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    Two Questions by Lynda Barry is a comic strip about how she ends up losing her passion for drawing and writing. As a kid she never cared about how her drawings looked because she drew for fun. Then one day all of that changed when people started to give their opinions about what she drew. She enjoyed drawing so much until two questions got stuck in her mind; does this suck or is this good? This resulted in a drastic effect; a drawing that she thought was good was actually bad. Barry was more concerned

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    Throughout this class‚ we have been introduced to several ways of viewing work. From the Dolores Dante’s “Waitress from Working‚” to the movie 9 to 5‚ and Chapter 6 of Matthew B. Crawford “Shop Class as a Soul Craft.” In Dolores Dante reading “Waitress from Working” Dolores Dante talks about how she’s a waitress and she works as waitress too support her family. And despite needing the extra money‚ she still loves her job and is proud of her work. The movie 9 to 5 describes 3 women’s attempt to change

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    Construct a close reading of this poem that demonstrates your awareness of the poet’s body of work. 1‚207 Words Cars and roads traverse the poetry included in the anthology‚ Smoke Encrypted Whispers‚ by Samuel Wagan Watson‚ a self-identified aboriginal man of German and Irish descent. The narrators of the poems are frequently on or beside the road‚ and the bitumen itself becomes a metaphor for everything from addiction and memory to the search for love. The poem Night Racing is present in the second

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    WrittenThe Night Before His Execution is a poem which was written by on september 19‚1586; the night before his execution for treason. The poem was enclosed with a letter to his wife. Chidiock Tichborne was born into a devout Catholic family. His life became increasingly difficult after Elizabeth I made the practice of Catholicism illegal‚ and he and his father‚ who had already spent time in prison‚ found themselves under constant surveillance. The younger Tichborne joined the conspiracy known as

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    Q. Explain how T.S Eliot’s poems “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” and “Preludes” express modernist concerns Modernist concerns are expressed through T.S Eliot’s poems ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ and ‘Preludes’. Eliot uses his fragmented childhood experiences and his thoughts on the squalor modern life to express the issues of meaningless life‚ isolation‚ the alienation and loneliness that the humans feel and lastly the damaged psyche of humanity. The issues of meaningless life is expressed through complex

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    Bob Dylan‚ and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas both share their similarities and differences. The poems are similar in which both writers write about living life‚ and the topic of death. The differences in the poems is what lies within the symbolism and emotion of each poem. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night and Let Me Die In My Footsteps deal with the theme of life and death. In Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Thomas writes about his dying father. He writes

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    not go gentle into that good night‚” written within the Emerging Modernist Period‚ illustrates a man grieving his old and dying father to rage at death for people should look over their lives and have confidence of having accomplished the defining moments by taking risks and having no fear before death is upon them. Within the first tercet‚ a young man reacts to the closeness of death with a fighting approach as to rebuke the acceptance of the end. Throughout the poem‚ the repetition and rhyming

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    Jane Jacobs‚ the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities‚ though never finished college‚ wrote pieces focused on cities. She concentrated on how and why cities worked‚ as well as why urban renewal and redevelopment was hurting the great cities instead of improving them. She expresses arguments on the principles and aims of the orthodox city planning and rebuilding that have shaped modern cities (1). Her most pronounced arguments are the planners approach to redevelopment and revitalization

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    One of the themes in Elie Wiesel’s memoir‚ Night‚ is man’s inhumanity to man. During the Holocaust‚ Elie experienced a terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns him into an agonized witness to the death of his family‚ innocence and God. A poem by Ruth Dykstra‚ “What I Don’t Know”‚ reflects Elie’s situation and beliefs. This poem expresses Elie’s struggles as a young Jew who has lost his faith and hope. In the beginning of the poem‚ the speaker questions: “Did they know? /

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    In the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas‚ expresses his thoughts on how old dying men should not give up and just accept their fate of death. Instead he persists that they fight back and “rage‚ rage against the dying of the light”(line 1). He wants them to put up a struggle and not just simply roll over and take what is given to them. This poem meant a lot to me as I have a dying grandfather and Thomas has a dying father so I understand where his emotions are coming from

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