My Last Softball game By:Ashlynn Telck Have you ever played fast pitch softball? On June 1‚ I had a softball game that I had to go to. My mom drove me to the softball field we had an hour of practice before the game started. After that‚ the game started and i was batting first I was really nervous. Then‚ I went to the home plate and i hit the ball and i ran as fast as I could to first base all I could here was Mom yelling‚“RUN RUN RUN” in the background . I made it to second without getting tagged
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Poly Klouvas English 1100C September 19‚2014 “Hills like white elephants” & “My last duchess” In the story “Hills like White elephants” by Ernest Hemingway has a lot of common things and differences with the poem “My last duchess” by Robert Browning. Both stories are about loving couples that also have altercations in their relationship. Every relationship has their ups and downs. But everyone is different. The story “Hills like white elephants” opens up with a couple in Spain that are out
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In this essay‚ I would like to discuss one of Robert Browning’s better known poems‚ "My Last Duchess." While some readers may be put off by Browning’s language which now seems archaic‚ his poem is every bit as relevant today as when he wrote it almost two hundred years ago. It is as relevant in the twenty first century as it was in the sixteenth century which serves as the setting for the poet’s history lesson. The poem focuses on a sixteenth century Italian duke who is regaling his guest with tales
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How has Donne used characteristics typical of metaphysical poetry to convey his ideas in “Holy Sonnet: ‘This is my playes last scene’?” This is my playes last scene is one of Donne’s ‘Holy Sonnets’ embodying spiritual pain and struggling faith in Christianity. Numerous biblical allusions and morbid tone that are typical of metaphysical poetry‚ convey Donne’s fear of death and religious scepticism. The opening four lines depict the last moments of the speaker’s life through metaphoric comparisons
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Introduction to Poetry Appreciation. TAQ 2: My Last Duchess by Robert Browning is based upon Duke Alfonso II of Ferrara’s marriage to Lucrezia de’ Medici and her death at his hands. Although it has never been proven that the Duke orchestrated her death‚ she did die suspiciously at the young age of seventeen after only a year of being married to the Duke. At first glance the reader only sees this story but upon reading the poem in more depth and looking at what the form and language devices tell
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I was running with the ball at my feet‚ my arms and knees where heavy from all the training I had been doing‚ but I felt good. I knew I was going to make a good play. I looked up and saw two defenders but‚ with no hesitation I charged towards them with the ball. I cut left hard and flew past one defender. After him I approached a tall defender and nutmegged him‚ passing the ball in between and through a player’s legs. I then passed the ball up forward to a friend of mine who almost scored an amazing
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As I was waI stopped to take a breather as I was done finishing my last lap out of the 4 miles. I had called my mom to pick me up and ten minutes ago‚ but she was not here yet‚ I just assumed she was just running a little bit late. I can tell you standing outside in the flaming fiery sun‚ covered in sweat with no water bottle in hand is no fun. As I was waiting beads of sweat‚ thermoregulatory sweating‚ started appearing on my skin. The two types of sweating are eccrine glands‚ armpits‚ and apocrine
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How things can dramatically change in a matter of seconds never really struck me as something that would ever happen to me. It was January 10‚ 2017. I woke up at 4:55 a.m. To get ready for school. I remember feeling a little drowsy when I woke up. The night before was not much of a success in the sleep department. The reason was I was nervous because my mom told me she had scheduled an appointment for me to see the doctor because she was concerned about my nutrition and whether or not I was doing
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Alexandra Lopez British Literature Annotated Bibliography April 16‚ 2015 My Last Duchess Thesis: Robert Browning’s “ My last Duchess‚” is not a romantic love story about the sudden death of a Duke’s wife. Instead it’s about an insecure and psychotic Duke who feels entitled to everything including his wife and kills her. Browning explores the mind of a lunatic and presenting his audience how men with power can basically get away with almost anything. he analyses issues of feminism‚ domestic violence
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My Last Duchess When a man cares more about his status and image than his wife‚ he may feel the need to take drastic measures to ensure that he is always the center of attention. Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue “My Last Duchess” paints a picture of a duke who is trying to escape from his past‚ by proving to himself that he has power over his deceased wife.During the poem‚ the duke shows a painting of the last duchess to a representative from the Count‚ who is there making arrangements for the
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