Analytical Essay: Where I Come From “Where I Come From” is a striking poem written by the talented‚ twentieth century‚ Canadian poet‚ Elizabeth Brewster. In this heartwarming poem‚ Elizabeth Brewster portrays the creation of the human identity and defines how individuals carry with them a unique essence of where they go and how they are created from their experiences of living in a specific cultural setting. She talks about the lives of “city folk” and of where she was raised‚ a rural farm
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Anna Ramirez Per.1 The Meaning of Happiness What does it mean to be happy? It seems that this is another one of those questions that no one knows the answer to‚ yet I am determined to find it. So what is happiness? What is it that makes us feel that certain feeling that none of us can really put our finger on? Of course there’s the simple‚ boring response that any scientist can tell you. Happiness is an experience that we know happens when there are certain levels of different chemicals in
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Essay: Where I come from Student: Valentin Turri The poem is divided in two stanzas and two extra lines. The poet is an old woman that talks about her present and her old past. In the first stanza the poet starts like introducing us in the text‚ explaining us the meaning of ‘’people are made of places’’‚ this means that all we are made of memories‚ places where we come from
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What is Happiness? There are considerable amount of questions to ask about the true meaning of happiness and dozens of different definitions. With all this confusion surrounding happiness‚ is it possible to achieve happiness in our lives? Perception as they say “is in the eye of the beholder.” Happiness is an emotion developed by consequences of choices and through learned life experiences. Believing that happiness is characterized by a pleasant emotion‚ ranging from a simple smiling to
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Nothing comes from nothing (Latin: ex nihilo nihil fit) is a philosophical expression of a thesis first argued by Parmenides. It is associated with ancient Greek cosmology‚ such as presented not just in the opus of Homer and Hesiod‚ but also in virtually every philosophical system – there is no time interval in which a world didn’t exist‚ since it couldn’t be created ex nihilo in the first place. Note that Greeks also believed that things cannot disappear into nothing‚ just as they can’t be created
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born – “People are made of places”. Wherever you go in life you will carry with you memories and echoes of your birthplace‚ whether it is a city‚ as in the first stanza‚ or the quiet Canadian countryside where Elizabeth herself was born – “Where I come from‚ people carry woods in their minds” – and certainly the picture she draws in the second stanza does seem at first to be idyllic and wonderful‚ strongly contrasting with the city images in the first stanza. This idea shows us that who we are is shaped
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Where I Come From - By Elizabeth Brewster The poem ‘Where I Come From’ by Elizabeth Brewster is about how a person is influenced by the environment he is brought up in‚ and how urban life and rural life differ from each other. The poet has used a very critical tone in this poem to convey how people are influenced by the places they have come from rural or urban. She has used a lot of visual imageries and metaphors to convey the busy lifestyle of the city. There is no rhyme scheme in the poem
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The term happiness cannot be contained or explained through words. No word is right word to explain the essence of happiness. Happiness is a spiritual element that is far beyond human explanation. It is eternal and human inheritance. The word happiness cannot make you happy like the word water cannot quench. For someone who is thirst must drink water and quench the throat. And the same thing is true with happiness. Happiness is not something verbal or to be induced from outside. No money‚ power‚
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where i come from - elizabeth brewster Discuss the way brewster uses language to convey her ideas about the link between identity and place. The main subject of the poem is the contrast between the city and the countryside where the speaker came from. Although there is no straight forward judgment made‚ the poet very cleverly‚ leaves subtle hints by showing a big difference in the tone of the two stanzas‚ which leads us to believe that she speaks in favour of the countryside‚ yet at the same
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desire to overshadow the fact that he was from the darkness‚ where only destitute and impoverished people come from. In the novel The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga‚ Balram’s origin and culture drove him to take drastic measures to remove the label of The Darkness‚ that said‚”You’re only a stupid servant.” According to Balram’s culture‚ his destiny was to be a sweet-maker.. Nobody expected more than that from him. Also‚ Balram received relentless taunting from some of his employers due to them believing
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