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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takes sweat‚ determination and hard work.”- Colin Powell. Everyday of my life‚ I followed this lesson in life and it will continue to run through my blood forever. In following this life lesson‚ in six years‚ I see myself as a mature twenty-three-year-old adult still in college and working each and every day for my bachelor’s and even master’s degree. After receiving my degree‚ I hope to have my own business and on the side apply to a company like‚ Apple and pursue my engineering skills in the field
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Historical Accuracy: Gangs of New York The Movie Gangs of New York‚ released in 2002‚ gives insight into the violence‚ corruption‚ and disarray that occurred in The Five Points of Manhattan during the 19th century‚ and reveals one of the biggest skeletons in New York’s closet. Martin Scorsese’s translation of the events in the film proves to be very intriguing‚ and for the most part accurate. However‚ there are a few aspects of the film he did not correctly portray: the timing of events‚ and
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After seeing his father brutally murdered by the leader of the native gang‚ Amsterdam Vallon makes it his mission to avenge his father’s death. He comes back to the Five Points district in New York and joins an old friend‚ Johnny Sirocco‚ to learn the ropes of the area. While doing so‚ Vallon gains the trust of his father’s assassin‚ William “The Butcher” Cutting‚ and is taken under his wing. Young Amsterdam falls in love with the local beauty and pickpocket Jenny Everdeane‚ but in doing so angers
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The city of York is a perfect example of a architectural influences and changes throughout the years. In my essay i am examining how the Gothic Architecture style has influenced the city of York and which buildings have remained in history as a pure example of Gothic Architecture style. Gothic Architecture Elements: In order to fully identify a certain architectural style you must first be familiar with its characteristics. The name Gothic was later on adopted as this style of building was first
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Jennifer Lawson American History Project #2 Movie Critique Gangs of New York “Gangs of New York” is a historical crime film which takes place in New Yorkin the 1840s-1860s. The film was released in 2002. It was directed by Martin Scorsese‚ and written by Jay Cocks‚ Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan. It is loosely inspired by Herbert Asbury’s 1928 nonfiction book The Gangs of New York. The film was critically acclaimed with 10 Academy Award nominations‚ including Best Picture and
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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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Sharon Olds‚ the author of “on the Subway” shows us two different worlds coming together. Both poems have been explicitly implied‚ to demonstrate the differences and similarities. This is why theme and imagery help the reader better understand this poem. Sharon shows how both worlds are in reference to one another‚ but at final time they come together. At the beginning of the poem there is two boys that are both from different races. They both sit right across each other and observe each other
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"Transitional‚ Old and New" by author Nancy Foner examins the transition of immagrants throughout history and today. Nancy notes immagration creates a unique blending of the culture. The migrant maintains deep rooted ties to the people and culture of their native culture‚ while also adapting to the culture and customs of their new home. America‚ and New York City in particular has been a major host of immagration throughout it’s history. People leave their homes and flee to the city filled with
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Throughout The New York Trilogy‚ the main characters go through an identity crisis that is linked to the “unavailable” women in their lives. Each main character is plagued with two unavailable women‚ the first being a more serious companion while the second is an object of lust and desire. When interviewed‚ Paul Auster said that The New York Trilogy was “a homage to Siri… a love letter in the form a novel” (Kreutzer). Auster credits his second wif‚e Siri‚ for saving him from himself. Without Siri
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