I had never ridden a horse before. Trotting away in the middle of a Costa Rican plain‚ I could feel my bare ankles stinging from the stirrup rubbing against them. We had been riding for a solid three hours in the unbearable heat. Suddenly I felt my body falling backwards‚ my horse was running. I grasped onto the horn for dear life. Thinking back‚ they did not teach me much about how to ride a horse before I jumped on‚ so I had absolutely no idea what to do. “Should I jump off?” It seemed like a
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Margaret Bourke-White was a well known photographer and was known for proving that women could do the same thing as men in the field of photography. She photographed Gandhi minutes before his assassination‚ covered the war that followed the partition of India‚ and was with U.S. troops when they liberated Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp. She was the iconic photographer that caught everyone by surprise. Margaret defied what everyone thought that a woman was capable of doing in the world of
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Don’t B Cooped Up! “I know what the caged bird feels‚ atlas!” (Dunbar). Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy” can be interpreted from a multitude of lens; whether seen from a more historical view or an emotional view‚ the poem conveys a very real and similar message. The poem plays off the idea of being “cooped up” in a cage and longing to escape its ‘cruel bars’ (Dunbar). When analyzing each of the three Professors’ interpretations‚ they all had a solid notion of what Dunbar was trying to express
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Margaret Sanger: The Mother of Preventing Unwanted Motherhood At the turn of the 20th century‚ the toll that years of injustices took on American minority groups rose to a breaking point. The plethora of new technology which arrived post-civil war led to many unaddressed socioeconomic issues (“Progressive Movement.”)‚ which caused many discontent individuals to unite to form malcontent groups. Known as the Progressive Era‚ the first 20 or so years of the century consisted of movements led primarily
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In the poem We Wear the Mask‚ by Paul Laurence Dunbar‚ Dunbar explains that people around the world wear a mask to hide their true selves. Dunbar also talks about how people cover up their tears and sighs with the masks so that people think nothing is wrong with someone else. Dunbar shows that once someone wears a mask‚ they are a whole new person. The poem also expresses that people only let others see them when they were their mask‚ and they look perfect. “Nay‚ let them only see us‚ while we wear
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This quotation was taken from Margaret Atwood’s story‚ "Homelanding." This story recounts many aspects of human existence from an outside view‚ as if it was being told to an alien race. This story tells about human appearance‚ sex (both difference and the act of)‚ sunbathing‚ sleeping‚ death‚ and many other human functions in a scientific way. This story takes a step away from the normal way of describing these objects. For example‚ Margaret Atwood talks about eating and describes it by saying "I
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In Margaret Atwood’s short story‚ “Happy Endings‚” she explains that no matter what kind of story someone has‚ death is something that everyone has in common. Atwood states “So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun.” She means that the end does not matter because eventually everyone will die‚ the beginning is the important part of a story. Atwood says that the beginnings of a story are more fun because that is where all the details are. The beginning can happen however it wants to‚ but
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The story “All the King’s Horses‚” by Kurt Vonnegut begins with the main cast being held captive in a dark room. Colonel Bryan Kelly‚ his wife‚ margaret‚ two ten year old sons‚ Jerry and Paul‚ and sixteen other crew members were involved in a plane crash over the Asiatic mainland and in the territory of a Communist guerrilla chief and madman‚ Pi Ying’s. On the ground they are marched for a day straight to Pi Ying’s palace home where they are held captive awaiting their fates. Once Colonel Kelly And
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published in 1992 in England. The story is about a couple who married without love‚ but parent’s wish instead.The husband named Henry Tillotson and the wife named Margaret Tillotson. Henry got married to Margaret because it was his father’s wish and to save her from going to prison. Henry brought Margaret to his farmhouse in Cotteshaw. When Margaret got there‚ she went straight to her bed and rarely got up. Margaret’s favorite and only hobby was redecorating the bedroom. She kept changing the color from
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In this ever-changing society in which we live in‚ is centered around many norms. A norm that has taken a large leap over the years deals with college education. In Margaret A. Miller’s “The Privileges of the Parents‚” she discusses the impacts that a parent’s education has on their children. She does that by referencing the difference in the economic benefit received by individuals with a variety of educational backgrounds. To support her claim‚ Miller centered her essay around an old folk saying
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