1. Dear Ma and Pa 15/10/1959 Are you well? My train arrived in Swindon at 1500 where I waited and watched the Pigeons scuffle over a piece of stale …
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BLM Essay
In the poem “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou she uses rhetorical question, direct address, poetic comparisons, violent verbs and historical references. These techniques are used in Still I Rise to create the particular effect of the reader feeling like the poem is directed to them and to really make them think about it. Maya …
Ballad of Birmingham – Dudley Randall
The poem is about a young girl who wants to go to the black civil rights marches. Her mother said no and told her to go to church instead. The daughter went to the church, and then the mother heard an explosion. The mother raced to the church and found her daughters shoe but not …
Black Lives Matter
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou “I walk like I’ve got oil wells pumping in my living room.” – Oil wells give people wealth, confidence and pride. This simile is showing that she is walking with wealth, confidence and pride. It says that it is in her living room because nobody has oil wells in …
The Power of One Essay
Describe a key relationship between two or more characters or individuals in the text. Explain how this relationship helped you to understand at least one of these characters or individuals. In the novel, the Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, Peekay is a young boy who lives in South Africa and is surrounded by racism. …
Chapter 10
Provide evidence from the first two paragraphs of the chapter that shows that Peekay is humble. “I quickly earned a reputation, rather unjustly, for being clever.” I think this means he was humble because he didn’t think he was as smart as he thought he was and didn’t think he needed to be known as …