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    “India”‚ said Suzie. India ran into the living room with her gear and began CPR. “Tell Robin to come in here”‚ said India. Suzie and Alicia ran outside. Lisa looks at Rosey and feels shame instead of sorrow and she didn’t understand why. Alicia and Suzie ran to the ambulance and screamed “Robin we need you in the house‚" said both of them. Robin licked his fingers filled with donut jelly and wiped his mouth‚ and he grabbed the bag sitting in the passenger seat then proceeded to the house. Suzie and

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    Johnathan Demme’s Philadelphia portrays conflicting perspectives on the idea of AIDS‚ homosexuality and prejudice towards minorities within a society in a light which positions responders to question actions that were generally accepted during this time. Martin Luther King Jr. once said “Our loyalties must transcend our race‚ our tribe‚ our class‚ and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.” An example of the use of camera angles is when a woman notices a lesion caused

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    Essay: Where I come from Student: Valentin Turri The poem is divided in two stanzas and two extra lines. The poet is an old woman that talks about her present and her old past. In the first stanza the poet starts like introducing us in the text‚ explaining us the meaning of ‘’people are made of places’’‚ this means that all we are made of memories‚ places where we come from‚ we

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    Where I Come From - By Elizabeth Brewster The poem ‘Where I Come From’ by Elizabeth Brewster is about how a person is influenced by the environment he is brought up in‚ and how urban life and rural life differ from each other. The poet has used a very critical tone in this poem to convey how people are influenced by the places they have come from rural or urban. She has used a lot of visual imageries and metaphors to convey the busy lifestyle of the city. There is no rhyme scheme in the poem

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    The Place I Come From is Like.. Many of us have a different view of our home town. Some cannot wait to leave‚ while others never want to leave their mother’s couch. Some look at it as a paradise‚ free of worries or decision making‚ while others look at it as their own personal hell‚ full of people and places they despise. I‚ on the other hand‚ have a different view of my hometown. It is not exactly what I would call a perfect‚ pleasant‚ island getaway‚ paradise but it is not what I imagine hell

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    Done By: Http://www.livetvee4u.blogspot.com/ Where I Come From‚ Elizabeth Brewster The main idea in the poem is that a person’s character is always formed‚ at least in part‚ by the place where he or she is born: “People are made of places.” Wherever you go in life you will carry with you memories and echoes of your birthplace‚ whether it is a city‚ as in the first stanza‚ or the quiet Canadian countryside where Elizabeth Brewster herself was born in 1922. We are‚ however‚ also influenced

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    is born – “People are made of places”. Wherever you go in life you will carry with you memories and echoes of your birthplace‚ whether it is a city‚ as in the first stanza‚ or the quiet Canadian countryside where Elizabeth herself was born – “Where I come from‚ people carry woods in their minds” – and certainly the picture she draws in the second stanza does seem at first to be idyllic and wonderful‚ strongly contrasting with the city images in the first stanza. This idea shows us that who we are

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    Where I Come From – Elizabeth Brewster From the title of the poem‚ we can assume that Elizabeth Brewster’s “Where I Come From” is about the place or places where the writer was born in or where she spent her whole childhood. We also assume that she is going to describe‚ tell memories and her opinion about the completely different places. Although the opening line “People are made of places” can be loosely described as form of alliteration‚ the repetition of the “p” sound is particularly effective

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    Philadelphia also known as the ‘City of Brotherly Love’ was a part of the Nativist movement in the United States. There have been immigrants in Philadelphia‚ but the continuous influx began to change the demographic of city’s population. Tensions began to rise over religion then political motives set in as well. The Philadelphia riots of 1844 took root in considering the immigrants as the Other and finding ways to establish their superiority through suppressing the immigrants power. The 1844 riots

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    Courtney Williams Dr. Ndeh African American Literature November 13‚ 2012 Foundation and Hope in Philadelphia Fire Five years after the MOVE incident in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania‚ writer and professor at Brown University John Edgar Wideman wrote Philadelphia Fire. The novel is centered on the 1985 bombing of John Africa’s MOVE organization by the Philadelphia police and fire department‚ an attack that destroyed over fifty homes and killed eleven people. One of the main themes of this novel

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