Perseverance‚ patience and dedication results in success this means that if one does not give up he/she results in success. This is shown in “The Happiest Refugee” as the family struggles to get out of Vietnam and to live the life they want to live and it is also shown in ”The Pursuit Of Happiness” as the family move from one place and struggle to find a job and get money. Perseverance‚ patience and dedication leads to success‚ success does not mean reaching set goals but gaining something that is
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The title of the poem gives off the initial impression that the poem may focus on refugees: one who flees to seek refuge‚ The lives of refugee children‚ their parents‚ their feelings‚ their emotions and their pain. ’For a son she soon would have to forget’. This foreshadows the idea that her son is dying‚ and she would have to forget him to adapt to her tragic loss. 2 The metaphor in the fist stanza‚ ’No Madonna and Child could touch that picture...’‚ relates to the idea of Mary and her child‚ Jesus
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Natural disasters have always devastated human lives miserably. Be it an earthquake‚ hurricane‚ flood‚ tsunami or any other kind. The human life in the worse affected area reaches to a zero. Almost everything from food‚ clothing and shelter to the luxuries are to be restored from scratch. Series of scams and frauds that follow any natural disaster compel me to think ‘if natural disasters are really an act of God or man?’ Though economists keep studying the affects of natural disasters from an
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The Blues is a musical form and genre‚ which originated in South America within the African-American communities. It originated near the end of the 19th century‚ and was rooted from spirituals‚ work songs‚ field hollers (which are very similar to work songs‚ but some do not have lyrics)‚ shouts and rhymes. The blues form in jazz‚ rhythm and blues and rock and roll; and each is characterised by a specific chord progression‚ the most common being the twelve bar blues. The blues notes‚ are played or
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Discuss the Structure of ‘Refugee Boy’ by Benjamin Zephaniah Refugee Boy is a story about a 14-year-old boy named Alem Kelo born in Africa. Benjamin Zephaniah uses Alem as an example of how badly treated refugees are and how it is possible for us to treat them better if we treat them like normal people. In the beginning of the novel Alem’s father took him to London for what Alem thought would be a holiday. Leaving his mother at home‚ his father actually planned to leave Alem in London believing
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bias (I was aware it existed‚ but didn’t know it had an official name)‚ but I fully feel that it is more common than we could imagine. This isn’t one of the topics of conversation as outline below but I will use a current event as an example. The refugee crisis in Europe‚ many people say that they have nothing against these displaced peoples‚ but how many people would actually be willing to allow hundreds‚ thousands‚ or even hundreds of thousands of refugees into America and into their daily lives
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Compare and contrast Auden’s and Faulks’ use of detail establish a feeling of alienation in ‘Refugee Blues’ and ‘The Last Night’ Both Sebastian Faulks and W. H. Auden write about the tales of Jewish refugees living in the time of holocaust during WW2 in their two pieces‚ ‘The Last Night’ and ‘Refugee Blues’. By using literary techniques such as imagery and tone both writers‚ Auden and Gray create a sense of alienation for the characters portrayed in their writing. Both Auden and Gray create a
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Mother in a Refugee Camp Chinua Achebe’s Mother in a Refugee Camp‚ paints the pathetic picture of a mother holding her dying son in her hands for the last time‚ portraying both the inevitability of death and the pain of those whose loved ones have died yet they live on in a harsh light. The poem starts with the poet comparing the scene of a mother holding her son in a refugee camp with the love and care which is usually depicted in all versions of Mary holding a ding Jesus in her arms. The poet
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The two poems written by Langston Hughes‚ dreams and Refugee. These two poems have many similarities and they both talk about freedom. Freedom a word with many meanings and a word with different perspectives. Some people look at freedom in a totally different way‚ depending on where they live and the things they live through. Then there’s some people who don’t know what freedom is at all and the word means nothing to them. Well in the two poems they will describe two different points of freedom but
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The Real War There are many issues that plague us‚ not only as a nation but as a human race. The Syrian Refugee Crisis is something that affects thousands upon thousands of innocent people. It is devastating for many‚ and they are rendered helpless as their homes are destroyed and the lives of their loved ones are lost. Many countries have kindly welcomed these batter victims‚ allowing a safe haven for millions of these grateful Syrian refugees. Americans have been anything but eager to help; despite
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