...Even though Fences by August Wilson is a play with an African-American family trying to make ends meet, it is relatable to many. Everyday people face challenges and inner demons. It’s a part of life. The fence itself is very important to the play, hence the title, and has several meanings. Fences are normally meant to keep things in or keep things out. The Fence is both literal and figurative for the Maxson family (Bissiri). The reason the fence takes the whole play to be finished is because Troy has been putting it off. He gives Cory a hard time for not being around to work on it, but Cory argues that he isnt around to work on it much either. Cory says "don't never do nothing, but go down to Taylors'" (1.3.5). Troy doesn’t actually go to...
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...Strange. Bruno asking me about the other side of the concentration camp. Why would he ask me this in the first place? The main thing Bruno needs to know is that we must never interact with the men and children on the other side of the fence, for they are jews and should never speak to us. We are the opposite of the jews on the other side of that fence. The fence isn't there to stop us from going over there, It's to stop them from coming over here. I concentrate on the various maps I have pasted on the walls and the newspapers for hours at a time before I start to pin important locations in Germany. The Fury (Hitler) told me it's good to be educated on today's news in Germany. Lots of it hasto do with jews. The jews on the other side of the fence belong to be their- to be abused, to be suffering, and to be in great pain....
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...Intended to Mark a Boundary Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary defines fence as “a barrier intended to prevent escape or intrusion to mark a boundary”. August Wilson’s Fences portrays the barrier around the Maxson family. “The setting is the yard which fronts the only entrance… The yard is a small dirt yard, partially fenced, except for the last scene…” (0.1-0.3). Throughout the play Wilson uses the description and placement of the fence to change the mood in the scene or the attitudes of the characters. “Much of the conflict… arises because the characters are at odds with the way they see the past and what they want to do in the future”(sparknotes.com). Whether the fence is too keep people in or out, there is always a struggle to know what is on the other side. Corresponding to the text, August Wilson’s own life is exemplified. Wilson uses “the settings of all but one of the plays [in] the Pittsburgh ‘hill district’” (Edgar 1328). During the early part of his life was spent living in poverty. Wilson’s father soon left the family by the time he was five leaving his mother, Daisy, to care for the six children. She later remarried and moved to the Hill District. Wilson felt the pressure of being one of the only African-American students and dropped out of school to teach himself in the library. “He educated himself so well that eventually the Library granted him a degree”(Edgar 1328). When writing Fences, Wilson pulled from the 1950s and the Civil Rights Movement. Wilson also...
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...After reading The Other Side, one might understand the tone, symbolism, and audience the book reveals. The author uses symbolism to describe segregation on the little girls’ point of view. Many may also be able to find the tone to be curious and friendly. The audience is who the author is writing for. This story is for children, “’My name’s Annie,’ she said. ‘Annie Paul. I live over yonder,’ she said. ‘by where you see the laundry. That’s my blouse hanging on the line.’ She smiled then. She had a pretty smile.” This shows that there were two children who met for the first time. The other Side is from a little girl’s point of view; therefore, children are most likely going to read it. Tone, the emotion the author uses to get...
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...THE FENCE Jose Garcia Villa Chimelle Almira AB-3B Mary Joy Galeno AB-3B 1st reader: They were separate worlds; two opposing planets so near together that their repulsion had become stifled and in its repression become more envenomed. 2nd reader: Two women had built that fence. Two tanned country-women. One of them had caught herhusband with the other one night and by that incident Aling Biang gathered some bamboos to build the fence and then, that’s how it all started. 1st: Pok,Pok, Pok, sounded her crude hammer. Pok, Pok, Pok-Pok, Pok, Pok. When her husband asked her what she was doing, she answered, “I am building a fence.” 2nd: “What for?” he asked. 1st: “I need a fence.” 2nd: And then, too, even Aling Sebia, the other woman, a child-less widow, asked inoffensively, “What are you doing, Aling Biang?” 1st:“I am building a fence.” 2nd: “What for?” 1st: “ I need a fence aling Sebia. Please do not talk to me again.” 2nd: and the fence was completed, oily perspiration wetting the brows of the women, they gazed pridefully at the majestic wall that covers them. 1st: not long after the completion of the fence aling biang’s husband disappeared and never came back. 2nd: one night, from beyond the fence, aling biang heard cries from aling sebia. 1st: the cries of the other woman made her uneasy . “ what is the matter with you aling sebia?” 2nd: “ aling biang please go to the town and get me a hilot.” 1st: “what do you need a hilot for?” 2nd: “ I am going to...
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...“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.” - Brian Tracy Acceptance is when someone even though you might be different takes you in. In the story The other side, by Jacqueline Woodson the theme acceptance is repeatedly shown throughout the story. In this short story a girl name clover is faced with a challenge, Clover lives in a house with a fence on the outside, On one side of the fence there are whites and on the other there is blacks. Clovers mom told her to never cross the fence, meanwhile Clover disobeyed her mom and talked to the girl on the other side of the fence. Clover accepted Annie even though she looked different than her, this shows the theme acceptance. In one example of the theme acceptance, is that Clover is brave....
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...“’Someday somebody’s going to come along and knock this old fence down,’ Annie said. And I nodded. ‘Yeah,’ I said. ‘Someday.” This excerpt is from the narrative The Other Side, the fictional account of Clover, an African American youth, and her encounters with her neighbor Annie, a white, young girl. The author, Jacqueline Woodson, uses clever symbolism within her writings to not only convey the racial partition between Clover and Annie, but the foretelling the division between them would soon fall. Furthermore, she also utilizes a naïve, informal tone to generate an audience of kids. These literary elements contribute majorly to the story, as without them there would be no meaning to the story at all. Woodson uses symbolism throughout the...
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...young boys and how different their beliefs are. One of the boys is Jewish and the other has a father who works for Adolph Hitler and the Nazis, but Bruno (the son of the Nazi Commandant) has no clue what a Jew is or what a Nazi is. But Shmuel know that he is Jewish and that him and Bruno shouldn’t be playing with each other and that doesn’t interfere with their friendship what so ever. Nine year- old Bruno is very lonely, and ignorant until he meets his new best friend for life; he is very friendly to this boy that wears striped pajamas all day but still has many commonalities. Bruno had to move with his family to a place he thinks is named OutWith but is really pronounced Auschwitz, because of father’s promotion and his job is very important. When he left his lovely house in Berlin, he also had to leave his grandmother and grandfather along with his three best friends for life, Karl, Daniel, and Martine. Bruno and his family left their friends and family for a place with horrid scenery outside your bedroom window. The view you get is of a fence and on the other side; there are badly treated people. Another down about this new house is that there are soldiers and lieutenants walking in and out of your house as if they owned the place. The worst part about the house for Bruno and his sister was that there weren’t any other boys and girls their age that were on their side of the fence. Bruno was stuck with his sister, Grettle, the hopeless case, all day. That was until he...
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...written but has a grim subject. The boys remain friends while Shmuel, Bruno’s friend is in a concentration camp. Both boys do not know what will happen to each other, but as a reader, you know that Shmuel will most likely die in the camp. The main theme in the novel is innocence. The author expresses this theme by the way he uses his text. He explains how both boys do not know why they are on other sides of the fence. He shows the innocence of the boys as they are really not to speak to each other, but as they get more adventuresses, it ends badly. Shmuel and Bruno begin to meet every day. Bruno is thrilled to have a friend his own age, yet never fully grasps why Shmuel can't play at his house or why Bruno can't play with the other children in striped pajamas The power of the book in fact lies in the way that the reader instantly connects with his innocence and is willing to see his worldview, also follow him as the story unfolds, although with our sensibilities and the hindsight of history we cannot help fearing that something terrible is bound to happen. The setting is Nazi Germany after all. Innocence is an important theme throughout the novel. Although Bruno and Shmuel share a certain childlike innocence, the reality is that Shmuel is a prisoner in Auschwitz and has certainly seen horrific sights. Bruno, on the other hand, is fiercely protected by his parents who do not want him to know about the horrors of the reality that is the Holocaust; in particular, they go to great...
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...Lives in Fences Fences are built to keep life in order, on track and simple. Such as “The Berlin Wall was a concrete barrier that separated West Berlin from East Berlin throughout much of the cold war.” The Berlin Wall was built up to keep two sides separated from conflict, but eventually the two sides overcame that. The Berlin wall was once necessary, but as time went by and the world evolved, so did the people and eventually came down. There will always be fences built up in our lives, but that doesn’t always mean they need to be a barrier and are necessary. There are times when barriers crucial and keeps everyone orderly. In Robert Frosts poem, he repeats “Good fences make good neighbors”. (“Mending Wall”46) Fences are the comfort zones for all people, its their own little privacy. It also could be very crucial in getting along with other because as long as we all have that barrier no conflicts will arise.Robert introduces differences, “He is all pine and I am apple orchard”. (“Mending Wall” 24) Two totally different concept, a pine an an apple, one sweet and one sharp. This is a crucial time to have to have a fence for if they were to cross in each others path it will easily not end well for the differences are so enormous. Fences are always built up to keep something in; whether it be a way of life or simply to avoid conflict. There also comes a time when a barrier is no longer necessary. Robert Frost says, “But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I’d...
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...For years the border fence between United States and Mexico have been an important point in the agenda of the United States’ Congress. Mexico and United States shared about 2000 miles of fenced boarder including some of it as a vehicle barrier and pedestrian fence. Through this barrier many immigrants had put their lives in danger trying to achieve the American dream without measuring the risks of crossing illegally to the United States territory. This issue has been discuss many times by both countries where there are different opinions of the pros or cons with the enforcement of the immigration laws. Thousands of illegal immigrants try to cross the border fence every day. “…between 400,000 and 1 million undocumented migrants try to slip across...
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...CHRISTENBURY MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC. ARCHITECTURAL CONTROL COMMITTEE CHRISTENBURY MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN GUIDELINES Revised 11-8-11 1 CHRISTENBURY MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC. ARCHITECTURAL CONTROL COMMITTEE TABLE OF CONTENTS DESCRIPTION PAGE NO. INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................................................3 NEW, ADDITION, AND/OR REMODELING CONSTRUCTION GUIDELINES ...............5 OUTDOOR STRUCTURE GUIDELINES...............................................................................7 REAR YARD FENCE GUIDELINES ......................................................................................9 PLAY EQUIPMENT GUIDELINES ......................................................................................11 SATELLITE RECEIVER (DISH) GUIDELINES ..................................................................13 GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS, LANDSCAPE & MAINTENANCE GUIDELINES..........14 LIST OF RECOMMENDED PLANT SPECIES ....................................................................19 EXHIBIT A REQUEST FORM 2 CHRISTENBURY MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC. ARCHITECTURAL CONTROL COMMITTEE INTRODUCTION The Architectural Control Committee (ACC) is providing the attached Architectural Design Guidelines (“Guidelines”) in accordance with that Declaration of Covenants, Easements, Conditions and Restrictions (“Declaration”), for purposes of establishing and maintaining exterior...
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...is about the artist Christo and his Running Fence project. The project took place in Marin County, California and consisted of a shimmering white cloth that acted like a fence but rippled in the wind. The fence route ran through Marin County and down the coast into the ocean. When the nylon had been pulled as far as it would go into the ocean, Christo talked to Don Dickenson, of the Marin County Planning Department because Christo had been working in the forbidden coastal zone, which was a violation to the Coastal Commission. Christo has gone outside the normal art world to put all his time in projects that have no market for. It is projects only made for viewers to observe and not to buy. His projects only alter the environment only briefly before they are taken down. Christo creates public art and the involvement and the whole process is the crucial and most important part of the project. When Christo tried explaining the project to the Ranchers in which the fence would cross their land, he stated that it was a fence without function and a celebration of the landscape. I have seen a documentary on this project in one of my other classes and didn’t understand the project as much as I do now after reading Calvin Tomkins writing on the project. I didn’t understand the point of the fence on the coast at all and the reason or result it would bring for only being up for two weeks. I completely understand the ranchers concern for a fence to cut through their property. After completing...
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...is different from your own culture. The movie chosen is the Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is based on a fictional book by John Boyne. Introduction Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own. The ethnocentric individual will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture, especially with concern to language, behavior, customs, and religion. These ethnic distinctions and sub-divisions serve to define each ethnicity's unique cultural identity (Pinstonedu.com, n.d.). Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences (IMDb, n.d.). This movie really nails ethnocentrism on the head. By segregating the Jews in concentration camps with the fence that divides worlds of realism. On one side of the fence you have the privileged which are served the best wine, the best meals, a comfortable place to sleep, and life is good. On the other side of the fence, the worst in human brutality is obvious. They hardly have any food to eat; they have the worst sleeping conditions and they’re treated like nothing (Jews aren’t even humans to the Nazis). Jews were segregated because they were blames for for the economic crisis that...
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...is different from your own culture. The movie chosen is the Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is based on a fictional book by John Boyne. Introduction Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own. The ethnocentric individual will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture, especially with concern to language, behavior, customs, and religion. These ethnic distinctions and sub-divisions serve to define each ethnicity's unique cultural identity (Pinstonedu.com, n.d.). Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences (IMDb, n.d.). This movie really nails ethnocentrism on the head. By segregating the Jews in concentration camps with the fence that divides worlds of realism. On one side of the fence you have the privileged which are served the best wine, the best meals, a comfortable place to sleep, and life is good. On the other side of the fence, the worst in human brutality is obvious. They hardly have any food to eat; they have the worst sleeping conditions and they’re treated like nothing (Jews aren’t even humans to the Nazis). Jews were segregated because they were blames for for the economic crisis that...
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