...My Creative Response to “To My Brother Miguel (in memoriam)” Of all the texts in the book of readings, this particular poem remained in my thoughts for a long time. It’s an emotional piece; the writer clearly delivered a lot of heavy feelings within it. Whether or not the poem is based on real life experience by the poet is irrelevant to my comprehension of the piece’s emotional message and eulogy to a long since dead family member. Throughout the piece he contrasts himself by both writing in the voice of a child and an ironic, slightly world-weary adult. The innocence of his childhood voice and memories, countered with the lingering sadness of his adult one gave me pause to think about the range of voice being brought to the table. The piece lacks a distinct sense of rage at the narrator’s loss of his brother. This made me highly intrigued as to what the poem would feel like if it was filled with rage or even regret. And while the narrator lingers on past memories, he certainly doesn’t regret the time he spends dwelling over them. The largest voice missing from the poem was that of the dead brother himself. I entertained the thought of writing an opposing poem from the point of view of the dead brother, in the same style as the original piece, while he laments over the fact that his brother won’t let his memories pass on. But I thought that that piece would lack the anger and regret that I felt was missing from the original piece. So I instead made the brother a slightly...
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...Over the past ten years, The Walking Dead have been the most popular TV show. The Walking Dead is an American horror drama television series developed by Frank Darabont, based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. The Walking Dead premiered in the United States on October 31, 2010, shown on cable television channel and internationally on Fox International Channels. The Walking dead is my favorite TV show because when you watch the show, you will never know what will happen next and that’s what is making it so interesting and exciting to watch. In my opinion, this TV show is one of the best TV series I have ever seen. The Prison Break is also one of my favorite TV show over the past ten...
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...Engines roared. Tires screeched. Sirens blared. Then darkness. blank walls. My skin burns. Laughter. Everything is fun. Colors. The walls are blank and colorful. Black. I can move. Trying to release sound any sound, nothing comes. Beeping- the noise hurts my ears. Beep, beep beep beep. Then no noise. I think she is waking up Can you hear us? Who is talking?.. I think someone is talking. I feel unusually giddy. Where am I? Truck! There was a truck. My legs hurt. I jolt awake. It’s four months since the blank room and I still had pleasant nightmares. The sad, melancholic, but beautifully fascinating nightmares. Maybe they were delightful, I can't tell. I reach for the water next to me; I can't reach it. I don't want to get up. My legs hurt....
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...patch of land, empty except for a collection of placards and posters. Related ■ Sabra and Shatila: defenceless victims were butchered by militiamen ■ A warning from history: how a massacre is remembered Topic Middle East unrest Lebanon Middle East One shows a woman standing over a pile of bloated, twisted bodies, an arm raised to the sky and a look of bewilderment on her face. Others have images of dead bodies and a man wailing as he holds up the bloodied corpse of a baby. One placard reads: "We will never forget." And here, indeed, they cannot forget. For this nondescript patch of land in Ghobeiry is a mass grave containing the unidentified bodies of scores, perhaps hundreds, of hastily buried men, women and children massacred 30 years ago in the nearby Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. For three days, Lebanese Christian militia scoured the camps and systematically slaughtered refugees trapped inside by an Israeli military cordon. The massacre, against the backdrop of the country's 15-year civil war and Israel's invasion the same year, shocked Lebanon and Israel, and appalled a wider world that had thought itself inured to senseless bloodshed in what it saw as an inherently fratricidal corner of the Middle East. Three decades later, there has been no accountability and no historical reckoning: no Lebanese or Israeli citizen has ever been brought to justice for the slaughter of those whose whose remains lie in the ground. In the centre...
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...prophesied that he would kill his own father and marry his mother. To avoid this, his parents had him sent out to be killed. The servant tasked with this, however, could not kill him and left him on a hillside to die of natural causes. He was discovered and raised by a poor family, and then later he returned and unknowingly fulfilled the prophesy, becoming in the process the king of Thebes. When the truth of this became known to him, he blinded himself. This story is the subject of the first two plays by Sophocles in the Oedipus cycle, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus. Four children were born of that incestuous marriage–two boys, Eteocles and Polynices, and two girls, Antigone and Ismene. When we join the action here, Antigone’s two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, have died at each other’s hands, Eteocles while defending Thebes and its new king Creon, Polynices in the forces attacking Thebes to remove Creon. Creon issues a decree that Polynices’ body cannot be buried or mourned. Both Antigone and Creon act in headstrong ways, and each rejects any suggestion that the other side may have some validity to its argument. The Greeks had a concept known as hubris. Hubris is overweaning or excessive pride. As you read the selections provided here, please consider the following questions: Questions: 1. Is Antigone right to respect the established religious traditions and requirements and to ignore the edict of the government? If so, is Ismene wrong to demur and not participate...
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...Before Seta died and Krikor was sent away, Vahan dared to envision the following: “I saw Seta at my side, her hand in mine. And now our own children, a home of our own, and Krikor grown and handsome and healthy. But only for a night.” He had loved Seta, and that love gave him joy and freedom from his circumstances. For one night, Vahan was not afraid to be Armenian; rather, he dreamed of marrying an Armenian, raising a family with her, and building a life as more than a victim. Yet, he was not to experience that freedom either, and he would grieve that lost future. For Vahan, to be Armenian was to carry the burden of a dead people, a dead culture, and a dead future. In conclusion, over the course of three years, Vahan Kenderian grew from a child into an adult, and, despite finding freedom in Constantinople, he would never forget those whom he had lost nor stop questioning whether they might have lived if he had stayed with them. The Ottoman Empire brutally murdered his entire people, and as he states in closing, “I knew that there would never again be another Bitlis or Erzerum or Van, and that the world I had known...
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...Dealing With a Dead Situation John 11:1-4 & 17-27 Saints for the next few minitues I want to talk to you about the situations that are in your life. In order to deal with the situations that we are going to have to face in this world, we must learn how to deal with some situations in your life and allow them to die. We all go and are going through things that seems to hard for us to bear. There are many things that we have been praying for and we wonder Lord are you listening to me? Some of us been praying the same prayer so long that we feel like maybe this is one He just isn’t going to answer. I stop by to let you know that He hears every prayer and it is how you are dealing with the situation that is affecting the answer. Don’t you realize that He told us that we have the power to speak things into exsistance. Take not that on the 3 P’s. P= I have taught you in my word how to first Pray P= I have given you the Power to speak over your situation P= Then after you have pray and authorized your power to speak, then you have to learn to leave it alone and Praise for the result. Some of us don’t want our situations to die. We get all the attention as long as we are going through. If the Lord make a way for my bills to be paid, I can’t hit up the mission department no more. If he heal me, then the mothers want come over and cook and clean for me no more You don’t want your situation to die because that is the only way your lazy self have learned how to survive...
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...that war is all glory and patriotism, but this is not the true face of war. War makes people face challenges of losses and injuries. In My Brother Sam is Dead by the Collier brothers, a young child named Tim Meeker and his family learn first hand how war can destroy and divide individuals, families and communities. War can destroy and divide individuals. For example, when Mr. Heron offers Tim the chance to take a letter to Fairfield, and Tim is exited because he wants to have a story to tell Sam. Father does not whant Tim to go because he does not trust Mr. Heron and does not want Tim getting hurt. But Tim decides to go anyway. This shows that Tim is struggling with loyalties between his brother, Sam, and his father....
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...In my 25 years of life, I have come to understand that the only things I can trust in life are facts. Life, and everything we have come to understand in society, is based off rules and principles constructed to help us survive and thrive. There is a type of methodical beauty to it. Scientists have tried, failed, and tried again to understand how the world works. I knew that life followed these principles and that is how I taught myself how to search for the truth as a hematologist. I search for the answers within the blood proteins, to me it’s the closest thing that I could get in terms of facts. I thought that I could trust the facts; however, that all changed after that dreary night at the hospital. It was a warm October night and I was at Mercy Hospital with my mother. I gazed at her warmly. Her skin was grey, faded, and freckled. Years of taking care of my father, brother, and I had clearly taken a toll on her and it was evident that her time was coming. Everything about her seemed to...
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...much must a person endure in the face of pain? Loss? Suffering? Loss of a father? Death of both of the brothers at each other's hands? This enormity of death deeply influences the characters' rationales and actions in the play Antigone by Sophocles. Each character behaves in extremes due to his or her unfathomable anguish. Neither Antigone, Haimon, nor Creon act with reason because of their intense personal losses and grief. Unfortunately, both extreme passion and radical reasoning manifest serious tragedy. Antigone, the protagonist of the play, lives with her father’s banishment and the death of her two brothers in a civil war. To add to the torment of the death of her brother, Polynieces, a decree passed by Antigone's uncle, Creon,...
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...today. Men could only fight other men of their class, as a sign of respect for the enemy. Honor determined social status, impact on society and amount of respect men received. Loyalty was extremely important, because no matter what happened before or grudges that were held, loyalty to each other could erase all of it. These qualities- pride, honor and respect- can be found in Homer's Iliad. The greatest example of loyalty in the Iliad is Achilles coming back to avenge his friend, Patroclus. Achilles swore he would never come back; never fight again for the people who spurned him. He even called for the gods to bring misfortune to the Greeks. Then the Trojans killed his friend. “Athena will kill you with my spear in just a moment. Now you will pay with at a stroke for all my comrades’ grief, all you killed in the fury of your shield.” (Homer 212-214) His grudges and hatred were gone, and his loyalty to his friend brought him back to the battle to avenge him. Another example of this...
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...Without Doodle It’s Depressing “It was the clove of seasons,summer was dead but autumn was yet to be born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree. The flower garden was stained with rotting brown magnolia petals, and ironweeds grew rank amid the purple phlox” (Hurst 416). As summer dies the pretty plants begin to die as well, and it leaves a beautiful sadness in the air. James Hurst uses words like ‘rank’ ‘dead’, ‘bleeding’, ‘stained’, and ‘rotting’, words like these wouldn’t set a happy tone for the start of any story. The narrator in “The Scarlet Ibis” only wanted his brother, Doodle, to fit in. Unfortunately, he would always stick out because he couldn’t get too tired, too hot, and too cold. Doodle died from over exhaustion, same...
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...“I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet Ibis from the Heresy from the rain.” All the narrator wants is a “normal” brother. He tries his best the change his brother; all that leads to is death. Doodle is his brothers Scarlet Ibis, and Doodle dies because of his brother. His brother tries so hard to change who Doodle is and all that it leads to is a death. In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis”, James Hurst uses conflict, symbolism, and irony to develope the message that everyone needs to accept others for who they are, and not try to change them or the outcome will be negative. James Hurst uses internal conflict to show that changing others for selfish reasons can lead to tragic consequences. The main reason that Doodle can walk is because of the narrator’s selfish attitude of caring what others think. When the narrator says “I was embarrassed at having a brother who couldn’t walk”(336), his egotistical personality defiantly shows through; he is more concerned of what others think rather than the fact that his impaired brother is unable to walk (CS2). The only motivation to...
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...can completely be sad only on the inside but on the outside normal or they can completely show their sadness. It shows one passion for the lost one. For example, a lady has coffee with a friend at a common place for many year she’ll associate that place with the person. If that person were to die that coffee place would be a reminder of that person. The lady could cry from just seeing the coffee shop, or she could be happy for seeing that coffee shop. The cry or happiness reveals her relationship with the person who passed. She could be crying because she regret saying something to the person or not saying something. She could be remembering the good times she had with that person as well, it could remind her of the person. Hamlet is the same way. Hamlet is dealing with grief his own way. Shakespeare is showing Hamlet as a person who isn’t getting along with anybody. Everybody has their own way of dealing with grief. Everybody in the play tells Hamlet to move on and stop grieving, but in reality everybody in the play are in their own stages. Everybody from Gertrude to the Claudius is showing the different stages of grief. In the play Hamlet, Shakespeare shows the distinct stages of grief by using successful cause and effect vivid characterization and dramatic suspense. Shakespeare uses dramatic suspense to show the different stages of grief. Hamlet loved his father. In the beginning of the play,...
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...important to obey and listen to your parents? They may know more than you care to admit. War brings on hard times for all members of a family, and It can lead to massive arguments between the members of a family. It is important to obey your parents because they are looking out for you have your best interest in mind. Nothing about war is exciting. It brings devastation upon the population. The story My Brother Sam is Dead shows what the Meeker family has to go through in order to (hopefully) survive the war, and these themes are included throughout. There is nothing exciting about war. With war comes disease and famine, which then leads to death. This is heavily...
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