A Real Tiger There once was a tiger that lived in a zoo He was very young and had a facial expression of steel His coat was as orange as a sunset in the afternoon sky But was the tiger real? One day curiosity crawls through the tiger’s cage And what started as a friendly gesture became a deadly feel Soon the boy was slaughtered and his body was sliced tomatoes The tiger was definitely real. The keepers wanted to get rid of the tiger Because of his delicious kill But he’s the only animal
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Recently‚ the term ballad ’ can be associated with everything from Solomon ’s Song to an Aerosmith song. The dictionary defines it as a traditional story in song or a simple song. However‚ the medieval ballad is something of a different nature than that of the popular musical ballads of today. The definition of ballad in the medieval context is a narrative poem. The authors usually remain anonymous and the ballad is more often than not accompanied by dance (Gummere). This is not surprising
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“Ballad of Birmingham” In the poem‚ “Ballad of Birmingham”‚ Dudley Randall depicts the real historical events of the 1963 bombing of Martin Luther King Jr.’s church by white hate criminals in Birmingham‚ Alabama. Although this is the background and basis to the poem‚ I believe there is a deeper meaning that just that. Beneath the talk of innocence by the child and the protective nature of the mother‚ there lies an ironic situation. This poem is not only about the tragic events of a hate crime during
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Essay on Carson McCullers’ The Ballad of the Sad Café By: English 101: ICE Due: December 5‚ 2013 The Freak‚ that human anomaly has long held fascination in life and in literature. From the southern gothic grotesquerie of Carson McCullers’ Ballad of the Sad Café‚ the freak has been marveled over‚ and pointed at. Alterity is certainly a facet to the world of the grotesque. Alterity signifies uniqueness that cannot be conceptualized‚ or comprehended. McCullers’ vision‚ and connection
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The Ballad of Mulan The original story behind the iconic Disney movie Mulan dates back to the 5th or 6th century C.E. Tzu-Yeh is possibly the woman behind The Ballad of Mulan (Ode to Mulan)- she tells the story of Mulan‚ who goes to war dressed as a man in place of her elderly father. She fought in the war against other tribes for 12 years‚ her gender unbeknownst to her comrades. Mulan faired so well in the was that the emperor offered to give her a higher rank. She refused‚ saying “Mulan has
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Critical Analysis the Ballad of Birmingham The Ballad of Birmingham is a poem written by Dudley Randall in 1963. This ballad was divided into eight stanzas containing four lines each. Birmingham‚ Alabama was the center of the storm for the fight for equality. It uses a rhyming style of “ABCB”. In the 1960s‚ the southern United States were still under the Jim Crow laws. This allowed racial segregation to be legal‚ thus sparking the uprising of the Civil Rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King
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Tori 2/29/11 Writing Mr. V The Ballad of East and West: What is it about? The poem‚ The Ballad of East and West by Rudyard Kipling is about India versus England. With the use of military‚ England took over India. An Indian rebel named Kamal steals the Colonel’s mare‚ so the Colonel sends his son after him. When the Colonel’s son finally catches up to Kamal at a place called The Tongue of Jagai‚ Kamal starts his little insults
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Andrew McClarren December 4‚ 2014 RUS 100 Ballad of a Soldier Reflection In the 1959 film Ballad of a Soldier‚ a young man at the age of 19 by the name of Alyosha Skvortsov is fighting on the front line for the Russian army during World War II. Alyosha and the other frontline men are faced with two German tanks quickly approaching them. One of the men makes a run for it and is killed; the other reports back to his superior and makes a break for it‚ leaving young Alyosha on his own. Realizing how
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(Find topic sentence). Gwendolyn Rodger’s contribution to That Summer brought forward additional lessons that were then taught to Haven McPhail. Her few appearances may have been brief‚ but carried much weight that was needed to bring the story along. Taller than Haven McPhail‚ Gwendolyn was a worldwide famous model who‚ too‚ once lived in Lakeview. Her secrets that she had hid from the public eye‚ yet seen by Haven‚ allowed McPhail to realize that even the most flawless people‚ do have their own
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Dudley Randall -- Ballad of Birmingham(1966) Response The Ballad of Birmingham resembles a traditional ballad in that it tells a story in a song-like manner. The didactic tone seeks to teach us something; in this case it’s the theme of needless destruction. There are many devices the author uses to create such a tone and to tell such a story. First of all‚ the most visible element of importance is the irony. A kid dying in a church where his mom told him to go to be safe is very ironic
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