Cather’s MY ÁNTONIA "Optima dies ... prima fugit." My Ántonia‚ by Willa Cather‚ is a modernist novel that recounts and celebrates the past through the relationship of man and the natural world. Cather incorporates an epigraph at the start of the novel from Virgil’s Georgics that means “The best days…are the first to flee‚” which is integrated by many elements throughout the story as it is the epicenter in which the themes of the novel revolve. For those who aren’t familiar Georgics consists of
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The Childhood of Two Generations: My childhood vs. My parents’ All I know about my parents’ childhood came from the story that my grandparents told me‚ and some old pictures that my parents showed me. Even if they have seen the pictures‚ the memories of their childhood still fade from their minds. I felt that they do not want to reminisce about that period of time. When I look back to my boyhood and compare it with my parents’‚ I realize that my generation enjoys huge benefits from a stable political
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reflected on my successes and downfalls from the previous term and developed goals. My first goal was to complete the assessment portion of patient care in one appointment by the end of the term. I was able to accomplish this goal right away‚ and with almost every patient I saw‚ which I am proud of. My second goal was to accurately chart restorations‚ using detailed surfaces‚ and other dental appliances. Again‚ I was able to achieve this goal and as a result became much better at dental charting. My final
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*A noun is a part of speech typically denoting a person‚ place‚ thing‚ animal‚ or idea. Examples | * The cat sat on the mat. * Please hand in your assignments by the end of the week. * Cleanliness is next to godliness. * Plato was an influential philosopher in ancient Greece. * Please complete this assignment with black or blue pen only‚ and keep your eyes on your own paper.A noun can co-occur with an article or an attributive adjective. Verbs and adjectives can’t. In the following
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is what defines us as a person. Everyone one earth has a unique identity. I made a collage of images called an identikit. The images on the identikit represent what kind of person we are or a side of us we want to show people. My identikit shows the hip-hop side of me. My identikit has images such as a break-dancer‚ which shows the power of hip-hop and headphones‚ which represents the soul of hip-hop. There are three assumptions that come to mind when finding your identity. The first one is that
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My Grandfather Amanda Jeffries Mid-Continent University English II January 16‚ 2013 It was April 30‚ 2011. I was on my way to Wal-Mart with my two boys‚ Hunter and Harper. Since it was a Saturday morning‚ we were going to spend the day doing some shopping and later on‚ Hunter and Harper were going to baseball practice. As I was driving down the road‚ suddenly‚ I heard the ringtone chiming
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This semester my writing saw both the best of times‚ and the worst of times. My worst piece of writing is most definitely the first FRQ essay‚ which was a rhetorical analysis of one of the Onion’s articles. I have never held the most strength in rhetorical analysis. In years past when I would analyze the diction or syntax of an essay‚ I would experience immense difficulty. It was no different when it came to the first FRQ. I floundered‚ like a fish out of water‚ desperately searching for sentences
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My Favourite Place In The World. My room keeps me relaxed and entertained for hours. To me‚ it feels like the safest place on the planet. Sometimes I like to sit and stare at the map of the world that hangs on my wall. I look at certain countries and imagine what life must be like there or think about which ones I would like to visit. It gives me a sense of peace to be able to look at the whole world at once from a distance like this. My wardrobe doors are a collage of cut outs from travel
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intended it to go or when they get genuinely frustrated? A person who is always very generous and patient with everyone and everything they do. And someone who is always there for you no matter what. This to me is always going to be my grandpa Donald Stokely. One reason he is my Michigan hero is he is always generous with both his time and money. He gives hundreds of hours each year working on the Ludington high school baseball diamond that is named after him. He wants the field to always look nice for
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” Though pictures represent bygone moments in time‚ they become extant through one’s own memories. The picture offers a subtle reality through its manifestation of all five human senses thus allowing the audience to vicariously experience the moment captured. Of the thousands of photographs taken by my family and I‚ there is one that I would call my favorite. The first thing that comes to mind while looking at this picture‚ especially for someone not from my eclectic Bengali family‚ would be wow
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