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    Daddy Poem Analysis

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    Mikole Kalesinskas Mrs. Roache AP English Juniors 13 January 2010 Analysis and Questions for the poem Daddy 1. Discuss the poet’s use of apostrophe in its direct address to the father figure. How does Plath stage that address as a kind of declaration of independence in the decisive tone with which she at once judges and dismisses the father? The poem Daddy‚ written by Sylvia Plath‚ is a text which reveals to the reader‚ the nature of the persona’s relationship with her father as well

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    Reading Response: Kindred

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    Timothy Kramer | Literature & Composition | January 10‚ 2013 Timothy Kramer | Literature & Composition | January 10‚ 2013 Reading Response Kindred Reading Response Kindred LT02 Summarize the Text In Olivia Butler’s novel‚ Kindred‚ an African American woman‚ Dana‚ is unexpectedly pulled back to the Slave Era where she struggles to face the inequalities that existed at that time. After moving into her new apartment with her newly wedded husband‚ Dana is unexpectedly pulled back in

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    Reading Responses to a Poem ACI1250A January 21‚ 2013 Reading Responses to a Poem The poem “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver was a very inspirational poem. Oliver creatively uses imaginative language‚ emotion‚ symbolism‚ and romanticism which led to a very positive and upbeat tone in her poem. Throughout this poem‚ the one thing that I focused on was the positive and upbeat tones that this poem contained. By her use of symbolic and imaginative language in “Wild Geese”‚ the reader is opened

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    Plath

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    Upon reading Plath’s poetry it becomes very clear that the vast majority of her poetry revolves around self-identity. Be it in “Mirror”‚ where she uses metaphors such as a mirror and a lake to represent self-reflection‚ or in “Poppies in July”‚ where she reflects on her own suffering. In “Child” she shows her concern for how her mental state could affect her child. “Black Rook in Rainy Weather” shows her innermost thoughts and feelings. Plath’s poetry tends to be brutally honest explorations of

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    Daddy Issues

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    November 2010 Daddy Issues: The Interpretation of the Father-Dominated Family in Sylvia Plath’s “The Colossus” and Sharon Olds’ “Saturn” Throughout traditional American society‚ the father has almost always been seen as the head of the household. Only in more recent decades have more varied family structures become common. The lives of Sylvia Plath and Sharon Olds are both reflective of the father-dominated family‚ and they represent this notion in their poetry. In “The Colossus” Plath writes about

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    Response to Reading I

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    Spring 2014 SOCSC-120 Response Paper #1 Documents: Letters to Carolyn Van Wyck & Letters to Deidre In a column of Photoplay magazine‚ one of the first film fan magazines created in 1911 in Chicago by Mcfadden Publications‚ Carolyn Van Wyck encouraged women to have fun flirting while remaining classy. In the 1930s‚ San Francisco’s New World Sun newspaper also ran a column answered by Historian Valerie Matsumoto which inspired women to balance both their Japanese and American values. Both of these

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    Mao Zedong Readings Response Paper Being one of the most well-known characters of Chinese modern history‚ Mao Zedong has been constantly debated in both Western and Eastern worlds. Like all historic figures‚ Mao Zedong has been seen in different light: sometimes under glorification and reverence‚ and sometimes as a devil that dragged China into one of its darkest eras. These contradicting opinions can be easily seen in the assigned readings of this course. While Mao Zedong is generally praised

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    Reading Response-Antigone

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    Reading response-Antigone In the story of Antigone‚ we see the struggles between right and wrong or individual and government‚ and the conflicts between the males and females. In the other words‚ Antigone ‚ a woman‚ are supposed to have no her own opinions to the her world. She should follow the laws which are made by men. Nevertheless‚ she believes the god’s laws should be more important than the others. What makes this story so special? Antigone‚ a Femal‚ challenges to the male’s

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    Danny Nazzaro Reading Response Paper 3/2/2014 Micah Mintz The Idea of civil forfeiture would seem outdated unless you were part of its sweeping experience. After reading such a story‚ I think it is unfair‚ obscured‚ and a way of America that people do not see. Although it seems ridiculous it does seem to have both negative and positive impacts. Civil forfeiture seems to keep law enforcement agencies running and fund their wants more than needs. The ability to seize money and use it for your

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    Chinatown Reading Response The film Chinatown‚ directed by Roman Polanski‚ incorporates the image system of blindness vs. seeing to effectively increase the depth and complexity of how the plot is revealed to the audience. The effect of this is the audience feeling that they are not just watching a film‚ they are solving a mystery in time with the characters and what they see is not always the truth. This image first appears in the form of the bi-focal glasses seen at the very beginning

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