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    1969‚ written by Maya Angelou. Angelou was a writer and a civil rights activist. The poem basically tells you not to expect good things‚ to actually expect the worst. And there’s always someone

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    When reading the poem‚ "Mexican is Not a Noun‚" I had different reactions. In the first stanza‚ the author explains that the word‚ "Mexican‚" is not a "noun" or "adjective." I believe this is a statement used to shock the reader. I mentally trying to see why it was characterized as either. It made me want to continue to read to understand his explanation of the word and the meaning of the poem.  In the second stanza the poet attempts to tell what his idea of Mexican. This stanza has short statements

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    Love is the great persuader— is easily inclines the hears of “young brides.” It cuts to the heart of the poem. When a persuader coaxes‚ they are nudging another person along‚ tugging at the persuaded’s heart. Perhaps “persuaded” isn’t the most evocative word in the poem‚ but it’s truthful. It’s plain to see. It passively aggressively sits there and moves the poem along. The word “forsaking” in line seven paints love with a shadowy‚ souring tone‚ showing the reader that love in all

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    Yehuda Amichai’s poem‚ The Diameter of the Bomb‚ focuses on the impact war has on humanity. On a more complex level‚ the poem illustrates how the desensitization of war and its results drive the world into hopelessness. Amichai begins his poem using a statistical analysis of the bomb. The bomb begins as a mechanical and emotionless object that is represented as holding limited capacity for destruction. It is described as having a thirty centimeter diameter and an effective range of about seven meters

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    things I wanted. Most of the things I wanted were expensive so I would save enough money to get what I wanted and I would wake up on Saturday mornings with joy in my heart at that I’m able to get something on my own. When the author starts off the poem there is joy in his morning the same as mine‚ then it all changes when he runs into a woman he had a previous relationship with in the mall. As they’re catching up he finds out where she stays and how she had a new person of interest. If I was in his

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    This poem dramatizes the conflict between a person loving something but having to let it go after it has grown on them. In the first line the speaker is saying that it is not hard to let things go. The art that the speaker is referring to in the first line is losing something. This line is also one of the refrain lines throughout the villanelle. In line 2 the speaker uses the phrase “filled with intent” to make sure that the reader can also feel the importance of the objects she is talking about

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    Florence Nightingale Environment Theory of Nursing. Major concepts essential to the Theory. Patient care theory‚ environmentally oriented‚ where the patient environment should be altered to allow nature to act on the patient. (Alligood‚ 2010). Nurses are to use common sense‚ observation and initiative to allow nature to heal the patient. The use of Nightingales thirteen canons: Ventilation‚ Warmth Light Cleanliness of rooms Health of houses Noise Bed and bedding Variety Chattering of hopes and

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    The nurse of influential I have chosen to write about is Florence Nightingale‚ born on May 12th 1820 to Willian and Frances Nightingale in Florence‚ Italy. Had only one sister named Frances Parthenope. The Nightingale’s were very respected and were also very rich. Florence was a clever‚ smart‚ spoke many languages‚ rebellious in her ways‚ but was also very determine. She believed God had spoken to her and He wanted her to fulfill his needs as a devoted Christian that she was she decided to study

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    Dialogical Odes by John Keats: Mythologically Revisited Somayyeh Hashemi Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Bahram Kazemian Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Abstract—This paper‚ using Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism tries to investigate the indications of dialogic voice in Odes by John Keats. Indeed this study goes through the dialogic reading of ‘Ode to a Nightingale’‚ ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’‚ ‘Ode to Psyche’

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    time. Where one comes from does not define being American‚ rather its what is done to assimilate into the American life. Okitas poem and Ciseneros story both examine the ideology of what it means to be American; both texts suggest that‚ in order to meet the expectations of American identity‚ a certain criteria must be met on the societal and cultural aspect. In Okitas poem “Response to Executive order 9066” a strong social bond is tied between the narrator and a character named Denise. The characterization

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