Alice Kingsley's Journal

Ann Marie Low’s diary opens in 1927 when she is a teenager living with her family on a stock farm in southeastern North Dakota. Low’s diary tells the story of her family's struggle to maintain a way of life, keeping their farm, and educate their children. She discusses her family and friends, descendants of homesteaders, through the next ten years, a time when entire communities lost their homes to mortgages and to government recovery programs. Low’s faces economic hardship, unfortunate family circumstances, and the restrictions that society had placed on women. Low's diary is about life in during the Dust Bowl, and Great Depression.

10). The text showed the bird’s perseverance that, despite successfully facing many trials. ultimately led to failure. It is inferred throughout the story that the majestic is bird is not local to the area where

“I Want My Little Daughter to Be Remembered”, “The Butterfly, and Anne Frank’s Diary are all responses to the call for diaries. “I Want My Little Daughter to Be Remembered” is documentation of the personal thoughts and experiences that Israel Lichtenstein had. “The Butterfly” is a poem about Pavel Friedman’s thoughts while he was in the ghetto. Anne Frank’s Diary details Anne Frank’s experiences and life while she was living in the “Secret Annexe” and Bergen-Belsen , a concentration camp. Her diary ended when she was caught with her diary and was arrested.

Since the beginning of time all human beings have had a fascination with human flight. Watching a bird soar through the air, one cannot help but desire the same capabilities. Imagine the point of view of the bird that flies high above the trees, among the mountains, over the ocean, and high in the air, far away from the clamor of everyday life on the ground. To have the freedom and power to release ones self from the tribulations experienced with two feet on the ground, and spring up and away into the peaceful, blue sky is a common human desire. Since ancient times, flight has represented the

In the beginning I was disillusioned and disheartened. I am a proud and patriotic American and I could not reconcile my love of country and admiration for the Founding Fathers with the fact that so many of 
them owned people who had been kidnapped from their homes in Africa, or were descended from people who had been kidnapped.

John James Audubon and Annie Dillard are two authors who both describe large flocks of birds in flight. Although Audubon describes pigeons and Dillard speaks about starlings, these passages can be easily compared. Both authors feel that the birds are beautiful and worthy of admiration, but Audubon is more curious about the birds than Dillard seems to be. Dillard feels more connected with the birds, as if they are a part of her, and she appreciates their mysteriousness more than Audubon does. These similarities and differences are clearly conveyed through the author’s use of diction, imagery, details, similes, metaphors, and level of formality.

Because of the supposed similarities between humans and birds, birds are a useful tool for authors wishing to symbolize human emotions or thoughts. Mynott offers that birds are often “distinguished partly by the different human emotions they seem to be revealing” (Mynott 282). He references several examples of the use of human-specific traits in the description of birds, such as “kind,” “stern,” and “astonished” (282). It is not such a huge leap from the attribution of such human characteristics, to “anthropomorphic misdescription” (282). The birds in The Ant of the Self are said to be looking “as though they [had] placed bets” on who would lose Spurgeon’s and his father’s confrontation. While Spurgeon is taking a stand against his father by ordering him out of the car and onto the shoulder of the road, the birds’ curious glances are exposing Spurgeon’s own thoughts. The birds, a symbol for Spurgeon, wonder whether he or his father will “go down in flames” (Packer 95). The caged birds, which are so capable of human expressions, are expressing Spurgeon’s thoughts. ZZ Packer endows the birds with a look of human quizzicality, having them glance from the nervous Spurgeon to his angered father. Spurgeon wonders whether he or his father will win, and the birds, as his symbol, express this.

Anna Kingsley, a woman of strength and determination overcame many odds not expected of an African American slave. She married a slave owner, owned land, and was once a slave herself. She was well known in a free black community she helped establish.

Alice Kingsleigh, a dreamer and a member of high society, died on November 3rd, 1901. She was 49. Alice died after falling into a hole, which she had believed to be the White Rabbit’s hole, but hit her head after descending 30 feet.

Born to an enslaved black woman on a plantation in Virginia. I no longer know what I was born as, for I was renamed after the slave master. Catherine MARSHALL, name added insult to injury. That identity did does not belong to me. Taken away quite early for no reason other than to cut her free of my love and affection. It worked because I have no feelings toward my mother nor do I remember a single detail about her. I witnessed the hanging, torturing and killing of who I knew to be my blood relatives. I had become numb to it. No family, no sense of belonging. I currently know nothing about myself for. How old am I? What’s my real name? Do I have any family left? No sense of cultural identity. I am rootless.

This week I attended a seminar for a topic called ALICE, ALICE stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. I learned that the ALICE Report places a spotlight on a large population of hardworking people who work just as hard as anyone else, yet have little or no savings, and are one emergency from falling into poverty. The presenter talked about how much of the population is ALICE and in Wisconsin, the ALICE population is 42% but in Manitowoc alone it’s 41%, before 2007 these percentages were lower but increased after 2007 throughout the whole nation. More of ALICE’s households are caucasian than they are of any other race. The household survival budget of the average ALICE household is based on 5 things; local housing, childcare, food,

However, only those who were able to read Latin, or had access to him or his writings, would have benefited from his knowledge during the medieval period,” stated Rebecca Rosen during an interview.”During the medieval period, if the individual was able to read the books, they provided a wealth of knowledge on the different species, their behaviors, proper training techniques, and successful hunting strategies. Basically, everything one needed to know to be a successful falconer. For modern readers, these works provide a unique perspective on falconry that is very different from modern views. There are a number of falconers who are into falconry as they feel it gives them a way to experience the past. They like the idea that they are practicing the ‘sport of

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet and novelist. She was born in 1939 in Ottawa, Canada and has written over forty fiction books in addition to poems and critical essays (2013-17, Margaret atwood biography). Her book of poetry, The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970) was inspired by a dream Atwood had of Susanna Moodie. Moodie was an English writer who immigrated to Canada in 1832 with her husband in order to secure a better life for her growing family. Atwood had read Moodie’s book Roughing It In The Bush prior to her dream that inspired her to write her own book of poetry about the immigrant woman. Moodie’s book is centered around six various stories that she wrote at different points in her life. Similarly, Atwood broke her book of poetry

“A desperate trained falcon” would be a strong bird whose desperation has altered his independence. The kite or one’s livelihood is like a desperate trained falcon in that life involves freedom and great strength but each individual must be trained as they conform to society’s expectations. .

Four have already left home, one will leave soon and the other three still dwell in the house with her. She then begins to express the dangers of the world around her in a bird’s point of view. For example, she is afraid that her young will fall in a fowler’s snare, be caught in a net or by birdlime on twigs, or hurt by a hawk. In a human world a fowler’s snare might be fallings into the hands of trickery, robbery, or any other type of crime. Caught by net or birdlime might represent being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and a hawk-inflicted injury might symbolize being wounded or killed by an Indian or criminal.