The Blue Sky Gallery‚ in Portland‚ currently displays a photo series depicting the daily struggles individuals from Central America face as they make the perilous journey to the United States. In this series‚ Michelle Frankfurter‚ highlights the atrocities presently facing migrants as they attempt to reach and cross the border. Michelle Frankfurter is a documentary photographer who has spent recent years capturing the difficulties immigrants face traveling to the American and Mexico border. Her work
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On the Frontlines of Civil Rights Advocacy‚ The NNIRR Group and Journalists Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) is one of the organizations at the forefront of championing the rights of refugees and immigrants with special focus on individual rights and justice. This include access to health care and opportunity to live safe and peaceful lives. According to NNIRR.org‚ the organization is fully devote on defending and expanding the rights of refugees
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A comparative analysis of two poems within the same poetic subgenre‚ showing how similar conventions may be used variously Thomas Hardy’s‚ ‘The Ruined Maid’ and ‘Lord Randal’ from the collection of Early modern ballads‚ both are ballads which use similar conventions. Although they are not poems that stick to the exact ballad traditions‚ they carry out many of the traits. Thomas Hardy was known to be musically inclined and his influence in ballad writing came from his various musical talents. In
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Comparative Essay – “How does the writer present fear in Out of the Blue and Belfast Confetti”? In both Out of the Blue by Simon Armitage and Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson‚ the poets both present fear through a number of techniques. Both describe a city and its civilians under attack‚ exposing the impacts of terrorism on its victims. They are similarly written in a free-verse structure‚ which clearly illustrates the exposed and fearful state in which the ‘narrators’ are left in. In Belfast
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fear? Electronic poems are one of those methods as they vitalize poems into stories that readers can interact with and understand. Otagaki Rengetsu and Ingrid Ankerson’s “Murmuring Insects” is an electronic poem that utilizes sounds‚ images‚ and texts that provide readers with the opportunity to interact and peacefully remember the attacks of 9/11. The poem’s initial scene establishes a peaceful mood by the sounds of the murmuring crickets at night‚ the black transitioning to blue background color
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Emily Dickinson uses plain words to great effect‚ such as in the poem‚ "The Brain - is wider than the Sky". The poem compares and contrasts the human brain with the sky‚ the sea‚ and God. This poem is manageable enough for the casual reader to understand‚ and yet opens up ideas for the sophisticated reader to explore. In the following paragraphs I will analyze Dickinson’s poem‚ line for line‚ and explain the theme of the poem‚ which is the relationship between the human mind and the external
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Eric Fykerud May 3‚ 2013 Period 2 9th Grade Poetry Book Report Blackberry picking theme analysis: In the poem Blackberry Picking by Seamus Heaney‚ he describes the action of picking blackberries during the summer. This poem has many themes infused within the poem. However some stand out more than others. greed‚ mortality‚ and disappointment. First he describes greed the over excessive amount of berries that they would pick. “We trekked and picked until cans ere full”. The kids
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5. “eight dancers dressed as swans.” – Mary Cornish Numbers 6. “Always wants a hug and never gets enough”- Ronald Koertge Sidekicks 7. “whose perfume swayed in the air‚ turning the modest flowers scarlet and loose.” –Peter Meinke Love Poem 8. “Their whisper rises from beneath the stones to fuse into a single… light.” – Yves Bonnefoy Passer-By‚ These are Words… 9. “He wanted to go inside them and live.” Naomi Shihab Nye Rain 10. “But listen harder‚ use your imagination…”
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father’s typewriter at 7‚ Farjeon came to public attention at 16 as the librettist of an opera‚ with music by her brother Harry. After World War I Eleanor earned a living as a poet‚ journalist and broadcaster. Often published under a pseudonym‚ Eleanor’s poems appeared in The Herald (Tomfool)‚ Punch‚ Time and Tide (Chimaera)‚ The New Leader (Merry Andrew)‚ Reynolds News (Tomfool)‚ and a number of other periodicals. Her topical work for The Herald‚ Reynolds News and New Leader was the perhaps the most accomplished
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In the poem “Funeral Blues‚” W.H. Auden’s choice of diction allows the reader a greater understanding of the intensity and depth of feeling experienced upon the loss of a loved one. Likewise‚ the symbolism used by the poet pulls us into the actual world of the grief stricken as he searches for ways to mourn this passing. Auden’s choice of diction here was used to drawn the reader into the emotional disrepair felt by the afflicted. He shortens sentences and uses comparisons to the destruction left
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