Answer: The entire poem is an extended metaphor, or figurative language that implies comparison between seemingly unlike things, for the United States after the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln's assassination. In the metaphor, the captain is Lincoln, the voyage is the war and the ship is the United States.
My talent is the ability to help others. I help others in any way that I can. When I am able to do this I feel fulfilled, it gives me a sense of importance.
Answer:
Natural resources are materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain. Such examples that are found in the United States are gold, silver, copper, nickel, iron, lead, uranium, bauxite, mercury, tungsten, and zinc.
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In a country like Ghana, what can be seen as a new experience for Maya and Guy is the acceptance of the color of their skin as normal and correct.
Explanation:
Maya and Guy were black Americans who have suffered racism due to the color of their skin. Having been to a country like Ghana, in West Africa were the blacks live, they found a whole new experience among the people of same color. They could freely interact without being discriminated for their skin color.
Maya Angelou recounted her experience with Guy in Ghana in her autobiography titled: All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes.
Maya Angelou is a well known poet and writer and she is best-known of her work, "I know why the Caged Bird Sings", a memoir of her life as a girl in Arkansas.
