Thanksgiving Dinner By: Jason Bay I walked into the kitchen and spotted a turkey and prime rib‚ chicken‚ smoked ham‚ macaroni and cheese‚ corn on the cob‚ candy yams‚ stuffing‚ mashed potatoes‚ and greens. The delightful scents of turkey and prime rib‚ cheese‚ buttered corn‚ sweet yams‚ and gravy filled the air. I hear a timer go off‚ an oven opening‚ a microwave beeping‚ barbeques grilling‚ and family talking. I taste all sorts of things such as turkey and prime rib‚ macaroni and cheese‚ corn
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Ode to John Keats At an early age‚ John Keats experienced a tough life that was surrounded by death. Not only did he lose his mother‚ father‚ and half of his siblings when he was young‚ but he was exposed to death and illness when he was a teenager working as an apprentice surgeon. He soon became a Romantic poet with an obsession with death‚ which can be seen in his poems throughout his life‚ particularly in his famous “Great Odes”. Between the spring and autumn of 1819‚ Keats wrote six odes
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The Summary of P.B. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind Published in 1820‚ P.B. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind‚ is a poem which allegorizes the role of the poet as the voice of change and revolution. Shelley realizes that he cannot in actual life‚ rise to the height of imaginative perfection‚ which was his dream. But it is his bold optimism that he invokes the West Wind to blow the clarion call to the ‘unawaken’d earth’ and to sow the seeds of hope of regeneration. The poem begins with three stanzas
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Thanksgiving break‚ a time for family fun and relaxation‚ unless you’re the chef du’jor of the meal. Fortunately for me I was only the assistant‚ mom still gets the full privileges of preparing the feast. I do though get consulted on all‚ or most of the food safety aspects that go with it. So you can imagine my trepidation when asked‚ “can I defrost the turkey in a cooler of brined ice water?” Do what! A cooler of brined ice water? Yes‚ that was the question of the moment‚ 24 hours pre-turkey day
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dreams. In April 1819 Keats composed a poem called Ode on a Grecian Urn during the romantic period of time. Ode on a Grecian Urn became one of the top six poems of the time period. Romanticism is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Ode on a Grecian Urn can be described in so many elements and told in so many ways. Ode on a Grecian Urn can be best broken down by describing
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James Nguyen Professor Tarango English 100 30 June 2014 The Past is the Present In August 1955‚ Emmett Till‚ a fourteen-year-old African-American boy left Chicago to visit his relatives in Mississippi. A couple days after he arrived‚ he and his cousin Curtis Jones went to the Bryant ’s grocery store to buy some candy. A white man named Roy Bryant who was out of town owned the store and his wife‚ Carolyn‚ was managing the shop in his absence. The exact details of the incident have long been disputed
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Ode on a Grecian Urn "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published in January 1820 (see 1820 in poetry). It is one of his "Great Odes of 1819"‚ which include "Ode on Indolence"‚ "Ode on Melancholy"‚ "Ode to a Nightingale"‚ and "Ode to Psyche". Keats found earlier forms of poetry unsatisfactory for his purpose‚ and the collection represented a new development of the ode form. He was inspired to write the poem after reading two articles
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ENG 3307-01 March 19‚ 2012 Explication on “Ode on Melancholy” In "Ode on Melancholy" John Keats expresses to readers the truth he sees‚ that joy and pain are inseparable and to experience joy fully we must experience sadness fully. Keats valued intensity of emotion‚ thought‚ and experience (“Classification Of Poem”). Keats does not stray away from the suggestion that feeling intensely means that grief or depression may cause sorrow and torture. Throughout the poem Keats expresses his values
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grocery shopping for Thanksgiving. We found that it can be very wasteful. We had a list of 12 items to buy including turkey‚ potatoes‚ pies‚ cranberries‚ veggies‚ bread‚ stuffing‚ decorations‚ paper plate‚ plastic cups‚ plastic utensils‚ alcohol all of these items come along with other packaging that had to be made somewhere else largely from some type of synthetic industrial plant because most are packaged in plastic even potatoes that could be sold singulare for thanksgiving it’s cheaper to buy
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It was the last Thanksgiving that my grandparents were there for. How could we ever expect them to be‚ they slept in small cases underneath the grass. Nonetheless it was merry‚ still filled with so much “family” that I had never met and I still flinched at the words‚ “do you remember me?” that parted from unrecognized lips. There was Aunt Helen’s famous apple pie‚ and the six turkeys‚ and the dogs running around in the backyard. I loved Thanksgiving because it was normal. It was the one holiday my
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