Terry Buzzard Jr. Cindy J. Nix English 1302.417 September 2‚ 2013 The Controversy: “All My Babies’ Mamas” and Reality TV “All My Babies’ Mamas” was set to be yet another reality television program in what appears to be a never ending “I am going to make one even more shocking then the last” line of shows. Reality shows such as these draw the attention of various audiences depending on their nature and amount of drama in which it entails. These types of programs can range from something as
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Personal Response to Dear Daddy The short story Dear Daddy by Lee Maracle brought me back the tears that I‚ too‚ had as a child. I felt pitiful for the main character’s experience and deeply impressed by the thirteen-year-old girl’s courage of getting over her negative feelings for the past and going on with her life. The story‚ written in the form of a letter‚ shows the process of a thirteen-year-old girl becoming more mature as she expresses her grievances from her tragic childhood. At the beginning
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"The Ballad of Birmingham"‚ written by Dudley Randall‚ is a poem that commemorates the bombing of a black church in Alabama in 1963‚ at the height of the civil rights movement. The poem is written in a traditional narrative style form of a ballad‚ though the subject matter is far from traditional. The poem tells the story of a woman who doesn’t let her daughter go to play in town because she feels that it is too dangerous‚ but instead sends her to church where she feels that her daughter will be
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Sylvia Plath’s works have long been discussed and analyzed amongst literary professionals and laymen alike. In Plath’s poem “Daddy”‚ arguably one of her most important works‚ she presents a piece chock full of symbols‚ imagery‚ and themes worth discussing. In the poem‚ the speaker is presumably a young woman speaking to her father. Today‚ many readers make the assumption that “Daddy” is actually more of an autobiography for Plath‚ and it is considered to be a part of what many call confessional poetry
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"Daddy"‚ one of Plaths most famous and detailed autobiographical poems‚ was written in the last years of her life and is saturated with suppressed anger and dark imagery. The sixteen stanza poem‚ through Plaths use of ambiguous symbolism‚ arguably is bitterly addressing Plaths father‚ who died when she was only eight‚ and her husband Ted Hughes‚ who had broken her "pretty red heart in two" (st.12‚ line 1). The poem is intense with once suppressed emotion‚ setting an aggressive‚ desperate‚ almost
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Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Daddy’ expresses the struggle for female identity by basing it around the Holocaust‚ one of the most gruesome‚ immoral events in the whole of history. Plath uses this event as a metaphor for her struggles in life‚ and the struggles of women in general for independence. The male figure used in this poem is in the shape of Hitler‚ a man of unfathomable evil. In this poem‚ ‘Daddy’ is seen as a Hitler figure during the metaphor of the Holocaust. He is seen as oppressing the female
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Randall Jarrell‚ poet‚ critic‚ essayist‚ and former Poet Laureate of the United States‚ was born in 1914 in Nashville Tennessee and attended Vanderbilt University in that same city. There‚ Jarrell received his BA and MA studying under John Crowe Ransom and Robert Penn Warren. His poetry is influenced by W.H. Auden and Robert Frost and often uses what poets call “the common dialogue of Americans.” He passed away October 14th‚ 1965. The speaker of this poem is going through an identity crisis. They
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Sylvia Plath’s poem "Daddy" portrays her love and hate relationship with her own father. At first glance‚ the poem almost spits vivid words of rage and hate toward her father; but even on the second reading the very structure of the poem‚ as well as a few word choices betray the love she feels for him. This creates a warring duality and she herself the views this unresolved relationship as the root of her misery. The very title of the poem Daddy contradicts the face value of the poem as a whole
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A rhetorical analysis of Daddy issues. The essay Daddy issues is written by Sandra Tsing Loh‚ a writer and a daughter of aging parents. The subject of the essay is aging parents and how it affects their children’s life. The writer presented in an informal and intimate format. The writer blends several authors of books on aging parents and her own personal experience together to write an essay that not only is entertaining but also educational. The books that are the writer chose to review are: The
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never know his identity; she must address the letters to Mr. John Smith‚ and he will never reply. Jerusha catches a glimpse of the shadow of her benefactor from the back‚ and knows he is a tall long-legged man. Because of this‚ she jokingly calls him Daddy-Long-Legs. She attends a "girls’ college‚" but the name and location are never identified. Men from Princeton University are frequently mentioned as dates‚ so it might be assumed that her college is one of the Seven Sisters. It was certainly on the
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