Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Facing It” describes a Vietnam War veteran’s painful experience of visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington‚ D.C. In his poem I couldn’t help but be impressed by its vivid imagery. Reading the lines‚ Komunyakaa makes it so easy to envision what he describes. It makes me feel like I’m there. Through the use of vivid imagery‚ Yusef Komunyakaa shows the veterans’ response to the Vietnam War memorial by using both literal and figurative illustrations. Literally
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The challenges I have to take day by day and strive for the best in life. School is all I need to survive for my child. I have to make a different and a change somewhere in life. I have a strong concept of doing the hard work first‚ a doing my best to get good grades every time. Sometime it get hard but‚ you got to keep trying and don’t give up. This is my challenge to test myself that I can do it no matter what I will always succeed‚ and get to where I need. I will gain every time as long as I got
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Facebook‚ Alibaba‚ Airbnb‚ and Uber are some of the most valuable platforms of the recent years. But before achieving this success‚ they encountered many challenges in the beginning. One of the biggest challenges was to reach to critical mass. Marketplaces in their first stage‚ usually have difficulties with user acquisition. The moment they hit some scale points in regarding total user-base‚ suddenly‚ their sites go viral and start getting lots of users. Many startups die within a short period because
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Administrator Challenges Jeremy Hanes CJA/454 January 12‚ 2015 Laurence Hess In modern society there are many challenges to police work. They can be very overwhelming but many grant satisfaction. It takes a special individual to be a police officer and perform the duties that are required by law for them to do. This paper will look at the satisfactions and challenges of police work on a day to day basis. One challenge that police officers face daily is the stress that accompanies the job
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Johnny Touchton 10-07-2013 Exemplification Essay ENC 1101-001 (7:00) Mr. Hinson Challenges of Bow hunting Hunters everywhere are presented with a number of challenges that arise with each hunt. Bow hunters are no exception to this. In most cases‚ bow hunters are faced with many more challenges than someone hunting with a firearm. Some challenges include the extensive preparation that has to be done before each hunt‚ as well as being cognizant and knowledgeable of all of the different types
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An immigrant faces many challenges in the new country they arrive in. Whether they chose go willingly to another country‚ or they do so because of necessity‚ the challenges do not decrease. The first challenge is to fit in and understand how anything works. Things such as the social norms‚ the expectations‚ and the civil regulations must be identified and adhered to. There is no one to help you initially‚ and you are thrust into the deep end with limited resources and limited knowledge. But the
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When I sit down to write this paper‚ I cannot help but to remember Lord Brahma‚ whose four heads were meant‚ simultaneously‚ to recite all four Vedas.Similarly‚ when I look at this problem of organizational challenges in India‚ I yearn to have those four heads- because there are Four Faces which need to interact in tandem.Firstly‚let us have a look at the three visible heads and then lastly‚ the invisible head. The three visible faces can be described as - Head 1: ASKING QUESTIONS Head 2: SEEKING
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SUBJECT: Communication Challenges in the Future After reading the article Communication Challenges in the Future‚ it can be understood how new trends effect and relate with the strategic forces that influence the process of communication. Predicted Communication Trends There are some interesting devices and trends that are predicted to become available in communication. A new device predicted is a foldable phone that serves as a phone‚ gaming device and multimedia player. It would also include
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estimates of the time (x‚ in years) it would take the road to undergo a major maintenance after its completion. We seek to maximize this time variable x‚ as larger values imply better structural integrity as well as cheaper projection of the net present value for maintenance cost. The CDF for contractor 1‚ F1(x) is as follows: x 20 25 40 45 50 F1(x) 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 The CDF for contractor 2‚ F2(x) is as follows: x 10 30 40 45 50 F2(x) 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1
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Facing It Yusef Komunyakaa‚ Pulitzer Prize winning poet grew up in Bogalusa Louisiana. Yusef had an interesting childhood including an abusive father‚ a love for jazz music‚ and a side of patriotism. He joined the army in 1965 during the heart of the Vietnam War. This is where Yusef got a lot of inspiration to start to write his poetry. War brought him a lot of personal experiences that he later turned into award winning poetry. ‘Facing it” is a poem expressing the struggle of life and death also
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