Kayla Nguyen Mr. Stewart AP Language & Comp. 11 September 2014 Dreaming America Ms. Hip Hop tells us about stereotypical New York and California today. Are they really all they are cracked up to be? Many people, like Ms. Hip Hop, dream of going to these places because of their story, but don't know what the real legacy behind each of them are. 1.
The title of the poem establishes the setting and tells us a little bit of what the poem is about. It is strange as there is not “a” or “the” used for the title: “Brooklyn Cop” The title doesn’t single anyone out, suggesting that it is aimed at all cops as “a” or “the” is not used. Brooklyn has a reputation for crimes, poverty and high unemployment and therefore is a bad area and implies that the cop is at risk of being injured. The poet uses word choice for this. “Cop” is slang for policeman, which suggests that he doesn’t follow the rules and also that his vocabulary isn’t of very high standard.
Finding the bridge is a shock because the place is so isolated and no one ever comes up there. Chapter 3 1. The words that give the effect that the place is isolated are: Overgrown Old Chapter 4 1. Ellie’s reaction to the planes was that she was scared and told Fi that they were just planes coming back from commemoration day. 2.
This shows the audience how busy and frantic the investigators and police are, and how focused Luther is on his work as he is interested only in getting to the scene of the crime. This tells the audience a lot about Luther’s character and shows him as being a conventional stock character of crime drama with his obsessive, compulsive attitude towards his work. During Luther’s approach to the crime scene, the urban setting is established. The grey signifiers and dark lighting reflects grim city life. This gives a dystopian feel.
Remaining silent against her heart’s desire to apologize, causes frustration and inner conflict. All this in the story “Marie” is lined with Gods messages forgiveness, quotes from the bible and a spirit of knowing you did wrong. (Holy Spirit). “Marie” in the story “lost in the city.” 86-years-old, she lives and survives in a town that is dangerous. Brave and strong, she defends herself from a street thug, and she strikes back when she is treated as a non-human by the clerks at the Social Security office.
English essay – shoe horn sonata, distinctively visual. Important issues in the world can be brought to mind by engaging visual images. There are many examples of this present in John Misto’s play the shoehorn sonata and also Siegfried Sassoon’s poem suicide in the trenches. Shoe horn sonata was written as a tribute to inform its audience of the little known history of the forgotten prisoners of World War II, focusing on British and Australian nurses, he uses two main characters Bridie and Sheila who tell their experiences from the war. Misto does this in a humorous and often confronting manner.
They both referenced all the same witnesses and environmental factors such as George Gordon and the “woman in the red”(“Kill Dillinger Here”). As for the rest of the reporting, The Chicago Daily Tribune portrayed an emotional outlook on how all the facts were expressed. Throughout the whole newspaper itself, it used and emotional tactic to fully describe each and every event. It would use words such as gay, stolen sweetheart, zealous, lifelong friend, devoted, and love to describe the other important surroundings of the case. These emotionally loaded words defined the outside sources in a meaningful way to illustrate reactions of the people around the event.
The protest sign, that was almost as tall as they, read, “War is Not a Family Value.” They were standing in the street; just a foot or so off of the sidewalk were in the background adults could be seen. The two girls looked confused and lost, though I am not sure why. It is possible that they had no clue what the entire fuss was about at this rally; or maybe they did, and were heart broken over the loss of a parent or other loved one. Interpretation is at the eyes and heart of the beholder, and I felt they new what was going on. Viewing this photo, all I could think of is the astronomical loss that children and families have gone through during so many wars.
That this woman could offer so much reform and understanding for individuals without having a degree in this field is remarkable beyond words. She was an individual who did not want expressions of praise or gratitude for her work. She refused to have hospitals named after her; she desired that her achievements “rest in silence”. This remarkable woman has touched the lives of so many and it is because of her that we can not only thank for the humanity that she brought to the mentally ill but also gives us the knowledge that living conditions can determine the state of one’s
The ladies in this neighborhood do not seem to know this. They all lack cynicism and are very sheltered. However, Wallace and the boys know that nothing in life is innocent. They know the downfalls of society. They knew that the media deliberately planned how they were going to show the feed of the towers falling to make it seem as dramatic as possible and to evoke as many emotions from their viewers as they could.