"Graduation" written by Maya Angelou. In this story we see how a young black girl awaits with great pride and anticipation her graduation day. When the day finally arrives‚ her dreams and expectations are shadowed by the speech that Mr. Donleavy‚ a white man‚ gave to the graduating class of 1940. At the end of the story we see how the class valedictorian‚ Henry Reed comes back with encouraging words that help the entire audience become alive and feel like they were on top again. Maya Angelou used a very important
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Steve McCurry took this image of “The Afghan Girl” in 1989‚ it’s one of the most powerful portraits to ever courtesy the National Geographic Magazine’s cover to this day. This image has become a prized possession along with a global symbol‚ and for a photographer‚ that’s like winning the Nobel Prize. Since the late 1800’s National Geographic Magazine has had their readers on the edge of their seats with spectacular stories and photos from around the globe. The overpowering “images leave lasting imprints
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Maya Lin was born on October 5‚ 1959 in Athens‚ Ohio. Her parents fled from China in 1948 when the Communist took over. She is the daughter of Henry Huan Lin and Julia Chang Lin. Her father was a ceramicist and the Dean of the School of Fine Art. Her mother was a poet and a literature professor at Ohio University. Lin says that she was in her father’s studio “making art as long as she can remember.” (Falconer “Maya Lin Biography‚ Art‚ and Analysis of Works”). When Lin started Yale her major was zoology
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Enmanuel Perez 2/20/13 English 192- MTA Professor Samantha Zighelboim “Poetry Analysis on Diana and Actaeon” In the poem‚ Metamorphoses by Ovid‚ in the short story “Diana and Actaeon” describes how chaste Diana’s punishment to Actaeon can be seen a bit unfair. Diana being the goddess of the hunt was innocently taking a bath with her nymphs bathing her when out of the blue a young man called Actaeon is caught seeing the goddness of the hunt naked. Knowing someone saw her naked while bathing
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Courage in Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl: Fall to Rise Ambrose Redmoon once said‚ " Courage is not the absence of fear‚ but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear". In Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel‚ The Windup Girl‚ this particular quote is pertinent as the symbols‚ conflicts‚ and characters in the novel indicate that to be truly free‚one must have courage to face one’s fears. As a result‚ the symbols in the story show that being able to face one’s fears can give one hope
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While studying Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry‚ it was remarkably clear that Bishop’s carefully judged use of language aids the reader to uncover the intensity of feeling in her poetry. In the six poems in which I studied by this poet‚ we can see how Bishop used the languages to her advantage in a way that helped the reader to uncover the intensity of feeling in her work. We can see the emotions in her poetry through a mix of language types and techniques within "The Fish"‚ "The Prodigal"‚ “In the Filling
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The Working Poor travels into the forgotten America. It is a book about people and places that most us have never thought about. We have our debates about these people‚ their lifestyles‚ how they raise their children and where they work but we don’t really know them and for the most part don’t care. How many of us notice "the man who washes cars but does not own one‚ the clerk who files cancelled checks at the bank but has $2.02 in her own account or the woman who copyedits medical textbooks but
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protest poetry is to promote for positive change. Prejudice is making preconceived assumptions of a person or a community based on limited understanding‚ being prejudiced moves you below others‚ even societies. Prejudice is belittling because people whom encourage prejudice don’t see you as a person‚ they see you by your colour‚ they see you through stereotypes‚ see you as a character‚ and they don’t see you as equals in their society. In this essay I will comparing ‘Caged Bird’ by Maya Angelou and ‘refugee’
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“inseparable partner‚” therefore an attached companion of the living person. (Fernando& Zialcita) The soul‚ which is the center of the analysis—in many traditional spiritual‚ philosophical‚ and psychological traditions—is the incorporeal
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Perhaps‚ no excitement offered by poetry can be greater than that of its seemingly spontaneous creation. But we are all conditioned to the idea of similar possibilities religious revelation or falling in love or experiencing some kind of trauma or through what we have observed in others. Some poets have recorded what they had heard or seen and found an outlet for these through their poems. One cannot question in any way the reality of the experience of poetic inspiration. There is every possibility
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