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    Tone of Truth

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    Tone of “Truth” The poem‚ “Truth‚” by Gwendolyn Brooks‚ was written in 1949‚ during a continuing era of black oppression in America. Brooks was born June 7‚ 1917 in Topeka‚ Kansas but her family moved to Chicago shortly after her birth‚ according to her biographer‚ Georg Kent (2). The Poetry Foundation biography of Gwendolyn Brooks says her father was a janitor who had dreamt of becoming a doctor and her mother was a schoolteacher and classically trained pianist (Halley). Both of her parents had

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    Truth is Truth‚ Lying is Lying Judith Viorst describes in her essay “The Truth about Lying‚” a very interesting and intellectual composition. The author has made a great exertion to try to present four different kinds of lies people tell in their daily life. She has separated them into four sub-groups: Social Lies‚ Peace-Keeping Lies‚ and Protective Lies‚ and Trust-Keeping Lies‚ and uses headings to separate them. She has used a lot of different techniques to convey her message to the reader. Over

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    The Concept of Truth

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    The concept of truth‚ throughout texts such as‚ Bowling for Columbine‚ directed and narrated by Michael Moore in May 15th 2002‚ ‘A child said‚ What is the grass?’‚ author Walt Whitman and ‘An Inconvenient Truth’‚ political cartoon by Clay Bennet‚ The Christian Science Monitor‚ all compel their audience to think about the true meaning and concepts of truth‚ through the way they write and deliver there works. Bowling for Columbine‚ a documentary made in 2002 by Michael Moore‚ raises to the audience

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    The Reality of the Truth

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    What exactly is the truth? Is it reality‚ sincerity‚ integrity? Is it accuracy and honesty? How can we tell the difference between the truth and lies? Why does the media have the power to decide for us what is true? As Oscar Wilde once said ’The truth is rarely pure and never simple’. This statement sums up the difficulties of telling the truth‚ and this is furthermore shown in Rob Sitch et al’s Frontline‚ Lies by Michael Leunig and the poem Nothing to Report by May Herschel Clarke. The television

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    Poems tell us about life experiences. The poems of Theatre by Kate Llewellyn and Even If You Weren’t My Father by Camillo Sbarbaro express the different life experiences of individuals. The aspects of family‚ love and memory can be viewed in both positive and negative lights through these poems. By using a range of different experiences felt by the poet the audience can become connected to them by human experience. The theme of family/relationship can be seen in the poems Theatre and Even

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    and were soon to be forgotten. As we learn from the book he categorizes the truth in two ways (happening truth and story truth)‚ leaving us realizing that the truth is only how you see it. Telling a story in first person can be reliable. This is why the narrator writes these war stories mostly in third people because he wants us to believe him. The book is divided into the happening truth and story truth. The happening truth is what actually happened‚ the real event.

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    In Herbert Lomas poem “The Fly’s Poem about Emily” he tells the story of a fly‚ related to another poem from Emily Dickinson‚ that is from a nightmare and is ready to devour some delicious meat. The fly is happy in this story because the female poet dies instead and the fly gets to eat. The literary element that forms this poem is denotation‚ literal meaning of a word and the critical strategy formalism‚ the elements in the work itself. This poem is about how a fly was sent from the devil or Beelzebub

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    third step is achieved when they begin to see each other as individuals‚ not group members. This occurs in the beginning of the movie when Coach Boone forces each Black student to interact individually with each White student to learn personal details about each other. The last step is supportive authority‚ which is shown when Coach Boone and Coach Yoast also learn to see the

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    Armitage’s poems‚ ’Poem’ and ’About His Person’ are written about someone who has‚ for unspecified reasons‚ passed away or gone. One is in the style of a eulogy and looks back on the life of its persona‚ presenting contrasting views of it‚ while the other examines the articles found on a man after his death. Both give the readers some impression of the personas‚ but are somewhat ambiguous‚ inviting us to form our own mental pictures of the people and judge them for ourselves. The man in ’Poem’ seems

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    stories in the opposite perspective than society. Yet‚ this perspective speaks the truth. It was the mid-1800s and America was growing dramatically. In the process‚ many conflicts arose‚ and so did many opinions. America needed someone that told them the truth. This was hard because there were many people and the person that was to tell the truth had to be unbiased. Mark Twain took the job of telling America the truth‚ even if it wasn’t what everyone thought. Mark Twain had made a positive on America

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