door slams my mom shouts “Be aggressive!”. I do a quick scan to make sure no one was in earshot while speed walking to the field in fear that she may roll down a window. This is my mom’s little catch phrase that she implants into my brain before every game‚ practice‚ or tryout. These are the words I play by. I don’t let the super tall girls knock me around‚ I don’t give up the ball easily and I never stop communication with my teammates. Not only‚ do these words keep me playing at my best‚ but
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Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus was a Genoese sea captain who‚ in 1492‚ approached Queen Isabella with an interesting plan‚ which was to try to find a new route to India by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. In August 1492‚ Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic towards what he thought would be India‚ but little did he know he’d find our present day America. On October 12th‚ 1492 a lookout aboard the Pinta spotted land‚ which was the present day Bahamas. The natives greated Columbus
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of you I didn’t give up." I am wanting to be the Captain for this upcoming year. I have many things to offer to my team and of course my band family. I have been in Color guard since my freshman year and sadly this upcoming will be my last year. I have stuck with it because it’s something I’m passionate about. When I first started I wasn’t the strongest member on the team I was far from it. I was pushed and I wasn’t used to that. One day during my first guard camp I felt like I was never going to
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remarkable tone for this poem. "Poem"‚ by Frank O’ Hara‚ can be interpreted two different ways and each interpretation uses similar but different tones. The author creates these different tones by adding diction‚ syntax‚ and personalities to each essay. I decided to use a normal citizens point of view‚ because it appeals to the audience more. The poem is explaining normal citizen who doesn’t realize Lana Turner has collapsed. The author talks about the weather in the beginning of the poem. By doing this‚
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In the famous movie Remember the Titans‚ the captain of the T.C. Williams football team stated‚ "attitude reflects altitude". When your attitude is positive you can fly higher than the sky‚ but if your attitude is negative then you can fall deep into the ocean. It has been said that a positive attitude is the key to success in life‚ and I just so happen to agree. Positivity can make you more motivated. When you are positive‚ others respect you and want to help you succeed. Also‚ with a positive attitude
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My favourite poem is: Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson I’ve never really had a favourite poem but this one connected with me. This is my favourite poem as it describes hope by using a powerful array of metaphors to enhance its effect. While it is true that many people all over the world live in extremely challenging and life threatening situations‚ leading hard lives in appalling conditions. What keeps people going in such circumstances is the glimmer of hope that
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Vu Ngoc Giang Poem for my sister “Poem for my sister” is another opus of Liz Lochhead about the relationship between a big sister and her younger sister. Furthermore‚ it’s her feelings towards her sister’s process of growing up. In stanza one‚ Liz tells us of an everyday occurrence – her sister trying on her shoes‚ she uses heeled shoes as a metaphor for life and how her sister is experimenting with it : My little sister likes to try my shoes‚ to strut in them‚ admire her spindle-thin twelve-year-old
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Point – The human mind is a complicated thing to understand. The poem speaks philosophically to describe how the human mind has a conscience and how our conscience helps us distinguish right from wrong. Main Point – Death is cold‚ lovely‚ and dark. The winter season is harsh and so is life. Death is an escape from “winter”‚ death is “easy wind and downy flake”. Concluding Statement – Many interpretations can be created with this poem and the only limit to the interpretations is the creativity of
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How Captain Cook influenced the ways see and understand the modern world ‘I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had been before‚ but as far as it was possible for a man to go’James Cook. So Captain Cook was born in 1778 originally a apprentice in Whitby before becoming a sailor and in time a British naval officer a veteran of the seven year war. Cook is unquestionably known for his three voyages of expiration and discovery that took place in the Pacific. The first voyage was between
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A frustrated boy-genius is mad at his classmates Harold and George. But Harold and George have better things to do than listen to the boy genius‚ named Melvin Sneedly‚ whine all the time. Captain Underpants comics is used by Harold and George to embarrass other people. Desperate for attention‚ Melvin tries to become Bionic Boy‚ but instead‚ he sneezes at the last second‚ and becomes Bionic Bugger Boy. Everyone laughs and stays away from Bionic Bugger Boy (Melvin). Friends and classmates go to
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