Giovanni Vaccarello‚ a retired machinist form Brooklyn‚ New York‚ never took the safety of his family for granted. He often drove Maria‚ 18‚ and Concetta‚ 17‚ to their part time jobs. John‚ his fourteen year old son‚ was to wear a beeper at all times so that he would never be out of reach. Giovanni routinely walked Cathy‚ his wife of twenty five years‚ one block to her job at the beauty salon. But with all the precautions Giovanni took‚ nothing could stop him from Abraham Meyers‚ a 25-year-old
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Mark Mod 4 Reading Ms. Smith Nikki Giovanni uses good choice of words and figurative language to put the reader in a vivid world. She uses vivid verbs‚ personification‚ and other elements to really give the right picture in your mind. Her method works because the readers get hooked onto the poem and want to read it. One of my favorite poems is “poetry.” Poetry is a poem about poets using poetry to express themselves and not to impress anybody
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or prevent people from making mistakes. Nikki Giovanni’s life influenced her poetry by including her powerful grandmother‚ the occurrence of activism‚ and the birth of her son. Known as the most popular poet during the 1960s and 1970s Nikki Giovanni developed a strong voice for African Americans. She was born in Knoxville‚ Tennessee in 1943. Giovanni’s actual name is Yolande Cornelia Giovanni‚ Nikki was just a nickname by her sister Gary. Giovanni and her family lived around a mostly
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Giovanni Da Verrazano Nusrat begum SOCIAL STUDIES 711 Giovanni Da Verrazano was one of the many European explorers that explored The New World‚ he explored northern eastern part of the present day U.S which are North Carolina‚ New York‚ Maine‚ Canada. Verrazano was also an Italian navigator who boarded voyages along with He was a Florentine explorer that served for King Francis I of France. Giovanni da Verrazano Giovanni travelled the seas as a pirate‚ or Privateer sailing for King Francis
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Greek texts that constituted the mainstream of the Italian Renaissance. Petrarch ‚ a key figure in the Renaissance literature is best remembered for the Canzoniere‚ a collection of love sonnets written in vernacular Italian. Petrarch’s friend‚ Giovanni Boccaccio‚ was a pre-eminent writer whose fiction‚The Decameron is regarded as one of the earliest works of prose writing in Italian. Boccaccio was the master of the spoken language and of the swift‚ vivid‚ narrative style which is free from the
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Inspiration Over the past 30 years‚ Nikki Giovanni has brought the eyes of the world on her as a poet‚ writer‚ activist‚ and professor. (Project) Being one of the most widely read poets she takes pride in her culture and background as a black American. She was born June 7‚ 1943 in Knoxville Tennessee. While she was still young‚ she and her family moved to an all-black suburb in Cincinnati‚ Ohio where she was raised. She had an upbeat family life‚ and the strong-minded Giovanni was particular close to her
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The Plague is a disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis. It is responsible for killing millions of people in the Middle Ages. However‚ today we have a cure for it. The author Giovanni Boccacio wrote The Decameron to report‚ warn‚ and record the disease. He wanted people to be aware of what happened. The disease spread from place to place‚ animal to human‚ human to human. The people around it were aware that it was spreading and understood that is was “contagious”. As a result‚ they got rid
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BLACK MEN AND PUBLIC SPACES In “Black Men and Public Spaces” Brent Staples reveals his experiences with different individuos in all kind of public areas. Staples talk about how people stereotype black men as a violent and dangerous individuals because of their appearance and the color of their skin. In the past when black men was associated with the word murderer or thieves or rapist or all kind of bad things people were afraid on being next to them. When Staples started the story saying
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society places on black men has always been a negative one. In our society today‚ black men are depicted as thugged out‚ uneducated‚ marijuana smoking men. They have acrimonious attitudes‚ only speak in "black" dialect known as Ebonics and are hell-bent on putting "Whitey" in his place. To accompany his other attributes he deems it necessary to legitimize his status as truly black. This puts him in the same category as all the other prison-bound‚ shiftless‚ misogynistic black men that he feels he
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Shadowed Men In Black II by Robert Gordon explores the idea that the government is a shady and dim group. In Gordon’s story‚ aliens are brought into Earth from a spacecraft‚ and soon face the challenges of adapting to society. Serleena‚ a Kylothian queen discovers an occupation to take advantage of her abilities. Her shape shifting power gives her the ability to improve and transform herself to the highest possible degree of beauty to become a supermodel and seduce men. Other aliens find different
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