The article of Cholos and surfers is about the author Jack Lopez childhood growing up in East Los Angeles on the ghetto streets of Vermont avenue near its sandy beaches. where his love for surfing beings and his understanding of what society think of him and what he truly desires. Growing on the ghettos streets of east LA, as a child Jack Lopez, want to be nothing but a surfer. he thought he could do this by wearing the traditional surfing clothing of "baggy shorts, larger penny's town craft shirts" or by owning a Surfer Quarterly magazine. even with his looks change.…
kay, so now we know about timshel, but it's also Adam's last word before he dies (at least it wasn't something totally random like rosebud). He says it right after Lee gets him to give Cal his blessing, i.e. show that he loves him as a son and free him from the guilt of "killing" his brother. It's a moment where things are at a crossroads for Cal: he could go on hating himself for what he has done and thinking that his dad died hating his guts, or he can be free and go on to break the Cain-Abel curse that seems to follow the Trask family around. As Lee says to Adam, "Give him his chance"…
The Richins’ Voyage to Utah When William was in his 60th year he had the desire to emigrate to Utah. He and his wife Charlotte made their plans and sailed from Liverpool, England on April 30, 1866 with their daughter Miriam and her son Arthur and their grandson Lorenzo. Before leaving William penned this poem: My friends the time is growing nigh, When I, to you, must say good-bye ‘twill be my last farewell; I soon shall join a noble band, And journey from my native land, Far in the west to dwell.…
In a astonishing twist of fate Jose saw something that would save his life. A piece of wood that he was going to use to fix up the boat was floating towards him. With all the energy he had Jose latched onto that piece of wood. He floated to wherever the seas would take him. There were no noises, nothing in sight.…
There are two authors that really connect with readers, Steve Pacheco and Trevino Brings. While not every reader will have gone through lives like their own, both men draw the readers into their stories and make them relatable and inspiring. Steve Pacheco is a Native American Poet. The way he finds a way to incorporate political aspects into his poems without sounding as though he his standing on a soap box. Another aspect that he integrates in his works is nature.…
Eddie Aikau will always live on as a legendary surfer because of his family, growing up in Hawaii, and being a risk taker. Family molds and influences many people at a young age. Eddie Aikau’s youth was surrounded by everything that enveloped surfing. If surfing had not…
1 Assignment 1.7 Poetry Assessment How does communication change us? 1. Does communication change us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. I believe that communication does in fact change us.…
The funniest thing about the town of Brattleboro was that it was impossible to not be creative. Everywhere you could possibly look there would be something that you could base a poem or painting off of. Everyone you met could be a character in some amazing novel. Every song you hear could allow you to create more music. This entire town oozed with art.…
She loved shells and collecting them as far back as she can remember and she believed that today she would find a sand dollar lying on the beach waiting for her, but first she really wanted to take a swim so she ran straight towards the pounding waves of the ocean and dove into the curling white wash. After her refreshing swim her…
“Another Elegy” is a poem about the relationships in life that happen. In the line “This is what our dying looks like..” gives us as a reader the feeling that we need to believe that when something bad happens, we need to just believe that something that is there. The poem is about someone trying to kill themselves. It happens in the line, “he let the gun go off in his mouth.” Then, all of a sudden, the bad side of the person in the poem comes out.…
Upon initial reading, “The Victims” by Sharon Olds seems to be a poem that paints the picture of a life of abuse; starting from the dawning of the exploitation and arching over into the life of the abused following the maltreatment. In the work, it is made to be believed that the clear victims of the poem are the speaker and their family—which is a rightful and obvious assumption—but there is another victim that is not as prevalent as that of the speaker and their family: the speaker’s father. After a second read, it is made evidently apparent that although the work does focus on the speaker and their family as the victims of the poem, the ideal that the father is also a victim is explored. Since the father is depicted as an abuser, it is seen…
Sam finds life extremely hard once his mum passes away, and he doesn’t have a sense of purpose or goals anymore. He struggles with dealing with his grief and turns to different forms of escapism, surfing, drinking and music. Zorn uses Australian colloquial language when describing elements of surfing, drinking and especially the 90s music scene. As her novel is set in a small coastal town out of Sydney, the prevalence of surfing is vast, and relevant in the novel too, and Sam lives right on the ocean, surfing most mornings with his cousin. The setting is also conducive to the 90s music of the time, and teen drinking and smoking.…
Bruce Meyer describes that a poem “whether happy or sad, is driven by a profound sense of love”. Meyer commonly writes poetry following the themes of lost love, heartbreak, suffering from pain and nature. Through his various works of poetry Meyer describes the pain and suffering of love and connects it with nature. Meyer himself describes his personal affinity for nature, as he lives across from a botanical garden, as well as his description of “people watching” for inspiration. His natural affinity for nature sets many poems in nature, relating back to humans and love.…
“I couldn't sleep; I couldn't lie still. At night I'd toss around in bed, half awake, half dreaming, imagining how I'd sneak down to the beach and quietly push one of the old man's boats out into the river and start paddling my way toward…
The reason why I chose to write about Nokugcina Mhlophe, it is because I like her work and stytle, because she was also involrd in fighting for freedom. I will be looking at her work in writing poetry. The inspiration that she gives out to young people. I was moved by her praise poem in honour of Nokukhanya Luthuli, widow of chief Albert Luthuli.…