Why did I survive? . . . Scriscratch. Star. Scriscratch. Star. Scratchstatchscratchsratch. Bar. Why write “bar” on the bar symbol? It’s obvious: Shaped like a bar. Scriscratch. Itchy neck. What lottery to play next? So many themes! Tropical? Had potential. Gold? Too broad. Fourth of July? No longer relevant. So many tickets. No end in sight. Must keep out of sight. No end. But end of days. Keep on playing. Scriscratch. Itchy stomach. Underwater theme. Been a long time since water. Can’t remember
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Poem Analysis Post card The poem Post card by Peter Skrzynecki explores multiple ideas concerning belonging including barriers that accumulate with attempting to develop a sense of belonging‚ and aid to prevent this. As well the feelings and perceptions of belonging experienced by an individual changing over time‚ and lastly the ties between our feelings about belonging with our sense of identity. The poem presents the challenges undertaken by Skrzynecki to reach a sense of belonging within his
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Literary Analysis of the Poem Quinceañera The poem Quinceañera was written by Judith Ortiz Cofer. The narrative of this poem circumnavigates about the coming of age event (a quinceañer) of a 15 year old girl. in order to understand this poem ‚one needs to understand the significance and importance of a quinceañera. A quinceañera is the Latin equivalent of the celebration of Sweet 16 in the United States— this is the time where young women celebrate the transition into young adulthood. The
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Poem Analysis: “Out‚ Out-” In the poem‚ “Out‚ Out-“‚ author Robert Frost starts off his poem by giving an inanimate object‚ the buzzsaw‚ a sense of life. Using the literary device‚ Personification‚ the buzz saw is being written with characteristics a curious and rather playful child. The buzzsaw acts like once hears the young man’s mother call for supper time‚ that it wants to eat‚ so eats the young man’s hand. The buzzsaw takes (Cuts Off) the hand in a rather subtle demeanor‚ but in truth‚ it would
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The development of wind power in India began in the 1990s‚ and has significantly increased in the last few years. Although a relative newcomer to the wind industry compared with Denmark or the United States‚ India has the fifth largest installed wind power capacity in the world.[1] In 2009-10 India’s growth rate was highest among the other top four countries. As of 31 Jan 2013 the installed capacity of wind power in India was 18634.9[2][3] MW‚ mainly spread across Tamil Nadu (7134 MW)‚[4] Gujarat
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Throughout the course of the first half of the semester we have taken a broad scope of the major aspects of the phenomena that has been the recent history of China. When studying Modern China a common thread of ethical‚ cultural‚ religious‚ political‚ social‚ and economic aspects can be analyzed in relationship to Confucianism and its affect on international relations. These aspects show that historically (particularly the nineteenth century) China initially resisted the acceptance of Western influence
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Inherit The Wind “Truth” VS. What Is “Right” In the play Inherit the Wind the theme of freedom of speech is continuously reffered to. Truth being science and right being the bible both have a crucial battle that contradicts the beliefs of each. Bertram Cates a teacher is denounced by the public as a sinner. Defended by henry Drummond both characters not only defend the teachings of science/truth but the ability to think as well. The repeated contradictions of the towns beliefs‚ continuously
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ETHS 160 F Gerald Padilla May 1‚ 2014 Group Paper: Ch. 6 Defending the West Chapter 6 : Defending the West The expansion from East to West in America that occurred during 1840’s through 1890’s triggered imperative change in the lives of indigenous people. This expansion is also known as the Manifest Destiny in which‚ Europeans claimed to have the God given right expand the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. During this expansion Americans forced their
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Analysis of Amy Lowell’s Poem “A Decade” In “A Decade‚” a poem by Amy Lowell‚ the reader is shown how a lover’s attitude can go from infatuation at first to just predictability and love. In this poem Lowell uses imagery and similes to elaborate on the feelings of the speaker towards his/her lover. In the beginning of the relationship the speaker is infatuated with the lover‚ and Lowell expresses this infatuation through the use of a simile in line one when
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USE OF FOREGROUNDING IN THE POEM TITLED “GOING” The author of the poem “Going” had a specific message that he intended to set across to his readers. To do this‚ the author used a number of stylistic elements that include foregrounding‚ imagery‚ symbolism‚ diction‚ synthetic parallelism and structure among others. This essay intends to give a brief stylistic analysis of the poem and describe how these devices have affected the meaning of the poem. Basically the poem “Going” according to the essay
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