Focus Journal # 20‚ Sharon Olds‚ The promise‚ 591 May 2‚ 2012 I. Understanding: In this poem Sharon Olds wishes the reader to believe that when terminally ill a man should have say in whether he continues to suffer in pain while useless‚ or to keep living. II. Analyzing: In this poem Olds does a great job painting a visual picture in the readers mind. “We are also in our/bed‚ fitted naked closely/ along each other¸half passed out/ after love‚ drifting back and/ forth across the border of
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General Sharon planned to cross the Suez Canal with his Armored Brigade and cut the supply routes to the advancing Egyptian Armies. The only problem was that the Third and Second Egyptian Armies remained on the West side of the Suez Canal‚ crossing the Suez would have been devastating to the Israelis. On the other battle front‚ Israeli forces had pushed the Syrians back to the pre-war ceasefire lines. The IDF then launched a four-day counter-offensive deep into Syria. Within a week‚ Israeli artillery
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Flat Broke with children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform is a book that talks about the person struggles of women in the welfare system. The author Sharon Hays‚ she is a professor in the Department of Sociology and at the University of Virginia. She wrote different books including‚ Inside Welfare: Gender‚ Family Values‚ and the Work Ethic‚ the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood‚ and‚ The Changing Face of Fifty: Women at the Halfway Point. I chose his book because of the title‚ I felt like
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In comparing The Grimm Brother’s “Little Red Cap” and Sharon Singer’s paintings of the infamous little red riding hood story‚ there are numerous similarities to be found. Singer’s painting “Fast Food”‚ depicts a dark and uncanny scene in which naked doll lies at the foot of bloody wolf paws. The naked doll in Singer’s bleak painting represents the vulnerability of Little Red Cap during her encounters with the wolf. Little Red Cap description as a “dear little girl” who was loved by anyone who “set
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Victoria Hernandez Rodney Rather English 1302 Reader Response 1: “The Only Girl at the Boys’ Party”. Sharon Old’s “One girl at the boys’ party” deals with the reality that we live in a society that’s constantly changing and conforming to social norms. The mother of the girl learns early on that the girl is singled out at the party because of her gender and therefore is put into a situation that lacks similarity. The environment consumes the girl and she becomes overwhelmed by the boys’ who “tower
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interested in him‚ he questions why her brother would even set them up. This could be a conflict because Kali is not in love with men‚ and could be shunned by her community and her family (Cooper‚ S 2004). In a short play titled “Mistaken Identity” by Sharon E. Cooper two people meet at a busy bar for a blind date. Steven is an American cowboy finishing school in England and Kali is of Indian heritage and a Hindu. The two are on a blind date trying to appease family members and social
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Sharon Olds’ poem “I Go Back to May 1937” is written as if the speaker; which appears to be female is looking back in time to when he or she’s parents first met and married. The speaker throughout the poem does not seem pleased with the events that unfolded thereafter‚ but nonetheless understands that there is nothing that she could have done to stop it from happening. The poem gives a short glimpse into the life the couple had and the effect it had on the child/narrator. The poem is almost a flashback
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The book I chose for my book club is “The Skin I’m in”‚ written by Sharon G. Flake. After Sharon’s daughter was born it gave her the inspiration and dedication to write. Flake wrote short stories for her daughter‚ and read them at her daughter’s daycare. She then wanted to write children’s books with an African-American emphasis‚ this lead to her purpose of writing “The Skin I’m in”. The book was published in 1998 making this Sharon G. Flake debut novel. My reasoning for choosing this book was the
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“The Language of the Brag”: Sharon Olds’s Poem on Female Accomplishments Defining what it is to be a woman‚ Sharon Olds’s poem “The Language of the Brag” examines where the achievements of women fall along the accomplishments of men. Capturing both my personal interest and intrigue‚ Olds uses graphic imagery in a poem that connects to the values of womanhood. Showing the transitions of a woman’s place in society through metaphoric conventions‚ Olds exhibits her pride in being a woman‚ a pride all
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Tears of a Tiger By: Sharon Draper Isbn-10 #: 0689806981 Themes: Death‚ Depression‚ Decisions Reading level: Young Adults Teaching Connections: I see this as a good book to use with young African Americans because the main characters in the book are African American kids in high school. The novel is also a very good teaching aide because it includes many different types of writing styles like poems‚ letters and short essays. I feel the strongest point to using the book in the classroom is the
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