politician’s life are put under the spotlight and receive a greater deal of attention than ones in a civilian’s life. For this reason‚ celebrities and politicians usually step up on a public platform to explain their actions. One such event happened with Ted Kennedy at Chappaquiddick Island after he left the scene of an accident and failed to report it to the authorities‚ which led to Mary Jo Kopechne’s death. To polish his tarnished image‚ Kennedy portrays Kopechne’s death as an accidental tragedy through
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“Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes the author highlights this very well; however‚ Hughes also highlights that he’s still climbing. In the poem he uses beautiful imagery to describe the stairway of life. He sets a nice tone. His use of symbolism helps the poem immensely. Langston creates an amazing poem using symbolism‚ tone‚ and imagery. Firstly the poem is chock full of imagery. The mother says the stair “It has tack in it/ and splinters/ and boards all torn up”(3-5). Hughes’ words paint a picture of
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Whites Rise‚ Blacks Fall “Not only a Finch waiting on tables‚ but one in the courthouse lawing for n*****s!” (135). This is an insult clearly said by Mrs. Dubose‚ a fictional character introduced by Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird. It is evident from Mrs. Dubose’s statement that blacks are discriminated against in Maycomb County‚ Lee’s fictional setting located in Alabama. The “Jim Crow” laws cause the inequality in the Maycomb community. The laws keep Negros from having the same rights as
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Salvation Langston Hughes After reading the excerpt from Langston Hughes’s autobiography‚ "Salvation"‚ I pondered the many factors of religion and what makes a person believe in god or not believe in god. I believe that religion is a form of individual expression‚ and that each person should have the freedom to conform his or her identity to whatever religion feels right to that person‚ or even to conform to no religion at all. I think that if I had been in Langston’s position sitting on a mourner’s
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What will you leave behind after you’re gone? In the poem “Abandoned Farmhouse” by Ted Kooser‚ Kooser describes a vacant house‚ and all the everyday items that were left behind by its previous owner. This poem not only leaves the reader with a sense of mystery‚ but also develops the idea that the things people leave behind can tell us a lot about a person. Kooser does this throughout his poem using vivid imagery. The author uses imagery to develop the controlling idea when he says “says the
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child commits a crime it’s very essential to take the best decision because that decision will impact them the rest of their life. In a TED talk by Sarah Jayne Blakemore she uses charts and explains by color how the brain of a teenager changes throughout the years. Blakemore also says that teenagers do something at a current moment and at the next they forget it. The TED talk of Blakemore indicates how teenage brains are not as developed as an adult who would know what is going on. When a teenager commits
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Imagine yourself walking in the middle of the night‚ and suddenly‚ a person approaches you with a gun and threatens to rob you of all your possessions. Take a moment to focus on the robber’s physical appearance‚ what does the robber look like? Regardless of what the robber looks like‚ the physical characteristics of him or her have no actual significance. The purpose of this scenario is to show how visualizing and defining a criminal based on physical features is a form of active participation within
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TED Analysis The TED presentation that I viewed was‚ Jason Pontin’s: Can technology solve our big problems? Jason Pontin is currently the editor-in-chief and publisher of MIT Technology Review‚ and routinely investigates to find out what technologies currently in our world are going to “get us there.” Pontin has been editor-in-chief of the MIT Technology Review since 2004 and publisher since 2005. After 2005 Pontin begin a transition to digital-first magazines and reduced the number of annual print
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Landlord’s Ballad Langston Hughes writes about the struggles of a man being treated unfairly by his landlord. The poem also shows that the Landlord will not fix the problems the house has‚ even though the man asked the Landlord to fix them. The poem then goes in to how the Landlord raised the rent and how the man did not take that kindly. Sadly‚ in the end‚ the man is arrested in the last stanza. I believe the man in the poem was Langston Hughes. I think its Langston Hughes because the poem says the
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Education is also a big part in the world‚ with education women can proceed to higher job positions‚ and even have a chance to run for the highest position in politics. Since Social media is a part of everyone‚ it can influence everyone as well. A TED Talk by Johanna Blakley tells that in the future females will most likely take over social media. Also‚ she showed us graphs and a lot of research that females use social media way more and more often. With that said‚ it shows us that women use the
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