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    Daycare Reform In America

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    Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable care. Daycare reform has helped this by making the government give the childcare agencies more monies and helping the parents go back to work instead of staying at home also, it has helped with kids and their education. When the first daycare was established it was made for the working mothers that had to take low income jobs and it was too hazardous to take their kids in. instead of the government paying for daycare…

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    way because I took the wrong way, but I eventually found the building, the front of the building looks so new and in good condition and the security is good too, which you have to ring the bell before you enter the building. When I arrived at the nursery school, there I was greeted by the receptionist named Nyeasha and Eileen. They were so nice, warming, and friendly, which they made me feel so welcomed. After they greeted me the receptionist explained on what will I be doing and said I could…

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    Universal Preschool

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    The Case for Preschool Preschool is a child’s first experience with formal education, and it is the basis for all future learning. During preschool, children ages three and four have the opportunity to set themselves up for academic, emotional, and social success. In a high-quality preschool, students can interact in a structured manner with teachers and other groups of children, learning the fundamental aspects of schooling. Not only do they learn social skills like following instructions…

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    William Blake “The Tyger” is a poem written by William Blake and published with a collection of poems in a work titled “The Songs of Experience” in 1794. William Blake was born in London in 1757 to James Blake a hosier (Morsberger,). Blake expressed a desire at the age of 10 to study art, which his father allowed, paying for his tuition and for casts to study at home (Morsberger,). At the age of 14, Blake was apprenticed to an engraver, learning a trade that would be valuable to him in…

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    Write: Part One – Answer the following questions about one of the poems based on your reading of them: • Identify the theme of the poem. How do you know this is the theme? The theme of the poem “We Real Cool” is theirs as a group of boys rebellious with their own actions. I know this is the theme for “We” is repeated eight times in this eight-line poem. • Define the poetic devices (e.g., rhythm, figurative language, etc.) used in the poem. Offer at least two examples. The poetic devices…

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    I choose [All Through the Night] Nursery song on page 1135 of The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature. This nursery song has repetitive lines and exact rhyme in each of its stanzas. [All Through the Night] Nursery song has six stanzas. This nursery song has parallelism repeated with the same lines in each of the six stanzas of the nursery song. Although it has a particular difference of each stanza compared with even stanzas and odd stanzas for example, the first, third, and fifth stanzas…

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    ‘Because I Could Not Stop For Death’ by Emily Dickinson and ‘Mid- Term Break’ by Seamus Heaney are both poems that use an array of literary devices and techniques in order to let the reader understand the significance of the poem and their theme— death. Although both poem’s themes may be about death, the different techniques used by Dickinson and Heaney should allow the readers to comprehend each poet’s personal perception of the theme. In ‘Because I Could Not Stop For Death’, Dickinson takes…

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    the leaves, then the leaves and the snowflakes. In the second half of the poem, it has more anger and aggression, with contrast between the poet and the dying soldiers and the soldiers and the snowflakes. The poem also follows a strict rhyme scheme with the rhymes in groups of three: lines one and four, lines two and five and lines three and six. The form and structure of this poem is free structure which means it has no clear form; it gives the poem a strange feel. There is confusion on where…

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    put “Me” at the end of line two and “Immortality” at the end of line four rhyme, “Civility” on line eight and “Eternity” at the very end of the poem (Madden 1253). Whereas, in Thomas’s poem, he uses a more intricate and mathematical rhyming scheme. For example, the first and third line of each stanza ends with rhyming words, “night,” “light,” “right,” and “flight” (Madden 1182). Also, the middle line of each stanza rhymes with all the other middle lines throughout the poem, “day,” “they,”…

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    There are a lot of adjectives that are used in the poem to suggest the innocence and purity of the boy, which juxtaposition is used by the adjectives and verbs used to describe the invincibility and strength of the Nettles. The poem explores the connotations of the word ‘bed’ and ‘bed of nettles’ and there is a stark contrast to what we associate a bed with and what the bed represents in the poem. Line 1 tells us that the boy’s aged “three” to indicate the boy’s vulnerability, which is then…

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