Alyssa McCutchen Period 6 3/15/12 How My Optimism Helps Me Overcome Obstacles Optimism is such a funny thing. It has the capability to help you solve some of the most challenging and troublesome problems you’ll ever face in your entire life. This is exactly what optimism does for me. I have had some of the most challenging and troublesome things happen to me and using optimism during those times really helped me through them‚ and I honestly don’t think I would have made it through all of
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November 2012 Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers This poem portrays a main character‚ Aunt Jennifer‚ as a humble docile woman; smothered by her marriage and the norms she feels she must meet to please society. Adrienne Rich cleverly names the poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” because of the importance of the role the tigers play in her life. With a husband who dominates her in all respects‚ she must find her own freedom in her life by knitting in her free time. Aunt Jennifer‚ a woman on the backside
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writing. At first glance‚ one might assume that Adrienne Rich’s poem‚ "Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers‚" is about an old feeble woman‚ who is depressed about her husband’s death. So‚ she creates something beautiful to replace him. However‚ in a more in-depth reading you see a woman suppressed by her husband. Aunt Jennifer doesn’t create this beautiful panel with tigers so brave and enduring‚ because she misses her husband. Aunt Jennifer makes this panel because she wishes she could be as brave as these
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begining with Offred the main character. Offred lives with Aunt Sarah and Aunt Elizabeth. The aunts are meant to show these handmaid’s‚ the aunts show them discipline. The aunts are very strict with the handmaids‚ for example they have a curfew for them and they can only go out twice in a day. The aunts purpose and importance is that the keep the handmaid’s on check like so that they can be good. Offred’s purpose in the Handmaid’s Tale is to show how she was treated and what type of life the handmaid’s
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Aunt Sue’s Stories Langston Hughes poem‚ “Aunt Sue’s Stories” would fall into the category of didactic poetry. Where this poem is concerned‚ there is an ethical and moral lesson being taught. This poem illustrates the African culture of telling stories to pass on traditions‚ keeping the African heritage alive and ensuring history does not repeat itself by gapping the generational bridge. Thus the oral documentation weaves a tapestry of the historical legacy of the African people in America always
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back at times in your life that you would give anything to rewind and alter? Everyone has those memories that have the million different scenarios in their head that could of ended it better. Although there are some really foolish things I have done in my time here that I would love to go back and kick myself for‚ I wouldn’t change a thing. With the mistakes we make and all the unwise decision making that goes on‚ it also gives us very important life lessons that hopefully gets used in the next time
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colors which it carries and therefore influences." An artist works upon people‚ places‚ and things that incite them to express themselves. It is these things that lay the foundation for a masterpiece that goes on to influence future artists. This is how the artist Raphael Sanzio came about being one of the best of his time. Raphael took methods and ideas from his surrounding colleagues and then he would combine them with his own personality to create some of the best works from his era. Raphael Sanzio’s
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Lenin‚ Stalin‚ and Trotsky were all very influential people to the life of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics‚ the USSR‚ and how it industrialized. In ways they improved the USSR by trying to industrialize it and increase agricultural production‚ but they also killed many people and used terror to gain obedience from their people. Lenin started the Red Terror that tried to destroy the monarchy and anti-Bolshevik groups to secure his power. Stalin caused a widespread famine because he focused
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mid-rise building‚ designed by architect Mick Pearce in conjunction with engineers at Arup Associates‚ has no conventional air-conditioning or heating‚ yet stays regulated year round with dramatically less energy consumption using design methods inspired by indigenous Zimbabwean masonry and the self-cooling mounds of African termites! Termites in Zimbabwe build gigantic mounds inside of which they farm a fungus that is their primary food source. The fungus must be kept at exactly 87 degrees F
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when my father died. I knew what loss and grief felt like before then – I lost my aunt only four months before my dad died in November 2005 and each year before that‚ I lost my Gramps and uncle. This time‚ however‚ my grief was a lot different; I was not sad all the time‚ as people expected me to be. I rarely cried and I stopped sleeping. I was up half the night‚ tossing and turning. I had to force myself to get out of bed every morning because I was exhausted and numb. Everyone around me thought
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