emotions? [Whilst saying the two reasons in a mocking manner‚ Doug makes air quotations to reinforce how against the idea he is] Doug: Bloody useless shrinks just wanna turn everyone into pussies- that’s the only reason ya stressing about a pissy little poem; don’t wanna be a wimp. Coz I’m not‚ but if I was‚ it’d be the shrinks’ fault! [Whilst denying being a “wimp”‚ Doug appears somewhat pouty at the idea of being so.] [Shaking it off‚ he sighs and bounces on the spot a little‚ almost as if he were squaring
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Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan is a book about the struggles Esperanza Ortega experienced growing up in Aguascalientes‚ Mexico on El Ranch de las Rosas. Esperanza’s life was altered in three major ways. She lost her father after some bandits shot him‚ she lost her house after her uncle Tio Luis set it on fire‚ and her perfect and rich life at only thirteen years old. After a streak of misfortune‚ Esperanza lost hope and thought her life would never get better. Esperanza’s life changed devastatingly
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Poems 2/HS305 The Harp Of India Why hang’st thou lonely on yon withered bough? Unstrung for ever‚ must thou there remain; Thy music once was sweet - who hears it now? Why doth the breeze sigh over thee in vain? Silence hath bound thee with her fatal chain; Neglected‚ mute‚ and desolate art thou‚ Like ruined monument on desert plain: O! many a hand more worthy far than mine Once thy harmonious chords to sweetness gave‚ And many a wreath for them did Fame entwine Of flowers still blooming on the
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“A Raisin in the Sun” 1.) In her play “A Raisin in the Sun‚” Lorraine Hansberry illustrates the struggles and dreams of a black family living in Chicago. Taken from Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem‚” which talks about “dream deferred‚” the title of the play carries a connection between the poem and the play’s characters and their dreams. Each member of the Younger family had a dream of his/her own‚ yet‚ in order to realize their dreams‚ Mama‚ Walter Lee‚ Ruth‚ and Beneatha all depended on the money
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Bloody‚ blanketed battlefields. Twisted corpses‚ rotting in the scorching day’s sun. War brings out the horrifying and gratuitous violence in humanity. For centuries we have been fighting against our own kind and for what purpose? War. What is it good for? ‘Absolutely nothing’ according to soul singer Edwin Starr. Even today‚ turn on the TV any day of the week and we will be confronted by horrifying images straight out of a horror movie. Severed heads being carried by children. Innocent people slaughtered
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Written by Pamela Turner and illustrated by Gareth Hinds‚ Samurai Rising is a biography on the fascinating life of Minamoto Yoshitsune‚ one of the most well known samurais in Japan. Yoshitsune was a member of the Minamoto family‚ who were defeated by their main rival‚ the Taira family‚ when he was still just an infant. Most of the adult Minamoto were killed‚ while their children were sent to live in exile in various parts of Japan. Little is known about Yoshitsune’s early childhood‚ but there are
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On alien shores; and if his fellow spake‚ His voice was thin‚ as voices from the grave; And deep-asleep he seem’d‚ yet all awake‚ And music in his ears his beating heart did make. They sat them down upon the yellow sand‚ Between the sun and moon upon the shore; And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland‚ Of child‚ and wife‚ and slave; but evermore Most weary seem’d the sea‚ weary the oar‚ Weary the wandering fields of
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Langston Hughes and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ the theme is: Dreams may develop‚ transform‚ or be destroyed‚ without the dreamer having any control. Everybody in the Younger family had a dream and their dreams are reflected in each of the verses in “Harlem.” Lorraine Hansberry conveys the theme through character development throughout the play. Langston Hughes conveys the theme using descriptive smells and sights to describe the themes. In A Raisin in a Sun‚ the main character‚ Mama has
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simply get in his father’s way. The poem is full of admiration for his father’s strength and skill with horses. At the end of the poem‚ however‚ we are moved to the present day and there is a change in roles; it is now Heaney’s father who has become the child who gets in the way. His awareness of how the passing of time has brought about this change does not lessen the love and respect he feels‚ however. Heaney remembers when he was a small boy‚ and in the poem he looks up to his father in a physical
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his poem‚ Hughes describes his walk from City College of New York to his home in Harlem. When we walked down the steps from City College to Harlem‚ just as Hughes did‚ I realized Hughes’s prevalent battle; he came from an underprivileged background to attend a university where he was the only African American student in his class. Going down‚ these steps seemed like a dead end‚ as if opportunity vanished right from behind. As I walked my last step down‚ I looked back up‚ with the luminous sun in
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