Marcia Douglas Electricity Comes To Cocoa Bottom Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom takes the reader on a journey of light‚ from the flicker of the firefly in rural Jamaica‚ through the half-moonlight of the limbo of exile in the USA to the point of arrival and reconnection imaged by the eight-pointed star. It is also a journey of the voice‚ traversing back and forth across the Atlantic and across continents‚ pushing its way through word censors and voice mufflers and ending in tongues of fire
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ocoa Electricity comes to Cocoa Bottom – Essay There are several literary techniques that are used in this poem such as “lamps…Oil” this is very ironic because they have brought old technology to come and see the new technology being unveiled. Also the fact that they are “waiting for sunset” is ironic because they are replacing natural light with artificial light. Near the beginning there is a Simile used “Cable was drawn like a pencil line across the sun” This uses one of the main themes of the
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notes on electricity comes to cocoa bottom- the poem captures the reactions of the community to the arrival of electricity in cocoa bottom‚ a developing village in the caribbean islands. it starts with the childrens perspectives- creates connotations of childish reactions from the village and a sense of wonder and excitement. ’grannie patterson...peeped’ creates sense of community as involves all generations within the community‚ builds sense of anticipation. ’drawn like a pencil line’ portraying
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emphasizes the sound of the sawing machine. The cutting noise of the saw is compared to a wild animal‚ like a tiger‚ which shows a personification. Both words “snarled” and “rattled” resonate with sound and fury. Repetition is also used in “Electricity comes to Cocoa Bottom” to represent an unusual‚ exiting moment‚ making the reader wants to continue reading. „As soft as chiffon curtains: / Closing. Closing” The repetition of the ´s´ sound makes this a very gentle ending to the night and the full stops
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By Marcia Douglas Marcia Douglas was born in the UK of Jamaican parents in 1961‚ but grew up in rural Jamaica. She left Jamaica in 1990 to study for a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Ohio State University and was awarded a Ph D in African American and Caribbean Literature in 1997. Visit Marcia Douglas’s website: www.marciadouglas.com or see http://www.peepaltreepress.com/author_dis play.asp?au_id=17 The poem is set in Jamaica‚ in a town called Cocoa Bottom. People‚ both adults
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Electricity comes to cocoa bottom and an unknown girl notes to help on coursework. An unknown girl A traditional indian market scene‚ set in the evening‚ it was to hot to have markets in the day‚ lit up with neon lights She tries to capture the moment‚ she is getting involved in the culture by having her hand hennad. It is a darker shade of your own skin‚ suttle. She is watching this girl ‘icing my hand’(verb(icing)) ‘in the evening bazaar for a few rupees’ india money Unknown girl
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attitudes to progress in Unknown Girl and Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom. People have been thinking about what ‘progress’ means for hundreds of years. We normally associate it with positive impacts and things changing for the better‚ which the majority of the time is correct. Edward E Cummings once said ‘Nothing recedes like progress.’ and in the poems ‘Unknown Girl’ and ‘Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom’ the poets agree with this statement. Alvi and Douglas present a negative view to the force
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James Marcia is a Canadian developmental psychologist who expanded on Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development. His research and writings have largely focused on adolescent development. His work was to identify and classify processes that adolescents go through when they experience identity crises. The four processes that Marcia defined are: A pre-teenager is asked about her political affiliation - whether she is a Republican‚ Democrat‚ or some third party. After thinking about it for a moment
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Marcia Milgrom Dodge Broadway Directors Project Part 2 Danielle Ibrahim Theatrical Directing 1 April 28‚ 2015 It is fairly often for a Broadway director to simply be a one hit wonder‚ with just one notable Broadway production to list on their resume. But behind every presumed one hit wonder of Broadway‚ there is almost certainly a plethora of other achievements that they have had. Perhaps no example of a Broadway one hit wonder who has
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Speech 9-2 8 April 2012 Cocoa Butter Attention- Everybody loves chocolate right? Well do you want to know what part of the ingredients is? Cocoa beans‚ that’s what makes the chocolate melt in your mouth‚ but this isn’t about chocolate this is about lotion‚ more specifically Cocoa butter lotion. Do you have dry flaky skin that’s bothering you. Do you constantly have to itch your skin? Well if so‚ you need cocoa butter lotion and all that will go away. Motivation- Cocoa butter softens your skin
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