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    A rigorous journey from Colombia to the Garden State Moving to a different place is exciting but for my grandma was the complete opposite. In 1979, at the age of 38 years old, my grandma, Ruby Arzayus, made the decision to move to the United States. Leaving her two little blessings back home, she made the decisions to move to the states because she wanted to give both of her daughters a better future. Growing up, I have been close to my grandma but I have never asked her about her voyage to the

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    Along with the National geographic society being founded, 1888 was also the year Hilda Doolittle was born in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. This soon to be Imagist writer was known mainly for her poems. What differentiated her from most other Imagists at the time was her identity a female and bisexual which both at the time were severely oppressed. Along with the political stance, Hilda Doolittle also faced struggles growing up due to being only daughter in her family and her father being a science professor

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    Are the arts of painting and poetry comparable? It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but can a painting truly be represented in written form? The Modernist poets William Carlos Williams and W.H. Auden use every grammatical tool and trick of form available to them to do just that. Williams wrote the poem “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” which makes a clear allusion in the first line to a painting with the same name by Brueghel the Elder. Similarly, W.H. Auden also wrote a poem called

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    All humans have different personalities and experiences that create the stories of their life. Sometimes these stories are shared with everyone and sometimes they are hidden. The hidden identity of William Carlos Williams ironically is everywhere in his poetry. In, The Thinker, the overall happy theme secretly represents a sad and disconnected part of his life. Williams dark and light times in his life influenced his work and even if his life looked wonderful, secretly there were many challenging

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    William Carlos Williams attended Horace Mann High School, where he began to practice poetry. He started attending after he and his mother and brother returned to the United States. At this time he also decided to pursue his dreams of becoming a doctor and writer. When he finished high school he enrolled into the Philadelphia University. He was a 19 year old student he went to study the medical field and received an MD. Before he began to work full time at the hospital, he was an intern. Later he

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    assortment of cultural, art, and political movements. Perhaps nobody took as full of an advantage of the concept of modernism as poets did, expanding the possibilities of their works to unimaginable lengths. Poets such as Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, and many others employed literary devices to portray important messages that they often buried in their works. From the use of these literary devices such as metaphors, imagery, and symbolism these poets were able to portray

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    The Red Wheelbarrow

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    The poem I chose was “The Red Wheelbarrow”, by William Williams. This I a very short poem, and still delivers great imagery and description. There is the speaker who is the only one speaking and is speaking towards a red wheelbarrow and chickens. In line one the word depends appears and from then I saw how it is speaking in regards of something important. Also when I looked back I noticed it was an essential because Williams said so much”, both words make the reader see how it was just not important

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    The Peace Dollar Quotes

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    V8 Engine - The engine represents the theme of teamwork and trust. In the engine it does not matter how effective each cylinder is independent of the others because if one cylinder is not functioning, the whole engine will not operate properly. This is similar to the eight rowers working in Joe’s boat, they must learn not just to row well on their own, but to row well as a boat. Joe learns he must trust the other boys in the boat, so they can work as a boat, instead of individuals. Peace Dollar

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    The point of view in William Williams “The Use of Force” lets him cover up the brutality and sickness in what seems to be an ordinary patient analysis. While this story contains brutality and a demented atmosphere it also contains an unexpected twist in the plot. The legitimacy of these in “The Use of Force” relies heavily on the author’s point of view and how an underlying desire for evil is covered up within a doctor’s visit. William’s point of view prevails because of his diction, plot, and style

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    Robin Williams was a world known, brilliant actor, a loving father and a caring husband. But despite Williams’ smiling face, unbelievable talent and humor, he had terrible, private struggles. Robin Williams was an extremely talented, world known actor. There is something about the kindness in his eyes that is impossible to explain. He has made the world both cry and laugh. He will never be forgotten. His full name was Robin McLaurin Williams (Robin Williams Biography). Robin Williams was born on

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