Anxious and Excited. Those words describe me on the day of my 6th birthday party. Excitement can come in 2 ways: inside or out; mine was shown in both ways! So many people had come to celebrate with me and the fact that people cared enough to come celebrate is something that is very special to me. It was the day of my party‚ a day I would never forget. I had so much excitement I could hardly contain it. Yet still‚ there were things to be done. The moonwalk we had requested had arrived and
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In the poem‚ “A Birthday”‚ Christina Rossetti uses extensive and positive imagery‚ mostly pertaining to natural descriptions. In fact‚ the whole poem is composed of imagery‚ that are all solely for the purpose of relaying the sense of pure joy the speaker is feeling. The first line starts off with “My heart is like a singing bird” which gives the impression that her heart feels as elated as a bird does when singing. Another example is‚ “My heart is like an apple tree whose boughs are bent with thick-set
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“The Surprise Ending” Assignment 1: Essay Humanities 112: World Cultures II “A Modest Proposal for Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland‚ from Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country‚ and For Making Them Beneficial to The Publick‚” is a story about the author Jonathan Swift‚ who reveals the life in his country. Swift explains that the streets are filled with begging women and unattended children lurking the streets. The women in the streets have many children and cannot
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What a truly special evening it is that we are celebrating this evening - an evening all the more special because we are sharing this celebration with all of you. A warm welcome to everyone and thank you so much for sharing M.Rishaleni ’s 21st birthday with us tonight. It just wouldn’t have been the same without all of you - all the people who have played such an amazing role in her life. Tonight is M.Rishaleni’s night and we hope it will be a night that she remembers fondly in the years
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Birthday by Christina Rossetti Everything in the first stanza speaks of the happiness Rossetti sees around her‚ and the repeated expression ‘My heart is like . . .’ stresses this joy‚ but she says at the end of the first stanza that her “heart is gladder than all these” which implies that what the poet is feeling is more than she can put in words. The persona compares her heart to the “singing bird” to bring out how overjoyed she felt. This may imply that the author’s heart had the same energetic
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	Christina Rossetti’s poem "A Birthday" and Kate Chopin’s short story "The Story of an Hour" present conflicting attitudes toward love. In particular the speaker in Rossetti’s poem is anticipating and overjoyed by the arrival of her new found love‚ whereas the character in Chopin’s story‚ after the initial shock of her new found freedom ‚ was overjoyed by the loss of her love. In the poem and short story several literary elements and techniques were used to convey these different attitudes
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"The Birthday Party" by Katharine Brush is a story in which shows how there is more to everything than what it looks like‚ Brush uses literary devices such as imagery to express how some people in a relationship can be really happy but aren’t‚ atmosphere to assert how the characters evening went from being delightful and intimate to catastrophic and bitter‚ and metaphor to indicate how Katharine Brush uses imagery to create a vivid picture of how happy it all starts to be. It says‚ "... in the
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Apparently with no surprise A happy-go-lucky flower gets its head chopped off by the frost. The sun sees the whole thing from up above‚ but doesn’t give a flip. Somewhere above‚ God watches it all thinking what a swell job he’s done. Oh Dickinson. You’re really quite something. Get out the microscope‚ because we’re going through this poem line-by-line. Lines 1-2 Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The first thing we notice is that we’ve got a little personification going on‚ meaning that
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6 Year Old Girl’s Birthday Party Observation I was invited to Madi’s birthday party.It was 3PM at her home.I arrived 5 minites earlier‚Madi greeted me at door.She was wearing a snow white dress with a red bow tie on her head.When I praised her pretty dress she thanked me and told me it was handmade by Farna‚her neighbor‚as her birthday gift.I handed her my gift‚she cheerfully put them together with the other gifts and went to her friends and classmates. 6 year old Madi has two elder sisters Katelyn
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The big surprise. Two years ago I was with my family visiting Chiapas‚ we were in Palenque and we rented a car so that it was easy for us to move around the entire city and visiting all the nearest towns around‚ the plan was to go in the car around the country. One of the first days we went to visit the entire archeologist zone and the pyramids. My brother and I went to the car like at 10 am to leave some souvenirs and a big statue of a cougar that my mother bought so we can walk more easily and
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