Carolyn Forche Analysis

The Colonel by Carolyn Forche was a prose poem. It describes a trip that the narrator has taken with his or her friend to the Colonel’s house and have a meal with his family. The Colonel is not evil, he had no intention of harming the narrator or the narrator's friend. At the start of the story, the Colonel’s wife tends to the narrator by giving them “coffee and sugar” (Forche 1). The wife is caring for the narrator indicating that they are welcomed and invited guests in their house. In the event that the narrator and his friend were not supposed to be in their house, the wife would have had a different reaction since. If there was an intruder, offering coffee to them would not be a natural response. Humans have a fight or flight response to

After a brief discussion concerning the failure rates for African-American and Latino students in freshmen classes, Conradson began a discussion of the proposed schedule change. Conradson stated that Cheryl Lawton provided incorrect information. Conradson said, “Lawton says 9 schools are like Milpitas when in fact there are 13. I counted them myself.” She described the inconsistency as “deliberate manipulation.”

Within the past 50 years, there has been an increasing amount of women in the government. Whether these women hold powerful positions such as Secretary of State, or hold minor positions such as PTA President, a political revolution is brewing. The United States of America is lacking substantially with regards to females in office, in fact if one were to look statistically at the amount of women in the government, the United States is failing tremendously. Although the United States likes to claim that they are the land of opportunities, it seems as if the only ones reaping those benefits are cis white males. But, there are women who choose to break the glass ceiling and attempt to explore the opportunities that are in front of them, and one

The short novel Native guard, apart of a large part of the author Natasha Trethewey’s Focus remains historic, as she speaks about the story largely in documented story of Louisiana’s all black regiment called to serve in the civil war. But for the first time she also turns her attention inward, towards her painful personal history involving the loss of her mother. In this process she exposes the intersections between history and memory, examining memory itself for its powers and limitations. Within “Miscegenation” and “Pastoral” is not only about her parents, but as a significant deepening of her discussion of the importance of memorial. The First Poem “Pastoral” is mainly about the Old South.

Poetry is the use of carefully constructed phrases used to express deeply felt thoughts and feelings in a way that flows between ideas. In his poems I Lie in this Coffin and A Load of Shoes, Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever uses a range of literary techniques to communicate his profound sense of loss and despair at the constrictions of living in the Jewish ghetto with everyday reminders of the Holocaust. Through use of metaphor and the ironic comfort of the “suit made of wood…a cradle, an ark” in the first poem, and with the extended metaphor of shoes missing their feet in the second poem, the poet manages to paint a picture for us of both everyday ghetto life and the enormity of the ‘Final Solution’. His conversation with those who have been killed reinforces a concept of personal loss that is linked at the same time to eternity. This is reinforced by the poet’s use of personification in the

I, Helen Katz, was the youngest of eight children. I was born and raised in a religious Jewish family living in a small town in northeastern Hungary. I was always considered the "baby" of my family, I was the focus of everyone's love and affection, although my Hebrew name was Hannah, my family always called me by my nickname, Potyo, which meant "the dear little one”.

Natasha Trethewey’s purposeful limited view on her mother’s death in Native Guard reveals her difficult journey through coping mechanisms. Trethewey’s collection of poems revolve around ideas such as grief, her mother’s death and racism. In “Graveyard Blues”, Trethewey

In the 1940’s and the 1950’s, America was going through a world war and several difficulties that included problems in civil and woman rights on the home-front. In two different nonfiction memoirs by female authors, we see different yet similarities in the novels. Nisei Daughter by Monica Sone is a memoir by a Japanese-American woman, in which she describes her childhood, adolescence, and young womanhood while growing up in a Japanese immigrant family in Seattle, Washington in the 1930 's. In the second narrative, Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody is a memoir by an African-American woman whom writes about her childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood life and growing up in her home state during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950’s. Moody and Sone had childhoods that lacked positive influences in certain areas and tell their stories to help others in understanding the issues that surrounded them as being minority women in a society that don’t accept them.

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, America’s first Female Native American writer and poet, exemplifies a unique multicultural influence in her writing as a result of her intermarried parents. Robert Dale Parker (2009), in his paper “Contemporary Anticolonialist Reading and the Collaborative Writing of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft,” describes her controversial writings “as representing the cacophonous medley of internal contradictions that she lived in” (p.52). Specifically, that of her poem Pensive Hours, which exhibits the layered nature of her works, shown through her Anglo-American heritage (with an emphasis towards Christian) tones hidden alongside her native spirituality, establishes Jane Johnston Schoolcraft as an American poet influenced by more than English Romanticism.

This article introduces historical accounts and analysis of programs for incarcerated mothers and their children in the United States (Susan C. Craig, 2009).

In Natasha Trethewey’s poetry collection Native Guard, the reader is exposed to the story of Trethewey’s growing up in the southern United States and the tragedy which she encountered during her younger years, in addition to her experiences with prejudice and to issues surrounding prejudice within the society she is living in. Throughout this work, Trethewey often refers to graves and provides compelling imagery regarding the burial of the dead. Within Trethewey’s work, the recurring imagery surrounding graves evolves from the graves simply serving as a personal reminder of the past, to a statement on the collective memory of society and comments on how Trethewey is troubled with what society has forgotten as it signifies a willingness to overlook the dehumanization of a large group of people.

Despite being from different countries, time periods, and social statuses, poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Natasha Trethewey seem to have similar social views as seen in Browning’s The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point and Trethewey’s Enlightenment. An examination of A Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point by Elizabeth Barret Browning and Enlightenment by Natasha Trethewey demonstrate that Trethewey and Browning used poetry to express their dislike of racial prejudice and slavery relevant to their time.

Judy Chicago (artist, author, feminist and educator) has a career that now spans five decades. In the late 1960s, her inquiry into the history of women began a result of her desire to expose the truth of women’s experiences, both past and present. She still continues on a crusade to change the perception of women from our history, “Women’s history and women’s art need to become part of our cultural and intellectual heritage.” (Chicago, 2011) Through our history women - their struggles, accomplishments and contribution to history, have been overlooked, downplayed and even completely written out of a male dominated society and culture. In anthropologist Sherry Ortner’s 1974 essay “Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?” she supports this view, writing “…woman is being identified with—or, if you will, seems to be a symbol of—something that every culture devalues,” (Ortner, 1974) Where Mendieta's work primarily came from a striving to belong and an understanding of where she came from, I feel that Chicago's aim was to find a place for all women, past and present in this world, starting with herself in the art world. Chicago did explore her peronal heritage in later works entitled 'Birth Project' and 'Holocaust Project'.

Ancient Rome is filled with stories of sabotage, betrayal, and revenge. These events are the direct result of a conspiracy that sparks political debate even today. One of the more controversial events occurred a relatively short time before Caesar’s rule and when of the Roman Republic when Senators were brutal in their methods of winning elections. The Roman election of 63 B.C.E. had become the foundation for the conspiracy against a Roman senator Cicero by another Roman senator popularly known as Catiline. Ultimately, Catiline’s plan had been unveiled and despite trying to incite a revolution, he had died fighting as he fled the city. The fall of Catiline was the result of The economy of Rome during that period, the election of 63 B.C.,

Copyright is a very common topic in colleges since many students might have a assignment due and they rather to use ideas from the internet than their own ideas even if the ones from the web does not match with their own understanding. Now days some people, specially college students decided to be lazy by copyright their own work rather than being original and unique by expressing their thoughts.