Analysis of “Ballad of Birmingham” In the “Ballad of Birmingham” Dudley Randall conjures one of the most vivid and vicious chapters from the civil rights movement: the bombing of a church in 1963 that wounded twenty-one and cost four girls their lives. This poem is a dialogue between mother and daughter during which ironically the mother forbids the daughter to march for freedom‚ fearing violence will erupt. Instead she gives her daughter permission to sing in the choir at their church. Dudley
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The Ballad of Father Gilligan - W.B. Yeats The poem takes the form of a ballad which was traditionally sung with short and regular stanzas telling a short but profoundly meaningful story. Yeats’s poems are not usually overtly religious‚ but this poem is one. Though Yeats was a protestant who later turned to theosophy and mysticism‚ this poem is Catholic in tone. Also contrary to his practice‚ Yeats uses an Irish word in the poem – ‘mavrone’ which in Irish is ‘mobhron’‚ a cry of grief
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For my essay‚ I am using the sculpture that Lucy Cathcart had in our three dimensional discussion. To discuss this sculpture in Formal Elements of Art‚ I first am drawn to the lines of the sculpture the first thing I notice it the legs of the spider. The direction of the legs and how they each end to a point‚ no foot just a point. I think the cross-hatching lines were used in this sculpture. I next was drawn to the abdomen of the spider 20 marble eggs in the wire-mesh sac on her abdomen (DeBerry)
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Family Assessment Casey Schuler Bemidji State University Family Description The family discussed in this paper is a blended family. Included is a stepfather (SK)‚ age 50‚ a mother (LS)‚ age 48‚ and three children (TS‚ MS‚ LS)‚ whose ages are 26‚ 21 and 18 respectively. The mother is the biological parent of all three children from a previous marriage which ended in divorce from alcoholism in her spouse. The spouse and biological father (GS) has a distant relationship with the children and does
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The poem of “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall is about a little African American girl who wants to join the march for the civil rights movement‚ but her mother thinks it is too dangerous. Instead‚ the mother advises her daughter to go to church; however‚ the white terrorists kill her daughter by bombing the church. The mother is desperately searching for her daughter and she finds only her daughter’s shoes at the end instead of her body. The form‚ the meaning‚ and settling of the poem help
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Wilkinson English 111 22 July 2013 American-Made Oppression In “Evolution” by Sherman Alexie and “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall both explain the suffrage and hardships their races had to endure. “Evolution” reveals the pressures that denatured the traditional culture of Native Americans. Where “Ballad of Birmingham” conveys a heartfelt message of a victimized child‚ whose mother’s efforts are not adequate to protect her child from racist hatred. Although both poems share a central theme
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Are Performance Improvement Professionals Measurably Improving Performance? What PIJ and PIQ Have to Say About the Current Use of Evaluation and Measurement in the Field of Performance Improvement ´pez and Hillary N. Leigh Ingrid Guerra-Lo T he ability to prove that performance improvement professionals have made a measurable contribution to their clients and the field remains uncertain (Kaufman & Clark‚ 1999). Clark and Estes (2000) noted that highly regarded research groups who surveyed
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The Characteristics of an Archetypal Tragic Hero 1. Noble stature Tragedy involves the “fall” of a tragic hero. One theory suggests that the tragic hero must have a desirable/higher/lofty position to fall on‚ or else there is no tragedy (just pathos). Another explanation of this characteristic is that tragedies involving people of stature affect the lives of others. For example‚ in the case of a king‚ the tragedy would not only involve the individual and his family‚ but it would involve the whole
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Although offering incentives for charitable acts would allow people to feel rewarded for doing something good for society‚ it provokes children to be egotistical and to expect something in return when it is unnecessary. Taking the initiative to participate in a charity organization should be out of the kindness of your heart rather than a way to receive an almost unearned gift. I agree with the parents when they say the exchange of donations for grades "sends a morally wrong message". Children shouldn’t
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Running head: Application of Leininger’s Transcultural Care Theory The Hashemite University Faculty of Nursing Submitted by: Mohammed Ahmad Almaani‚ RN‚ BSc 1170258 Foundations of Nursing Theories 0702713 Submitted to: Dr. Jamila Abuidhail‚ RN‚ PhD December 23‚ 2012 Application of Leininger’s Transcultural Care Theory Introduction The theory of cultural care diversity and universality gives holistic and comprehensive framework for understanding
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