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    Painted in oil on a panel measuring sixty by twenty inches, the viewer’s focus is drawn to the artwork’s central figure. A man is shown with his head facing away from the viewer, and his legs are brought up to his chest underneath his body. Two birds, of black and white, are on strings. The strings are used to show that the character is being pulled or drawn to different directions simultaneously. The novel excerpt from Montoya is page twenty-eight of over two-hundred; it is in the beginning of the

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    understand what it was like for African Americans. Mostly because it was hard to tell their side of the story. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” took place in the 1930’s, but the book did not get published until 1970. Many of African Americans in the 1900’s made a living by selling themselves to white people as cotton pickers (Historical context: I know why the caged bird sings). Sociological structures in the south kept African Americans in their place by making it illegal to write literature for African

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    and some of them are very different. Two great books are I Know why the Caged Bird Sings and To Kill a Mockingbird. The setting and the narrator of the books are very different. These books are more different than similar. The books were different in many ways. The race of the narrators were different in each book. In To Kill a Mockingbird the narrator was white, In I Know why the Caged Bird Sings the narrator was black. The way and by whom the narrators were raised in each book was different. In

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    The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge is an interesting place to visit. In the early 1900s, over 3 million birds died of alkali poisoning in the Bear River area. The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge was originally founded to prevent avian botulism and other diseases. Over 60 species of birds breed and raise their babies at the Bird Refuge, and approximately 250 species migrate through there. Alkali poisoning or avian botulism is caused when birds eat a toxin that is created by a bacteria called clostridium

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    Their resounding calls overbear the soft melody of the surrounding sea as more and more birds overtake the sky. A single Northern Gannet plummets below, momentarily leaving his group to join others. The remaining three birds rest high above the surf on the uneven ground as they aimlessly observe the others flying around them. As one bird stands up, it becomes apparent that their bodies, a shade darker than clean snow, mirror the light reflecting off the uneasy water. So similar, the others gliding

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    Anger In The Black Cat

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    the spot, without a groan.” (p120) This was a quote from The Black Cat written by Edgar Allan Poe. The nararater wanted to kill someone but afterwards he got caught. So he got exacuted. So in Poe’s short stories the theme of ‘anger is harmful if it gets out of hand’ is shown though Setting/Tone, Conflict,and character. In Poe’s short stories the theme of anger Is shown though setting and tone. The setting in The short story The Black Cat is mostly in the nararaters house. The tone is negitive.

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    experiences and struggles in her book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” that gives us insight about Maya’s life as a young black girl growing up in a time of racism. The novel discusses various forms of oppression that she had to face as well cope with them. Robert A. Gross wrote an analysis for Newsweek about the book and claimed that Angelou’s book is not only an interesting story of her own experience, but also a portrayal of a Southern black community, thus being a historic reference of the 1930’s

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    Caged Bird Sings

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    “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” poem by Maya Angelou, is similar to the screenplay “The Long Walk Home” by Richard Pearce. They are both similar because in the poem there is a caged bird. I think the caged birds in the long walk home are Odessa and Miriam.Odessa is a caged bird because of her race,she doesn’t have many privileges as the white people do. One thing she couldn’t do was ride the bus because of the boycott, if they did ride the bus they had to sit in the back no matter if there was

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    The classic films The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963) and Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960) were both masterpieces. The color film is based around women named Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) and Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor). Melanie who is a young woman known for racy behavior that plays pranks on others whose father owns a newspaper. Mitch is a lawyer that helps takes care of his mother and sister. While the Birds is based on a short story by Daphne Maurier; it is about Birds that become hostile to the human race.

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    Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a tale of an African American family facing racism, oppression and prejudice acts in the deep south of Stamps, Arkansas in the 1930’s and 1950’s. Throughout Maya’s early childhood she suffers from traumatizing events, that leads to her powerful voice of inspiration that challenges the dominant ideology of racism. Throughout Maya’s novel her tone can be summarized as personal, scorn, and serious. Her purpose of writing I know Why the Caged Bird Sings was to tell her

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