Luke Gladen-Kolarsky Hensley Acc. American Lit September 19‚ 2017 What’s brown and sticky? A stick. In his poems “Marginalia” and “Introduction to Poetry‚” Billy Collins uses metaphors to argue that students who annotate without real engagement detract from their experience of reading literature whereas those who annotate for their own satisfaction become more fulfilled. Collins’ “Marginalia” and “Introduction to Poetry” show the ways writing can be enjoyed when one annotates for one’s own contentment
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Bibliography: Intelligencer‚ P. (2012‚ September 26). "EDITORIAL: Hershey Plant: How Sweet It Is.". McClatchy - Tribune Business News. Noe‚ R. A. (2011). Fundamentals of human resource management (4th ed.). New York‚ NY: McGraw-Hill. Thurston‚ P. W.‚ D ’Abate‚ C. P.‚ & Eddy‚ E. R. (2012‚ july). Mentoring as an HRD Approach: Effects on Employee
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general and explains the comical‚ serious and memorable‚ then poignant parts of life. Laughter is something that pleases the mind. Throughout our entire lives‚ we search for things that make us feel‚ even for the slightest amount of time‚ happy. Billy Collins writes‚ “Chalk dust flurrying down in winter‚ / nights dark as a blackboard” (Page 535). He is referring to happy times as a teenager. Being more than happy when the snow comes and school is out. Having nothing but time to be out of the house
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Oranges‚ have you ever felt something for someone so much you would do anything for them. I think this story is a good description of this because this person cared so much for this girl that he was trying to go out of his way to do this one thing for her and had to give up the only thing he had. I think this poem can be taken many different ways‚ but the way I see it is that he cared so much for this girl that he would give up everything for her. I take it as a lesson for people to learn not to
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In “Introduction to Poetry”‚ the writer Billy Collins sends out a message to all readers‚ implying that when reading a poem‚ one should be patient in finding the meaning to it and be open minded. Billy Collins uses metaphors and personification as a different way of sending out his message to the readers. The poem contains both syntax and diction. The type of syntax that is in the poem is more of a free verse rather than a sonnet structure with meter and rhyming. “I want them to Waterski across
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Billy Beane had made his decision to base his drafting of position of players hitting on certain statistics. The two that he had decided were important were the on base percentage and slugging percentage. Together those form on base slugging. Billy Beane didn’t place any type of emphasis on power. Whereas before power was a main focus point. Although Mr. Beane thought that power could be developed. A player had the ability to develop and gain power‚ but the ability to master patience at the plate
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Nerissa Sykes Crystal O’Neal English 1102 28 February 2013 No More Sweet Red Riding Hood In the past‚ fairytales were intended mostly for children to learn morals and meanings to things. These fairytales also always ended with a happy ending. As time passed these fairytales have been altered and expanded in ways that draw from what a fairytale really is. Many have argued that these new adaptions of the fairytales have corrupted our children. Others on the other hand‚ gave reasoning on how
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entertainment for people of all ages around the world. Though it is mostly seen as a toy‚ it also teaches an important life lesson: when forming relationships‚ each person involved must give equally. In the novel‚ Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford‚ Henry Lee‚ a young Cantonese-American boy forms valuable relationships that have a lasting impact on his life. The first relationship displayed in the novel is between Henry and his father. Growing up‚ Henry’s dad‚ Mr. Lee‚ shows
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Allentown by Billy Joel was a song that described the troubles of the late 20th Century blue collar worker. As workers moved away from cities and jobs moved overseas in the 1980s and 90s‚ the typical blue collar worker was hurt as their unions and workplaces were closed to make way for the new serviced based economy. Specifically‚ Billy Joel is describing Allentown‚ Pennsylvania. Of which was affected by the economic turn of the 80s because most of its residents worked in Bethlehem‚ PA at a steel
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Regarding lies‚ those about history are worse than those about popular culture. In Billy Collins’s “The History Teacher”‚ the teacher lies to his students about historical events. He tells them that wars that killed so many were only small kerfuffles. He says‚ “the Enola Gay dropped one tiny atom on Japan”. This is a big deal. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed thousands and still has repercussions today. while the kids might not believe that it was only one atom‚ hearing this version of the story
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