As I was sitting in my bed last night‚ I struggled to figure out what I should write my poem about. It was getting pretty late‚ and I tossed up ideas in my head including soccer‚ school‚ my future in college‚ and since it was on my mind‚ sleep. Because I had my cross country banquet earlier that night‚ I settled on that topic to write about. This past fall concluded my final season of running. It was the beginning of many “lasts” during my senior year‚ and the poem above is a testimony of running
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Title: The Turn of the Screw The Turn of the Screw is an idiom used many times in literature and even in everyday language. I was unfamiliar with this idiom and I believed that the author was foreshadowing how someone is going to lose their screw meaning they are going to go crazy. I was partially right since one perception of story is that someone does go crazy‚ but the actual meaning of the idiom is to make something bad even worse. The author uses this phrase in his story as well. The first time
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period‚ people took anything not specified in sexual connotations. Realizing this‚ the authors of the time used this to their advantage and laid a heavy underlying sexual atmosphere as a basis for their stories. Henry James does just that in his Turn of the Screw. Though never directly stating so‚ his main character suffers from sexual repression that came along with her position in the Victorian age and eventually acts upon it‚ while the ghosts in the story then serve as protection for the children
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Celia Behind Me The themes in this story are all related to adolescence and the problems that come with it‚ as in gaining acceptance amongst friends and classmates as well as victimization‚ problems with one’s parents - a constant split between two minds concerning one with what is right or wrong. The relationship between the parents and their child is also discussed in this story as well as the parents’ roles in the upbringing of their children. Many children are victimized in the modern society
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Instruction Can be Funny Do Frazier’s "How to Operate the Shower Curtain" is a very funny way of making fun of extremely complex instructions for simple things‚ like shower curtains. Even the article is a littler but it still can catch your attention all the time. I really like his way to introduce the things to the audience. In the essay he goes on and on about different scenarios that may occur while operating a shower curtain. The essay is funny because it reminds me of some instruction that
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No Child Left Behind The education policy that I chose is on education today and the influence of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. In 2001‚ President George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act. The NCBL is a United States Act of Congress‚ which includes Title 1 (program for disadvantaged students offered by the government). This Act requires states to develop assessments in basic skills. Each state is required to give these assessments to all students to receive federal school
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Hiding Behind the Screen Roger Scruton The New Atlantis; Summer 2010; pp. 48-60 Human relations‚ and the self-image of the human being‚ have been profoundly affected by the Internet and by the ease with which images of other people can be summoned to the computer screen to become the objects of emotional attention. How should we conceptualize this change‚ and what is its effect on the psychic condition of people who construct their world of interests and relationships through the screen? Is
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In The Turn of the Screw by Henry James‚ there are many disputes over the question of the governess’s sanity. While some claim that the apparitions she sees are real‚ deeming her sane‚ others believe that they are materializations of her own imagination. The governess is sane because of her ability to think rationally‚ the apparitions’ resemblance to previous Bly workers‚ and Miles’s acknowledgment of Peter Quint. The governess is sane because she is able to think rationally before acting upon
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27 January 2011 Hiding behind the Mask As a non-traditional student attending college‚ I sometimes ponder on how I have secluded myself. I am taking both online and face-to-face classes‚ and seem to hide my fears one time or another. Like Paul Laurence Dunbar in his poem‚ “We Wear the Mask” I can tell that different types of people do hide behind the mask rather than being honest with themselves‚ because I seem to do that also‚ whether it is to save ourselves or the feelings of another.
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Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw is written with one clear and true ending where Miles dies and the readers are left to guess the rest for themselves. Or is it? Right from the prologue‚ a reader may assume that Miles and Douglas are indeed the same person‚ but when the reader sees‚ “and his little heart‚ dispossessed‚ had stopped.” P.403 one dismisses that theory as lost‚ but it isn’t. Perhaps one ignore the idea because of many unclear allusions to discrepancies. James’ use of deliberate vagueness
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