In "Remember Who You Are" by Cathy Guisewite‚ Guisewite discusses the fact that women do so much more then men. In Guisewite’s first passage labeled " Give up the quest for perfection and shoot for five good minutes in a row"‚ she discusses the fact that when women do in actual fact more work then men that they don’t get the credit they deserve. Guisewite also talks about how she would pressure her self into losing weight‚ and at the end of her college education at the University of Michigan she
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hijdsfExplore the ways Shakespeare and Carol Ann Duffy present human weaknesses/ flaws in some of the characters they write about In Shakespeare’s play ‘Much Ado about Nothing’‚ Don John is a very important character. He is an illegitimate son‚ which automatically lowers him in the society of the Elizabethan age. He is isolated‚ ignored and rejected by everyone in his life‚ which is one of the reasons which seem to force him to behave as a villain. People expected this of him as they assumed that
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In part 2 of They Say/I Say‚ authors Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein begin the process of teaching how to present the writer’s counter-argument‚ the “I say.” The “I say” segment is where you discuss and offer your own argument to what they have said or wrote. The three most common ways of using “I Say” are agreement‚ disagreement‚ and a combination of the two. Graff and Birkenstein goes on to explain that when you agree‚ disagree‚ or even both‚ you should not mildly or incompetently do either
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On “Kipling” by Carol Ann Duffy Answering “If” by Rudyard Kipling Kieter Philip Balisnomo English IB Block 4‚ Ms. Nychka On “Kipling” by Carol Ann Duffy answering “If” by Rudyard Kipling The doctrines of idealism and optimism are demonstrated in the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling. “If” advises the reader to achieve qualities and reach for perfection. “If” is answered in the book‚ Answering Back by Carol Ann Duffy’s poem‚ “Kipling”. Duffy’s response to “If” is appallingly contrasting in mood
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Based on the evidences and its mood from the poem‚ I think the family builds windmills in their total new circumstances. In the last stanza of the poem‚ Magic Island by Cathy Song says‚ “It is a day an immigrant and his family might remember‚ the husband taking off his shirt to sit like an Indian before the hot grill.” In these lines of the poem the author displays how the man and his family reacts to their quite unfamiliar situation. As an immigrant‚ life in their new stage might not be as great
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In his article “Someone is stealing your life”‚ Michael Ventura asserts that most American people are completely dissatisfied with their jobs. The crucial reason for that feeling is related to the fact that the management and the owners of the companies do not give enough power to the workers. They decide all the issues and obtain all the profits and benefits. Consequently‚ the author argues that the employees should have more opportunities to make decisions‚ more power‚ more vacation time‚ and more
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poems tell a story; some illustrate what love should or shouldn’t be; some poems express the separation of two loved ones. There is no limit to explaining what love really is. The poems ‘Sonnet 116’ by William Shakespeare and ‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy both try
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Ann Duffy is about rites of passage‚ the transition from childhood to adolescence and the things we learn at school‚ from our teachers and from our peers. Duffy writes this accessible poem using a variety of techniques that make it a memorable read. The opening stanza has no real hint of what is to come: Duffy shows us a typical day in Mrs. Tilscher ’s class:You could travel up the Blue Nilewith your finger‚ tracing the routewhile Mrs Tilscher chanted the scenery. Throughout the poem Duffy refers
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How does Carol Ann Duffy portray a sinister persona in the poem‚ “Education for Leisure”? The poet‚ Carol Ann Duffy portrays a malevolent persona in the poem; “Education for Leisure”. Duffy presents a dramatic monologue of an anonymous‚ the person commits who crimes and violent deeds against living objects due to the boredom the person suffers. The anonymous person represents an evil persona by his belief of playing God. The unnamed believes that he is God‚ someone who is above and beyond everyone
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have studied. To do this compare “Mother...” by Simon Armitage and 3 other poems‚ one by Duffy and two from the pre 1914 bank. All 4 poems ( Mother‚ Anne Hathaway‚ Sonnet 130 and song of the old mother) are all linked to each other all by using different techniques of language to present women and to create some story in there poem. Mother (written by Simon Armitage)‚ the woman (the mother) in the poem is presented in a form of imagery. Armitage writes as though he is the son and uses this pattern
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