In Elwyn Brooks White’s essay “Once More to the Lake” we learn about a trip‚ that the author took with his son to a lake in Maine. The lake is very sentimental to White because his father brought him to very same lake as a child. During E. B. White’s trip to the lake with his son‚ he is able to compare and contrast what he sees to experiences from his time at the lake. Some of these experiences led White to believe that he was experiencing events from different family member’s lives. This leads
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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” - Aristotle What is happiness? The word happiness in the Ethics is a translation of the Greek term eudaimonia‚ which carries connotations of success and fulfillment. For Aristotle‚ this” happiness” is our highest goal. But the real question is‚ how do we achieve this goal? Happiness well always depend upon ourselves. Every single soul on the face of this planet sees happiness differently. While one mind might think happiness is the accomplishment of finishing
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Once Again is a piece of social criticism against Indian politicians/voters and targeted at the average Indian voter. Its purpose is to inform the audience of the propaganda they are subjected to and confront them with them hatred they hold onto‚ allowing themselves to be manipulated. Inspired by the belief that “the best books… are those that tell you what you know already‚” (1984 pg. 208) my creative take a premise that the audience is semi-aware of; the blatant abuse of religious sentiments in
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Upon the Burning of Our House by Anne Bradstreet LITERARY FOCUS: THE PLAIN STYLE The Puritans favored “plainness” in all things: in dress‚ in the architecture and design of their churches‚ in their forms of worship‚ and in language. Unlike the ornate “high style” popular in England at the time‚ the Puritan plain style used simple sentences and common words from everyday speech. The plain style contained few or no classical allusions‚ Latin quotations‚ or elaborate figures of speech. The plain
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events in an effective way. It also robs people of the ability they will need to succeed at whatever they set out to do. With a defeatist attitude people give up quickly and fold at the first sign of trouble. In the book The Absolute True Story Of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexi several of the characters suffered from a defeatist attitude. “Self-confidence is an inner quality that is not a steady state. It comes and goes depending on the environment we find ourselves in”. (Edmunds‚ USA Today)
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"Important truths begin as outrageous‚ or at least uncomfortable‚ attacks upon the accepted wisdom of the time." From time immemorial‚ important ”important truths” which have the capacity revolutionalising and bettering the condition of the people are often consider as dross‚ outrageous‚ unaccepted‚ or at least uncomfortable to the society at that time. This has been a major setback to our socioeconomic development‚ yet we had lived with for ages and our history is fraught with examples. The
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LALALALALALLALALALLALA Story-story” is a circle game for all ages. The group of performers sit and a moderator (us) stands in the middle and provides a setting for the story. Then we point to a person in the circle and they begin telling a story (says 2 sentences). After the first storyteller has described the beginning of the story‚ the moderator points to another person‚ the story continues on; the new person picks up from the last word and tries to continue the narrative. Every performer should
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the narrative essay and "Once More to the Lake" by W.B White for the descriptive essay. The titles indicate that these stories are about relationship and relationship is a basic fundamental connection or need that we all share. Looking at ourselves honestly and living our truth is perhaps the most difficult task we will face during our lifetime; our relationship with self is paramount to becoming who we are called to be in this life.
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In Edward Taylor’s poem‚ Upon A Spider Catching A Fly‚ he questions the reasons behind why the spider chooses to catch the fly. “To spin a web out of thyselfe To Catch a Fly? For Why?” (Lines 3-5) A spider works hard to spin its web. It takes lots of time and uses materials that are made by the spider itself just to catch a fly. What benefits does the spider get from catching the fly? Why does it only catch flies? Why not other bugs? In the second stanza‚ Taylor asks why the spider doesn’t
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Once a year‚ you have a day where you get to be as self-centered as you want to and no one would blame you for it. It is your day and no one can take it from you. It is the day everyone would be there for you and only you. Everyone will let you feel the love they have for you in every way possible. You would have a lot of people celebrating your achievements throughout the year. The goal will be to encourage you to achieve even more on your new year to come‚ a lot would be happy for you‚ so proud
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