Summary/Critique of “Monuments to Our Better Nature” When choosing what story to read out of “75 Readings An Anthology” one caught my eye; “Monuments to Our Better Nature”. This caught my eye because I was intrigued to see what kind of monuments Byers talked about in the story. The moment I read he was talking about the monuments in Washington D.C. I knew this was the story I wanted to summarize and critique. During my spring break of my 9th grade year I visited D.C. and visited all of the monuments
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Maya Lin was born on October 5‚ 1959 in Athens‚ Ohio. Her parents‚ both taught at Ohio University‚ her mom‚ Julia Lin‚ was a poet and her dad‚ Henry Lin‚ was a ceramist. They had fled China in 1949 right before the Communist Revolution. She also had an older brother Tan‚ who was also a poet. Growing up Lin enjoyed reading and building miniature towns‚ she also excelled in mathematics. She didn ’t have many friends‚ and enjoyed staying at home and studying over going out with friends. In high school
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poems ’Disabled’ and ’Mental Cases’‚ both written by Owen‚ are about war and cover similar but also very different situations. ‘Disabled’ displays the thoughts and feelings of a young man who has lost his limbs after suffering the injuries of war. ‘Mental Cases’‚ on the other hand‚ captures the damage to men’s minds as a result of war. Owen’s aim is to shock and to describe in stark detail the ghastly physical symptoms of mental torment. The main consequence that is explored in ’Disabled’ is what
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The Reflections of War In the poem‚ “Facing It‚” Komunyakaa uses his personal experience while visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial after surviving the Vietnam War and the mental affect of the reality that death has left. In the poem the author uses imagery to illustrate to the reader the feelings he experiences while dealing with the loss of his fellow comrades. “I go down the 58‚022 names‚ half-expecting to find my own in letters like smoke.”(14-16) While at the memorial he is reminded of
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How the Visual Arts Communicates Kristen Cortez ARTS/100 September 16‚ 2013 Dr. Laura Ruiz How the Visual Arts Communicates Elements of Composition Maya Lin’s piece Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a V-shaped wall made out of black granite that lists the names of the 60‚000 men and women who died in the Vietnam War. This massive piece is located in Washington D.C. The memorial is placed so it looks as if it is descending into the ground. Lin’s
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objective_ • The Enrollment System Redesign (ESR) provides a centralized enrollment system for evaluating veteran eligibility and enrollment for health care benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA required changes to business rules to comply with new legislation requiring the VA to relax the thresholds currently restricting access to health care for veterans. Veterans are currently assigned to Priority Groups based on characteristics of their military service and their
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Wednesday September 4‚ 2013 From Sasha-Lee Roberts 5 Sun Valley Drive‚ P.O. Box 21 KY2-2101 Stake Bay Cayman Brac‚ Cayman Islands «To_Whom_it_may_concern» «Company_Name» «Address_1» «Address_2» «Address_3» My Global Young Leaders Conference Experience The day I found out that I was nominated to represent the Cayman Islands at the Global Young Leaders Conference I was thrilled. The letter that I received proclaiming my nomination had all the necessary information needed to complete
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establish it early on. Some memorials are meant to remember and honor people. These monuments are often built with an elegant and sometimes simply design to focus on the people that are being represented. When speaking about designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.‚ Maya Lin says that “[t]he need for the names to be on the memorial would become the memorial; there was no need to embellish the design further . The people and their names would allow everyone to respond and remember”
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Mainstreaming Ill and Disabled Students into the Public School System Introduction The tension between exclusion and inclusion has been a shaping force in United States society and education. Public schools‚ in particular‚ have experienced stages of incorporating a larger number of children with disabilities into classrooms. During the 19th and much of the 20th centuries‚ there was a lengthy period of institutional segregated education for persons with disabilities. Today‚ many previously segregated
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