of completeness about all of my memories form Africa. Aside from giving attentions to the poem’s stanzas and lines, I also carefully decided to put rhyme in the poem. In particular, I chose to use slant rhyme. Words that show slant rhyme are “one” and “honey bun” from lines 1 and 2. The usage slant rhymes allowed me to catch the reader’s attention and to show how I would always eat “honey buns” during the sunny days in Africa because the line before that states “The days were as hot as ten thousand
was a Starbucks in every corner but in one specific corner. In the 5th avenue there was a not so famous Starbucks who the same people always came in. first the smart girl, Africa with his brother who won’t stop annoying her, Phil. Then is Steven, the one who works there and then is his boss, Isabel, the typical grumpy boss. One day Isabel was with too much pressure because her boss her pressuring her with work. So Isabel starts trying to pressure Steven who was hard to talk to because besides he always
conditions ever in Africa where many people live less than a $1 a day. Your living conditions are so bad that you are deprived of the most basic human needs where you don’t even have access to clean water, shelter, medicine and food. Now imagine where hundreds of millions of people in Africa living like this. What you think about such a horrible living condition? Before I started my work on this topic, I was already aware that poverty is a tremendous issue in Africa through my research in reading
Barbie Savior : ‘You know Africa is not all villages, Ms Savior. Hahahahaha! You crack me up Mr interviewer.’ Barbie Savior : Born in Los Angeles, Barbie Savior, 20, rose to fame through the facetiously satirical Instagram account @babrbiesavior created in 2016, by two white twenty-something women (who choose to remain anonymous). As a teenager, Barbie was completely oblivious of the world around her and had never thought that another “country such as that of Africa” can make her into what she
Insect, and Microbial Sciences at the University of Missouri where I graduated as the Doctoral Marshal (first of my class). I even did not finish my doctorate study before I was offered a job where I was paid around 100,000 US dollars with other benefits and a company vehicle, quite a very good job by the American standard. Nonetheless, some of my people in Africa told me that I was not making much money, for they kept on believing the lie that it is easy to become a millionaire in America, a place
Poverty is a huge problem nowadays not only in the United states but all throughout the whole world. Poverty is not something that can be fixed easily it takes time and a lot of money. Many people may think they live in poverty but when in reality they have no idea what it feels like to be poor and not have enough. Poverty line is very low and individuals may not realize that. For example in 2015, 47 million people lived in poverty in the USA which means that the poverty rate last year was 15% which
Culture Interview: South Africa Andre Ebbinkhuysen is the subject of my culture interview. I chose him because I was interested in learning more about the South African culture and its history. We met at McDonalds on South College Road on Friday, June 10th at 11:00 am and interviewed for about an hour. I felt very comfortable interviewing him, as we share a secondary group at Cape Fear Community College, sitting right next to each other in our Sociology class. I feel I know him better than a
freeing South Africa from the binds of racial segregation forever. However, it was not an easy road and Mandela needed patience, strength of character, focus, passion, understanding, perseverance, and most importantly, forgiveness, to achieve this. For more than forty years, black South Africans were subject to the harsh racial segregation of the Apartheid system; despite making up over 70% of South Africa’s population, they had little to no rights. Mandela had a vision for South Africa, of which
My Application for South Africa 2016 The first time I was introduced to South Africa was last year during choir. For choir we sang a South African ritual. This enticed me to look into the culture of South Africa to find out more things about my new found interest. During this investigation I found out that South Africa is prominent for their unique wild life, it is the only country which has hosted the world cup for cricket, rugby, and soccer, the vast history due to the colonialization of Africa
South Africa was last year during choir. For choir we sang a South African ritual which enticed me to look into the culture of South Africa to find out more things about my new found interest. During this investigation I found out that South Africa is prominent for their unique wild life, it is the only country which has hosted the world cup for cricket, rugby, and soccer, the vast history due to the colonialization of Africa by Europe, and the luxurious bodies of water found in South Africa. Also