Maggie Anderson is an American poet and editor with roots in Appalachia. On Wednesday‚ October 4‚ 2016‚ she came into English 360 class to read some of her poems and surprise the class with a group poem activity. She was invited to West Liberty University and did a poetry reading before attending the class‚ but I was unable to attend that reading. She read two of the poems from the packet the class received ahead of time and also three more from a her book of poems she brought. The class was well
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This article was written by Maggie Astor‚ a reporter on The New York Times‚ a newspaper considered to be one of the most reliable source of information. Astor also has a degree in political science from Barnard College‚ therefore the information she provided is highly credible. In the article‚ she reports of a recent Dove ad that caused an outcry in the social media for its racist undertones. Astor quotes Dove’s spokeswoman and her apologetic remarks‚ stating that the ad was intended to convey a
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Anthem- Epilogue Maggie Bergmann We lay silently in our bed. We look at the blank white walls‚ the sleeping bodies‚ and the darkness. Everywhere. We wonder if this is all there is to life or what is being hidden. Certainly there must be something out there different from here‚ but we are forbidden to think of such things. Every night we close our eyes and we dream of places far away‚ places where we are happy always‚ and of places not so dark. We are forbidden to dream of such things.
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term spectatorship traditionally refers to the act of watching something without taking part. “Image flow” represents this idea of spectatorship where individuals mindlessly scroll through images and videos to fill the gaps in their day (Nelson 304). Maggie Nelson‚ author of “Great to Watch” presents the term “image flow” as the act of scrolling through social media and being in a constant state of “extremity”‚ either angry shock or boredom (300-311). However‚ she progresses her argument from disgust
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Advancements in technology have produced a world in which one is constantly looking at images or watching a video. Whether for enjoyment or to fill a void caused by boredom many people scroll through their phones aimlessly viewing a multitude of images. Maggie Nelson discusses these notions of spectating in her narrative titled “Great to Watch‚” where she presents two different views of what “spectating” really means. She first views it as an action that provides a false sense of empowerment where one passively
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seem to be willing to tell them to anyone especially not Sam. Through all of this‚ Grace is dealing with a new sickness that causes a lingering thought in them all that it might be a lot more than just a common cold. I would give the book Linger by Maggie Stiefvater an A+ because it has a very suspenseful storyline‚ the characters have enticing characteristics‚ and the love story between Grace and Sam is very interesting. The storyline of the book is very up and down and keeps you wanting to read
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to their parents. Young people consider themselves as individuals who have nothing in common with their parents – but in fact they might have more in common with their elders than they think. The latter might be the case for the main character in Maggie O’Farrell’s short story “The Problem with Oliver”‚ Fionnuala‚ who is a perfect‚ and almost stereotypical‚ example of a teenager of the kind mentioned in the sentences above. This short story covers some of the greatest problems and themes‚ we are
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“Pa could write‚ but he wouldn’. Didn’t like to. It give him the shivers to write..” Why would writing give Tom’s father the shivers? Why wouldn’t he put aside his discomforts to write to his own son in prison? When Tom let go of the turtle‚ he push it under the house. Then the turtle got back from under the house and kept going in the direction it was before Tom bothered it. After that the cat started bothering the turtle by striking at the turtle’s and and slashing at it’s feet What is the deeper
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Maggie: A Girl On the Streets The problems that were faced by Maggie‚ and many other women in the lower social-economic levels during the Gilded Age‚ are almost unbearable to imagine. She faced discrimination‚ attachment issues‚ and grew up with a dysfunctional family that failed to show affection. Fortunately for Maggie‚ she wasn’t like the people she lived around. As Stephen Crane put it‚ “None of the dirt of Rum Alley seemed to be in her veins” (Maggie 16). This unique feature acquired by Maggie
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Maggie: a Girl of the Streets‚ by Stephen Crane‚ uses the conflict of romantic and realist views to show the reader why people living in slums acted with such intense violence. The main character‚ Maggie‚ lives her life through rose-colored glasses; she sees the beauty in her grim situation. While life in the slums causes most people to become hardened and cold‚ Maggie instead becomes distant‚ almost aloof‚ lost in her own vision. Maggie’s brother Jimmie is her polar opposite‚ a hardened. He
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