Sarah Carlson Mr. Green English 11A 11 November 2012 The White Haired Man I had just finished helping my dad put the last of the holiday wrapped Christmas presents into the back of our green navigator‚ which we called the green monster‚ when I slipped on a patch of black ice. “Be careful‚” warned my dad‚ “that ice can be dangerous.” My dad has always been very calm and serious‚ he says things the way they are‚ he does not sugar coat anything. As I was standing up and wiping the cold‚ wet
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poems‚ “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “If” by Rudyard Kipling both are about parents giving advice to their children about the real world and the feature they have in front of them. In “Girl” the mother wants her to be a good polite adult and not a “boy crazy girl” that the mother is saying she is set on becoming. In the poem that Rudyard Kipling wrote‚ “If” is about a father giving true smart advice to his son‚ so he can become a good‚ smart man. These two poems both have the same topic and theme
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In the article “White Man forgotten War”‚ talk about the Philippine American War from the February 1899 to July 1902. During that war‚ there was a lot of lives was being effected. The Philippine American War being out the least conflict in the American history and it was well known as the deadly massacre of the Filipinos people by American soldiers. The conflict start off when the Philippine revolutionaries was getting their independence from Spain. The Philippines thought they would gain help from
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST POETIC DEVICE The three most common poetic devices that are presented in this poem are repetition‚ personification‚ and alliteration. Repetition In this poem‚ Kipling uses repetition with the word “you” throughout the entire poem to emphasize how important “you” is. Personification There are three examples of personification here: 1. The first is in Stanza 2‚ when he states‚ “…make dreams your master…” (line 9) The first stanza talks of our self-confidence‚
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1.The thesis is middle class blacks are sterotype by whites people in multicultural society and by blacks who think that they are traitors to the struggle against racism. Foster uses the historic events to prove a baised society will couse an outbreak of violence or riots. Wattss riots was a six days raged followed Frye’s arrest‚ suspicion of driving while intoxitcated. Fostedr also uses Rodney king’s riot in 1991. It is coused after Rodney King was severyl beaten by police who attempted to pull
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Edward D. Morel‚ The Black Man’s Burden (1903) Edward Morel (1873-1924) was a French-born British journalist and socialist who drew attention to imperial abuses and led a campaign against slavery in the Belgian Congo. While working for a Liverpool shipping firm in Brussels‚ Morel noticed that the ships leaving Belgium for the Congo carried only guns‚ chains‚ and ammunition‚ but no commercial goods‚ and that ships arriving from the colony came back full of valuable products such as rubber and
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Summary: Michael Obi’s ambition is fulfilled when‚ at age twenty-six‚ he is appointed to whip into shape an unprogressive secondary school. Energetic‚ young‚ and idealistic as he is‚ Obi hopes to clean up the educational mission field and speed up its Christianizing mission. Already outspoken in his denigration of “the narrow views” and ways of “superannuated people in the teaching field‚” he expects to make a good job of this grand opportunity and show people how a school should be run. He plans
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Work- a Burden or a Blessing? Imagine if you could plan your perfect day and have everything fall directly into place. What activities‚ people‚ or events would you include? While in my junior year of high school my perfect day was planned. It was going to be on Memorial Day‚ the day every student looks forward to in California. It’s the first official beach day of the summer and that year it was going to be the best. Summer had come early and it was hot‚ breaking all previous years high temperatures
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A Coincidental Bond The relationship between the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ and the poem If by Rudyard Kipling is astonishingly similar. Although If was published nearly 140 years before the publishing of To Kill A Mockingbird‚ many readers have come to the conclusion that If was written based on To Kill A Mockingbird. However‚ when discovering the dates that each of the pieces were published‚ it is found that the bond between the two are just mere coincidences. Characters such as
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and the White Man in William Faulkner ’s The Bear The Themes of Wilderness and the White Man in William Faulkner ’s The Bear William Faulkner ’s The Bear is bilateral in subject and plot. The first half of the story looks at the wilderness and the virtues man can learn from it. The second half applies these virtues to civilization‚ exposing the white man ’s corruption and misuse of the land. A careful look at the interaction of these two halves reveals a single unifying theme: man must learn
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