Sarah Newcomb Intro to Literature 11/22/10 "The Mother" Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem‚ "The Mother" is an introspective look into the internal struggle of a woman who has had an abortion. The poem is very powerful and conveys a vast array of feelings and sentiments on the subject such as regret‚ love‚ and disappointment in one’s self. The poem is largely successful due to it’s tone‚ which is achieved through the personification and choice of diction. To begin with‚ lines one and two state the
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Sebastian Torres-Torija Midaq Alley Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz is the entertaining story of a unique local alley in Cairo who demonstrates on a day-to-day basis the true colors of a quintessential low class Egyptian society‚ in a contrast with a present day Egypt that hopes to modernize as the end of World War II occurs. It is the characters that inhabit this alley‚ along with their individual and communal stories and links that they share that excel this novel into a state of utter glory
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Sugar Cane Alley Sugar Cane Alley is directed by Eucha Palcy in 1983. It takes place in Martinique where the black people working at the sugarcane fields. In the movie‚ I can totally able to understand what the life of the black peoples was in 1980s. They are living under the power and authority of the white people. “The white own all the lands. The law forbids them to beating us (the blacks) but it does not force them to pay us a decent wages.” An old sugar cane worker tells a story of Africa
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My boy jack is a very powerful movie that really moved me in a way that no other movie has in a long time. When I found out that this is about Rudyard Kipling’s son was based on a real event‚ my reaction to the film were even more sharp. When the movie was finished and the credits started rolling‚ I sat quietly‚ pondering the fear of war and all the sacrifices that come with it. It is indeed breath taking. The cast of the film is very genuine. David Haig‚ whose face looked very familiar to me
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The Day My Dog Died; How it Changed My Perspective Completely “Come in and put away the dishes!” my mother called for me‚ her voice booming all throughout the house. I had walked from the plush carpet of the living room to the cold kitchen tiles‚ having to step over my dog in the process. Dusty was sprawled out onto the tiled floor‚ laying there silently. He has been a part of our lives for many years and my mom bought him from the pet store when he was just a puppy. As I passed him‚ I gently ran
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Gath Brooks Troyal Garth Brooks (also know as Garth Brooks) is the world’s greatest country singer of all time. He was born in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma on February 7‚ 1962. He was raised in the small town of Yukon with country music in his blood. He was the youngest child in his family that consisted of six children. His Mother‚ Colleen Carroll‚ was a Professional country singer while she raised Garth and his five other siblings with her husband‚ Troyal Carroll. Troyal worked as a engineer for Unocal
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of the Brook My book report is about a very good book. It is called Song of the Brook. Song of the Brook is a Christian fiction book. Matilda Nordtvedt writes it. The book has 124 pages‚ and I have read this entire book. The main characters are Hilda‚ Lois‚ Baby Sigurd‚ John‚ and Hilda ’s Mama; Magda‚ her Papa; Robert‚ Ole‚ Bertha‚ Thora‚ and Bestefar. The story begins with Hilda ’s family on a train on their way to Washington State. They were leaving their home in Minnesota to move to Washington
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The Theme of Work in Metamorphosis and Midaq Alley In Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley‚ the characters are all stifled by their need for work‚ which defines how well they will be recognized and respected in society. The residents of Midaq Alley‚ Cairo struggled to elevate their social status and their consciousness was disrupted by war. In Metamorphosis‚ which is set in Prague shows how Gregory Samsa‚ work hard to provide for his family until he transformed into a giant bug due to
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chattel slave ship filled with Africans has landed on American soil‚ even presently today African Americans are caught in an internal power struggle between being an American and being an African American as well. Claude McKay‚ Countee Cullen‚ and Gwendolyn Bennet are phenomenal African American poets who perfectly depict the internal conflict of being stuck between two clashing cultures. The poets not only describe the struggle of being African and American but they also describe what Africa means
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Commentary “My people died because of this flag” is a comic strip written by Walt Handelsman in the year 2000. In order to understand this comic strip‚ it is necessary for the readers to look at the contextual information. In the comic strip‚ two men are discussing/ arguing about a matter which seems to be that their people died because of a flag which is on the shirt that the white man is wearing. The two men‚ in term of appearance‚ have different skin tones‚ which show that they are from different
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