into a culture that is now being forced onto them. The everyday struggles of a refugee‚ or a person forced to flee their home country‚ are exceptionally described in the book Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai. She follows a young girl from Vietnam through her futile attempts to acquire her old life back again‚ all while dealing with near-death experiences‚
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In the lyric poem‚ or song‚ "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa‚ the author describes the person he has a strong connection being gone for a very long time. The audience can infer that the author is used to seeing this person often as he says "It’s been a long day without you‚ my friend" and he thought he would never see them again. Through the use of the authors diction the audience can infer when the author sees his friend again he then realizes that love always finds a way and home is where the heart
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Though there are many themes in the song Tell Your Heart To Beat Again‚ the one that helps express the most important thing in life is that living can be hard. S2L3 says that the world makes you feel like you’re being covered by a shadow. However‚ the song doesn’t mean that something is constantly blocking you from the sun. Figuratively‚ the shadow stands for your hardships following you around such as; depression; pain; anger and frustration. This shows why the theme of the song is that life can
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Out of these works‚ I have read Let America Be America Again and Invisible Man. Let America Be America Again was written at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and describes the oppression of African Americans despite America being the land of the “free.” I think this poem is important because it embodies the on-going fight for equality of African Americans. Invisible Man depicts the story of an African American man who lived his life as a model citizen‚ but now lives in an underground hole. The
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world‚ who are looking for a new home. These refugees have thousands of things in common with one another when they are going into their new lives‚ or‚ when their lives are turning “inside out and back again.” This is a representation of what all they have in common. In the book‚ “Inside Out and Back Again”‚ Ha‚ a ten year old girl‚ becomes a refugee due to the Vietnam War. Her entire family leaves their home‚ fleeing on a large ship with thousands of others on board. Once they all reach their new homes
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Refugees are some of the strongest people in the world‚ but why? Some may say it’s because they have gone through a lot to get to where they are‚ others may say it’s because they have hope. The answer is all of that. In one book “Inside Out and Back Again” by Thanna Lai‚ we have a Vietnamese family in Saigon as war breaks out. The book is very descriptive on what a family has to go through during those tough times. The main character‚ named Ha‚ is an only girl in a family of 3 older brothers and a loving
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Within a blink of an eye; She walks along the beach with the summer wind blowing her hair‚ thinking her worlds perfect‚ Everything is going well for her. An A grade student and has been that way since her junior years. Most of her peers did not understand how her life was so perfect‚ the perfect grades‚ perfect family‚ perfect boyfriend. What she didn’t know was that in the blink of an eye her world was going to fall like a tonne of bricks. Yes That girl is me‚ I had the perfect life and it was
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Moreover‚ I went inside Sears and in the shoe section I saw a child who might have been three or four years playing with an airplane toy on the floor‚ while his mother was trying on shoes. The child move his blue and white airplane back and forth‚ while making an airplane sound. The mother will insist him in Spanish to stand up because the floor was dirty but the child did not care and kept playing. On the other hand‚ went I was at the food court I saw a child (about 4 years old) who was just playing
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battle‚ Ian Davidson notes that the battle is given little notice in the official battle honors of the regiment. Davidson‚ himself‚ is truly concerned about the 42nd’s involvement in the Battle of Bushy Run. David Dixon’s book‚ Never Come to Peace Again‚ provides a chapter retelling the event while Richard Middleton dedicates a few pages to the event in his book‚ Pontiac’s War.
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Read Chapter Three again of ‘The Great Gatsby’. How does he tell the story? In Chapter Three‚ both the reader and Nick finally get to meet the famous‚ eponymous Gatsby. The reader and Nick get introduced into a world of partying‚ absolute wealth‚ speculation and the imbalance of society. This can all be shown through the form‚ structure and language. Polysyndeton is repeatedly used in this chapter. We often see this technique when Nick refers to Gatsby‚ especially in this sentence: ‘By seven o’clock
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