say what you really mean instead of hiding behind flowery words that often on a surface level mean something entirely different? In “What It's Like to Be a Black Girl (for Those of You Who Aren’t)” by Patricia Smith uses metaphorical language to show how she struggles, particularly with self-acceptance, specifically due to growing up as a black girl in America. The poem itself doesn’t use overly poetic language, but instead describes Smith’s experiences as black girl by using the word “it’s” and
playwright and teacher. Her verse “What It’s Like to Be A Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren’t)” is a painful piece of writing, which reveals the target audience the difficulties, which experience Blacks within the American Society. Her poem is deprived of embellishments and presents the truth the way it is, author straightforwardly depicts all the hurdles and discrimination, which she as a girl has encountered. Patricia Smith uses tone in her poem " What It’s Like to Be A Black Girl (For Those of
What It’s Like to Go to War is Marlantes first-hand experiences of the Vietnam War. Marlantes attended Yale University, as well as Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Marlantes was also a National Merit Scholar. Marlantes left school to serve his country in Vietnam, where he was named a Lieutenant. Marlantes was awarded a Navy Cross, Bronze Star, and he also earned himself twelve Air Medals. Before publishing What It’s Like to Go to War, Marlantes published Matterhorn in 2010. What It’s Like to Go to War
An explanation in its purest form of “What it’s like to be a Black Girl (for those of you who aren’t)” by Patricia Smith, is just that, an explanation. From the first three syllables “First of all,” the author gives a sense of a story being told. She uses jagged sentence structure and strong forceful language to also show the reader the seriousness of her topic. Smiths poem gives the audience an insider’s view into a young black girl’s transition into black woman-hood at a time where both being
was excited to gain an insight into how a person’s lifestyle could be different or similar to my own. What did he/she struggle with, what did he/she gain, how does the individual go about his or her everyday life being deaf? In the video ”What It’s Like to be Deaf” the speaker, D’Angelo Brown, explains his experiences growing up in his household. At the beginning of the video, he explained what I had already guessed, that communication between him and his family was a struggle, specifically, with
Following events like Ferguson, America’s police force has received heavy criticism recently regarding police brutality. The public is questioning whether police are using their position of power to better society or to benefit their own agendas of racism. Karl Vick’s article, “What It’s Like Being a Cop Now,” fails in his usage of anecdotes and statistics to argue that the public is wrongly retaliating against police. To begin, Karl Vicks makes use of many personal stories from police officers
In the story/poem, “Country Lovers” and “What it’s like to be a black girl” the writers Nadine Gordimer and Patricia Smith, focus on racism and reveal how the main characters cope with dealing with facing the conflict. The main characters in both stories are black women. The women in both pieces of literature face a lot of discrimination because of the color of their skin. Racism and ethnicity is an issue which has ruined societies and it seems like the people being affected most by it is the African
actually her family, they were members of a club where women were not allowed to play. So the minute I was old enough to swing a club, it was like, “You're playing golf,” because she missed out on something in her childhood. Now, she’s crazy. She's like hole-in-ones. That's all she does. Interviewer: (07:34) She golfs a lot. Allison: Oh yes, she's retired. That's what retired people get to do. I'm looking forward to it. Interviewer: (07:38) So tell me about you as a golfer today. Allison: I wanted to be
I slip my feet in a new pair of Nike sneakers, and try and get a feel for what they are like. My feet are supposedly a size ten and a half. “These are nice, but not what I’m looking for.” My mom chimes is, “Ok, let’s try these. These are cool right? You kids like these don’t you?” She hands me a pair of no-arch Adidas Sambas. Still a size ten and a half. I pop off the other shoes and grip the edges of the shoes as I try and shove them on. The shoes glide on with an odd sense of ease. “They are way
houses. That is mainly what the book is about (Scieszka). I think people should read this book because it’s easy for little kids to read, most parents recommend it for their kids because when they were kids they loved the book, and it’s good for kids to see both sides of the story. First reason you should read this book is that it’s an easy book for little kid to start reading. Since there is less words in the book, that makes the books easier to read. Most little kids like to read books with fewer
I like to go hunting because it's fun to me. My dad and I have fun when we hunt because we like to do it. When we kill a deer we have fun cutting it up because it gives us food. If it is a big buck, we get it mounted on our wall. We have a lot of deer on our wall. We have a lot of fun hunting. This year I killed a nine pointer. We got it mounted in my room. It has been a good year so far. This year my brother got his first gun. Also he killed his first deer too; he was pretty excited about it. It
So what exactly does it mean to be human? Does it mean that we were placed on this earth without purpose? How do we figure out what makes me a human? These questions often loom through many people’s mind. Throughout the book, Christian Anthropology by Michele Saracino she highlights the different ideas that help define what it means to be human. First, she begins by discussing how it’s important to have freedom and the duties that come with that. Secondly, she also discusses what could restrict us
The word privacy is thrown around so much it’s kind of hard to understand what it truly means. As a high school student, one hears a lot of stories with the word privacy in them. A girl tells her best friend a secret and the next day the whole school knows about it. Then everyone hears the girl complain about how much of an invasion of privacy that the whole situation is. Many people would agree with this. These people would probably say that what one wants to stay private, should do so. These people
Outline of My Lover by Douglas Martin What Douglas Martin had to say when he came to our class is probably the most valuable advice I've heard so far this semester. Martin's reasoning is right in tune with my own thinking about writing, and probably why I'm a Creative Writing major versus an English or Lit. major. I was most impressed with the creative freedom Martin displays in his novel. He spoke a lot about fighting with his editor and the problems a writer can have to face. I write with
about this? Kiss me like it’s a lie. As if I’m your last love”. In “As If it’s Your Last”, Blackpink, the band, uses metaphor, repetition, mimesis, and simile to describe a story about a girl trying to win her crush’s heart and she keeps trying her best and not giving up. To being with, Blackpink sings the phrase “You’re like a fistful of sand. It’s like I can hold you but I can’t.” to show simile. This simile contains a meaning. It shows how hard it is to make her crush like her back. When you
want to it most. It's like when someone passes away knock knock who's there reality. It just sucks sometimes especially when you don't need it most. We all sadly know the feeling of reality because we live it everyday and a lot of times it just sucks overall. It's like when my grandma passed away yeah it is sad and stuff but at the end of the day it's reality and sometimes you wonder why it even exist. We all at one time or another wish it didn't exist but sometimes it can be good like going on roller
What defines me. Thats a hard question and I think it's supposed to be hard for a reason because if it was easy then everybody would know who they are without having the challenge or taking the yellow brick road to find their inner soul or the road supposed called “life.” It's supposed to be a challenge it's not supposed to be as easy as stepping over the bars it's supposed to be a struggle. When it's hard for u to climb your way out of life when it's a challenge that's when it's all fun and
when people don’t feel what I feel, like, ‘How come they don’t feel what I feel after this?’ which is kinda of adolescent,” he laughs. “It’s true, I want to make things that convey an emotional landscape. So as an artist I try to do that. I like to make it personal so… To make my art unique, it has to be personal,” he continues. “You know, as much as somebody might try to sound like somebody else, when you add your own personal emotions to it, and your own experiences, that’s what makes it,” he explains
behavior and cloudy judgment is because of the plasticity of the brain. Adolescent brains have incredible plasticity because the brain is still forming and it’s not sure what to do. The brain doesn’t know how to respond; it’s developing new paths and experiences." (MindShift) Adolescent brain development should be blamed for the child’s own behavior, it’s still a part of their body. I believe your brain is a part of your body and you as a person can control it, but you just don’t know how to. We should
popular games out and many people love to play. It is competitive, it has online play, and you can also create a clan or group to play against other people around the world online. Call of Duty dates back to 2003 and really wasn’t popular then because it’s all about killing your enemy. Many parents didn’t want their child to play the game. Growing up, I didn’t know much about video games, so I wasn’t really into them until I started playing Call of Duty. Not only does it have military based features