚ in the design of new software tools—the better we will be at tapping our extraordinary capacity for innovative
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Cover Letter for the Truth Comes from the Novel Dear classmates‚ In this essay‚ I try to examine the idea which the authors of the Candide and the Story of the Stone hope the readers to understand. The idea I generate from the two novels is that trying your best to find the happiness in your life even the reality is far from your expectation. Both Candide and the Story of the Stone are not contemporary works. In addition‚ they come from different culture‚ but the author can offer us the same suggestion
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where i come from - elizabeth brewster Discuss the way brewster uses language to convey her ideas about the link between identity and place. The main subject of the poem is the contrast between the city and the countryside where the speaker came from. Although there is no straight forward judgment made‚ the poet very cleverly‚ leaves subtle hints by showing a big difference in the tone of the two stanzas‚ which leads us to believe that she speaks in favour of the countryside‚ yet at the same
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I come from a no stop light‚ everyone knows everyone kind of town. Beverly‚ West Virginia hides snug in the hills of Randolph County‚ population‚ 697 (2012). Yep‚ that’s right‚ 697 friends and family. Beverly is a very rural town‚ deep with the roots of the Civil War. Many strong figures of the Civil War era are rooted strong in my hometown. TRIP TO THE MALL We girls would make our plans on Friday during our lunch period. Whose mom was going to take us‚ what were we going to wear and what
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Where I Come From – Elizabeth Brewster From the title of the poem‚ we can assume that Elizabeth Brewster’s “Where I Come From” is about the place or places where the writer was born in or where she spent her whole childhood. We also assume that she is going to describe‚ tell memories and her opinion about the completely different places. Although the opening line “People are made of places” can be loosely described as form of alliteration‚ the repetition of the “p” sound is particularly effective
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Caprariello and Reis‚ from the research of others‚ lists several reasons why happiness through experiences is more satisfying than possessions‚ such as experiences are more likely to satisfy psychological needs‚ have longer lasting hedonic qualities‚ and appears more significantly in people’s self-narratives. Caprariello and Reis then mentions present research on this topic and singles out a key component that may be a factor in the way individuals obtain happiness from spending money. This dynamic
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