“Greasy Lake” is a story about catastrophic mistakes that affect young adult lives. The story is about three boys who think highly of themselves. The narrator tells about how he and his friends‚ Digby and Jeff‚ drink‚ smoke‚ and stay out late. It is obvious that the narrator and his friends are immature and simply do not care about the consequences of their actions. The boys find themselves in a brawl with some men at the lake. The narrator separates from his friends to order to protect himself.
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Gillian Clarke’s poem ’Cold Knap Lake’ centres on a childhood memory of a girl almost drowning in a lake in South Wales. The poet‚ with her parents‚ ’watched a crowd’ of people pull the girl out of the water. It seemed at first that they were too late: the girl’s lips were blue and she ’lay for dead’. The metaphor ’dressed in water’s long green silk’ tells us that she was covered in weeds from the lake. In the second stanza‚ Clarke describes her mother as a ’heroine’ as she knelt down to resuscitate
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and attention towards other important aspects of schooling for students. Some examples of things being affected by standardized tests include “programs in the arts‚ recess for young children‚ electives for high schoolers‚ class meetings (...)‚ discussions about current events (...)‚ the use of literature in the early grades (...)‚ and entire subject areas such as science (...)” (Kohn 2). The reason for the decline in these aspects of the education system is that most of the material associated with
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September 31‚ 2012 Once More to the Lake In this story the author relives his childhood memories on a lake in Maine where his father used to take him and his siblings. In the story the author has moments where he “seemed to be living in dual existence” where he sees himself as his son and sees himself being his father at the same time. The author says “I would be in the middle of a simple act‚ I would be picking up a bait box‚ or laying down a table fork‚ or I would be saying something‚ and suddenly
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is benevolent sexism in which women are treated as if they need to constantly be protected and taken care of‚ and there is hostile sexism in which women are treated as if they are not as good as men. When someone initially thinks of sexism‚ they are most likely thinking of hostile sexism. Benevolent sexism follows the idea that a woman should never have pay for the check and men always wanting to protect the woman from something. Although some actions may just be the man being polite‚ the actions may
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Creative Story: The Lake It was the middle of springtime and across from my house where the incident took place. There was a lake there in which my brother and I loved to explore from time to time. The humidity and waterdrops where reminiscent of a fully functional sauna. The onslaught of heat and burning glow of the sun was relentless. Nonetheless‚ this fact did not bother us one bit‚ but gave us more incentive to dance with our cool and embracing "long-lost love". The first step of
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Melanie Brown Final Draft AP English Description and Narration "Once More to The Lake"‚ by E.B. White portrays desscription and narration‚ refelcting the general sentiment by describing the experiences with his son that he shared with his father at a later time. White utilizes adjectives to emphasize that his son reminds him deeply of himself. Illlustrative description conveys how personality traits of families get passed down to younger generations. White sees and describes
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E.B. White’s essay "Once More to the Lake" is a very well written piece of writing. That being saidI will first start breaking down the main points and different parts of this essay by discussing the more broad subject of his structure. Most of the essay is written about the present but he jumps periodically to his past. He uses this effect as a comparison between the past and the present. It shows mostly how his son is just like he was‚ but at the same time his son can be different. For instance
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The Great Compromise The Great Compromise was a debate during the Constitution Convention on determining on how many representatives of each state should have under the new governments law making branch. This is known as being one of the most important debates in American history because of the foundation it laid for what our legislative government is today. Originally‚ Congress would be seen as a 1 chamber with only a certain number of representatives per state. The debate was how many representatives
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Swan Lake is a globally well-known ballet choreographed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He composed the ballet in the late 1880s. Even though it failed miserably initially‚ Swan Lake is now considered the renowned classical ballet piece among the many others. I personally grew up watching numerous Swan Lake plays. Talk about the choreographer briefly in one paragraph. Swan Lake centers around the story of two girls: Odette and Odile who resemble each other closely. Odette‚ a young maiden
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