Many Americans perceive their country differently‚ whether it appears as the land of freedom and liberty‚ or the land of oppression and injustice. In the case of modernistic writer Walt Whitman‚ his poem "I Hear America Singing" expresses America as the land of the hardworking and the humble. He focuses on the idea of the American dream and the specific types of people who are the backbone of this country. On the other hand‚ the view of another modernistic poet‚ Langston Hughes‚ is very different
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“Many friends have asked me why‚ after all I went through‚ I did not hate Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution in those years. The answer is simple: we were all brainwashed.”p.276 The book “The Red Scarf Girl” is a memoir written by author Ji Li Jiang recounting what it was like to grow up during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution‚ taking place in China from 1965 to 1968. During this time‚ a political leader named Mao Zedong convinced the people of China that the “four olds"‚ or the
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Langston Hughes wrote “I Too” as a direct response to Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing.” In effect‚ the differences in tone inform the overall messages of the poems. By examining the two poems‚ one can see how the tones exemplify what it means to be an American. Hughes’s poem depicts a sense of isolation while Whitman’s poem gives off the sense of inclusiveness. Hughes’s poem presents a situation where the near future will allow for greater inclusion. For example he says‚ “Nobody’ll dare say to
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The word “silence” is constantly repeated throughout the play. In fact‚ the very last word that comes out of Bernarda’s mouth is “silence.” What do you think this word can symbolize? In the play called “The House of Bernarda Alba” by Garcia Lorca‚ Bernarda Alba is a mother of five who silences her daughters and servants several times throughout the play. In many instances of the play‚ the word silence is used or is enacted‚ placing great significance to the word. If the word is taken out of context
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Poem Prompt The poem “A Story” written be Li- Young Lee conveys the complex father and son relationship showing their connection through literary devices while the son is trying to get his father to tell another story. This poem is written in third person narrative by an ominous voice telling the fathers thought process. The narrator begins the poem saying‚ “Sad is the man who is asked for a story and can’t come up with one.” This intro not only gives us a foreshadowing look onto the poem‚ but
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Eva died two hours before the inspector came. She died because she drank a lot of “strong disinfectant” which burnt her “inside out”. Inspector Goole goes to the Birling’s house to confront each one of them and place responsibility on them. Though the inspector does not tell us it‚ it is quite obvious that he is there not to find the “main culprit” but instead he is there to make the Birling’s see through somebodies eyes of the Lower “class” and feel some “responsibility”. Each and every one of them
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Silence‚ a term defined by the lack of sound. The consequences of silence were not evident to me until I came across a story called “Terrible Things” by Eve Bunting. Bunting was able to convey to me how keeping quiet has the ability to do more damage than good. The story of animals quietly watching others get caught by the “Terrible Things” only resulted in most of the animals in the forest to be caught and taken away. The animals were only concerned about the creatures that looked like them‚ so
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815‚ p=0.004) between pleasant music and silence at without task performance (Task 1). Figure 4.20 shows that the mean heart rate was less (74 beats/min) while listening to pleasant music when compared to silence (78.4 beats/min). The mean heart rate was significantly different (Z=-2.823‚ p=0.005) between unpleasant music and silence at Task 1. The mean heart rate was significantly high for unpleasant music listeners as compared to participants in silence mode. Under task performance (Task 2)‚ the
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The Emerald Research Register for this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1356-3289.htm Silence during intercultural communication: a case study Misa Fujio Tokyo Fuji University‚ Tokyo‚ Japan Keywords Communication‚ Cross-cultural management‚ Languages‚ United States of America‚ Japan Abstract This is a case study of USA-Japan intercultural communication‚ analyzing
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in relation to the father within the phrase of the stanza. This shows that the existence of the book and the pages depends on the father. The sequence described in the first line however is not in sequential order‚ thus not having order can symbolize Li -Young Lee’s state of mind is disorganized without his father. Furthermore there is no punctuation in the passage‚ and their is no transition between the first
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