Trinidadian. Born: Taco‚ Trinidad‚ 1935. Career: Proofreader‚ Trinidad Guardian‚ 1953-54; civil servant: agricultural assistant in Jamaica‚ 1956-66; journalist‚ Trinidad and Tobago Express‚ 1967; lecturer in English‚ University of the District of Columbia‚ 1971-73; writer-in-residence‚ Hartwick College‚ Oneonta‚ New York‚ 1986. Since 1977 teacher‚ University of the West Indies‚ Saint Augustine‚ Trinidad. Awards: B.P. Independence award‚ 1965; Pegasus Literary award‚ 1966; Guggenheim fellowship‚ 1980;
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brief poem titled “Neighbors.” It may brief‚ but there is a deeper message than can be found in between the lines. This poem was found online‚ and was created by David Allan Evans‚ who is a well-known poet. It is a little excerpt that describes a strange wife and husband doing a normal task‚ but adding a strange twist to it. It talks about their demeanor‚ and their strange actions. This poem seems to be a reflection on the author’s real life neighbors‚ which adds a strange twist to the poem. One of
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Jacob Trunkhill Miss Haaland Creative Comp. November 10th 2017 Snow Angels Snow a short poem written by David Berman. This poem is about a bigger brother telling his little brother something far fetched tale. This far fetched tale is about snow angels crossing onto a farmer’s property and being shot down and all that is left is their imprints in the snow. The bigger brother is trying to pull something on his brother like all big brothers do. To do so he comes up with a mean farmer that doesn’t
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You can learn a lot about life by observing another species. This Book tells it in a hamster point of view. Betty G. Birney‚ the author of the book‚ has won many awards for her excellent work such as WGA Award‚ Emmy‚ and Humanitas Prizes. In facts‚ she has written 25 picture books. Birney has also written episodes for numerous children television shows. The World According to Humphrey‚ one of the excellent book she wrote‚ was take place in Room 26 of Longfellow School in 2004. Humphrey is the main
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“Washed Away” by David Aziz‚ 12BD. When you are drowning‚ you do not inhale any of the water until you pass out‚ and even then‚ the instinct to not let any water in is so strong that you feel like your head is exploding. Does not matter how strong you are‚ water eventually washes everything away‚ the good and the bad. Keep that in mind. As the buzzer sounds‚ the game begins‚ and I go in for the tip-off. I seize the ball‚ with the realization that the game has just begun and I must act. I spot an
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other at the first glance‚ but if you study them close‚ they actually have many similarities. One of Donatello’s best-known work portrays David after he defeated Goliath by striking him with a stone and cutting his head off with Goliath’s own sword. Donatello was the first artist that created a nude life-sized sculpture since antiquity. His bronze sculpture of David indicates that he completely mastered the classical tradition of art. Particularly his sculpture reflects the style of Polykleitos who
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5. “eight dancers dressed as swans.” – Mary Cornish Numbers 6. “Always wants a hug and never gets enough”- Ronald Koertge Sidekicks 7. “whose perfume swayed in the air‚ turning the modest flowers scarlet and loose.” –Peter Meinke Love Poem 8. “Their whisper rises from beneath the stones to fuse into a single… light.” – Yves Bonnefoy Passer-By‚ These are Words… 9. “He wanted to go inside them and live.” Naomi Shihab Nye Rain 10. “But listen harder‚ use your imagination…”
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concentration camps. Blaming the Jews for contaminating the purity of the German race‚ Hitler began the formation of concentration camps in order to exterminate those whom he considered a weakness to the Aryan race. Explained in “The Final Solution”‚ Earle Rice Jr. explores the four elements required for the extermination of Jews to occur‚ one of which being the devotion of sufficient resources. However‚ such devotion later became an evident struggle. A few years prior to the war‚ on September 9‚ 1936
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Earle Richardson created "Employment of Negro Agriculture" as an artwork in 1934. As take a glance at the painting‚ I observe how these African American people worked barefooted in the fields around the United Stated. As can be seen‚ it was an important task‚ since they were raising several baskets of cotton crops. Two of the four African American were women‚ which catches my attention due to the fact that during the Great Depression in the 1930’s‚ women were not able to work since women belonged
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Steve Earle wrote A Death in Texas‚ and George Orwell wrote A Hanging. Both authors set a indignant tone in their short stories‚ and also in comparison they are very much against the death penalty. One thing that differs between the two stories is how the prisoners lived‚ and how they were treated. To begin with ‚ Steve Earle and George Orwell‚ both wrote their novel with an indignant tone. When Steve Earle writes‚” Our criminal justice system isn’t known for rehabilitation”‚ this makes Earle sound
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