Children of Our Age by Wilawa Szymborska - 1986 We are children of our age‚ it’s a political age. All day long‚ all through the night all affairs--yours‚ ours‚ theirs-- are political affairs. Whether you like it or not‚ your genes have political past‚ your skin--a political cast‚ your eyes--a political slant. Whatever you say reverberates‚
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Szymborska IOC: Everyday‚ we take many norms for granted. We take certain things in life as standards and often encounter them without giving so much as a second thought. One of these things is the belief that the value of life of a human vastly outweighs that of an animal – or in the case of this poem‚ an insect. In ‘Seen from Above’‚ Szymborska underscores the ingrained interpretation of the pecking order of life‚ which we take for granted. What does this mean? We as humans do not stop and
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Could Have In the poem “Could Have” by Wislawa Szymborska‚ she constructs the poem in such a way that she is speaking not to one singular person‚ but everyone affected by the Holocaust. Szymborska writes‚ “You were saved because you were the first. You were saved because you were the last.” I believe this is her way of broadening the horizon of who she is talking to. From what we know about Szymborska and her past careers as a poetry editor‚ a columnist‚ and a translator we can see that right off
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“Mothers Love: Death Without Weeping.” A shantytown called the Alto do Cruzeiro (Crucifix Hill)‚ is one of the three shantytowns bordering the big marketplace area in the town of Bom Jesus in the sugar plantation district of Northeast Brazil‚ a solitary part of the countless regions of disregard that have materialized in the darkness of the now stained economic wonder of Brazil. The Alto women practice an unusual method of caring for their offspring especially when handling the death of their infants
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Regardless of age‚ gender or class‚ everyone is grouped together as victims after a terrorist attack. There’s no way to predict what will happen or what causes people to do these horrible things‚ but making the most of every day is so important. In Wislawa Szymborska’s poem “The Terrorist‚ He Watches‚” diction‚ imagery as well as suspense are used to illustrate that life is amazing and beautiful but can be taken away in the blink of an eye. To begin‚ the individual words that were chosen for this poem
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Response Paper: Death Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes As an ethnography‚ Death Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes presents a description and explanation of the way of life of people in Alto do Cruzeiro which is a shantytown of Northeast Brazil. It is revealed that mothers in Alto do Cruzeiro were indifferent to the deaths of their children which is puzzling. The article provides readers an anthropological enquiry of the mother-infant relationship in the shantytown and leads to more
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The readings titled "Death without Weeping" and "When Does Life" provide quite shocking yet fascinating information regarding how different cultures and societies define when a child is considered a person. In "Death Without Weeping" the author‚ Nancy Schepper-Hughes‚ describes how poverty and desperation in Brazil’s shantytowns became the primary reason for many mothers’ indifference to the deaths of their infant children. According to Schepper-Hughes‚ the extreme poverty‚ high fertility‚ and poor
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Nancy Scheper-Hughes’s article “Death Without Weeping”‚ Nancy’s main role was to be an anthropologist who simply observes the culture she studying. However‚ the group concluded that Nancy served as both an observer and a helper. Her role as an observer was exemplified by the ethnographic work and article written about the shantytowns. On the other hand‚ she aided the culture by feeding and nursing back to health Zezinho‚ a 13 month-old toddler deemed doomed for the death by his mother. After the little
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increases as they try to conform to the imagined behaviors of others. Most often this is done among the young people and the perceptions of the drinking behaviors of others strongly influences the actual drinking behavior of students. Also‚ the exaggeration of alcohol abuse tends to create a self-fulfilling prophesy for the young because‚ they believe heavy drinking begin to happen and more heavily they tend to drink in order to conform. Alcohol can make the young people grow up to a world of abstinence
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‘society’ of the rubber stations and how their function in the society is essential in maintaining the power hierarchy through terror. Throughout my argument I will also draw parallels between Taussig’s work and Nancy Scheper-Hughes ethnography Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Both works provide insight into violence as a part of
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