Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons as an example‚ she was able to escape by playing the piano. In fact‚ she “[…] played her way through fear‚ through ugliness […] and lonely afternoons‚ days‚ evenings‚ nights […].”(Wakoski 56) The need to escape reality is something everybody has felt once in their lives‚ even without realizing it. It’s‚ indeed‚ the reason why so many nightclubs exist in big cities like Montreal. Just like the speaker of the poem was able to escape through a piano‚ some people
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Refugee Blues – W.H. Auden ------------------------------------------------- Poet - Wynstan Hugh Auden‚ born as a doctor’s son in February 1907 in York‚ United Kingdom‚ counts as one of the greatest English poets of the twentieth century. Theme - abuse of human rights experienced not only by German Jews but by other Jews and by refugees anywhere. Structure - The poem contains twelve stanzas of three lines each. The first and second line of each stanza rhyme. The two rhyming lines of each stanza
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under the pain or persevere under the decades of mistreatment as written in his resilient toned poem‚ Mother to Son. The effectiveness of the poem is emphasized on the unresolved conflict of the long-postponed and frustrated dream of African Americans. This can be seen as‚ “five of the six answers to the opening questions are interrogative rather than declarative sentences.” As the whole poem is rhetorically structured‚ it questions the “white race” for their treatment of the African American but
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them | Language about war | Ten thousand soldiers marched to and fro. Looking for you and me‚ my dear‚ looking for you and me | Ten thousand soldiers are looking for two people- All the soldiers are looking for the Jews | | | | | | | Refugee blues- blues music Ten million souls (religious‚ holy‚ implies we are all the same) Society is unfair on the way it treats people (some are living in mansions‚ some are living in holes) Atlas – there not anywhere close to there home‚
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Poem and Song #1: Never Give Up “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes is a well-known piece written during the Harlem Renaissance. In this poem‚ Hughes uses a mother-figure as a narrator. She is speaking to her son and telling him about her life. She has had a rough life but has persevered to this point and plans on continuing that. She tells her son to never give up and to keep going even when it’s hard. The overall tone of this poem is one of hope and perseverance. When Hughes’ narrator says
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people who are forced to flee their homes because the are afraid to stay in their home country. When they flee they may leave behind family members‚ friends‚ a home‚ an job‚ and special possessions. “ Father left home on an navy mission on this day nine years ago when I was almost one. He was captured on route one an hour south of the city by moped” “ Ten gold-rimmed glasses Father brought back from America where he trained
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defined an act of travelling from one place to another‚ and it usually involves the nature of physical and emotional hardship‚ and choices. These natures of a journey are shown in the book The Happiest refugee (2010) by Anh Do‚ and the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. The Happiest Refugee demonstrates that journeys can have many physical hardships‚ such as appalling living and weather conditions which would cause obstacles in one’s journey. Anh uses descriptive language to convey this idea
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Refugee law is the branch of international law which deals with the rights and protection of refugees. It is related to‚ but distinct from‚ international human rights law and international humanitarian law‚ which deal respectively with human rights in general‚ and the conduct of war in particular. Refugee law encompasses customary law‚ peremptory norms‚ and international legal instruments. The only international instrument is the UN Convention‚ with an optional Protocol‚ while various regional bodies
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Universal Refugee Paper: “Inside Out and Back Again” The book “Inside Out and Back Again” ‚ a book of poetry written by Thanhha Lai‚ brings light to the struggles and obstacles that refugees face‚ which some overcome through what they love. A refugee might have a hard time leaving their homes‚ which might have been all they knew. Even after they have abandoned their heritage for a new hope‚ they risk everything to arrive in order to arrive at their new home. It seems although the hardships never
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Anh Do’s story is a timely reminder of the plight of refugee in our country. Discuss the Happiest Refugee in the light of Do’s universal message about the suffering of human beings during times of war and the struggle to make a better life in a foreign country. The Happiest Refugee is a memoir written by Anh Do which was first published on the 1st of August in 2010. It is regarded as one of the most influential and well-received novels in the world of literature for its great insight on the life
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