Once Upon a Time’‚ was written by Gabriel Okara‚ who is a Nigerian poet. He often explains what happens when a traditional African culture meets the forces of the Western way of life. I think the poem was written to outline the fake personalities of many people and to try and get them to return to a natural and innocent state. The poem tells of the conversation between what seems to be a father and son‚ where the father wants to learn from his son how to go back to normality and no longer be
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Once Upon a Troll By Nora Clarkowski‚ Maggie Yuhas‚ and Piper Streit Once upon a time‚ Cindy wakes up with the sun streaming through her windows and the sound of blue birds tweeting and her mother yelling from downstairs. She pulls herself out of bed and throws on her cream white dress and her trusted pastel blue high top Converse‚ she would never leave the house without. She sits down at breakfast‚ hoping for one calm moment before school‚ but instead is greeted by her step mother’s constant questions
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character” (Boyle 77) although driving his parent’s station wagon hardly counts as being dangerous. The narrator and two of his friends drive up to “Greasy Lake” looking for something to do. “The Indians had called it Wakan a reference to the clarity of its waters” (Boyle 77) (S2). The once clear waters refers to the current state of the boys and the lake described now as “fetid and murky” (Boyle 77) (S3) refers
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Most people aren’t born leaders‚ but molded into a leader by their life experiences. In The Once and Future King by T.H White‚ Wart‚ an illegitimate child of the king‚ is molded into a leader by his magical tutor Merlyn. The best leaders aren’t those that are born into a position of power‚ but those that start at the bottom are modeled into a leader by their experiences as they climb to the top. T.H White shows that the best way to learn how to lead is by experiencing things first hand. Merlyn takes
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The illegitimacy of leaders is prevalent throughout world history. Leaders initially create a facade that they will reform a region to the benefit of the people. However‚ once they reach a position of power‚ their promises to the region are not fulfilled. These leaders refuse to relinquish the power given to them. They control the power by giving a false appearance of themselves to the people. Similarly‚ knights in medieval times had a reputation for being chivalrous‚ though this was not the case
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It seems to me that Refuge is more than anything else‚ about confronting death. In the very beginning of the book the author says “most of the women in my family are dead. Cancer. At thirty-four‚ I became the matriarch of my family. The losses I encountered at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge as Great Salt Lake was rising helped me to face the losses within my family. (pp. 3-4). The book tells of the time before the death of the author’s‚ Terry William’s mother who was struggling with cancer
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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story‚ written by a Detroit native‚ David Maraniss. In his novel‚ set in Detroit around the 1960’s‚ he follows the numerous changes in society underway in detroit but also seen countrywide. Maraniss excels at bringing to light numerous issues regarding the economy‚ social life‚ political issues and other important themes we constantly see in history. I have chosen to expand on the social issues David Maraniss pointed out and explain how they have had long term effects
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(Melanie) and a girl; Luna (Helsey) are preparing food for dinner. The mother is wiping the table while the father helps to carry some of the food to the table as the narrator starts reading his line. Narrator: Every story does not have to start with once Upon A Time. Every story does not have to end with a happy ending‚ but this story does have the heart warming ending. But I warn you—that this kind of story is not what you expected because it will blow your mind and literally make you lost some
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Kai Lin ARTD 250 Extra credit My Blue Lake When looking at Kiki Smith’s My Blue Lake‚ it maybe difficult‚ at first to understand what you are looking at. In fact‚ it might even be difficult to tell what the piece of art is. The picture has the detail and smoothness of a photograph‚ but the abstractness and lack of defining boundaries characteristic of a landscape painting. There appears to be features of a person as well as features of a room‚ but the person has no body and the room seems to narrow
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Trillium Lake at Sunset by Eryn Tehan The sunset show is the show of the month at the Alberta Street Gallery featuring some of Eryn Tehan’s incredible pieces. Hanging behind a window overlooking Alberta Street‚ Tehan’s piece Trillium Lake at Sunset stuns all those who look at it with it’s vibrant colors. Through using oil paints as well as professional‚ non-toxic pigments as her medium Tehan vividly captures the beauty of the places she paints (Alberta Street gallery‚ n.d.). A majority of her paintings
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