...No Place Like Home Edward Said's States is an excerpt from his book After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives. It's a story about Palestine, once a country, but now spread out into a million pieces of the people that once called it home. The pieces being more of memories of a time when Palestinians could be who they are, not a scattered and forgotten people. They all face a new struggle, a struggle to find their identity. "Identity- who we are, where we come from, what we are- is difficult to maintain in exile. Most other people take their identity for granted. Not the Palestinian, who is required to show proofs of identity more or less constantly." (Page 546) Said, being Palestinian himself, tells us this story in what was called a "hybrid" type of writing. He does this by letting the pictures take precedence in telling his story but then describes each picture by going back and forth from a history point of view, to his own recollections of his childhood. The way he describes each picture makes you feel as if you were at one time in that picture and can feel an emotional connection to it. Through each photo, we get a really sense of what it is like to be Palestinian, to have it all taken away and how they started new. The way Said puts the story together without any time frame, is an example of why his writing style was described as a hybrid. He will start with describing a picture by telling us facts about his country and then interrupt himself, like he's actually have...
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...and he expresses that in every poem where he tells a story in conversational manner. The poems that I chose by Hughes describe the history, the struggle, the future of African Americans with his use of imagery to convey optimism and give hope to the human spirit. Langston Hughes creates not only a poem but a live picture of the history of his people like in the poem “Negro” where he describes himself as “Black like the depths of my Africa” (3). Here he states cultural identity of his people and the pride of being black. One of the most consistent things that we see in Hughes poetry is his use of things that are in motion like: rivers, stairs, and roads to describe things, or people that change. In his poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” the use of rivers is used to describe the passing of time, “I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the / flow of human blood in human veins” (2-3). Hughes word choice in every poem is essential to convey optimism of the human spirit even when he begins to describe the struggles that are faced with, they still have hope. We see this in the poem “Mother to Son” where we see a mother talking to her son and describing her painful life but she tells him, “So boy, don’t you turn back. / Don’t you set down on the steps” (14-15) to remind him that life is hard but you have to keep on moving. In the poem “Negro,” Hughes describes his ethnic background and takes control of the fact that he is colored, “I am a Negro: / Black as the night is...
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...Easy Self-Publishing outskirtspress.com/selfpublishing You keep 100% of your royalties. You keep 100% of your rights. Show; Don't Tell "This is the oldest cliché of the writing profession, and I wish I didn't have to repeat it. Do not tell me that the Thanksgiving dinner was cold. Show me the grease turning white as it congeals around the peas on your plate. . . . Think of yourself as a movie director. You have to create the scene that the viewer will relate to physically and emotionally." (David R. Williams, Sin Boldly!: Dr. Dave's Guide To Writing The College Paper. Basic Books, 2009) Selecting Details "The descriptive writer's main task is the selection and verbal representation of information. You must choose the details that matter--that are important to the purposes you share with your readers--as well as a pattern of arrangement relevant to those mutual purposes. . . . "Description can be an engineer describing the terrain where an embankment must be built, a novelist describing a farm where the novel will take place, a realtor describing a house and land for sale, a journalist describing a celebrity's birthplace, or a tourist describing a rural scene to friends back home. That engineer, novelist, realtor, journalist, and tourist may all be describing the very same place. If each is truthful, their descriptions will not contradict each other. But they...
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...unable to effectively communicate with his wife. Drinking and smoking marijuana goes on throughout the story telling. The short story “Cathedral” portrays individuals isolated from each other for various reasons. It appears that the maladies suffered by the narrator and wife provide reasons for inebriation and addiction. For example,” So when the time rolled around, my wife went to the depot to pick him up. With nothing to do but wait—sure, I blamed him for that—I was having a drink and watching the TV when I heard the car pull into the drive. I got up from the sofa with my drink and went to the window to have a look”. The narrator begins to drink while waiting for his wife and the blind man to arrive from the train station. In this quote the first indication of drinking start. As the story progresses drinking and marijuana smoking occurs throughout. Drinking occurs after the characters are introduced and engage in brief conversation; the narrator describes the scene “Let me get you a drink. What’s your pleasure? We have a little bit of everything. It’s one of our pastimes”. This shows there is sign that the couple is more than social drinkers because it mentions that drinking is one of their pastimes. Also, the fact...
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...viewpoint of (looks at the book as a whole instead of what is discussed in the book * How the characters in the book act, because they are courtiers themselves * How would someone use the book as a practical guidebook * Doing what the characters in the book are doing * P4 (looking at it from the second viewpoint) as if the ideal courtier could never be acheieved by someone * Counter argurments in the book * Everyone has a different idea of what’s perfect. * Talk about the difficulty in trying to achieve perfection * P5 my viewpoint: it could be both depending on how you look at the book. * I agree with the first viewpoint but I also find it absurd that someone would use this book as a way to become the gentlemen that is a courtier * I think that the second viewpoint is more focused on how the courtiers describing the perfect courtier, while the first view point is more about how to become a courtier even if they’re not the ideal courtier. * The second viewpoint seems kind of obtuse to me because if someone did want to become a courtier similar to the ones in the time of this book then they could....
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...River God. Text C is an extract from an autobiography by Rory McGrath. Compare Texts A, B and C, showing how the writers or speakers express their feelings about the rivers and their surroundings through their descriptions. The three texts all share the similar theme of rivers, all sharing mixed feeling on the topic of rivers, but mostly positive feelings towards them. Although all of the texts have certain aspects that they have in common with each other, as all texts have taken different approaches from each other for example, text A is a spoken account between two people on the subject of rivers, text B is a poem to display the power of rivers, and text C is an extract that describes the writers personal experience on the river Cam, and it was created to entertain with the main focus being on bird watching. Texts A, B and C all share in common the use of positive adjectives throughout the texts in order to display how they feel about rivers, and they use these adjectives to display how they feel, for example text A uses the adjective ‘beautiful’ when describing the river and how it looks, this also stress’ the view of the writer more through the emphasis that is used on this utterance. In text B we can see a similar use of the adjectives when talking about the river when the same adjective ‘beautiful’ is used to describe the river again, as it pre modifies the ‘deep river bed’ trying to emphasize the true beauty of the river. In text C we see the river not being...
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...Structuring your Part A assignment: Your Part A assignment should have three clear sections: 1. Introduction 2. Description 3. Conclusions 1. Introduction (Information): Introduce the graph. What is the graph about? What information does it present? When was it published? By whom is it published? Where is it situated? What time period does it cover? What does it indicate/measure? (what units of measure etc) . 2. Description (Observation): Describe the graph in relative detail (see example below), using business English vocabulary and terminology. What do we mean by relative detail? As a rule thumb, if you were to read your description to someone on the phone they would be able to visualize your graph quite clearly! Tip: Be sure to quantify! When describing data expressed in graphs, your reference points are the actual changes in the graph behaviour or the ‘trends’. In other words, your focus is the duration and quantity of a particular movement in the graph line, until that movement changes, either increasing or decreasing in degree. Hence, each movement or trend is best described by means of concise sentences, commencing with the ‘WHEN’ first followed by the “HOW MUCH’ and the ‘FOR HOW LONG’. This, however, is where the graph jargon comes into it for without the appropriate descriptive terminology we cannot describe graph behaviour, or indeed any trends, in a clear professional manner. Graph A: Hotel X Occupancy Rate (OR) 201- ...
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...off the wings of the angel, and after that they spot Penryn and her sister. And the angels take Paige and then they leave. Penryn was going to do everything to find her sister, and she did. She kidnapped the injured angel, she learned that the angel's name is Raffe. Her plan was to first take care of him, because he was in a very bad state, and then blackmail him into helping her find Paige, because she kept his wings. When Raffe was in a better state, he agreed to help her, because he had to get back to where Paige was held to get his wings sewn back on. He was going to take Penryn to the angels' aerie. He also told Penryn that he has no idea why he, and the other angels were attacking the earth. He said that Gabriel, God's messenger, had told them that God had wanted them to do it. So they did, and Gabriel was killed during the apocalypse too. They stumble upon dangers and difficulties during their trip to the aerie. They find bodies, dead bodies. Chunks of flesh has been bitten off their bodies. They come to the conclusion that it's human bite marks, so they had to be cautious of cannibals during their journey. When they walked in the woods, they were attacked by dogs. Raffe told Penryn to run away while he dealt with the...
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...Ireland, they each have their own style, that are different than the works of Irish Americans. Many great Irish Americans include Nancy Sullivan, John Montague, and James McAuley. Writing is an interesting topic because it can vary depending on who wrote it, how certain events affected the writer, where it was written, and the time period the work was created. Therefore, the works created in Ireland are different than those created by Irish Americans....
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...Cheever, an American writer and mother of two children, depicts in her essay, “My Little Bit of Country”, her childhood experiencing both city and country life. The essay was originally published in 2012 in the anthology Central Park. As the title of the anthology indicates, the story mainly takes place in Central Park, New York. The essay is told from Susan Cheever’s perspective, thus it’s not an omniscient narrator, but a 1st person narrator with access to her own mind. The story begins with Susan Cheever recalling the mornings of the summer, going to Central Park with her father, whom had just returned from the war. The essay progresses on chronically, with her growing up and moving into the suburbs, until she finally as an adult returns to the city, when she herself have children. Therefore it’s somewhat safe to assume, that the essay starts after the war in the 1940’s and ends somewhere in the present time close to the year 2012, when it published. Susan Cheever’s writing style is different and she is able to interact with her readers. Her use metaphors and adjectives when describing Central Park, initiates the reader’s imagination and senses, enabling the reader to place him- or herself next to Cheever, as if the reader was strolling through the park by her side:...
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...he has made entire stories up, after the fact. He defends his decisions by proposing that what he has done is, in fact, not lie, but rather tell a story-truth. He argues that his reason for doing this is to bring the story to life more than it could live through the happening-truth. 'I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth' (O'Brien, 183). O'Brien believes that, when accompanied by vivid details which essentially make the reader view the scene as a dream, story-truths can carry greater emotional truths than ever possible to be achieved through actual, happening-truths. With this, he shows, contrary to belief, how story-truths are often truer than happening-truths, and demonstrates this through the addition of often graphic details. Happening-truth encompasses actual events that take place. However true these stories may be, they are often times viewed as unreal simply because they have no details to back them up. The entire shit field scene that was put into this book, for example, was turned from a happening-truth into a story-truth because the original version was not believable. The reader can see this through O'Brien describing the letters that he received from Norman Bowker. Norman writes to Tim, telling him that he should write about the event. 'What you should do, Tim, is write a story... You were there --- you can tell it' (O'Brien, 151). Norman does this because he can't come to terms with writing it...
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...Mary Oliver is a renowned American poet who has achieved and been immensely awarded on account of her works. Oliver’s poetry finds its foundation in the natural world of Ohio, where she grew up and where she gets the majority of her inspiration. Mary Oliver uses vivid imagery and various figures of speech to bring to life the world of nature in her poems. Many of which explore the impulse and desire associated with the feelings of eroticism. Eroticism is known as the feeling of sexual excitement, if something is said to be sexually exciting in any sense it is said to be erotic. Many different things can be considered elements of Eroticism. Things that cause individuals to feel sexually aroused or excited can include various senses from sight, touch, smell to sounds and various activities or actions and may be considered erotic. Over this semester a number of the poems by Mary Oliver that we have looked at and discussed as a class are focused around the feelings and senses of eroticism. Three of the works in specific which may account for the most blatantly obvious examples of poems with erotic and sexual tones are “Postcard from Flamingo”, “An Old Whorehouse” and “The Snakes” – each of these using multiple elements and literary figures of speech to provide a feel of sexual excitement. Oliver’s use of titles, word choice, metaphoric phrases, and other arousing aspects provide these poems in particular with an overall feel of Eroticism...
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...gives the impression that Jane isn’t seen as anything more than a mere dog because she is very obedient to repress her passions which shows her to be subdued in her character. . The use of the verb ‘masterless’ could suggest that she doesn’t belong to anyone, this could be due to the fact that she moved from one place to another and so hasn’t been able to settle down with anyone. The use of the verb ‘stray’ suggests that Jane doesn’t belong anywhere and she has no real home. We know this to be true because, again, through her life she’s been moved from one place to another and so has nowhere in which she can call home. The theme of animals could link with Bertha because, just like Jane, Bertha is also described as an animal however a more vicious animal. Jane describes Bertha as ‘a clothed hyena’ and also states that she sounds like ‘a dog quarrelling’. This shows that even though Bertha is a full grown woman, she still behaves like a wild animal because she has wild mannerisms, just as Jane did as a child. However Jane has grown out of this and has been taught how to act and behave whereas Bertha never had this development and so carried on behaving the way she did. Describing Bertha as a ‘clothed hyena’ could link to the saying ‘wolf in sheep skin’ which shows her to be...
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...beautiful place was a domain of Poseidon, god of the sea, who had fallen in love with a mortal woman, Cleito. He created a magnificent palace for her in the centre of the island. The people of this land possessed great wealth thanks to the abundant natural resources of the island, which was also a centre for trade and commerce. The rulers held sway not just over their own people but over the Mediterranean, Europe and North Africa” (Menzies). The Greek philosopher, Plato, wrote the above description of Atlantis in 355 B.C. Plato had originally planned to write a trilogy of books on subjects such as the creation of the world, the nature of man, the story of Atlantis as well as other subjects. The first book, Timaeus, was completed, Critias, which contains the story of Atlantis, was incomplete, and Hemocrates, was never written (Levy). The story of Atlantis is one of the oldest myths of mankind, a lost paradise and the most popular of all supposed advanced prehistoric lost civilizations. It’s location has been assigned to almost every possible place on earth including Sardinia, Crete, Cyprus, Malta, Turkey, Israel, Sinai, Sweden, Bahamas, Bermuda Triangle, Japan and even Kumari Kandam (“Lost Continent”). In Plato's book, Timaeus, a character named Kritias tells an account of Atlantis that has been in his family for generations. According to the character, the story was originally told to his ancestor, Solon, by a priest during Solon's visit to Egypt. There had been a powerful...
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...Peoples 1 Tashana Peoples Professor Johnson English 201- 9E3 February 1, 2012 Short- Writing Assignment The symbol I chose to write about from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Godfather Death” is the highway. According to Merriam-Webster, a highway is “a main road that connects cities, towns, etc.” Literally it serves as an essential road, or a main route to someplace available to cars, people and animals. People go there for many things, and usually everyone or everything that travels to a highway has one specific goal. That goal is to get somewhere else. Some might go there to look for help but still, they are trying to get past their current situation, whatever that situation may be. Therefore, they are trying to go somewhere; from one situation to better one. The symbolic meaning for the highway is a troubled time, or a time of conflict, or struggle. The story first opens up by describing the father’s struggles pertaining to taking care of all of his kids. It goes on to say that he is confused and doesn’t know what to do, so he goes to the highway. In this piece the highway is used as a place where the father turns to because he’s desperate. He feels as if there is nothing else he can do and goes there in his time of need. There he meets three people on his quest to give his child a better life. During hard times, these “people” or beings are who/what people eventually turn to during hard times. In this story the symbolic meaning of the highway is ...
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