I like to believe of myself as a very open minded person who enjoys experiencing new things. My goal is to one day travel the world and learn from different cultures and interact with people with beliefs different than my own. At times I just enjoy being left alone‚ it helps ease my mind. My family is my main priority‚ I used to struggle with my depression in middle school but they helped me through it all. Those years were a true awakening for me. I now cherish everyday that goes by. Bad decisions
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when couples made a marriage work regardless of what the situation was. In “Did I Miss Something?” author Lowell Putnam explains his view of being “treated as a victim of some social disease.” He tells of living part time with one parent and part time with the other. I am also a child of divorced parents; however I only lived with my mother. I can agree with some points the author made‚ and some I feel differently. I agree that parents can’t make a marriage work based on a child. That will only
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I am black. I am a black goo. Black in a cube‚ that shapes my every move. It is not the prettiest spot but it is in existence. White nor gray just black will have presence on the goo that represents my being. The invisible box that molds me‚ at times only allows me to see in monochromatics‚ the somewhat good and the almighty ugly when it is neccessary. Yet my mold is my prism that allows me to view the world from multiple perspectives‚ when needed. Am I trying to infer that being a black is a
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PERSONAL SPACE Still I Rise While taking the class Women in Contemporary Literature we read‚ discussed‚ and analyzed a number of historical works‚ poems‚ and essays by women authors of the present and past. The work that impressed me‚ and touched my spirit the most was a poem written by Maya Angelou entitled‚ "Still I Rise". This poem is in essence an autobiography of‚ and personal extension of Ms. Angelou’s soul. Moreover‚ there are many lines‚ words‚ language choices‚ and word choices that demonstrate
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Though the course of this semester‚ I have learned so many key concepts‚ that were taught in this class. I have learned the proper placement of a thesis sentence‚ and how to make it effective. I have also learned how to make in text citations. I know now that everything I have learned in this course‚ I would more than likely use‚ for the rest of my college career. By taking this course I have successfully learned how to write with the audience in mind‚ and learned of the importance of satire‚ Writing
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Despite having been written 100 years apart‚ the poem‚ “I am the people‚ the Mob” (1916) by Carl Sandburg and the magazine journal “The Pitchforks Are Coming... For Us Plutocrats” (2014) by Nick Hanauer both explore the theme of rising social inequality and the tendency for history to repeat itself‚ often leaving the issue unaddressed‚ which as both texts suggest has profound consequences. While investigating this theme‚ both texts demonstrate the immense power of the lower class. However‚ they approach
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In the survival documentary titled I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash a team of rugby players board a plane and it crashes. There are a total of thirty-three people who boarded the plane and sixteen people survive. The documentary deals with loss‚ survival‚ and adaptations. Although seventeen of the plane’s flight attendees had perished on site of the crash or passed away over time the other sixteen attendees had to deal with loss‚ survival‚ and adapting to their surroundings. The plane
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existentialist problem within a fictional situation. Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Sacred Space” and Lydia Millet’s “Zoogoing” belong to this category. These two short stories are from a book called “I’m With the Bears : Short Stories from a Damaged Planet”‚ which I found out to be a book consisting of 10 eco-related stories that mainly promote and inform the readers of the idea of fighting against global warming.
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In the poem “I Heard a Fly Buzz‚” Emily Dickinson describes her death in a way that makes her death seem insignificant. She says in the poem‚ “I willed my keepsakes‚ signed away what portions of me be assignable” (Dickinson). In this passage‚ Dickinson describes the last thing she does before her death. She says that she signs away all her belongings to others. This passage tells that she gave away only material and that she wanted to give away something more valuable. Dickinson did not care about
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In Engstrom’s piece‚ “Yes… But I Was Drunk”‚ ideas regarding speech communities are expanded on‚ more specially the speech community of college aged people. It discusses how the way people talk about experiences influences and is influenced by social change. It then dives into the perception of college drinking and how alcohol consumption does not merely lead to bad decisions‚ but instead explains how certain habitual ways of speaking normalize underage drinking and justify bad choices. This same
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