expect an 83 year old grandma to be knitting‚ light cooking‚ playing bingo and slowly walking her way to church. Not my grandmother‚ you can find her climbing on ladders‚ fixing fans‚ constantly moving‚ driving big pick-up trucks‚ all while looking like she is going to the social club. My Grandma is a very unusual senior; she is constantly moving around and living in different
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Discuss My Last Duchess as an example of a well constructed dramatic monologue. Robert Browning used the poetic device of the dramatic monologue in his poem "My Last Duchess." One advantage of using this device is that it allows the speaker’s own words to reveal‚ celebrate‚ or‚ in this case‚ condemn his behavior. The speaker in "My Last Duchess" is the Duke‚ loosely based on the historical figure‚ the Duke of Ferrara whose own young wife died under mysterious circumstances. Browning writes the
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Forever In My Memories Dear Dad‚ August 9‚ 2009 marks the tragic night that you left my life. I had just gone to bed‚ after a wonderful day full of birthday wishes. The last time I saw you alive‚ you had a drunken smile on your face and a Heineken bottle in your left hand. Half an hour after I had fallen asleep‚ mom shouted and banged on my door‚ awakening me from my slumber. Assuming that she was acting bizarre‚ I thought nothing of it‚ as I attempted to fall back asleep. Before I knew it‚ she
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It was a snowy wet day it was also the start of my journey to America. I knew I had to wear a warm shirt my ripped jacket my warned pants with rips and holes all over them and my sandals. My mom Bonnie‚ Dad Paul‚ and I Percy Elliott started our walk to the boat. It was so cold my feet feel tingly and weird the holes in my jacket are getting worse the cold if unbearable. “I SEE IT” I screamed we ran to the docks. We look for are boat called Cairnvalona. “I found it I found it” dad screamed we ran
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My admiration and respect for the profession of medicine developed at the age of 8‚ due to a close encounter with death. I was admitted in a hospital due to an extremely low and rapidly deteriorating blood platelet count. At first the doctors provided me with a treatment that should have treated 90% of the cases‚ but they didn’t have any effect on me‚ and with the time running out quickly they resorted to the next best treatment. If this treatment didn’t work‚ I was only left one other option and
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Declaring my Independence from: Depression I am declaring my independence from depression. I would enjoy doing this since it invades my life. It isn’t something that can just be threw off. Depression consumes me and takes my life. I can’t be cheerful or anything that I usually would be and that is not tolerable. I want to be able to sleep at night feeling worthy of myself and my life. I need to feel as if I actually matter and being depressed allows that to be nearly impossible. The fifth amendment
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Theodore Roethke wrote the poem “My Papa’s Waltz” which reflects on his childhood memories of his father carrying him to bed. He reminisces about a past memory of him clinging to his father while walking through the house in a drunken state. He remembers how the voluminous smell of whiskey on his father’s breath could make him dizzy. How his father would accidently knock the pans until they fell off the kitchen shelf still lingers in his memory. He recalls his ear being scraped against his father’s
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It was only my mother‚ my little brother‚ and me. We did not know the language or the culture‚ and it was really difficult for us to accommodate to our new life. When I started school I saw many differences in the educational methods‚ as well as in the life style. By the time I was on high school I had grown bigger aspirations for my life‚ now I wanted to be the first person on my family to go to college. As of now I have completed my first goal of entering college. It has
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MKIT105 My Grandson Drew Watching any child develop a vocabulary is always fun‚ but Drew’s robust vocabulary continues to amaze me. Drew is only three years old‚ but he uses words that are mature. For example‚ last week Drew went to the grocery store with his mother. Shop Rite just took over another store‚ so there were crowds of people swarming the aisles. While Drew and his mother were there‚ a stout‚ frazzled woman banged into the cart and then just kept going. In response‚ Drew shook his
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afternoon‚ after discussing my computer science project with my professor‚ I find myself seated in a visitor’s chair in his office on the second floor of the Glatfelter Hall. The professor is about to leave the room to grab some books and a cup of coffee‚ but he allows me to stay. (Seeing myself as a professor in the future‚ I enjoy hanging out in my professor’s office.) I am facing the door. Nothing is blocking my view. Twenty feet in front of me‚ the hallway intersects my vantage point‚ so I’m
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