Ben Sheldahl Pogreba AP Language 1/3/14 Meere Men? Or be we Bird-Gods? “A-well-a‚ bird‚ bird‚ bird‚ b-bird’s the word A-well-a‚ don’t you know about the bird Well‚ everybody’s talking about the bird A-well-a‚ bird‚ bird‚ b-bird’s the word A-well-a‚ bird” These sage words from “The Trashmen” hint at the fragility of the bird species‚ as well as emphasizing the necessity of birds in not just our physical lives‚ but our pop culture. In this excerpt from the book Silent Spring‚ Rachel Carson
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ENG 1501 Assignment 2 Question C- The Road to Mecca (Athol Fugard) The Road to Mecca is an eye opening play written by Athol Fugard that displays a deep and significant message about the importance women’s right to express themselves freely. Elsa‚ a character in the play‚ sums this idea up in a sentence she says in the play: “There’s nothing sacred in a marriage that abuses the woman”. The story is primarily based on a woman by the name of Helen Martin. Helen lived in a culture with certain
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Bodie Thoene once said‚ “What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.” This quote means that most people forget the right way and just way to do things because of the easier and more convenient way. I agree with this quote because I have done it before many times‚ and have witnessed it many times. As an example‚ I once did something that was not kind‚ and when given the opportunity to be honest‚ I instead lied and covered up my wrong doing. I could have admitted my fault‚ but it was a
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The most beautiful things in this world are not tangible‚ the things you can only feel with your heart‚ the ones unexplainable to the rest. The power to inflict emotions upon an audience with just a story is a power I have always wanted to possess. I love the great storytellers but never believed I could be more than a consumer. For my senior project I will be creating a children’s story book. I have always loved reading children’s books‚ even now in my teenage years. Don’t get me wrong‚ I like Catcher
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The poem ‘Siren Song’ may be believed to indicate an alluring woman who has no morals. This could be alluded to‚ as the term ‘siren’ might be highlighting a feigning and insincere female trying to manipulate a man. On one hand‚ the poem could be interpreted as one‚ which subtly complains about women in general‚ as Atwood claims that the song ‘forces men to leap’. Through generalizing ‘men’‚ the poet naturally separates the two genders in order to convey that no one man is individual‚ similarly to
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Disabled. Disabled is a word commonly defined as being physically or mentally impaired‚ injured‚or incapacitated(dictionary.com.) Disabled is a word that brings a bad astigmatism over someone with its negative connotation. Nancy Maris dislikes the word disabled because she thinks that the English language uses to much euphemism in our speech. Maris want the language to use more straightforward language‚ even if it might offend some people. In her memoir Maris talks about how she became disabled from
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Skateboarding Skateboarding. A sport that only requires a board and four wheels. A sport that tests you to push you to the limit‚ and do the unthinkable. It seems pretty simple‚ doesn’t it? Well‚ all I can say is‚ practice makes perfect. Skateboarding can push you to go farther than you probably ever thought you could go before. I know that‚ because it happened to me. I never thought I was going to ever be good at skating. But during the summer‚ I started a routine of getting
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Text Analysis I General information 1. Who is the author? 2. What is the title? 3. Is the title clear or obscure? 4. What feelings and expectations does the title arise? 5. Who is the narrator: ➢ The author him/herself (a person who knows everything about the facts and the characters but takes NO part in the action of the story) ➢ External narrator ( i. e. an outsider who speaks of people they knew but whose role in the plot is merely that of an observer)
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Out of Time By Kieren Hovasapian Out of Time is a poem written by Kenneth Slessor and is one of his personally favorite poems to date he has written. Time is personified in this poem‚ but also associated with the natural phenomenon of water‚ or vessels such as yachts seen on Slessor’s favorite location‚ Sydney Harbor (which is itself personified). Personification gives immediacy to an abstraction such as time‚ and elicits evaluative responses which are more arresting than an address to an abstraction
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Pyatachev E.G. Text Three From W.S. Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972)‚ the son of a solicitor‚ was educated at Harrow and Balliol College‚ Oxford and for more than twenty years from 1932 was a fiction reviewer for such periodicals as the Spectator; Sketch‚ Observer and Time and Tide. He published his first book‚ a collection of short stories entitled "Night Fears" in 1924. His novel "Eustace and Hilda" (1947) was recognized immediately as a major contribution to English fiction; "The Go-Between"
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