Still I rise

Still I Rise

---Maya Angelou



You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.



Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.



Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I'll rise.



Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops.

Weakened by my soulful cries.



Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don't you take it awful hard

Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines

Diggin' in my own back yard.



You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I'll rise.



Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I've got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?



Out of the huts of history's shame

I rise

Up from a past that's rooted in pain

I rise

I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise


my voice message

The poem "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou is a shout out to all African Americans that felt oppressed by the white Americans at the time. Today I will analyse the poem.
In the first stanza she says that the white man has manipulated history to their side of the story, they changed it with bitter, twisted lies. She then goes on to show us the main concept of the whole poem which is basically her saying one thing about what they do to her and how she rises.

In the second stanza she shows that even though the white man always put her down, she always is proud and has the sassiness and happiness without really having anything. The whole third stanza is a metaphor for a woman's cycle (Just like moons and like suns). White men always puts them down, wants to see them broken. This whole stanza shows the pain and suffering of an African American at the time. I also think that "Shoulders falling down like teardrops" has some connection with African Americans getting whipped by the white man. Her attitude never changed even though everybody is trying to break her down, she still has her attitude intact. The last part of the 5th stanza is repetition to the second one.

The 6th stanza describes what the white man did to break her down but then she ends it with hope like all of her stanzas. In the next one she calls out the white woman for being jealous of her sexiness and her ability to dance. In the most powerful stanza, the last, she goes into more depth about all of the history and pain they suffered but always overcome with hope. The repetition of the word I raise shows us that this poem is to givestrength to the people it affects.

A and B

1 - A falls off of B's roof while fixing B's roof.
2 - B walks by A, A's homeless, and asks for money, B walks away.
3 - A needs to go somewhere, he doesn't have a car, B lends his car, no brakes, A crashes.
4 - B has swine flu, goes to school, and gives it to A.

1. In a legal manner it is B's fault because A was on his roof/property and therefore he is responsible to whatever happens to A.

2. Its not B's responsibility to give his hard earned money to A. B works for the money while A just begs for someone else's hard earned money.

3. B gave him a car and we don't know whether he knew if the breaks where broken or not. If he did know they were broken, then its his fault but other than that its A's fault for not inspecting/testing it.

4. Its not B's fault because he might not know he has it because the effects show after 2 days, not straight away.

Motivational poster

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A dream- Edgar Allan Poe

Epistolary

5.4.2004
21st,
Kurtland str,
Seattle

It was like today, a sunny April morning 10 years ago when the incident happened. Since then you went on to marry again and have a baby. I had to be in the shadows,never to be seen again because I was preserved as dead, they said I killed myself but we both know that's not the truth. My love for you was my driving point, until i finally snapped. I couldn't take it anymore, you made your life again and I had to be hidden, away from any human being. Its all going to be over soon for the both of us though. I have your baby and the pain and suffering for the both of us will end soon.




Kurt Kobainy


21,
Nirvana str,
San Fransisco




5.4.2004
21st,
Nirvana str,
San Fransisco

You are a sick person. You aren't really him. His dead, he died. His love of drugs surpassed the one that he had for me. It was one of his loves that killed him but it wasn't me. Now you sick demented freak, where is my child?Where do you have my little baby, Heroin kept? Where is my little boy, ill give you anything!


Kourt Lovely



5.4.2004
21st,
Kurtland str,
Seattle


21st,
Kurtland str,
Seattle

Sick, demendented....those are words that could be used for the both of us. While your near my monument, mourning my death...How can you live that moment knowing that you killed me. On the other side I currently am holding young Heroin in my arms, about to end his life. I don't want your money, I don't want your compassion, I just want revenge and to quote our favourite band...See you in hell mah friend.


Kurt Kobainy

21st,
Nirvana str,
San Fransisco

A work of art, Chekov

Thats George "The Animal" Steel and he is bald but has more hair than any human on other body parts...thats the irony.

Easter break

Last Saturday, at 19:30 me and my friends called a taxi. We wanted to go to the Mcdonalds drive through. The conversation was ever so profound, talking about football and how amazing the summer vacations would be. When we arrived at the drive trough, Petrou was hitting the car's door and chanting Olympiacos's name. Petrou's superlative abillity to anger people, worked once more. The taxi driver told him off, but I hit the car continuesly so the driver got out and begun shouting at Petrou. At that moemnt, me, Bader and Sami were laughing incoherently. The taxi driver then proceeded to tell us about his knixes and that he was a general in the army. He then threatened to slit Petrou's throat but Petrou "scared" him off by saying he knows karate.