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I think Lorraine Hansberry chose to include this poem in her play because it brings another incite on the theme of money and dreams. It talks about dreams drying up and shattering. But in the video it gives the impression that it is dragging out over a lifetime and it's almost like you can't escape the day dreaming state of mind. The prediction I have about the poem connecting to the play is how the African American moving to a white neighborhood is an dream of stating a new life for themselves but they will start day dreaming. Then one day it will dry up like a raisin, they will go back to where they started.

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I think poem it is trying to portray the message that coloreds wanted to have the same rights and privilege's as whites did. They wanted the wealth a fame just like they had but there was no way that they could achieve that standard they wanted. I chose the lens New Historicism because it taps into the historical side of literature and that is what the poem is based around. Through this lens it shows that history and literature should go hand and hand and the other explores that though his work. Giving the audience insight on what was going though people's heads at the time.

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in order to gain access to groups that they normally wouldn't let her in as member she would have to speak perfect English, wear her Mahogany outfit, straight bob hair and pearl earrings. it was all about the appearance and how well she could speak in order to maybe get to engage with gate keepers. I which most cases wouldn't work. in this story the point to get across was that women or people of colored back then were judged by their appearances and more harshly than white men were. Plus if you decided to change you situation of being poor, you change everything you know as a result of being no poor. it changes your views on life.

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Yvette going into the wrong lunch line as an example of a in-group because it's against the rules.
Elba asks a ton of questions on why Yvette is in the wrong line, and if they were to stay there they could get in trouble. That is an example of an out-groups action and words.
The teacher that asked Yvette if she was Jewish and if not then why was she in that lunch line. That is a form of out-group because the teacher was trying to make sure the rules were followed.
Mrs. Ralston was a In-group I this situation because she wanted what was best for the kid and the rules came second.
It effected the girls in a way that they understood the domino effect this had on other people too. Plus if it were happen again they would have bigger problems to face. It showed them the bigger picture.

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The idea that stood out to me in this reading is when the author said "Would that human society were as enlightened. True we have evolved to be social animals with both positive and negative traits, demonstrating strong tendencies." I related this quote to the play A Raisin in The Sun because the history behind the poem connects to the quote. It shows that people can turn into something they're not when they are forced to. Like when crowds of people would trash a black families house. Everyone has that mean side but it's how strong we are to resist it.

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Clybourne Park was a symbol of moving to a white neighborhood but the people there were very racist, so racist that they were paying black families to move out. The goal of this house was to put a roof over the kids head and provide basic needs for them. The American Dream connected to the house is just having the same physical attributes as white, they didn't want a old run down trashy house so they moved to a white neighborhood. It symbolized a new beginning and a better life style.

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Walters final decision was to move out and it talks about him just sitting there alone to think. But he comes back in hope that he could offer his money in exchange for not moving to Clybourne Park. The deny the request.
Mama's plant was a symbol of a better future for the family because they have been struggling with money for a while. While mama consistently cares for the plant it shows that she had unending care and love for her family. Her dream has always been to have a small garden but in the end it shows that mama's plant is as close as she's going to get to her dream.

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In The Battle of the Century by Adrian Matejka, no matter how many times Jeffries got punched he was not giving up by any circumstances.
"Jefferies's mouth was so swollen he looked like the newspaper versions of me." (Matejka 82.19-20)
"Mr. Jefferies refused to give in. There wasn't much difference between his face and the meat on a butcher's table." (Matejka 84.1-2)

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I think the New Historicism lens helps the readers open their mind to different views or thoughts on the text. It could help us dig deeper into the cultural and historical background of the story, making us want more information. I think this lens opened up my mind to the idea of there is always two sides to a story. In the first part it is saying how coloreds were "black ghouls and would leave their babies on the street so they could steal a dead mans shoe". In the second half it is more from the coloreds point, how they were getting abused by the whites and how they need protection. This story had a way of widening our vision to historical meaning and making us relate it to our lives today.

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The idea of gentrification is the process of making someone or something more respectable. Within this song it talks about respecting someone's home and if they don't then they are going to fight for it, its not just getting handed over. At the end of the story they repeat "ill keep fighting to the end" I think it is to represent strength and to tell people to respect them. If people/things get broken then they are going to rebuild and fight for the new things they want.

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One thing that stood out to me as new information was the fact that if white family sold land to an African American family, they would have to go to court to reverse the sale. No I did not know that Spokane is still having these problems. I think these covenants can influence todays society in older communities because the people there are more likely to come from eras of racism then people that are younger.

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I think since in the story, the main characters family all die with somethin related to the airport or planes themselves. He'd been Exiled from them because his granddad said. Home I could see as Law school because he is falling in his families foot steps and he could feel safe in that environment. Or he could think his teacher and his granddad are the family figure in his life because they are together a lot and he tells them things, like a home/family would.  Plus his teacher knew his father so they are connected in a way.

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The One Theory that I chose to compare to the story Only Approved Indians Can Play was racial threat. By saying " His father and uncle were killed by whites in Mexico and that he wasn't expecting to be treated with prejudice" (pg.2 paragraph 2). It shows that no matter where you are never safe, you have to be watching your back. Racial threat is just words used against the other race then sometimes actions follow.

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In this short story there were three main stages that Mr. Pirzada went through. First, was a stage where he was always exploring and didn't worry about much. To always worrying about his family back home that he had to move away from. Lastly, he had to adapt to the new environment by making new friends and understanding the culture. But at the end he had to leave his new family and go back to his original family.
The most obvious symbol was the candy he kept giving to the little girl every time he saw her. It made them build a bond then at the end when he had to go back home, she threw the whole stash away. As a symbol of a new chapter after him, almost like a let go.

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Ecocriticism is the lens in which we assume, human culture is connected to the physical world. Within this poem it keeps saying "I come from the land" followed by something from history, like, "where my natives are endangered, stuck in poverty and afraid of danger". It's as if humans were thought to be from the actual land and not from a higher power, connecting to the whole theory of ecocriticism. Nature seems to be presented in more of a physical way then a feeling, like talking about history as a way to describe the nature in the story.

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The lens I chose to read this through was New Historicism. One of the assumptions on the power point was, we learn snout others we learn about ourselves. I connected that with how human activities are interconnected with how the author had his friend tell him how it made her feel uncomfortable reading the play. The author took that in consideration and worked together to change the poem to help get the right felling across to the readers. (pg.6)
The next one is admitting to his own prejudices. He talks about how the first version of the play is not what he intended for people to portray the play. So he revised to so it gave the story line of two people awakening in love and the glory of East falling for Glory. Plus the chemistry is mutual, it's not East coming onto her.

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I think the theme of identity in this story is a lot like some of the other readings we've gone through. It is based around the thoughts of losing identity and trying to find it in themselves. It seems as if they use the people or things around them to satisfy what they are missing.
I think the author is trying to communicate the feeling of hopelessness and how someone's life can get turned around very fast. Also the thought/thinking that goes through someone's head while they are in a hospital.

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Clearly the man is tied to this place. He is the one that lives on the property and he is the one showing the women around and explaining everything to her.  But the women is emotionally attacked to the northern stars because her husband has recently passed away and believes spirts are in the northern nights until they go up into heaven. Their experience is different because the women is paying her respects to her dead husband, while the man is falling in love with her and keeps stealing her heart.

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This reading is trying to communicate the difference between the languages English and Dutch. In this story, Dutch is the characters home town and the language has a huge significance to her. She is grieving that she's lost the Dutch but she wants to rediscover that side of her. Language has a huge role in everyone's life, its the way we communicate to each other and it is apart of our identity.

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In the first paragraph, it describes the scene as a cold Friday night in the middle of winter and two people sitting on a bench, looking at the stars. it describes a very cold but warming feeling to the story. As the night goes on the two characters keep getting closer and closer and confessing their love for each other. Then all of a sudden they get farther and farther away from each other. My prediction is he is going to follow her and see where she is heading to because he has feelings for her.

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In this poem I think the author is trying to communicate a women's path to find her faith herself. It's almost like this women needed to rediscover her confidence. Its felt as if some experience had changed her soul and she is trying to relocate it and rediscover her happiness. She's trying to rise above all of the problems she is going through and grow from them.
For me personally, I define my faith by both religion and hope within myself. Religion is a key part of my everyday life and how I approach every situation I come up across. It teaches me patience, trustfulness, and rights from wrongs. It makes you more aware of your actions and how they would affect your future for the good and the bad. For the hope side of my faith, I think of it as never ending will to always improve myself. Everyday you are blessed with and you should use it to better yourself and others, with that comes hope that you make yourself and everyone around you better in some way.

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We All Return to the Place Where We Were Born 

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We All Return to the Place Where We Were Born 

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The significance of the poem in two languages in my eyes was to open the audience to many cultures and how this story related to each culture. Yes I understand some Spanish, I took two years of it in high school. Yes I tried pulling out words I thought I knew. The bilingual nature of this poem made me feel like I couldn't understand the second half and felt like I missed out on some information. But I loved how it opened up this poem to many kinds of audiences and that is very important to do that

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Within in both the poems that were performed there came a couple similarities and differences. Starting with differences, the main one that stood out to me was obviously one had musical background added into the poem and one didn't. Similarities are that the guy was very emotional and expressive which made you understand everything he was signing throughout the poem. the meaning I got from both of the poems was that he felt trapped in the begging then towards the end he felt free like a bird. I related it to his background story of his childhood experience with feeling alone then once he found poetry he felt free. In the silence I felt related and very focused on him. With the music , I felt more emotion though the poem. I don't know sign language but I felt like I understand the image he was trying to get across but I can see how it could be tough in his shoes and the audience.

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past: I was... one to draw when I had the time.
future: I will be... able to go to the ballet someday.
present: I am...capable to speak two languages and sing an opera.

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In the scene 5, They Fell, it seemed as if the girls were in the boys shoes because they talked about the girl throwing the boy over her shoulder when dancing and that's usually the boys part (pg.58). In this scene it felt like the women kept getting put down in a feminism way but it might have just been the way I read it.

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I chose a picture of my fish to relate to the poem because in the beginning pf the poem it talks about being questioned about what culture he fits into. My fish is different colors in different lighting, sometimes he is sliver and others he is white/orange. I think these examples have a meaning way deeper because in some peoples eyes they may see different images than others. It is all on perspective and heritage.

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in this short story Anya's husband Ryan is very verbally abusive. But in the story Anya seems very strong and set on her life goals, yet she is stuck in this toxic relationship. Anya wants to make the relationship permanent but she also sees the abuse. Later in the story, once she puts a restraining order on him after he almost slammed her head on the dash of the car, she ends up seeing him at a park. he approaches her and askes to give her a ride home , and she accepted it. In those couple examples I see Anya as a flawed character because she doesn't learn from her mistakes and keeps giving Ryan chances when he doesn't deserve them. being flawed doesn't mean she is a bad person but it shows that she does not know what is best for her.

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Article 16: the article says "the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the state." I connected this point with this sentence in A Special Boy, "When two people who parry are supposed to be grown-ups, and when they have children, they are supposed to take care of them." Both of those quotes reference the fact that a family should have unity and work together as a team.
Narrator: when reading this story, I noticed that the narrator is switching back and froth between third and first person. The narrator uses the pronouns: He, I and they. This helps the reader see different perspectives of the same situation.

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In my opinion I think superhero's belong in the comic world and not the real world because if we had them in real life we wouldn't need people like police. Their jobs would be pointless, I think everything is meant to be how it is now. Superhero's in comics where we can imagine a life with them in it but having police and army actually protecting us.

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Langston Hughes : Madam And the Census Man 

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Langston Hughes : Madam And the Census Man 

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The reason this poem stood out to me is because of all the capitalized letters within it. soon after I read this poem I realized they are capitalizing the letters because they are spelling something out. I found this poem very interesting because the character stands up for his name, which was given to him by his mother. It gives it significance to him. No matter how many times people make fun of it or try and respell it, he says "you leave my name just that way!" It signifies power and confidence.