John Agard’s ‘Checking out me history’ is written in dialectical non-standard English‚ where he has tried to input the natural sounds and phrases of a Caribbean dialect. This is important because one of the major themes of the poem is that of his personal identity; this use of language really highlights his different background and puts emphasis on his differences. His use of repetition‚ especially of the phrase “dem tell me” gives a sense of repetition and exaggerates the amount of things he was
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Shunned and shut out because of her pride‚ Medusa ’s tale can assuredly be compared to the captain of the Titanic‚ Edward John Smith. Medusa was a very beautiful mortal‚ who had many suitors‚ although‚ she was very prideful about her appearance. Later on‚ Medusa got turned into a hideous monster by Athena‚ the goddess of wisdom and war. Her story ended in a great deal of tragedy and she was full of regret. The story of Medusa can be compared to the captain of the Titanic‚ Edward John Smith for many
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with a 450 pound Royal Bengal tiger‚ Pi struggles to survive. In Life of Pi‚ Yann Martel demonstrates the idea of safety through the raft when it becomes Pi’s territory and protection. After Pi overcomes his self pity‚ he decides that he was going to do everything in his power to survive. Pi thinks to himself‚ “I only had to hitch the other end of the rope to raft...and I might be saved”(Martel 150). This reveals that theme because in Pi’s eyes the building of a
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and one other poem from your collection? (Medusa) To start with‚ both poems explore the conflicts in a love relationship between women and men. They are both written from a women’s perspective and display a conflict over the levels of power in relationships. In Les Grands Seigneurs‚ we are invited to speculate on the musings of the narrator as she looks back to the past: a time when men were her ‘castellated towers’ and she controlled them. In Medusa‚ the feelings of ‘a suspicion‚ a doubt‚ a
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Perspectives and Relationships Often times‚ although‚ there is a lack of compatibility‚ people still force themselves into relationships. In the novel‚ A Yellow Raft on Blue Water‚ the author‚ Michael Dorris creates a story revolved around the lives of three female protagonists of Native American descent‚ and the narration is provided by three different‚ troubled characters. One of the narrators‚ Christine‚ describes the struggles she faces from balancing the relationships she has with herself‚
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Compare and Contrast ‘Perseus holding the Head of Medusa’ with Parmigianino’s ‘Madonna of the Long Neck’ Benevuto Cellini’s statue of ‘Perseus holding the Head of Medusa’ (Figure 1) and Parmigianino’s painting ‘Madonna of the long neck’ (Figure 2) are both prime examples of Mannerist art. The Mannerists sought to weave a refined‚ idealized and graceful visual style with arcane‚ complicated iconography to create artworks of complexity and elegance. This essay will discuss hoe both artists differ
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The Raft ”His face is so perfectly round that his smile looks like a gash in a basketball.” In this essay I’m going to focus on narrator‚ characterization‚ time aspect‚ symbols and the setting. The short story is written by Peter Orner in 2000. The short story is about a conversation between a 12‚ soon 13 years old boy‚ and his grandfather‚ Seymour‚ who commands a destroyer. It is about war and what a war can do to each individual soldier after killing another human being. “The Raft” takes
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Compare and Contrast how both stories use a Gothic Convention Intro: In the two gothic tales‚ “the red room” and “the tell tale heart”‚ there are various similarities and differences. Both were written in the Victorian era as at the time many people believed in such things as ghosts and curses. In this essay I will explore and identify the different ways that the author implies fear and suspense‚ linking to gothic conventions. Both stories‚ “the red room” and “the tell tale heart”‚ use gothic
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Gericault turned a tragic event‚ into a visual display of government incompetence. In 1816‚ the French government exercised poor judgment‚ by authorizing the unstable Medusa to set sail. The vessel crashed; leaving survivors to turn to cannibalistic means of survival. Gericault captured the tragedy‚ titled “The Raft of the ‘Medusa’” in Romantic style‚ along with compositional structure. The lifelike figures in the painting show detailed anguish and grief; which‚ invokes despair in those who view
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This process was used frequently throughout the time of fine art. The Raft of Medusa by Gericault‚ and Mount Sainte-Victoria broke traditional fine arts when they combined it with applied arts‚ which is the application of design to objects of everyday use (“Applied Arts‚ 2013). The Raft of the Medusa is an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and Lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) (“Raft of Medusa‚” 2013). Géricault undertook extensive research and produced many preparatory
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