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The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison
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How did Banksy become the world's most famous vandal?
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Hot Cross Buns
Hot cross buns, now eaten throughout the Easter season, were first baked in England to be served on Good Friday. These small, lightly sweet yeast buns contain raisins or currants and sometimes chopped candied fruit. Before baking, a cross is slashed in the top of the bun. After baking, a confectioners' sugar icing is used to fill the cross.
An old rhyme was often sung by children awaiting their sugary treat:
"Hot cross buns,
hot cross buns,
one a penny, two a penny,
hot cross buns.
If you do not like them,
give them to your sons,
one a penny, two a penny,
hot cross buns."
Simnel Cake
A traditional way of breaking the Lenten fast is to eat some simnel cake. These are raised cakes, with a crust made of fine flour and water, coloured yellow with saffron, and filled with a very rich plum-cake, with plenty of candied lemon peel, and dried fruits.
An old Shropshire tale has it that long ago there lived an honest old couple, Simon and Nelly, and it was their custom to gather their children around them at Easter. Nelly had some leftover unleavened dough from Lent, and Simon reminded her there was some plum pudding still left over from Christmas. They could make some treats for the visiting family.
Nell put the leftovers together, and Sim insisted the cake should be boiled, while she was just as certain that it should be baked. They had a fight and came to blows, but compromised by doing both. They cooked the cake over a fire made from furniture broken in the scuffle, and some eggs, similarly broken, were used to baste it. The delicacy was named after this cantankerous couple. Or, so it is said.
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Spending all your nights sleeping on buses seems a grim fate. But that's the existence some people endure, writes Damian Zane.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32115613
READ THE ARTICLE AND WRITE A POEM OR A RAP SONG BEGINNING WITH
"I AM THE MAN WHO'S ALWAYS ON THE BUS"...TO TALK ABOUT
THIS INCREDIBLE STORY...
FIND ILLUSTRATIONS FOR SOME LINES IN YOUR POEM OR SONG...
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I am the person you bullied at school
I am the person who didn’t know how to be cool
I am the person that you alienated
I am the person you ridiculed and hated
I am the person who sat on her own
I am the person who walked home alone
I am the person you scared everyday
I am the person who had nothing to say
I am the person with hurt in his eyes
I am the person you never saw cry
I am the person living alone with his fears
I am the person destroyed by his peers
I am the person you drowned in your scorn
I am the person who wished she hadn’t been born
I am the person you destroyed for fun
I am the person but not the only one
I am the person whose name you didn’t know
I am the person who just can’t let go
I am the person who has feelings too
I am the person, just like you.
Make a stand, wear a band.