Jingleberry Pop Arsenal is the current vigilante identity of Roy Harper‚ Green Arrow’s ward and former sidekick. He has also been known as Speedy and Red Arrow during his long career. Though Arsenal has no superpowers‚ his accuracy with projectiles is equaled only by his mentor. The boy who would become Arsenal was born Roy Harper‚ Jr.- the son of a forest ranger. Roy states that he "never knew his mother" and in fact does not even know her name. Roy Harper Sr. raised the child on his own for some
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Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham” is a look into the effects of racism on a personal level. The poem is set in Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The tone of the title alludes to the city of Birmingham as a whole. The poem gives the reader‚ instead‚ a personal look into a tragic incident in the lives of a mother and her daughter. The denotation of the poem seems to simply tell of the sadness of a mother losing her child. The poem’s theme is one of guilt‚ irony‚ and the grief
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progression; a development of the human mind‚ body and soul. After all‚ we are our own sovereign. The Hypordemic Syringe Model The audience is the front runner of pop culture mainly because it is the main consumer. They ideally become a point of influence for its production and reproduction. As such‚ the differential aspects and appeal of pop culture‚ lies wherein the vein of what is popular amongst people; what “sells" and what does not. Popular culture becomes a classic over time‚ carrying with it
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his works he contributed to the Romantic Period tremendously‚ ushering out the age of Neo-Classic concepts. The poem "Michael"‚ demonstrates Wordsworth’s talent in blending together all of his poetic ideas and ultimately creating a beautiful Lyrical Ballad with the ability to touch the soul of everyone who reads it. An enthusiast of new ideas at the time‚ Wordsworth pushed for a new type of poetry of and for the common person‚ which he famously did. Throughout this essay is evidence showing just how
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Past‚ Present‚ and Future: Finding Life Through Nature William Wordsworth poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” was included as the last item in his Lyrical Ballads. The general meaning of the poem relates to his having lost the inspiration nature provided him in childhood. Nature seems to have made Wordsworth human.The significance of the abbey is Wordsworth’s love of nature. Tintern Abbey representes a safe haven for Wordsworth that perhaps symbolizes a everlasting
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the mainstream as a product of mass media and distance themselves from this supposedly torrid creation. Dance cultures stigmatise the mainstream for being ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘uncommitted’ and ridicule it for its ‘bandwagon mentality’. Top of The Pops typifies the supposed hatred of the mainstream from subcultures‚ as a band would appear to ‘sell out’ if they were to appear on the show. Dick Hebdige theories ‘selling out’ as the process of “incorporation into the hegemony”. She says that ‘subcultural
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Themes in Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey Full Title: "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey; On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour‚ July 13‚ 1798. Man and the Natural World This is one of the most important ideas of "Tintern Abbey." The speaker of this poem has discovered‚ in his maturity‚ that his appreciation of natural beauty has allowed him to recognize a divine power in nature. Wordsworth comes up with this idea in "Tintern Abbey‚" and then really explores
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the most suitable decision. The poem “Ballad of Birmingham” is a very emotional poem that conveys many of the emotions that people may have been feeling. It also helps you understand how you might feel if you were a mother or a child at the time when there was a lot of racial violence going on around you. Throughout the poem‚ it is showing the reader how determined the children were to fight for what they believed in‚ more so than the adults. In the poem “Ballad of Birmingham”‚ the author has chosen
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Hughes poems "Ballad of Roosevelt" and "Ballad of Landlord" embody the outcry from the downtrodden African-American community during the Great Depression. "Ballad of Roosevelt" shows how poor the majority could be‚ and the basic needs that they were forced to go without while awaiting public aid that never seemed to come. In "Ballad of Landlord" the narrator opens by asking for better living conditions‚ and ends up serving a term in the County Jail. The unfortunate truth in "Ballad of Roosevelt"
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English 113 SU10 B Term 11 August 2010 Children Remembered The poems “Hope” by Ariel Dorfman and “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall display a theme relating to the tremendous love a parent displays for their children and the terrible feeling they experience when they sense their child is in grave danger. In “Hope” the narrator describes the son “missing / since May 8 / of last year” (766). In “Ballad of Birmingham” it describes the story of a mother giving her daughter permission to go to a place
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