Where I Come From - By Elizabeth Brewster The poem ‘Where I Come From’ by Elizabeth Brewster is about how a person is influenced by the environment he is brought up in‚ and how urban life and rural life differ from each other. The poet has used a very critical tone in this poem to convey how people are influenced by the places they have come from rural or urban. She has used a lot of visual imageries and metaphors to convey the busy lifestyle of the city. There is no rhyme scheme in the poem
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My actions and behavior that I have had until recent events ‚ is the reason I am writing this paper. I want to stay in the Army for how long I don’t know . I reenlisted downrange for 5 more years in the army ‚ not because I didn’t have anything else to do with my life but because I love my job. My plans was to return to Italy and go and pass Ranger School. Some people don’t think that I can achieve much but one thing I’m good
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Essay: Where I come from Student: Valentin Turri The poem is divided in two stanzas and two extra lines. The poet is an old woman that talks about her present and her old past. In the first stanza the poet starts like introducing us in the text‚ explaining us the meaning of ‘’people are made of places’’‚ this means that all we are made of memories‚ places where we come from
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If I had the chance to live in the twenties I would because everything was developing so fast‚ there was no more war‚ and lastly I would of liked to of have discovered these new ideas and things as they came out newly. Living in the twenties I would imagine that it was a war free time with jazz music and the radio on just relaxing in your car going to the theaters with a flapper. One reason why I would live in the 1920s is because the urbanization and that more young people were going to school
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Would I live forever? If the opportunity were to present itself‚ would I live forever? I have contemplated many times on this question before this assignment. Have I found an answer? That is for you to find out‚ by reading this essay. The question has many interesting points because there are advantages and disadvantages to living forever. Obviously there are some advantages to living forever. With an unlimited amount of time on the Earth‚ you can discover each place of the world. You can
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Angela Patrice A. Gamil THY3 2BLIS Where Am I Going? Sometimes I see myself as a child‚ and the world is my playground. I aim to walk barefoot around it‚ mindless of the stains. I know I’m not always on the mountain top‚ nor above water‚ but it won’t hurt if I dream a little‚ will it? So I still want to clench my fists on things that are quite impossible to some people‚ but are possible to me. I dream of travelling to different parts of the world‚ meet different people‚ know
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Where I Come From – Elizabeth Brewster From the title of the poem‚ we can assume that Elizabeth Brewster’s “Where I Come From” is about the place or places where the writer was born in or where she spent her whole childhood. We also assume that she is going to describe‚ tell memories and her opinion about the completely different places. Although the opening line “People are made of places” can be loosely described as form of alliteration‚ the repetition of the “p” sound is particularly effective
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and imaginary part. The imaginary part is a multiple of i (where i =[pic] ). We often use the letter ‘z’ to represent a complex number eg. z = 3 +5i The conjugate of z is written as z* or [pic] If z1 = a + bi then the conjugate of z (z* ) = a – bi Similarly if z2 = x – yi then the conjugate z2* = x + yi z z* will always be real (as i2 = -1) For two expressions containing complex numbers to be equal‚ both the real parts must be equal and the imaginary parts
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where i come from - elizabeth brewster Discuss the way brewster uses language to convey her ideas about the link between identity and place. The main subject of the poem is the contrast between the city and the countryside where the speaker came from. Although there is no straight forward judgment made‚ the poet very cleverly‚ leaves subtle hints by showing a big difference in the tone of the two stanzas‚ which leads us to believe that she speaks in favour of the countryside‚ yet at the same
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The key idea of the poem seems to be that a person’s character is always formed at least in part by the place where he or she is born – “People are made of places”. Wherever you go in life you will carry with you memories and echoes of your birthplace‚ whether it is a city‚ as in the first stanza‚ or the quiet Canadian countryside where Elizabeth herself was born – “Where I come from‚ people carry woods in their minds” – and certainly the picture she draws in the second stanza does seem at first
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