COMMENTARY: Poems I?d read over on any rainy day by Nikki Rivera Gomez / MindaNews Monday‚ 02 July 2007 23:01 It was the 1950s—the decade when a pompous West‚ emerging victorious from a world war that killed over 57 million people‚ was beginning to prance and preen like a peacock. Almost overnight‚ the US economy boomed with those big-finned Chryslers‚ Fords‚ and Buicks. Holiday Inn began its worldwide chain‚ as did the now ubiquitous McDonalds. I was barely a year old when Elvis‚ James
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The "Way" To Rainy Mountain Q: In many ways‚ Momaday is writing a memoir of a people‚ the Kiowas‚ not just himself or his grandmother. How does he use events from his own life and his grandmother’s life as a lens through which he can talk about the Kiowas? Momaday star his book by familiarizing the reader with facts about Kiowas’s past. Momaday tell of how the Kiowa migrated in the early 18th century. In the course of that long migration (the Kiowa) had come of age as a people. They had conceived
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"The Way to Rainy Mountain" A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma‚ north and west of the Wichita Range. For many people‚ the Kiowas‚ it is an old landmark‚ and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. The Hardest weather in the world is there. Winter brings blizzards‚ hot tornadic winds arise in the spring‚ and in summer the prairie is an anvil’s edge. The grass turns brittle and brown‚ and it cracks beneath your feet. There are green belts along the rivers and creeks‚ linear groves of hickory
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Descriptive Analysis Paper Ashley Baraan Frederic Edwin Church (1822-1900) October 2012 Rainy Season in the Tropics (1866) Art 118 Rainy Seasons in the Tropics‚ (oil on canvas) was painted by an amazingly talented artist‚ Frederic Edwin Church. Most of his paintings consisted of the nature‚ such as forests‚ the sea and sky. Rainy Seasons in the Tropics happens to be my favorite one by far. It is currently displayed at the de Young Museum in San Francisco‚ California
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The Way to Rainy Mountain In Scott Momaday’s introductory paragraph of “The Way to Rainy Mountain” he uses figurative language to show his love for the land in Oklahoma. As a Kiowa‚ he describes the land with such intimacy‚ that it seems as if he owns the land and he is one with the land. He starts the paragraph with a descriptive image of the Wichita Range: “A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma”. He describes the weather with extreme exaggeration‚ “winter brings blizzards‚ hot tornadic
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The struggle between one’s desires and expectations leads an individual to falter from their values and beliefs resulting in dire consequences to one’s morality and internal self. The short story "On a Rainy River" clearly demonstrates the conflict between the two dilemmas as the main character‚ Tim O’Brien‚ is faced with a decision to fight a pointless war or desert his country‚ choosing between potentially dying‚ or being branded as a coward. "Traitor! they yelled. Turncoat! Pussy! I felt myself
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battle. Although Polynices is considered a traitor to the land of Thebes‚ Antigone feels that to respect the wishes of the gods she must burry him. She faithfully acts upon her morals‚ even though they oppose the law. However‚ in the story “On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien‚ Tim is not so persistent with his loyalty to his morals. Although he is very against the war he has been drafted into‚ in the end he ends up going to battle due to his fear of letting his family and country down. While both Tim
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The Way to Rainy Mountain Student Guide Unit: The Way to Rainy Mountain You have read autobiographies or memoirs that tell about an individual’s experience. In this unit‚ you will read the blended memoir of an individual and an entire culture—the Kiowa tribe of North America. Unit Objectives Recognize the impact of setting on literature. Develop interpretations of literary works. Analyze the relationship between a literary work and its historical period and cultural influences. Recognize and examine
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Description of the Homework Assignment 70% of student mark will consist of the home work assignment. This assignment will consist of a focused research of an international company which the students are free to choose. The students are asked to analyze the points below. So‚ the content of Homework essay consists of: • The developing history of a company acting internationally (short history‚ beginning). • The international external environment of the company (political‚ economical
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The texts‚ “Undaunted Courage” and “The Way To Rainy Mountain” depict the land as a spiritual entity that’s worth being worshipped and respected as shown by man’s praise of it. The way man‚ rather than exploit it for profit‚ respects the land through animism shows their gratitude for it. From the detailed descriptions that give the reader an illustration of what man has seen‚ it is clear to say that man had this religious relationship again‚ but was also in tune with the lay of the land. In “Undaunted
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