Wild Swans By Varian Fry: An Analysis

Bryant went through many hard times throughout his life; from losing family members to being socially isolated. He lost many family members and close friends. The one death that hurt him the most was his father’s. Bryant’s father was a very important part of his life; his father taught him many things throughout his lifetime. His father submitted five of his poems into the North American Review, one of those were the first version of “Thanatopsis”. It is said that Bryant mourned his father’s death and that his death is what gave him the emotional passion to write with.

In A White Heron Sarah Orne Jewett really dramatizes Sylvia, the main character through using several different literary elements. He uses such things as diction, metaphors, imagery, narrative pace and point of view throughout the story which help the reader stay interested.

John Abbott a lawyer, statesman, and prime minister of Canada from 1891 to 1892 once said “Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.” (http://en.proverbia.net). This shows that every person’s personality is different because of their culture with examples like ‘My Favorite Chaperone’ by Jean Okimoto , and ‘The Chocolate War’ by Robert Cormier. Stories also explore what happens to culture when it attempts perfection and fails such as ‘The Giver’ by Lois Lowry. ‘My Favorite Chaperone’ explains how cultural differences create conflict in families. ‘The Chocolate War’ is a story about how school settings also have a culture that influences how students and faculty treat each other. The novel ‘The Giver’ gives an example of a dystopian society that tries equality and fails. In a compare and contrast of these texts, all the cultures determined what are the acceptable norms, the social and the degree of of punishment for breaking the standard which mirrors our cultures.

“The Scarlet Ibis” is written by James Hurst is a short story that takes place on a cotton farm in the south during World War 1. A boy named Doodle dreams about flying because he is not very mobile. The author uses different types of birds to compare Doodle too. James Hurst used flying as a metaphor for Doodle throughout the whole story.

In James Hurst's short story "The Scarlet Ibis", Hurst utilizes bird imagery to foreshadow Doodle's death; Brothers pride takes over and he leaves Doodle to die. The Scarlet Ibis is a short story weaving the tragic tale of Doodle, a disabled child and his brother, the narrator. One goal the brothers have is to make Doodle like a regular kid, but sadly, that is not the case. Doodle’s older brother is cruel to him by forcing him to do tasks that he is unable to do, much like how Hurst uses the hurt bird to foreshadow Doodle’s death.

Mary Oliver’s article offers honest opinions on Rustum Roy. This article is very detailed when it comes to friendships. Friendship is the theme of the poem in “Wild Geese.” The article talks about Roy’s life and how he lived but most importantly what his friendship meant. He lived a very adventurous life and his friends miss that special memory they got to share with him.

Coping is expending conscious effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize or tolerate stress or conflict. Everyone copes with political and cultural changes differently. It depends on what the individual thinks about the change; whether they believe it is positive or negative, if that person is afraid to voice their opinion, or if the change benefits them is some way, such as gaining power. Usually an opinion about a change is due to: individuals’ backgrounds, what they believe, what they’ve experienced, what they’re afriad of. Basically everything about them and the way in which they have been living their lives up until the point of change. Wild Swans, by Jung Chang, is about three generations of women

Change at the level of an individual can be signaled by behavior, sense of values or manners of expression. In Chosen Place, Timeless People by Paule Marshall, Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif, and Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje, each characters experiences different changes and how it affected them. In Chosen Place, Timeless People, the “chose place” is set on Bourne Island, an imaginary Caribbean island that was once a British colony. The island’s primary source of income is sugarcane production.

Imagination is a person’s escape from the reality around them. Life is hard, there is no way to dispute that, people struggle every day. In Mary Oliver’s poem, “Wild Geese,” Mary writes about the torture of everyday life that people have to go through, but that those people also get an escape through their imagination. Mary explains that with imagination a person feels free on a whole different level, a more spiritual level.

"My name is Morten," said the goose. "Actually, I'm a tame goose, but on this special

Consider the Louisiana senator Bernardo de Gálvez's lecture to his armed force of 1,300, as they walked North from Spanish New Orleans to assault British Baton Rouge in September 1779. Gálvez's discourse must be made an interpretation of from Spanish into French for militiamen who had settled in Louisiana before 1762, when France surrendered it to Spain. No less than 80 of the militiamen, free blacks, had been furnished in "white coats with gold catches and round caps finished with blood red rosettes." The French interpretation was additionally for officers whose families had taken shelter in Louisiana subsequent to being driven from their homes in British-possessed Acadia — today's Cajuns. Gálvez's words were rendered into English for outcasts from

My favorite constellation is Cygnus the Swan mostly because of one of the stories that corresponds to it. Cygnus in Latin literally mean “swan!” It is the 16th largest constellation, and it consists of ten stars.The two most notable stars in this constellation are Deneb and Albireo at the tail and head of the constellation. Deneb, a blue-white supergiant at the tail, is the brightest star in Cygnus and the 19th brightest star in the sky! It makes up the Summer Triangle along with Vega and Altair,and is estimated to be 60,000 times brighter than our sun! The interesting thing about Albireo, the star at the head of Cygnus, is the fact that it is not one star but two! As you can see in the picture above and to the far right, one is a light blue

Downton Abbey, created by Julian Fellowes, has reopened my mind and got me to think deeper about how the Western world has changed in such a short time period. Ever since I started watching the television series two months ago, I have really been taken aback by the radical differences that only span 100 years or so. For example, up until the 1960’s or so, women were essentially not allowed to do anything except stay at home and take care of the children and attend to their husbands. A short time after the First World War, more women than ever began to criticize the institutions that

During the early part of the twentieth century, artists and writers saw the world in a new way. Famed British novelist Virginia Woolf was very sensitive to this change, for she felt that human relationships such as ones between a husband and wife of master and servant were shifting, due to all of the political, religious, and social changes. These, of course,

I stood there looking in through the bars on the cage, watching the birds fly around their cage. I rested my hands on one of the metal bars on the cage as I watched my favorite bird, Sky , she was the bird I got for my 12th birthday that year. Sky was a bird with blue feathers and white areas on its stomach that looked like clouds. I loved to watch the birds play with each other. I was aloud to hold them but I was not aloud to take them out of the cage without an adult around And my mom was taking a nap. My mom has black curly hair and brown eyes.