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    Both Duffy and Plath portray many similar themes in their poetry; the theme of family relationships is illustrated in the poems ’Brothers’ and ’Before you were mine’ by Duffy and in ’Daddy’ and ’Medusa’ by Plath. All four poems portray a speaker looking back over relationships within their family members‚ however the context varies; in ’Daddy’‚ it is implied that a relationship between a father and a young girl has been cut short by death‚ resulting in a psychological battle between the speaker and

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    Literature‚ the students were instructed to write a critical analysis on one of five texts reviewed throughout the course. This paper will provide an analytical approach on the concept of race and identity as reflected in‚ Richard Wright’s‚ Native Son. Bigger Thomas’ instinct for survival plays a key role for the reasons behind his actions in this novel. Was it mere survival instinct that jolted Bigger to murder? Or did he‚ as he mentioned— “kill for something”? Whether the instinct was survival

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    Letter To My Son Analysis

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    “Letter to My Son‚” written by Ta-Nehisi Coates in 2015‚ was in all essentiality advice. The article begins with the author describing his own sadness at the distance between a country built on a dream‚ and the sobering reality he saw. He continues on to talk about how his body‚ his son’s body‚ and the bodies of many of their peers around them‚ are very often going to be at the mercy of people around them. Coates then speaks of escaping the danger of having his own body at the mercy of another‚ and

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    The Odyssey A LETTER TO MY SON 12th March 2041 Dear Son‚ Happy 13th birthday‚ my dear son! Congratulations on becoming a teenager. Both your mother and I cannot believe how fast you have grown. I have chosen this book‚ The Odyssey‚ to guide you as you grow into a man. My English teacher‚ Mrs Jones‚ FORCED us to read it when I was your age ( and although it was VERY boring at first (especially the complicated timeline)‚ we were soon engrossed in Odysseus’s swashbuckling adventures

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    Oedipus complex in Sons and lovers Sigmund Freud introduced two theories‚ one is Oedipus complex and other is Electra complex. Sigmund Freud’s theory‚ the Oedipus complex takes its name from the Greek play Oedipus Rex. In the play Oedipus is prophesied to murder his father‚ marry his mother and have sex with her and he does this unwittingly. The strong attraction of a child to the parent of the opposite sex and envy or jealous feelings toward the parent

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    Representations of Women in Native Son In his most famous novel‚ Native Son‚ Richard Wright’s female characters exist not as self-sufficient‚ but only in relation to the male figures of authority that surround them‚ such as their boyfriends‚ husbands‚ sons‚ fathers‚ and Bigger Thomas‚ the protagonists. Wright presents the women in Native Son as meaningless without a male counterpart‚ in which the women can not function as an independent character on their own. Although Wright depicts clearly

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    have written aboutfamily relationships in a positive view as well as in a negative way too‚ in poems Medusa and Before you were mine‚ whether it’s about in favour or against family Love and relationships. In this extract there are four poems written by Carol Ann Duffy and Sylvia Plath. Which are‚ “Brothers” and “Lady Lazarus” including “Medusa” and “Before You Were Mine”. All four poems discuss the issue of family love and relationships well‚ from two different points of views and thoughts about

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    The story “Son” by John Updike is basically an autobiographically story that has more imaginative fiction impact but still has truth about his past and current life as a father and son. In the writing he speaks about his own childhood‚ home state and relationship between his parents as well. His structure shows a lot of flashbacks from his past childhood. Here’s an example of author speaking of his past. “He is upstairs‚ writing a musical comedy. It is a Sunday in 1949. He has volunteered to prepare

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    Father-Son Relationships in The Odyssey "Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich‚ for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant." This quote‚ stated by Epictetus‚ is an ideal depiction of the importance of father-son relationships in Homer’s ancient Greek epic‚ The Odyssey. The protagonist of The Odyssey‚ Odysseus‚ fights among the other Greek heroes at Troy and struggles to return to his kingdom in Ithaca where his loyal wife‚ Penelope‚ and his

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    Son Jarocho: Music Report

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    Report 3 (Son Jarocho) The song I chose to listen to was Track 20‚ "El Sigusiri" performed by Conjunto Villa del Mar. The track composer is kept anonymous and the genre of this track is Son Jarocho. The Son Jarocho is native to the areas of southern Veracruz and parts of northern Oaxaca. The instrument that stood out to me on this track was the Jarana Jarocho‚ an 8 string rhythm instrument. It is an instrument used strictly for rhythm and is the most fundamental Jarocha instrument because it provides

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