Analysis of Pat Mora ’s "La Migra" Pat Mora ’s "La Migra" is a poem presenting two speakers‚ one female and one male‚ who are playing the game "La Migra" which means "border patrol agents". Mora creates a snapshot of the dangers of living near the Mexican border through the narrators ’ "game". The poem is written with childish language‚ but includes ambiguity of whether the players are children approaching a disturbingly mature theme or whether they ’re adults trying to minimize the stress of
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The writer‚ Phillis Wheatley‚ uses many descriptive details about the natural world in her poem. She compares the sun setting and the new evening with many rural details. For example‚ in line two‚ she says: "The pealing thunder shook the heav’nly plain;" She is referring to the empty plains of a rural area. I also wondered how the poem would sound if she chose to praise the evening using details of an urban setting. You could easily use urban setting details as well as using rural setting details
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Reaction Paper 2 In the 4th chapter of “The Land Looks After Us” Martin starts by talking about a weather doctor that the tribe turned to for guidance after a total eclipse blocked out the sun. Though he was ill he helped and went into a trance which allowed his soul to find out what was going on. What he ended up seeing was a vision of god and all that neat stuff. After he became a prophet‚ I think what martin was trying to address with this story was that religion was not only spreading but
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Imagery in the poem | Example of image | | The poem begins in the labour ward of the hospital: it is ’hot‚ white ’ (line 2) and sterile‚ which seems at odds with the intimate event that is about to occur. Further on it is seen as ’a square / Environmental blank ’ (line 9) and a ’glass tank ’ (line 19). Why do you think Clarke places so much emphasis on the hospital building? | | Before the actual birth‚ Clarke looks out of the window at ’The people and cars ’ (line 4) going about their
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poetry section of my English class was going to be. However‚ after writing these twenty poems‚ my outlook as changed completely. When I sat in front of my computer monitor‚ the words simply came to me and poured out from my fingertips to the screen. The ability to use my vast knowledge of adjectives from our four hundred vocabulary words seemed exhilarating to me. My poems are for myself to enjoy. They may seem boring or meaningless to others‚ but when I read them‚ it reminds me of my feelings at
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Reaction Paper According to the film‚ it seems that the U.S influence in a lot of different ways. They influence us in terms of speech‚ sense of style and clothing‚ food we eat‚ the movies we watch and even how we think and decide. Our government does not give attention in our education‚ from colonial education to neo education means to maintain the control of U.S in our education. They want us learn based only on their books‚ they are making the young ones like robotic children “don’t ask
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CHARRY DEZZA L. SABANAL BSHRM 4-B REACTION PAPER OF JOSE RIZAL LIFE One note‚ this movie is not for the faint of heart. There are graphic depictions of violence and even torture. The opening few scenes depict some episodes from Rizal’s novels. In one a Catholic priest rapes a Filipina. I guess I now know where the Mestizo mixed blood class came from in the Philippines. In the other scene a Catholic priest beats a child for alleged stealing. Strong stuff and it made me wonder how the
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Analysis of the poem‚ “Still I Rise” Maya Angelou’s poem‚ “Still I Rise” may contain different meanings depending on the reader who interprets it. It is a poem that talks about keeping one’s head up no matter how hard the situation they come from and not being affected by the problems on the side. Maya Angelou was part of a generation wherein the black race was still seen as “inferior”. During that time‚ the “truth” is usually kept hidden favoring the more superior groups of people. Hence‚ the
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Jack Jacinto B. Lim Mr. Bernie Balmeo2BSA 1‚ TF 10:00-11:30am Management 3 Reaction paper on “The Queen” I was amazed to Elizabeth I because even if she belongs to the dangerous world of political intrigue‚ she’s still stays as she was at first. She surpassed a traumatic actions of his father by killing her stepmothers just because they can’t bear a male heir. Although his father finally have a son
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there is some true events behind this poem. It was based off of a French women‚ Marie-Madeleine-Marguérite d’aubray marquise de Brihvillers. She had killed her father and two brothers‚ and after her failed attempt of trying to kill her husband‚ she was caught and later on beheaded. Robert Browning waste no time jumping into the conflict of the poem. The persona feels betrayed by a man she used to be in love
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