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Kody Scott grew up in South Central L.A. during the nineteen-sixties and seventies, soon after the creation of the Crips. Raised in poverty without a father, and a full family raised solely by his mother, Kody Scott led the stereotypical ghetto life, a poor and broken home. However he does not blame this on his…

Jimmy Cross – More than any other hereafter, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross has to deal with the weight of responsibility. All the other soldiers experience death and horror, but they also all seem to take solace in the senselessness of war. Because he is in charge of the platoon, however, Jimmy Cross blames himself for every…

Lakyn Stewart Drama Essay 4-28-2013 Ophelia: The Victim of Hamlet’s Actions William Shakespeare’s production, Hamlet, is based off of tragedy and revenge. Prince Hamlet learns that the mournful death of his father is indeed a purposely carried out plan devised by no other than his uncle Claudius. Claudius murders the king for selfish intentions of…

The Effects of Using Poetry as a Tool to Increase Phonemic Awarenessand Reading Achievement in a Third Grade ClassroomToday many children are having difficulty learning to read. Some parents are complaining about public schools not doing their job. On standardized tests, the reading scores are low and many children are neither excited about learning how…

The Scarlet Letter – Symbolic charactersSymbolic characters are very important in most powerful novels. One classic that uses characters as symbols is The Scarlet Letter. This novel is about a woman in Puritan society, Hester, who commits adultery with her minister, Arthur Dimmesdale. She has a daughter, Pearl, and is forced to wear a scarlet…

One’s belonging will always be entrenched in the ‘belonging’ established by another group; regardless of whether or not you wish to be a part of such a group. That is to say, even if it is your aim to find your sense of belonging totally outside of another group, the course of action required to…

Thank you for inviting me here today, to speak to you about the launch of the new collection entitled Representations of Belonging. It brings me great pleasure to talk about a variety; a play, a picture book & a poem that would shape our understanding of belonging. We live in an affluent, developing society as…

Edgar Allan Poe, who was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, experienced an unstable childhood due to his orphanhood at the age of three. He was then sent to live with the Allans in Richmond, VA, where he remained until his marriage to his cousin Virginia Clemm at the age of thirteen. However, his…

Shakespeare’s 1597 play ‘Romeo and Juliet” explores the protagonist’s change in attitude to love. This is done through the juxtaposition of Romeo’s infatuated love to Rosaline and the true love to Juliet. In Act 1 Scene 1 Shakespeare introduces us to Romeo’s passionate desire towards Rosaline through the use of binary opposition, soliloquy and vivid…

As years pass, people, societies and cultural values change. You interpret things the way you want to and based on your background, gender, ect.  Today in society women are equal; years ago it was not like that. Nonetheless, Aristophanes play, Lysistrata, has nothing to do with feminism.  The simple message of the play to me…