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    Willem Van Aelst

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    painting. The central features that were pointed out were the objects of the blue, velvet bag, the ivory horn, and the various birds. The blue bag was where I concentrated on when I observed the painting as a whole. I feel that its color really stood out compared to the rest of the painting. The bag formed a contrast with the background as well as the prominent, white, bird in the center of the

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    Summary Of El Norte

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    once they were searching the place military people took his family while they Rosa and enquire were hiding inside the canyon. When enquire and Rosa find each other they both want to get out of Guatemala and head to the “North.” They both were wearing white clothes maybe representing their culture, religious or maybe their she was tired wearing the same clothes and when they left Guatemala the music was back. Enrique and Rosa are on a quest to get out of the ethnic and political repressed Guatemala and

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    J. M. Barrie wrote about a typical boy based loosely on the Llewellyn Davies family. Barrie could not have known how the world would change when he introduced Peter Pan in 1902’s The Little White Bird or that Peter Pan would be adapted over and over one hundred years later. He could not have imagined the psychiatric term for men the “Peter Pan Syndrome” being a phenomenon. Barrie simply told a story by using characters and life events and creating a children’s story of fantasy. Peter Pan was not

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    White and Black Bird Dilemma Long ago the number of white and black birds in a certain national park was almost the same. However, with time the number of black birds was more than the number of black birds. This change in the number of birds made one biologist to study the birds’ behavior in this national park. He carried his research for a period of ten years. At the end of his study, he found out that white birds were more susceptible to particular hawks. These hawks could attack a minimum of

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    The Nez-Perce Indians

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    Joseph sought revenge and agreed to let Findly and McNall. Then in August 1876/The murderers were set free. Joseph ultimately decided to flee to Canada with the Sioux, who were fleeing also. Though Chief Joseph didn’t want to provoke the U.S. army, White Bird’s band prematurely attacked the U.S. military

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    Closing the Window (draft 5) “On these magic shores children at play are for ever breaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.” Romantic children’s literature for time immemorial has allowed its audience to imagine the unimaginable, to believe in the magical, to explore uncharted territory and to see themselves in and through the lives of the characters. These tales expose their audiences to the opportunities, and the freedom

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    Atticus is shown to be an outsider in the white community because of his unique and acceptant nature. After a few meetings with Mrs. Dubose, an elderly, peevish, racist woman who lives near the Finches, Scout asks Atticus a question about race, and he answers by giving her a lesson on name-calling

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    “Caged Bird” Maya Angelou Metaphor and Motif Trill- a quavering or vibratory sound, especially of rapid alternation of sung or played notes Stalks- pursue or approach stealthily Seldom- not often; rarely In “Caged Bird” Maya Angelou uses the image of a caged bird and a free bird to represent how race divides a society and how people react to how society is divided. Angelou explains just how strong the divide in society is and how both sides feel. Angelou starts the poem by describing the free

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    racial inequality in 'Caged Bird' and 'Nothing's Changed?' Both Angelou and Afrika contrast the situation of an African-American and a white person, conveying the emotions caused by racial discrimination, segregation, to well as making the reader empathize and understand an African-American in the setting of their poems in hopes of spreading their message across, as both poets express that the whites in power usually don’t care, nor are they able to empathize. ‘Caged Bird’ explores the impact of racial

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    Sympathy for the Caged Bird What is the definition of racism? The definition of racism is to believe that one race is superior than another. For far too long the African American community has dealt with racism and discrimination in both the north and the south of the country. Years after the end of the reconstruction era, many African Americans were still facing racism. During the reconstruction era, poetry over racism was written by both whites and blacks in order to express their attitudes over

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