I remember the day I first came to America. I was in the LAX airport‚ looking around the totally strange place which was full of strangers. All I could hear was the strangers’ buzzing. At that moment‚ I realized that I was in America‚ and my heart started to beat fast. Until April 25‚ 2006 I had never been away from my country‚ Korea. For 18 years‚ I had grown up being around people who used the same language as me and had black hair and brown eyes. I was having.... However‚ my mother wanted to
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Remember By Christina Rossetti On the surface‚ ‘Remember’ is all about death. The poem is written in the second person‚ suggesting a relationship of some kind - of ‘you’ and ‘me’. At the time of writing‚ Rossetti was only nineteen‚ but had lived many years with a dying father so this may be understood as either a dramatic imagining of her father’s impending death‚ or a wide-ranging poem regarding death. In the first line‚ which is the theme of the whole poem the narrator asks to be remembered
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imagines that all cultures can‚ not only coexist‚ but borrow from each other and blend together into a colorblind mush. Colorblindness is racism‚ and often‚ when people say they don’t see color‚ what they mean is they only see the absence of it: whiteness. The melting pot ideology also allows others to have claim to other cultures‚ and it’s not validating to tell mixed people that just because we access multiple cultures‚ entitled to the same.
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I can still remember it like it was yesterday. It all started at about 2 p.m. It was the time I went back from school on foot. I was so tried and all I wanted was to just relax and eat. When I arrived at the front gate‚ I was shocked.The gate and the door were opened. It was because at that time there was nobody in my house as all my family members were not at home I was frightened and did not know what I should do. Should I go inside or call the police? I was hesitant because my family went out
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Rise of nazi’s In the aftermath of the 2nd world war‚ many historians questions how the Nazis came to power‚ despite Weimar creating a “perfect democracy”. The traditionalist viewpoint have said that Hitler was at the core that everything the party did‚ Allan Bullock stresses Hitler’s charismatic abilities which gained the Nazi party so many votes. However Richard Evans argues that that it was not just Hitler that collapsed Weimar. This is the structuralist viewpoint which claims that the foundations
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In the novel‚ The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath it unveils a woman ’s downhill spiral into a dark place. The novel is an autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath ’s own life‚ however the names are changed. The main character is named Esther Greenwood‚ a young‚ bright writer who has won a contest to work at a magazine in New York City. While it seems glamorous‚ this is just the beginning of a terrible illness that takes over this young girls life. I felt a personal connection with this character as she
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LD HOW I WOULD LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED NAME: RAJA SITI FATIMAH BINTI RAJA ALI ID NUMBER: 2011401074 ENGLISH NAME: CATHERINE (pure) Since I was 4 years old‚ I love talking to myself in the mirror. Why do I do that? When I look at myself with a big smile from ear to ear‚ I feel relieved because on that moment it is the best way to comfort myself from sadness. I have been known as the cheerful and happiest person in the family. When I am around‚ my parents feel entertaining and joyful
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Adam Kirsch has written that some of Plath’s works‚ like "Daddy"‚ are self-mythologizing and suggests that readers should not interpret the poem as a strictly "confessional"‚ autobiographical poem about her actual father. Sylvia Plath herself also did not describe the poem in autobiographical terms. When she introduced the poem for a BBC radio reading shortly before her suicide‚ she described the piece in the third person‚ stating that the poem was about "a girl with an Electra complex [whose] father
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Sylvia Plath was born near Boston‚ Massachusetts on October 27‚ 1932. She was the daughter of Otto and Aurelia Plath and she had a younger brother named Warren. She wrote fiction as well as poetry during her lifetime. Plath lived a very short life that was tainted with several dreadful events. Sylvia Plath had to deal with the death of her father‚ an awful marriage‚ various suicide attempts‚ and bouts of depression. Plath used her life experiences in her writings to evoke feeling from her audiences
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that lived in a shoe. Plath uses visual imagery of a Nazi‚ in particular‚ Adolf Hitler to describe her father’s oppressive ways. The poem gives off a very weary perception of Plath fighting emotionally to get away from the life of silence and abuse. Moving deeper through Plath’s poem‚ she depicts an even more conflicted scenario of her wanting to get back to him. Because of her longing for her father‚ she is drawn into other abusive relationships. All around though‚ Sylvia Plath is trying to convey
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