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    write about her houses that she described many things about her homes that her family and she didn’t always live on Mango street. Before that‚ they lived on Loomis on the third floor‚ and before that‚ they lived on Keeler. She writes‚ “The house on Mango Street is ours‚ and we don’t have to pay rent to anybody‚ or share the yard with the people J downstairs‚ or be careful not to make too much noise‚ and there isn’t a landlord banging on the ceiling with a broom” (Cisneros 3). This quote is more detail

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    NIGHT OF THE SCORPION

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    Night of the Scorpion-Nissim Ezekiel MATCHES: Two Scavengers in a Truck‚ Nothing’s Changed-Two Cultures Vultures‚ Limbo-Contrasting Views Nissim Ezekiel (White male poet): 1. Nissim Ezekiel was born in Bombay‚ now Mumbai‚ India in 1924. 2. His parents were Israeli and he was brought up with the Jewish faith‚ though he had friends of many different religions. 3. As a child he was very serious about religion and often spoke to his friends on a deep scale in relation to religious matters

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    Change In the quote‚ “People do not change‚ they are merely revealed.” change does not take place. As time passes by humanity reveal the traits that are assumed to be changed. In the play “Once A Crook‚ Always A Crook”‚ it seems as Jimmy‚ the protagonist changes. Also in the fable‚ “The Scorpion and Turtle” no change occurs as the scorpion breaks his promise and stings the turtle. In both the play and fable‚ the main idea is not to trust a person a person too quickly because people can lie and

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    Night of the Scorpion

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    Night of the Sorpion’ is a poignant poem that evokes the strong hold of superstition within our social psyche. Ezekiel recalls the night when his mother was stung by a scorpion. With the onset of the monsoons‚ the ten hours of warm and steady rains had compelled the mysterious scorpion to crawl into the house and hid itself beneath a sack of rice in the dark store room. Without any mercy‚ it raised up its lethal‚ venomous and diabolic tail and stung Ezekiel’s mother in one of her toes while she was

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    Blue Scorpion

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    Through racism and stereotypes‚ we examine how Asian-American superheroes are often relegated to a secondary or “side-kick” status in modern comic books. In “Blue Scorpion and Chung‚” we take a look at Chung‚ an Asian-American chauffeur whose advanced combat skills and athleticism are dwarfed by his eccentric partner and boss‚ Blue Scorpion. We also take a look at James‚ an Asian superhero with a vast amount of powers‚ who becomes relegated to side-kick status to a much lesser superhero‚ Hank‚ due to

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    night of the scorpion

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    of a mother for her child‚ which in itself is a conspicuous feature of Indianness. Analysis of the poem – Apparently the theme of the poem is an experience of a scorpion bite that was inflicted on the poet’s mother. The poem is a first person narrative of the agony that a son had to undergo watching his mother suffer due to a scorpion sting. But subtly the theme of the poem is a stringent satire on the lack of medical and scientific knowledge that plagues the lives of so many people in India. The

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    NIGHT OF SCORPION - THE CRITICAL APPRECIATION --------------------------------------- Night of the scorpion written by Nissim Ezkiel is an interesting poem and the poet brings about a very appealing contrast between good and evil in it; altogether giving the poem an essence of equality. The poet makes it a trouble-free task for the readers to visualize the scenes with the appropriate use of various imageries. He has also done a marvelous work of adding various different senses into the

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    Night of the Scorpion

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    Ezekiel uses alliteration to describe the moment of the sting: ’Parting with his poison’. He alludes to evil in the phrase ’diabolic tail’‚ comparing the scorpion to the devil. The poem is written in free verse with different line lengths and no rhyme…The theme of the poem is presented through an incident in which the poet’s mother is bitten by a scorpion on rainy night. The villagers on hearing of this unfortunate event‚ come to see her‚ praying to god and giving all kinds of justifications for her suffering

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    Explanation Of 'Scorpion'

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    it is the latin word for Scorpion. It is literally translated as the creature with the burning sting. The reason it is so interesting is not because of it’s shape‚ because it is the brightest constellation there is. In the northern hemisphere‚ Scorpius is on the southern horizon. Ancient Greeks considered the claws of Scorpius as the Libra constellation. One myth about Scorpius is that Orion and his mother wanted to hunt every animal on the planet‚ so Zeus sent a scorpion to kill them; after it won

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    The House of Dies Drear Quotes and Commentary Q: “The devil was coming also.” C: This is significant in this story because it is so ironic. It is found ironic because in the end of the book we find out that Mr. Pluto is not the devil‚ but just a sick old man. This is also significant because the entire story revolves around Mr. Small and Thomas finding out if Mr. Pluto really is a devil. Q: “ ‘Three of them‚’said Mr. Small softly‚ ‘and they’re exactly alike.’ ” C: This Quote is important because

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