Monthly Archives: April 2015
Charles Bernstein “On Election Day”
This poem exposes the practices and behaviors that are conducted during an election day. In the poem, Bernstein shows that people are classified under two categories: one range of people engages themselves in the election and its consequences, while the other … Continue reading
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Coal Mountain Elementary: The Lessons Plans Goals
Even though Coal Mountain Elementary consists of three lesson plans, where the curriculum relies on excerpts from American Coal Foundation, this book is not what it seems to be. Mark Nowak’s purpose in the book is not to teach a … Continue reading
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How Not To Be An Internet Artist
Mark Amerika’s How To Be An Internet Artist constitutes a differential text that perturbs the reader because of its rich collection of multiple non-consistent writings. There is no plot that runs over the whole e-book, but every section seems as … Continue reading
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Deciphering Rankine’s Pronouns
In Citizen: an American Lyric, Claudia Rankine usually employs the second person narrative point of view, the pronoun “you.” This narrative technique is a very powerful point of view that has the ability to influence readers in ways that first … Continue reading
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