The poem “Mother to Son‚” by Langston Hughes‚ is about a mother advising her son about life. She tells him that life is not easy and that he should not give up even when life is hard. Throughout the poem she uses an extended metaphor to compare life as a decayed stair. The mother expressed the hardship of life by saying‚ “And splinters‚ And boards torn up‚ And places with no carpet on the floor” (4-6). She describes the stair as an old and decayed stair that seems impossible to climb. Life is hard
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Zapping Zombies Leo likes playing a video game where he has to zap zombies and turn them into statues before they invade a town. In the game‚ zombies hide everywhere. Leo’s goal is to clear all the zombies to make the town safe. To advance to the next level he has to zap all the zombies in the level. Each level has the same number of zombies and the same number of points is earned for each zapped zombie. As players move through the levels the zombies get harder to zap. Leo made the table below
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The “Industrial Society and Its Future” by Ted Kaczunski discusses the issue of the industrial-technological system and the disastrous effect it has had on human nature and race. According to Kaczynski‚ even though technology has advanced and benefited human race in many ways‚ it has also dehumanized them. Artificial technology has had a negative impact on humankind as it has degraded the culture and caused widespread environmental destruction. Kaczynski asserts that technology is ever-growing and
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Frank Warren’s TED talk Frank warren is the inventor of post secret which remains a progressive communal mail art project. The projected was created in 2005. In this project people are allowed to share secrets anonymously on home customized postcards. Some secrets are selected then posted to the post secret website. This secrets are also exhibited in the museum or used to design post secret books. This secrets come in any form others may be interesting‚ motivational or shocking. The main purpose
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In the movie Wit‚ English literary scholar Vivian Bearing has spent years translating and interpreting the poetry of John Donne. Unfortunately‚ she is a person who has cultivated her intellect at the expense of her heart. Both colleagues and students view Bearing as a chilly and unfriendly person lost in her private world of words and mysterious thoughts. At the age of 48‚ she is diagnosed with stage-four metastatic ovarian cancer. Dr. Kelekian wants her to take eight high-dose experimental chemotherapy
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imagine what it looked like to be there with the writer. In his short story “Salvation‚” Langston Hughes uses this part of narration to describe the elderly of his church. “A great many old people came and knelt around us and prayed‚ old women with jet-black faces and braided hair‚ old men with work-gnarled hands.” Even this small description is enough to help a reader start to put themselves in Hughes’ shoes. Visualization is the beginning of understanding another
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I felt personally impacted by Isay’s Ted Talk because I have also gone through the difficult journey of acceptance of a loved one’s differences. As a member of the LGBT community‚ the Stonewall riots are a particularly interesting historical event for myself and the rest of my community. The fact that Isay was able to draw inspiration from the Stonewall riots is very inspirational to me. I absolutely adore the idea of Story Corps because I believe that it has to power to unite people who would otherwise
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Hunting Humans‚ a novel that was written by anthropologist Elliott Leyton‚ examines various mass murderers and serial killers in an attempt to understand what led each of them to commit these gruesome crimes. Leyton explores their childhood and their adulthood in search of a turning point‚ in which they became a murderer/killer. A serial killer often kills more than one person within a period but are then known to take a break period from their vigorous activities‚ while mass murderers are known
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The Ghost Writers Society In Ed Dante’s story The Ghost Scholar‚ he discusses his business of writing college papers for clients that cannot survive on their own in today’s education system. His clients that need help because they cannot write‚ they don’t speak English natively‚ or are wealthy and don’t want to do the work. Dante sees his clients as examples of how flawed the present education system is and uses them in his article to emphasize how it needs to be fixed. To him‚ it is the school
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“50-50” by Langston Hughes In the poem “50-50” by Langston Hughes‚ the theme is about a lonely woman seeking love. She might be a young woman who left her family in the South and moved North during the Great Migration for better opportunities‚ and that might be the reason why she feels she is all alone in this world. Or‚ she might be a widow or someone who has lost a partner‚ or boyfriend. She feels she is all alone because she has no man in her life. The monologue has a dual persona
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