horrified‚ and sometimes poor. In the book Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut which describes these two different worlds reversed. The book supports Vonnegut’s theme of sacrifice of character and self-esteem for technological advancement and “quality” of life. This capacity for machines to run themselves all through time without the requirement for human resourcefulness and human bodies to go with it is the hopeless tragic center of Player Piano. The title of the novel Player Piano symbolizes the master plan of
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may have indirect influence. Identify whether their influence deals with selecting‚ maintaining‚ or evaluating the curriculum and in what ways they participate in that process. The first answer is provided as an example. Key Players in Curriculum Development Key Players | Role and Influence on Curriculum | | | Federal Government | The federal government passes federal legislations‚ such as the No Child Left Behind Act‚ to which schools must measure up. NCLB mandates can directly influence
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Response to Literature Poem Analysis Writing Guidelines Subject: Poem Form: Analysis Purpose: To explore meaning Audience: Instructor Sample Poem Read the poem below and think about its content‚ theme‚ organization‚ and use of poetic techniques. Then read student writer Stefano Giagregorio’s analysis. I AM THE PEOPLE‚ THE MOB By Carl Sandburg I AM the people--the mob--the crowd--the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? I am the workingman‚
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author of the poem. He is black and grew up in Little Rock‚ Arkansas. He is a poet and has published 24 books. The poem is about white people coming to Africa to invade the African tribes with modern technology. When you read the poem you get the feeling that the white people are the bad guys. The writer only describes the negative things about the white people‚ and therefore the poem seems very dark. 3)The language in the poem is not very hard to understand‚ but the meaning in the poem is difficult
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Poems: Piano‚ Poem at thirty-nine & Once Upon a time Paragraph 1 - Introduction Nostalgia is the desire of things from the past‚ feeling homesick or remembering a person. This is the central Idea of the three poems; D.H.Lawrence’s ‘Piano’‚ Alice Walker’s ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’ & Gabriel Okara’s ‘Once Upon a Time’ convey that they miss their earlier life or wish for a better past. Paragraph 2 - Write the theme of the first poem. D.H. Lawrences ‘Piano’ is a representation of longing of his past
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and have no time-outs left. I yell out the play for a three-pointer and a two-pointer‚ now the perfectly spherical ball is put in my hands. Taking a short glance to the clock I saw time was running out. The only objects I see are two tall defensive players bearing down on me. Somehow I release the ball‚ just in time as a defender tries to block my shot. Miraculously the ball finds its way into the hoop‚ with 6 seconds left and the clock stopped‚ the other team calls a timeout. I jog to our bench‚ my
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may have indirect influence. Identify whether their influence deals with selecting‚ maintaining‚ or evaluating the curriculum and in what ways they participate in that process. The first answer is provided as an example. Key Players in Curriculum Development Key Players Role and Influence on Curriculum Federal Government The federal government passes federal legislations‚ such as the No Child Left Behind Act‚ to which schools must measure up. NCLB mandates can directly influence the curriculum
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It’s A Woman’s World “It’s A Woman’s World” written by Eavan Boland is a poem about how woman should embrace their strengths. It’s a Woman’s World” focuses on issues of female identity and how the contributions of women have been overlooked. The speaker of Eavan Boland’s poem‚ seems to intend irony with the title of this poem‚ she is not saying this is a woman’s world‚ but rather speaks of the world from the woman’s point of view. Boland shows her views that women‚ who are placed in less harsh
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Waking” by Theodore Roethke are two poems that relate directly to the speaker. Although both poems share this similarity‚ the way in which both works or literature are constructed are vastly different. Plath uses visual imagery and poetical tercets to show the pain and suffering of the speaker in her poem‚ while Roethke uses the musical Villanelle and synesthesia to create his picture of the speaker’s inner thoughts and a sense of awakening. When reading the poem “Lady Lazarus” for the first time
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Die with fame‚ not without. A.E. Housman can concur. The poems‚ “Ex-Basketball Player” by John Updike and “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman both concentrate on what occurs after an athlete’s days of glory. Most of them seek fame‚ but only a few will achieve it. Their goal is not to die within their days of glory‚ it is to live on and have their fame live for an eternity. Unfortunately‚ in today’s society athletes mainly want the monetary success that comes along fame. They quickly become
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