In Weldon Kees’ poem‚ For My Daughter‚ the narrator speaks of the bleak‚ dismal‚ and pessimistic future they envision for their daughter Kees conveys the tone and message of the poem through the usage of rhyme‚ cacophony‚ alliteration and synecdoche. Kees uses end rhymes throughout their poem to compare ideas and place emphasis on those particular words. While all of the lines rhyme with at least one other‚ a specific example of end rhyme is found in lines nine and ten: “Death in certain war‚ the
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urged Campbell to run for governor and ended up doing so. Though Hogg died before the campaign was carried out‚ Campbell used his support and promised to resurrect his friend’s antitrust policies. His campaign gained added impetus when Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey offered his support‚ and Campbell was elected governor in
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THE RISE OF REALISM (1860-1914) The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) between the industrial North and the agricultural‚ slave-owning South was an important event that marked American history. Before the war‚ idealists championed human rights‚ especially the abolition of slavery; after the war‚ Americans increasingly idealized progress and the selfmade man. Business boomed after the war. War production had boosted industry in the North and given it prestige and political clout. The enormous natural resources
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------------------------------------------------- Graffiti in the United States‚ is writing or drawings scribbled‚ scratched‚ or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place.[1] Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti‚ consisting of the defacement of public spaces and buildings‚ remains a nuisance issue for cities. It also has had an international influence especially from the examples in the New York City Subway and the Chicana/Chicanoexperience
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The Great Gatsby: A Cautionary Tale In the 1920’s‚ there was a nationwide belief that the American Dream was dead. However‚ Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald believed wholeheartedly in the American Dream‚ just not the corrupted version of it which permeated the lifestyles of Americans in the 1920’s. In response he wrote a certifiable exposé on corruption in the form of his most popular work‚ The Great Gatsby. This 1925 masterpiece is a realistic fiction novel narrated from the point of view of Nick
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focusing on patients conditions‚ providing holistic care and disease prevention comparable to physicians. This is not limited to the patients themselves but also “the effects of illness on the lives of the patients and their families” (Sherwood‚ Brown‚ Fay‚ & Wardell‚ 2009). The
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In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald describes numerous messages that are vital to the novel. In The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby is this mysterious character that spends his entire life trying to win over the love of his life Daisy Fay. But‚ Gatsby fails and his dreams are crushed which leads to a series of disastrous events. Because of characters’ tragic deaths‚ Fitzgerald makes it prominent that the American Dream is unachievable and it can ultimately lead to one’s destruction. Jay
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short story‚ the young colored girl was denied of scholarship because of her race‚ but the young girl did not give up despite of the rejection she experienced. Similarly‚ the harp was inspired from the song Lift Every Voice and Sing written by James Weldon Johnson. The song referred discrimination as “dark past”. In addition‚ the harp symbolizes of unity and singing in one voice to achieve equality and liberty. These two artists did not have direct collaboration‚ but they are associated because they
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running role‚ in history‚ for a deaf person on television. In addition to Sesame Street Linda also had had many other acting roles and was even cast in a Broadway show. She performed on a soap opera called Search for Tomorrow‚ as Melissa Hayley Weldon in 1973 and in Happy Days as Fonzies deaf girlfriend Allison‚ in 1980. She was cast as the understudy for the leading role in the Broadway play Children of a Lesser God. Linda has her own thirty-minute video called Sign Me a Story‚ in which she shows
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In Thomas Paine’s analysis of America’s character in his book Rights of Man (1971)‚ he claims that America is an unlikely nation because of all of its differences in people. He also claims that everything in America is fair. Taking this excerpt we are given in the context of America today he is right in saying that it is a seemingly impracticable union‚ but he is wrong in saying that everything is fair. Within the second sentence of this passage‚ Thomas Paine writes “Made up‚ as it is‚ of people
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