McKay. McKay believed that change was in order and the black community needed to do something in order to make that change. In the poem “If We Must Die‚” Claude McKay calls for racial pride against white oppression through his use of similes‚ metaphors‚ contradictions‚ and biblical allusions. McKay uses a simile to introduce his trope of blacks being hogs trapped in the city. He also establishes that being a hog is not something that he likes and that he wants to change. The simile is found in the
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motivation behind McKay’s "If We Must Die." However‚ even without the history behind it‚ Mckay’s poem is still a powerful message‚ universal enough to relate to any person facing their own destruction. The poem start with the speaker establishing that he and his allies are under attack. A battle scene is easily pictured‚ with two groups facing each other. The speaker and his allies are being hunted by "hungry dogs"‚ mocking them. He is urging his allies to not become weak‚ comparing them to "hogs
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The person we are is a complicated mixture of how we look‚ behave and think. As people we are constantly changing‚ influenced by our surroundings. It is my belief that most people in modern society believe that the person they have become is a direct consequence of the decisions that they have made during their life. What most people don?t realise is that a great deal of decisions which have affected the course of their life were made before they were even born. In most cases‚ these decisions will
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thinking "I wish to look like that"? Is it logical to base your feelings of self worth on models in advertisements and magazines? The answer is: absolutely not. The models we see in magazines‚ should not be people we look up to in terms of body image. "Looks don’t matter‚ beauty is skin deep." We often hear sayings like this‚ and yet we live in a society that contradicts this very idea. If looks don’t matter‚ why does the media use airbrushing to hide the flaws of cover models? If looks don’t matter‚
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In rhyme and meter‚ Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die” generally conforms to the conventions of a Shakespearean sonnet‚ but at several moments throughout the poem‚ McKay also strays from the rules of the English sonnet. In composing his poem in the style of the traditional Shakespearean sonnet‚ McKay creates a clear narrative that is both easy to follow and equally artistic. However‚ in deviating from this conventional style‚ McKay draws attention to specific phrases that contribute greatly to the contrasting
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Racism had always been a problem in certain parts of the United States around the 1930s‚ but that sparked many movements‚ one especially was the Harlem Renaissance. In the poem “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay uses key phrases to show how colored people are being treated during the time of the Harlem Renaissance and how they should be able to overcome the racism and violence because he himself was colored and experienced some of the racism himself and was able to stand strong against it. One of the
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THE MORE WE HAVE THE MORE WE WANT Nowadays we live in a society‚ which is obsessed with materialistic things. In supermarkets‚ shops‚ on the internet also almost everywhere we are surrounded with products which we could buy. Unfortunately people want more and more stuff and are not satisfied with what they have. People have need to own more and more things‚ because the society requisite it from us. The people around us push us to buy new things‚ to have stuff which we really do not need. So the
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In the book‚ All the Light We Cannot See‚ by Anthony Doerr‚ many of the characters stories can seem fascinating to the modern reader. Marie’s story deals with her blindness‚ and how her father attempts to assist her by making a model of the neighborhood they used to live in‚ making puzzle boxes for her to solve on her birthdays‚ and even traveling with her on his back through the French countryside to Saint-Malo when the Germans attacked their town. Werner’s story‚ which is quite fascinating‚ deals
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How did the ancient oceans change to become what we now see today? It is a popular opinion that the World was once a supercontinent called “Pangaea”. At this time there was only one ocean called “Panthalassa”. The pieces of the supercontinent were giant plates that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Through years and years of continental drift‚ the giant jigsaw pieces became the continents of the world we know today. The splitting apart of the continents gave way to new oceans. The continents
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How did we become who we are today? Who/what shaped our lives? Truth is‚ there are plenty of things that have caused us to become who we are‚ and most of these things go unnoticed every day. Have you ever sat and thought maybe if this one thing did not happen to me when I was younger‚ I would not be here doing this one thing today? Whether it is in a positive or negative way‚ our childhood shapes our future. Studies have shown that kids‚ who grew up around violence‚ are prone to participate in
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