Do you know what it takes to raise a family as a single parent? In Ernest J. Gaines "The Sky Is Gray"‚ Octavia finds out the hard way. Set in Louisiana‚ Octavia is forced to raise her family by herself when her husband is sent off to war. Octavia overcomes the hardships of segregation and poverty while doing so. Octavia shows the characteristics of a good parent by being stern‚ loving‚ and independent. Octavia is a well-rounded character because she is stern. She uses sternness to teach her children
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is also used among the townspeople‚ who represent a greedy cluster of humans who always want more‚ no matter the consequences. The use of syntax is used throughout the story because each of Marquez’s sentences are used in a creative manner and explain each character very well. In the short story‚ “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings‚” the use of symbolism‚ syntax‚ and greed are used among characters to represent the good qualities and evil qualities a human can possess over the course
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With a war within a whole country between two appendages from the same body‚ it took incredible patience and the right choice of words to create unity once more. On March 4‚ 1865‚ President Abraham Lincoln had a strong grip on where to go and how to fix the United States in his Second Inaugural Address that didn’t exclude anyone in the U.S. when he alliterated and reiterated the words of unity and mixed in subliminal persuasions of ending the Civil War. Even when being a President of a powerful
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3/23/13 The Valley of Ashes provides the scene for the majority of the use of the color gray in The Great Gatsby. Gray most prominently and obviously symbolizes the hopelessness that thrives within the Valley of Ashes. Fitzgerald describes the Valley of Ashes as "...a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys...and ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud....". The people who
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In a bureaucratic society‚ everybody is supposed to have a voice about what they like or dislike. However‚ some people may disagree that even though they are in a bureaucratic society‚ they still do not have a voice in many issues‚ such as the workplace. Theodore Roethke uses personification‚ long sentence structure‚ and formal diction in "Dolor" to show the anguish and loneliness of the everyday office routine in a bureaucratic society because it is as if the workers are the same‚ and have no voice
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Peter Gray is psychologist and research professor at Boston College. Gray says " Playing is learning." Gray write an essay how children’s used to have the freedom to play together outside the house unit the sun goes down in the 1950s. In his generation‚ all kids of all ages‚ they play together on weekends‚ after school and all summer long. Gary says kids were busy‚ learning new things and explore in all aspects.According to Gray‚ in the 11950s‚ parents have no fear when kids played outside with other
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imagery" How is this statement refected in two of the poems you have studied Robert Gray’s poetry relies heavily on imagery and symbolism. In turn this creates a picturesque tone in the poems. The poems “The Meatworks” and the “Old House” Robert Gray uses different techniques to emphasis the technique of imagery. The two poems do have their similarities through Robert Gray’s unique style of composition and persona‚ but have there differences also as each poem represents a different quota of
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belong to a female" (164‚ 165). While Hark dramatically complicates the male body as a signifying field‚ Robyn Wiegman transforms the feminist paradigm of the "specular colonization" (176) of the female body from an issue of gender to one of race‚ in which the black male becomes constructed as feminine‚ suggesting "not simply an aversion to racial difference but a profound attempt to negate masculine sameness‚ a sameness so terrifying to the cultural position of the white masculine that only castration
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USA‚ New-York. Central Park‚ top view taken by AirPano is a high-resolution panorama photograph of Central Park‚ New York taken from a bird’s eye view from 2500ft above the ground during peak sunlight hours. AirPano is a not-for-profit project that works to capture beautiful cities around the world with the intention to present it in the form of panoramas and as virtual tours for everyone to experience. This slightly obscure photograph captures one of New York’s most famous sights‚ Central Park‚
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in a forest. Most gray wolves are in Europe‚ Canada‚ Asia‚ and many live in Alaska. Gray wolves were almost extinct but few survived and reproduced. Gray wolves have been around for 750‚000 years‚ and it migrated to North America from all over the globe. They are carnivores which means they eat meat and wolves hunt large hoofed animals like a deer‚ mountain goats‚ elk and bison. A wolf’s behaviour is that it can live alone or live in packs and what that means is that a bunch
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