UNIVERSITY OF MAKATI J.P. Rizal Extension‚ West Rembo Makati City College of Education Creative Writing Eng M-6 The Day Amelia Found the Ring Ma. Theresa A. Fuentes January 22‚ 2013 The Day Amelia Found the Ring “Amelia! Hurry and help me prepare our dinner‚ your Father might be home anytime and will be mad not seeing his dinner ready‚” Aling Delia shouted anxiously at her eldest and only daughter while cooking at their slightly roofed extension kitchen
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“The Wedding Ring” by Denise Levertov is about the speaker in the poem coming across a wedding ring that had been stored away‚ and remembering the failed marriage attached to the ring. In the first line “My wedding ring lies in a basket as if at the bottom of a well.” The wedding ring itself being a symbol of marriage and the word bottom brings ideas of the dark taps and loneliness. A person feels when they are at the bottom‚ emotionally speaking. The next line “Nothing will come to fish it back
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To Build a Fire The bone-chilling cold in To Build a Fire effects the main character‚ an unnamed man‚ and inevitably kills him. The unnamed man takes his chances in the wilderness by himself‚ with a half wild dog‚ even when told not to by an old prospector. The extremely cold temperature effects the basic motor function of his extremities. At 50 degrees below zero your hands will start to get frost bite and start to become nonfunctional. The man was taking his gloves off every once in a while
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Almost every child in America would recognize “Ring around the Rosie”‚ or any of its variations‚ from its first appearance in the famous “Mother Goose” rhymes‚ to the version used today. What few seem to realize‚ however‚ is that this mays not merely be a clever and unique rhyme. In truth‚ a much darker and morbid theme could possibly surround this nursery rhyme: The Black Death. The Black Death‚ also known as the Bubonic Plague‚ was a horrific and deadly disease which began sweeping Europe
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Self-centered Teen or Thought-invoking Speaker : "Hanging Fire" by Audre Lorde The speaker in Audre Lord’s poem "Hanging Fire" is extremely self-centered. Does this limit the poem’s ability to say anything of general value? A simple read of "Hanging Fire" by Audre Lorde might lead one to conclude that there is no real value in this self-centered poem. However‚ upon critical analysis‚ one can obtain valuable insights from the poem. The 14-year-old speaker deals with major issues that plague the adolescent
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Steven Pressfield’s The Gates of Fire is set in the fifth century B.C. in Greece. The story revolves around the famous battle of Thermopylae where three hundred Spartans held off hundreds of thousands of Persians‚ saving Greece. Pressfield creates a fictional story around the battle where one man‚ a squire named Xeones‚ survives to tell the Spartan story of the battle and the events preceding it. Xeones‚ who is the protagonist‚ tells his life story to the royal Persian historian while in captivity
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uses a story of the ring of Gyges to illustrate the natural unjust of people. He claims that no man‚ given the opportunity‚ would reject the chance to do injustice without punishment. I agree with Glaucon’s perspective. Humans would do absolutely anything if they couldn’t be held accountable for their actions. In the story of Gyges’ rings‚ as Glaucon tells it‚ Gyges was a shepherd who had the good fortune of finding a dead body wearing nothing but a golden ring. He took this ring‚ without regard of
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The Ford Pinto Fires Case The Pinto fires case is about a series of accidents involving the Ford Pinto’s fuel tank bursting into flames if struck from the rear. A 1978 suit against Ford Motor Co. for the murder of 3 teenagers brought the incidents to the public attention as it was the first time a major corporation was charged in a criminal case beyond negligence (Trevino‚ 2011). Background The Ford Pinto was rushed to production by Lee Iacocca to directly compete in the small car market with countries
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dignity and integrity‚ and he wove these elemental ideas into stories of high adventure based on his own firsthand at sea‚ or in Alaska‚ or in the fields and factories in California.” In 1908‚ Jack London composed a short story‚ “To Build a Fire” about a man attempting to survive in his quest along the Yukon River against hazardous weather conditions. Throughout the London’s description‚ it is expressed how the man chooses to ignore the evidence of danger‚ such as the cold weather conditions
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In “To Build a Fire” by Jack London the man and the dog start off as traveling friends‚ but then they realize they have different perspectives on survival techniques. Whereas the dog knows it is way too cold to be on a hike‚ the man takes it as a little adventure. Even though the man thought he was prepared to hike at these blistering temperatures‚ he found out he was not as prepared as he thought he was. The man tries to defeat Mother Nature but finds out the hard way he is just not prepared enough
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