Homelessness

• How do people become homeless? How are they become displaced in a community they once used to live in?

Foster Care

• What are some reasons that kids go to foster care? How is this a form of displacement and how do children adjust to it?

Gentrification

• How does gentrification occur and How does it affect the ones who already live that certain community.

In Finding Nemo, A young fish named Nemo is taken away from his father by humans. Nemo is taken to a dentist office in 42 wallaby way, Sydney where he is placed in a fish tank. Nemo’s displacement is from being in the one ocean to being placed in a closed space like the fish tank. For the time that he is in the fish tank Nemo has to learn his environment and get to know these new fishes. Although it seems scary to Nemo at first he eventually gets to know the other fish and is accepted into the tank by being given the nickname “shark bait”.

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Arnet Flores

English 2250

Prof. Sylvor

Event Review

How to Read a Sonnet?

The Art-A-Thon event that I went to was How to read a sonnet. At first I thought that it would be boring because I always thought that a sonnet was read like any other piece of literature. When I arrived professor, Kolb went over the basic rules of a sonnet. She introduced things that I never knew. From this event, I learned that most sonnets have 14 lines and that the ones that have more or less lines are categorized as “rebellious sonnets”. I also learned that sonnets have 10 syllables per line which would be 140 in total. As we got into reading Shakespeare’s sonnet 20 professor Kolb told us that most sonnets are about love and romance. She also informed us that some poets can write 100 or more sonnets for only one person. As we began reading I did not think much of the sonnet. It all seemed like just words on the paper, I was unsure of what to look for until she gave us guiding questions. Prof. Kolb told us that when analyzing a sonnet, it is helpful to use these questions:

1. What does it sound like?
2. What does it mean?
3. How does the sound affect the meaning?

These questions are to figure out who the sonnet might be for. These questions were helpful when reading sonnet 20. The first couple of reads I was unsure of who the sonnet was for, if it was for a man or a woman. However as we kept reading and breaking down each line it seemed to give a sense of gender but then again threw me off. Finally she told us that what we may think of as clues aren’t really clues. Sonnets usually leave the reader wondering who is who? While we broke down this sonnet we noticed that Shakespeare used different rhyme patters in his sonnets and that he added an extra syllable to each line.

1. When Dina refuses to participate in the “trust” game what does this say about her? How does this change later on?
2. Why could it be that Dina connected more with Heidi than anyone else? How did their relationship grow from the beginning to end of the passage?
3. What is the significance of the therapist? How does he help Dina?

Hello everyone,

I found this article that relates to our central theme of displacement. This article is about a woman who invites undocumented immigrants from her neighborhood over to her home for dinner. This relates to our central topic because with our newly elected presidents many feel as if they are not accepted in this country. However, the group in this article welcome each other and make each other feel accepted in a country of separation and resistance.

If any one wold like to check out the article this is the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/realestate/home-politics-resistance.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FRefugees%20and%20Displaced%20People&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=collection