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poem Title : My life by Billy Joel
This is a song about strength. The strength to self re-examine oneself, and the strength to go about life the way you desire it. The strength move away from aspect of your life you are not okay with. The strength to avoid toxic people around you, people who only see things in their own perspective. The poem was written during an era when the social expectation was mostly about conforming, doing things that the society expected even if it is driving you nut.
Quotations important to the song
1.<em>Got a call from an old friend</em>
<em>We used to be real close</em>
<em>Said he couldn't go on the American way</em>
<em>Closed the shop, sold the house</em>
<em>Bought a ticket to the West Coast</em>
<em>Now he gives them a stand-up routine in L.A</em>
This gives us a background of who the song is directed to, someone who used to be very close to him but has take to another path in life and was expecting him is to join him on it.
2. <em>I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm alright</em>
<em>I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home</em>
<em>I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life</em>
<em>Go ahead with your own life, leave me alone</em>
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This section potrayed his insistence on followinng his own path, not just conforming to others expectation.
3.<em> They will tell you, you can't sleep alone in a strange place</em>
<em>Then they'll tell you, you can't sleep with somebody else</em>
<em>Ah, but sooner or later you sleep in your own space</em>
<em>Either way it's okay you wake up with yourself</em>
this section is defined what he is expected to do, represeting societal expectations he is expected to conform with.
4. I never said you had to offer me a second chance
(I never said you had to)
I never said I was a victim of circumstance
This section is portrays that he is ready to find his own path in life rather than conforming. it shows strenght to explore and seek more in his own way
Discussable question that the poem evokes in your mind as a reader
The main question raise in the poem is about conforming. why should we conform? why we limit ourself just to satisfy others? why should we be something else other than what we truly want?
In 1960, when To Kill a Mockingbird was published, much of white America viewed the coming together of the races as immoral, dangerous, even ungodly. A white woman would never admit to doing what the Mockingbird character Mayella Ewell does, breaking a “time-honored code” by kissing Tom Robinson, a black man. And after being caught, she seeks to save herself from the scorn of society by accusing Robinson of raping her.Such an accusation was a death sentence for an African American man. “Rape was the central drama of the white psyche,” says Diane McWhorter, author of the Pulitzer prize–winning Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. “A black man raping a white woman justified the most draconian social control over black people.” The vigilante punishment for such a sin was lynching, as would have been the case with the mob of white men smelling of “whiskey and pigpen” who herd up to Maycomb’s jail to cart away Robinson. While they are stopped, in Mockingbird, because Scout Finch shames them, many real-life incidents went unchecked. Between 1882 and 1951, 3,437 blacks in the United States died that way, 299 of them in Alabama.
Harper Lee’s father, Amasa Coleman Lee, was a lot like Scout’s father Atticus Finch, and she clearly sketched him and local events when creating the plot of Mockingbird. As with Atticus, A.C. Lee was a lawyer, and, like Scout, the young Harper recalled earlier, “I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.”
Mockingbird paralleled at least three cases that were objects of contention in the Monroeville of her childhood, and Lee once commented how, in her novel, “the trial, and the rape charge that brings on the trial, are made up out of a composite of such cases and charges.” Seven years before Harper’s birth (in 1926), the senior Lee defended two blacks accused of murder. At the time, “the idea that someone like Lee would represent a black is by no means abnormal or unusual, though not typical,” says Wayne Flynt, distinguished university professor emeritus at Auburn University and a friend of Harper Lee. “People like her father had grown up in churches. They were not threatened intellectually, economically or politically by blacks.” A.C. Lee’s clients were executed, and he was so overcome that he never took another criminal case.
Next: In March 1931, just before Harper turned 5 years old, a bold-headlines case gripped Alabama. A group of blacks and whites got into a fight on a train. As the police arrested the nine young blacks, they came across two white prostitutes. In order to avoid being charged with consorting with blacks, the women accused the men of rape. Tried in Scottsboro, Alabama, eight of them received death sentences. Over the next few decades the Scottsboro Boys, as they were known, became causes célèbres of the civil rights movement—their case twice advanced to the Supreme Court. It took until 2013 for the men to be exonerated.
Then, third: In November 1933, outside Monroeville, a poor white woman, Naomi Lowery, claimed that a black man, Walter Lett, had raped her. At the time A.C. Lee was editing The Monroe Journal, and his paper covered Lett’s trial. There was fear that Lett would be lynched. Many of the town’s citizens, including Lee, petitioned Alabama governor Benjamin Miller, seeking clemency, and Miller commuted Lett’s death sentence to life in prison. To say that these stories came home in the Lees’ house is to state the obvious.
Harper Lee shows signs of hoped-for change in her book. “Moral courage is really inconvenient and it rarely goes unpunished,” says McWhorter. But A.C. Lee would not be punished. Characters like the fictional Atticus Finch and real-life people throughout the South were suddenly agitating within the strictures of society, and Harper Lee was ready to join the proud parade—a parade that was very happy to have her. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., no less, would write in his book Why We Can’t Wait, about “the strength of moral force,” and how, “To the Negro in 1963, as to Atticus Finch, it had become obvious that nonviolence could symbolize the gold badge of heroism rather than the white feather of cowardice.”
During the Cold War, scientists competed in the "space race."
Which revision changes the sentence to draw attention to the object of the action rather than the people or things performing the action?
A. The "space race" by competing scientists occurred during the Cold War.
B. During the Cold War, scientists led the "space race" competition.
C. During the Cold War "space race", scientists competed.
D. The "space race" was a Cold War competition by scientist.
Answer:
D. The "space race" was a Cold War competition by scientist.
Explanation:
According to the given sentence, "During the Cold War, scientists competed in the "space race."", the best way to revise it so that the sentence would draw attention to the object of the action rather than the people or things performing the action is by simply changing the sentence from active voice to passive voice.
Therefore, the correct answer is "The "space race" was a Cold War competition by scientist"
The correct sentence with appropriate usage of verbs is:
They had roamed the earth for more than a hundred million years before they became extinct.
The above sentence is correct because the sentence makes the appropriate usage of past perfect tense, past perfect tense refers to the actions which have begun in the past and finished in the past itself when another action happened.
It is formed by, <em>had + past form of the verb</em>
In the above sentence, the first action that <em>“they roamed the earth” </em>is finished by the second act of becoming extinct. Hence it uses two actions in the past therefore, it used the correct form of the verb tense.
Answer: B. The wounded men are suffering further because of a lack of food.
Explanation:
Hancock, who is the speaker in this passage, notes that some days they will have nothing to cook with such that they have to feed their men with dry bread and poor coffee instead of proper food.
These men were already wounded and so were already suffering. A lack of food will make them suffer even more. This is why Hancock notes that some will curse and some will pray because that is how they will react to the further suffering.
