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Keeping America safe, and your kids safer.
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Parents for America supports the following issues in order to keep our children safe.
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We do not support the legalization of marijuana, or any drugs for that matter.
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We will fight to increase our nations security. This will help protect America from outside attacks.
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We will fight to protect the environment, funding for environmental friendly projects will be increased. Our children only have one earth so let's fight to keep it clean.
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Shyanne Spivey
Mrs. Scott
November 11, 2014
Imagery
Imagery is used to create a reaction from the five senses. By creating imagery the author helps a reader interact more with their work. Seamus Heaney does just that in Digging. By using imagery Heaney lures the reader to do some digging of their own.
Initially Heaney is using touch to grab our attention and make the reader feel that they are actually holding a pen in their hand. It is easy to see this because it states exactly where the pen is, “between my finger and my thumb.” Then the pen is compared to a gun, “the squat pen rests; sung as a gun”. This is done because of how comfortably the pen sits in the hand. With the use of wording it is almost impossible to not be able to picture then pen in hand, gripped tightly, and ready to write.
Hearing is the next scense Heaney appeals to. “Under my window, a clean rasping sound” the word rasping sounds exactly they way it is said. Giving the reader the ability to hear the sound without doing any extra work. The word clean is also a distinctive word to describe the rasping sound. It’s helping realize that the sound is clean and very easy to hear. We are then given the origin of the rasping sound, it is coming from a spade sinking into the ground. The spade is being used by the narrator's father. It is then stated that “I look down”. We now see that the narrator is actually up in his room and looking down at his father through the window. Heaney next paints the image of the narrator's father straining and sruggling to among the flower beds. The father then "comes up twenty years away", this makes it seem like his work is taking a toll on him and his body. Creating the image of a hard working older man "stooping in rhythm through potato drills".
Touch is used again when Heaney says "that we picked, loving their cool hardness in our hands". By doing this the reader is able to imagine the cool potato in their hands. It is then confirmed the the narrator's father is older when it says "By God, the old man could handle a spade. Just like his old man." The next image created is of the narrator's grandfather and how dedicated he was to digging. "Once I carried him milk in a bottle corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up to drink it, then fell to right away nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods". The grandfather was so dedicated and hard working that he would barely stop for a drink, and when he did it was for a split second and he went straight back to work. Then we are able to smell "The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge through living roots awaken in my head." The reader is then placed right in front of the potatoes because we can smell them molding. Heaney then says that he has no spade to follow men like his father and grandfather. He then repeats the first and second line and compares his pen to his fathers spade and says he will dig with it.
Throughout the poem Heaney uses harsh sounding words and pairs them out with softer words. For example; an clean rasping sound, the coarse boot nestled, the cool hardness. Nicking and slicing neatly. He does this to create a balanced image. Heaney doesn't want a completely dark and harsh image so he pairs words like coarse with nestled. The image of a coarse boot is created but then it is seen that the boot is nestled in the dirt, creating a soft image. Heaney uses imagery to imerse us into his poem and by appealing to our senses he is able to do just that.
We encourage businesses to keep jobs here and not outsource them overseas. Pro small business. We support giving small businesses incentives so more jobs can be created.
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