welcome to Your Morning Wake Up Call‚ with your host me‚ Melody Emm! Today we have a very special guest with us‚ praised American philosopher and gender theorist‚ Dr. Judith Butler everybody. So Ms. Butler‚ May I call you Judith? I’m so honored to have you on my show. Butler: Of course you can‚ and the pleasure is mine really. Me: So Judith why don’t you tell our audience a little about your career as a queer theorist? Butler: I’d be happy to. My work in queer theory mostly focuses on feminism and gender
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“Introduction to Poetry‚” Billy Collins uses metaphors to argue that students who annotate without real engagement detract from their experience of reading literature whereas those who annotate for their own satisfaction become more fulfilled. Collins’ “Marginalia” and “Introduction to Poetry” show the ways writing can be enjoyed when one annotates for one’s own contentment. Collins talks about the various ways he wants students to interact with poems‚ saying in “Introduction to Poetry” that he wants
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Understanding and Appreciating Poetry 1 Note to Teachers Set Poems 2012-2014 Teachers have been speaking about the lack of critical material on some of the literature set pieces (particularly the poems) selected for study at the Caribbean O’Level. Diverse interpretations make an exploration of literary material interesting and expansive. This guide to the study of ‘set’ poems is a response to those who wish to be expansive in their analysis and appreciation. It is not intended to be a model
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The sociological imagination was created by C. Wrights Mills‚ who published a book on it in 1959. Sociological imagination is the potential to see things and how they affect and impact other things in society. There are many different causes of obesity‚ which is becoming a serious problem in America. Americans are eating more processed foods and eating out much more. Many of the snacks in fast food restaurants‚ stores‚ and vending machines are higher in fat and calories than the foods at home. There
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At the Philadelphia Museum of Art‚ I have selected “The Last Drop.” The painting was painted by Judith Leyster on 1609. It is done in oil on canvas and the size of the painting is almost the same like any others that about a foot wide‚ length and width. The condition of the painting seems to be in a new condition‚ as if the painting was never touched at all. The texture of this painting have a smooth and rigid touch to it. The painting is consisted of one man is sitting on a chair binge drinking
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community” (Damio p.13). To a young girl this is real exciting because it makes her feel like a responsible adult and that she has gained her family’s trust. The most important privileges for a young lady is to wear makeup‚ date‚ and make adult decisions. Judith Ortiz Cofer relates to this in one of her articles by stating “she was instructed on how to act like a proper sen᷇orita and were encouraged to look and act like women and dress in clothes that made them look more mature” (Cofer 39). Wearing makeup
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The bond between an individual and their homeland is always strong even though they may be distant from each other. Grace Nichols’ poem ‘Island Man’ conveys this relationship. The poem emphasises on the immigrant experience‚ the contrast between the two environments‚ and the past and the present. This poem highlights the split in identity that immigrants feel. An individual may leave their homeland‚ but it will always remain within them. In the poem ‘Island Man’‚ the island man fells nostalgic as
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When we read poems‚ we don’t exactly interpret the meaning of it automatically. It takes us a shot‚ or two‚ or three to fully understand the meaning of it or at least have your own interpretation. In the poem In a Station of the Metro‚ written by Ezra Pound‚ one of the themes that are presented is modernization. Nowadays‚ the metro isn’t the place where people want to be because of its lousy appearance‚ the people seem a little odd for others‚ and in other words people don’t like taking it because
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If I tell you I have suffered a loss that has caused agony and despair‚ would you understand? If I announce my joyous experiences‚ would you share in my happiness? Marshall Rosenberg once said‚ “empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person’s pain.” It is through the ability to see the world through the eyes of others. In one of my favorite poems‚ Mother to Son by Langston Hugh‚ a mother reflects on her time of hardship while she passes down words of wisdom to her son. The expressive and
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Death is an inevitable phenomenon. It is something that no human being cannot escape. Some people are frightened of the concept of dying while the others already accepts it like it is their fate. Although‚ Donne‚ Tennyson‚ Thomas and Frost used the concept of death in their poems‚ they portrayed it as powerlessness of death‚ crossing from life to death‚ grief and contentment. “Death be not proud” written by John Donne portrays that death should not be something to be scared. “Death‚ be not
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