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Explain how Agard uses language and form to put forward his point of view in the poem ‘half caste’ using examples from the poem. ‘Half caste’ is a performance poem written by a man named John Agard; a Jamaican who immigrated to England in 1977. He wrote this poem with the sole purpose of presenting his views on the derogatory term “half cast‚” which are aggressive towards the racist suggestion that anyone with a mixed race background should be considered as half a person. Agard uses repetition to
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Student Essay #1 Response In her essay about rollercoasters‚ Kendall Anderson explains how rollercoasters came to be so popular‚ are constantly improving in style and technology‚ and are always leaving us wanting more thrills. I actually enjoyed reading this essay‚ it was very informal and included interested facts‚ like about the person who rode on a rollercoaster for a ridiculous amount of hours‚ and about how there are very few deaths on rollercoasters that are usually just from the medical
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Response to the Poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost This is one of my favorite poems‚ and every time I read it‚ I find something I haven’t noticed before‚ especially the conflict that the author portrays. It is said that this poem was written about an early period of personal frustration‚ and the contemplation of suicide. But I believe there are several ways to look at it. The meaning of the narrator’s response to the woods is caught in the contrast between
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ENGL 1302 11 July 2013 Summary-Analysis-Response Paper In Lisa Hamilton’s “Unconventional Farmers; Let Them Eat Meat”‚ she justifies the issue of raising livestock for food causing greenhouse gas emissions. Should we be eating less meat or actually eating more? Hamilton’s research found many interesting points that would interest any human beings that consume meat or any other type of consumable goods. In her essay‚ Hamilton begins with the statistic that “eighteen percent of the world’s
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G. Laracas Professor DePasquale English - 1A 07 October 2008 Personal Response Essay “The Loons” I’ve chosen to do my personal response essay on the short story “The Loons‚” because in a way I can sort of relate to the main character Piquette Tonnerre. I felt that Margaret Laurence did an exceptional job by choosing the appropriate tone for the story because I can honestly say that I could feel the alienation that Piquette must of felt‚ during her time of living‚ in a cruel society. She
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Here is an anti bullying poem written by Jon Evans: Identity–The Bully They all try to look the same all try to give themselves a name pick on the boy who is all alone just because his identity is his own what has this world come to? all this wrong that people do just for the image they want to show down the evil path they seem to go The next person you go to hurt or try to make feel like dirt instead of trying to look cool feel for the guy you make look a fool A cool identity isn’t a need let
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“Those Winter Sundays” & “Paper Matches” “Those Winter Sundays” and “Paper Matches” are poems that came together to form the same qualities. However the two individual poems expresses it‚ in its own contrasting ways. Both “Those Winter Sundays” and “Paper Matches” intertwine metaphors into its work and the aspect of the under-appreciation of one party toward another. The poem “Those Winter Sundays” is of a grown adult looking back into his childhood. He remembers an event that led him to realize
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Response Essay Dystopian works force us to look at social problems because they exaggerate issues to get the viewer’s attention. By seeing where social problems can or will lead to in the future‚ people pay more attention to what is going on and they feel the need to do something about it. The song‚ “The Sound of Silence‚” by Paul Simon is about being revealed to the light. Seeing what one was never realized before. It relates well to the allegory of the cave by Plato and the book Fahrenheit 451
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On The Patio Poem Extrapolation Peter Redgrove was born in a middle class family in Kingston. As a child he got a microscope as a present and because of this he got a scholarship to Cambridge for science. Although he was deeply disturbed and was found to suffer from schizophrenia. He attempted to have Deep Insulin Coma Therapy‚ a shock treatment for the disease‚ he had around sixty treatments but it was unsuccessful and gave him visions and he also lost interest in science‚ so he turned to poetry
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