White Things Anne Spencer Deonna Hayes English 1302 Hayes 2 Anne Spencer writes of love‚ friendship‚ self-actualization‚ and the injustices of oppression that block it. Some of her poetry is directly inspired by personal relationships‚ but much forms a controlled‚ metaphorical‚ and seldom overtly angry statement of the value of those who have been oppressed (Johnston). Spencer never wrote a book of poems‚ and her poems were published in the anthologies of African Americans (Johnston). Many
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an example of a simile. Similes use like and as to make explicit comparisons between unlike things‚ such as eyes and stars. Metaphor Her eyes were pools of liquid light. Again‚ her eyes are literally human eyes. Figuratively‚ they are being compared to pools of liquid light. However‚ the comparison is implied‚ not stated. This is an example of a metaphor. Unlike similes‚ metaphors compare unlike things without explicitly stating the comparison with “like” or “as.” Personification Her eyes followed
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I’m shocked when i got this title..huhu.. This title will expose my implicit things.. SECRET actually.. but this is a task from my beloved laecturer..=)‚..so..no wonder.~~ MY 1st thing that i can’t live without is Air-hehe..is it secret to me?absolutely yes!air is important source that had been given by god to us without take any charge from using it everysecond... for sure‚most of us does’t appreciate the air because we can’t look using our eyes and just inhale and exhale it for free.
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Martha was Jimmy Cross’ first “love”. He was obsessed with her even though she only thought of him as a friend. They wrote each other letters in a friendly way but Jimmy Cross thought of it as more than that. “He would sometimes taste the envelopes flaps‚ knowing her tongue had been there… More than anything he wanted Martha to love him as he loved her‚ but the letters were mostly chatty‚ elusive on the matter of love.” (1) Linda was O’Brien’s childhood love. She died at the age of nine because
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Gangyi Wu Mark Scamahorn Eng 110‚ March 15‚ 2012 Desperate to survival How can a big brother who loses his parents in a short period of time survive? How is it possible for him to take care of his little brother at the same time? In A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius‚ the author Dave Eggers describes a long dialogue between him and his brother Toph. In fact‚ the dialogue is not happening in the real world; instead‚ it is a “me and I” dialogue. Dave talks about his long day in the beginning
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more horrendous and petrifying in the Vietnam War. The soldiers also worried about the weather‚ land‚ viruses and more important their selves. The many physical and physiological factors of war multiplies the burdens of stress on the soldiers. In The Things They Carried‚ the soldiers had a duty of fighting two wars at once‚ an external war and an internal war. Externally‚ they were combating against the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese. There was no frontline and no sure method of classifying the
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A. Living things versus Non-living things Most living things can be distinguished readily from non-living by the following characteristics: 1. Form and size. Living things have characteristic form and size within certain limits most of them are also arranged as definite individuals. While in non-living things‚ materials vary widely. 2. Organization. Living things are made up of cells which are assembled into interrelated system for performing the life processes. They rearrange and combine
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The Real George Washington George Washington‚ our first President‚ was deemed one of the greatest men in the United States history. Washington was not born into the provincial lifestyle of high rank and did not receive the education that he was expected to receive due to early on tragedies in his life. Despite lack of education‚ Washington’s ambition leads him to accomplish many things in his life. Though many of the accounts of Washington’s life are documented and have been accurate; new discoveries
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Women have been judged and told that they “couldn’t do” certain things for hundreds of years‚ especially female athletes. Whether it was for the “emotional level of a woman”‚ or just their supposed “inability to play”‚ they have been unappreciated for what they can do by sexist‚ misogynistic men like Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. He claims that‚ “you know‚ the girls‚ they are more unstable emotionally than us [men]”. I am glad that this idea of female athletes has faded over the years‚ and that women are finally
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how techniques used in Leaving Prince Charming Behind andThis is Love change my opinion of love. The two poems by Karlo Mila‚ Leaving Prince Charming Behind and This Is Love look at love at two different points of views- fairytale and gardening‚ respectively. Although both poems talk about love‚ the poem Leaving Prince Charming behind compares love to a fairytale whilst the poem This is Love relates love to gardening‚ describing love to be more realistic and practical. In the poem Leaving Prince
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