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    Add school counselor to the list of people you can turn to when you need help. They know how to listen and can help kids with life challenges. Counselors have special training in how to help kids solve problems‚ make decisions‚ and stand up for themselves. You feel like you need to talk to someone about everything that’s going on. A great person to share your thoughts and feelings with is your school counselor. In addition to help kids with problems guidance counselors help kids learn about study

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    The poem on Turning Ten by Billy Collins for me is about leaving childhood behind and understanding that one must eventually grow up. Its Realizing that one Has to mature and stop the never ending theme park designer that is a Childs imagination. Turning a two digit number was written as a very sad event in this poem. It became a sickness‚ sort of a Disease of the psyche. Whereas still being a one digit number was a lot easier‚ not caring about what others say‚ playing with the imaginary friend and

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    In “The Names”‚ Billy Collins uses repetitions of names to designate the astronomical quantity of 9/11 victims‚ and to share his desires of the victims to not be forgotten as time passes by. Billy Collins goes on to present that these names are still pertinent and are almost everywhere around us‚ however he is unsure that these names are pertinent in future time. As time vanishes‚ people incline to forget events that have occurred‚ and this is something Billy Collins desires not to transpire for

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    "The Names" Poetry is a form of writing that lets people express themselves. Poems are typically short and sometimes rhyme. In other senses‚ they do not rhyme‚ but have a reasonably deep meaning. In the poem‚ "The Names"‚ by Billy Collins‚ the title really caught my attention because I was surprised by the relationship between the title and the poem‚ my expectations about the connection were fulfilled‚ and the poem itself was extremely moving. One reason I chose the poem‚ who’s title caught my

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    “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins Naturally‚ life is a continuous cycle of experience and learning. Yet often times so much is buried in our lives that we fail to remember or recall what we have learned. Memories that range from miniscule facts to important emotions can often leave unknowingly from our mind. Billy Collin’s “Forgetfulness” shows how memories are delicate and fragile‚ and that the process of forgetting is one that is nonchalant. Billy Collins effectively blends subtle humor and irony

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    NOTE: Go to assignment directions on page 2: “Prove This Claim.” You do NOT have to answer the  questions because we’ve already done them in class.    The History Teacher  (Billy Collins)  Trying to protect his students’ innocence  he told them the Ice Age was really just  the chilly Age‚ a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters. And the Stone Age became the Gravel Age‚  named after the long driveways of the time.  The Spanish Inquisition was nothing more  than an outbreak of questions such as 

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    like anything the owner did for him. The author then finishes off the poem by saying that the dogs version of heaven is exactly like everybody assumed it was. In the end the author tells a theme of don’t assume the feeling of other. The author Billy Collins uses Irony in the last couple of lines “ and that is all you need to know about this place/ except what

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    Most people try to shield children from the evils of the world; however‚ some may try a little too hard. The teacher in Billy Collins’s poem “The History Teacher” is an example of this. By teaching the children a fairy-tale version of history rather than the reality of it‚ the children fail to learn about the consequences of their actions. The desire of the teacher to protect his students has caused him to soften the harshness and reality of the past. Not wanting to corrupt their innocence‚ “he

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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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    Within the final stanza of the poem‚ Collins makes several allusions to the inevitable end of several things‚ such as rivers‚ roads‚ parades. It’s basically the poet describing the impending death‚ or end‚ off all things‚ much like a tragedies inescapable end. Additionally‚ the speaker also

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