In this response to lyrics and personal reflection essay‚ I chose the song “invisible” by Taylor Swift. She is an amazing singer and songwriter. Taylor Swift has written so many songs‚ but I chose “invisible” because I can relate to this song a lot. She started singing when she was really young. All of her songs have some sort of story to tell‚ and I really enjoy listening to her music. Taylor Swifts music has a lot of meaning to it‚ mostly about how it was for her growing up. But this
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01/4/13 Personal Response To Text 2 (Extended Text) By Peter Stamp Title: Guardian Of The Dead Author; Karen Healy Genre: Young Adult/ Fiction Publisher: www.allenandunwin.com Guardian Of The Dead by Karen Healy is an adventure novel about a normal day-to-day high school student who hangs out with her friends‚ obsesses with Mark‚ a mysterious boy and her biggest worry is her essay deadline. Then everything changes; in the foggy woods outside the school‚ something ancient and deadly is
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Personal Response to “The Shawshank Redemption” Punit Gor Foundation II DSK Supinfocom Director Frank Darabont’s 1994 debut‚ The Shawshank Redemption is a Drama film adapted from Stephen King’s novel Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption from his 1982 collections. Thomas Newman delivers the score to the film. The story is chronological and is in the same time period of the film (1994). The film stars Tim Robbins‚ who plays a young and successful banker‚ Andrew “Andy” Dufresne‚ sentenced
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Personal Response to Dear Daddy The short story Dear Daddy by Lee Maracle brought me back the tears that I‚ too‚ had as a child. I felt pitiful for the main character’s experience and deeply impressed by the thirteen-year-old girl’s courage of getting over her negative feelings for the past and going on with her life. The story‚ written in the form of a letter‚ shows the process of a thirteen-year-old girl becoming more mature as she expresses her grievances from her tragic childhood. At the beginning
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English 122 Wednesday‚ October 2‚ 2013 Personal Response- Thumbprint Each of us imprints our own mark into the world‚ and no one is quite like us. In the poem‚ "Thumbprint" by Eve Merriam‚ she discusses the theme of how each of us is unique‚ and that no one will ever be exactly like us. She uses alliteration and metaphors to demonstrate her theme. I have reached a part in my life where I accepted my uniqueness. The poem "Thumbprint" reveals the celebration of being a unique individual. Merriam
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Personal Response on Sexual Identity You go through your life making choices and decisions but not thinking of exactly why you were making the choices that you made. Before this class I just figured that I mad the decisions I made because it was what I wanted at the time. Since I have taken this class I have found that the decisions that you make are based on what is called a value system. According to Rathus‚ Nevid‚ and Fichner-Rathus (2011)‚ the value system has to do with legalism
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Billy Bishop is a Canadian Hero A hero‚ legend‚ great fighter and the most famous “Canadian Hero”‚ William Avery Bishop‚ best known as “Billy” Bishop‚ was a person who had great respect for his country and amazing talent. The history behind Bishops success in World War 1 is very unique‚ as there are many events surrounding this brilliant hero. With his brutal and dramatic battles in France‚ Billy Bishop was Canada’s top Ace who had a total of 72 victories
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Personal Response to Wilfred Owen One of Wilfred Owen’s poem is Dulce et Decorum est. The title of this poem is roughly translated to: It is honorable and beautiful to die for your country‚ the poem itself basically speaks of how this is a lie. It takes you through a small story at the end of which it explains in gruel poetry the death of a soldier with effective language that helps inspire fear “And watch the white eyes writhing in his face‚ His hanging face‚ like a devil’s sick of sin;” I believe
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A hero‚ legend‚ great fighter and the most famous “Canadian Hero”. William Avery Bishop‚ best known as “Billy” Bishop was a person who had great respect for his country and carried an amazing talent. Billy Bishop’s life was surrounded by life changing events in which make him a brilliant hero. With his brutal and traumatic battles‚ Billy Bishop was Canada’s top Ace‚ with a total of 72 victories. Billy Bishop is a hero simply regarding his continued perseverance for his dreams which have changed
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My Personal Response to The Call of the Wild The novel The Call of the Wild tells a story about how Buck‚ a domesdicated dog in the "sun-kissed" Santa Clara‚ managed to survive in the wilds of Klondike. Jack London conveyed many of his own ideas about living in this novel by telling readers what Buck went through to adjust to the harsh realities of life in the frosty North‚ where survival was the only imprerative. Throughout Buck’s adjustment there were several turning-points which forced him to
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