Dear Patricia Smith‚ My name is Emmie Kimball‚ I am 14 years old and attend Kent Place School in New Jersey. During my English class‚ I was assigned to select a poem that really stood out to me and write to the poet. Your poem‚ “When the Burning Begins” really connected with me and I felt really moved by it because it made me realize that longing for the past is long and painful‚ but the memories you make are precious. To me‚ the most meaningful element in your poem is how you expressed how the memory
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The opening of the kite runner The opening December 2001 I became what I am at the age of 12‚ on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment‚ crouching behind a crumbling mud wall‚ peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago‚ but it’s wrong what they say about the past‚ I’ve learned‚ about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now‚ I realise I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six
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History of Sarawak: Where Do We Begin? This is a kind of a love story. There is a Malay saying tak kenal maka tak cinta which has been used for the tourist promotion song‚ "to know Malaysia is to love Malaysia" and the Sarawak version should be "to know Sarawak is to love Sarawak". Undoubtedly to know the history of Sarawak is to love Sarawak. For the historians it is not that simple as falling in love. In the case for Sarawak we do not know where and when to begin. Sarawak has a fairly rich historiography
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In John/Hank Green’s video‚ “Life Begins: Crash Course Big History #4‚” he discusses many different concepts encompassing the beginning of life on Earth. Life can adapt‚ metabolize and reproduce; but even these broad standards can make it difficult to classify certain things as ‘living.’ Regardless‚ the underlying principle is that life will actively try and increase its longevity‚ contrast to non-living things‚ which make no active attempt to exist longer. Another big idea is the transformation
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Mark Dorsett Mrs. Cunningham Expository Reading and Writing September 25‚ 2012 Fast Food Article Essay In Daniel Weintraub article "The Battle Against Fast Food Begins in the Home" argues about childhood obesity starting in the house and how its a lack of responsibility from the parents. Weintraub writes‚ “Parents‚ not state governments‚ are in the best position to fight the epidemic”(par 2). He also argues that in our world right now kids doesn’t do anything
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Savannah Raisor Mrs. Van Orden AP Language and Composition 29 September 2014 Now We Can Begin Crystal Eastman was an American lawyer‚ antimilitarist‚ socialist‚ journalist‚ and most importantly‚ a feminist at the end of the women’s suffrage movements. Her words inspire the women of America. She breathed life into the Bill of Rights as a major leader in the suffrage and equal rights movements in the early twentieth century. Eastman displays several ideas that propel the ideology of not only the roles
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James Wright’s poem “Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry‚ Ohio” was published in 1963‚ and like many of his other works‚ points focus toward the nature of human life in the Rust Belt region of America. The open form poem follows a narrator’s thoughts of his immediate and regional surroundings while watching a high school football game. Within the Rust Belt‚ poverty was common due to the after effects of the Great Depression and the decline in mining‚ and sports were one of the ways that children of impoverished
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Dear Patricia Smith‚ My name is Emmie Kimball‚ I am 14 years old and attend Kent Place School in New Jersey. During my English class‚ I was assigned to select a poem that really stood out to me and write to the poet. Your poem‚ “When the Burning Begins” really connected with me and I felt really moved by it because it made me realize that longing for the past is long and painful‚ but the memories you make are precious. To me‚ the most meaningful element in your poem is how you expressed how the memory
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Daniel Weintraub in the article‚ “ The battle against fast food begins in the home” argues that the parents are the ones to blame for child obesity. Fast food companies shouldn’t be to blame‚ because they are only doing their job. Weintraub supports his argument by explaining the data‚ and research‚ to show that most studies for customers supersizing options. His purpose was to raise awareness‚ and inform readers that parents need to take responsibility of their children so that the children don’t
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In the poem “You Begin” by Margaret Atwood‚ the speaker explains to the reader the importance of language and creating meaning through association. Through the use of figurative language such as metaphors and similes‚ repetition‚ and the presence of boundaries‚ the speaker presents the idea that the world may be perceived as wide and complicated‚ but the use of language and association can create new meaning in one’s life. The are two instances in the poem in which figurative language is used. The
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