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    try one of these off-beat trips. While there’s little chance any of them will ever make it into mainstream tourism‚ I’m willing to bet they’ll give you the best travel story most people will have heard in a while. Protest tourism‚ USA The closest most tourists usually get to protests is not being able to get where they’re going due to transport strikes. And while sitting stranded in an airport isn’t the best way to empathise with protesting workers‚ there are a growing number of travellers who are

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    Hemant Sah  FRC-14M Analysis of Social Protest The era is of static and contraband where bombs are louder than voices and feels like silence will echo through eternity. The generation we live in is midst of panic‚ fake promises‚ and fake prosperity‚ and therefore‚ people should be given hope and motivation. The song that I’m going to analyze is the title song of the album by name “21st century breakdown” by Green day‚ released in 2009. It’s a very negative and depressing song despite the poppy

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    Poetry analysis of ‘Introduction to Poetry’ The Poem “Introduction to Poetry” is by Billy Collins‚ an English poet‚ and it is about how teachers often force students to over-analyze poetry and to try decipher every possible meaning portrayed throughout the poem rather than allowing the students to form their own interpretation of the poem based on their own experiences. Throughout the poem‚ a number of literary devices are used. For example: “or press an ear against its hive”. Using this metaphor

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    |SECTION B | | | |Spend about 1 hour on this section. Think carefully about the poems before you write your answer. | |In the first

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    4. Protest songs 4.1. Global concerns: Bob Dylan‚ Joan Baez‚ Fasia Jansen Joan Baez has commonly been described as the ‘voice and conscience of the 60s’ as she achieved international recognition with her activism‚ her political engagement and her music as a means of voicing her protest and of making herself heard all across the globe beyond the borders of America. In her protest music‚ references to the American civil rights movement‚ thus to national mass concerns of the era‚ play a significant

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    I hang’‚ an unashamedly humble reflection of immigration. Interpretation of contrasting techniques and evaluation of contextual evidence explores the effects relating to the evolution of Caribbean Verse; its role in political and social protest and relevance in British Society. Agard and Nichols were both born in 1950’s Guyana* during a wave of immigration as commonwealth citizens were encouraged to fill Britain’s demand for menial workers. The writers joined in England during

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    English 1302‚ Composition II Poetry Analysis Assignment: Choose ONE of the prompts below; then write a 3-4 page poetry analysis in which you analyze the use of literary elements in one of the assigned poems listed: “America” (Claude McKay); “We Wear the Mask” (Paul Laurence Dunbar); “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)” (Langston Hughes); “Mirror” (Sylvia Plath); “The Bean Eaters” (Gwendolyn Brooks); “To The Mercy Killers” (Dudley Randall); “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (Dylan Thomas). Your

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    Love Poem Analysis: Linda Pastan is an American poet of Jewish background. She was born in New York on May 27‚ 1932. Today‚ she lives in Potomac‚ Maryland with her husband Ira Pastan‚ an accomplished physician and researcher. She is known for writing short poems that address topics like family life‚ domesticity‚ motherhood‚ the female experience‚ aging‚ death‚ loss and the fear of loss‚ as well as the fragility of life and relationships. Love poem is a very simple poem yet it has a deep

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    ‘Cousin Kate’ by Christina Rossetti This Victorian poem is about the narrator (a fallen woman)‚ the Lord and Kate. It is a ballad which tells the story from the narrator’s perspective about being shunned by society after her ‘experiences’ with the lord. The poem’s female speaker recalls her contentment in her humble surroundings until the local ‘Lord of the Manor’ took her to be his lover. He discarded her when she became pregnant and his affections turned to another village girl‚ Kate‚ whom he

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    201005894 | ENG 373 ASSIGNMENT | BOIKANYO MAKAUSU | 1. A PROTEST FROM A BUSHMAN POEM THEME: SADNESS The theme of the poet A Protest From a Bushman is SADNESS. The poet is expressing disapproval or objection to something‚ thus how his fellowman treats them and undermine the tribe‚ culture & tradition. TONE MORAL INDIGNATION The tone of the poem is typically a reactive emotion to anger over perceived mistreatment‚ insult or malice. It is somehow a sense of injustice. The bushman is

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