In the story “Hunger games” by Susan Collins‚ the main character‚ Katniss Everdeen is forced into the hunger games. Over a 3 year course‚ Katniss shows a great deal of changes in and out of the Arena. Katniss must leave her family including her younger sister Prim to take care of herself. Katniss herself is not certain she will return. She leaves all the responsibility in her sister’s hands. Once the 74th hunger games is over‚ katniss returns home to her mother and her sister only go straight back
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In "Introduction to poetry"‚ the poet uses personification at the end of his poem. He uses a lot of it in the last two stanzas. Collins writes‚ But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means (12-16). When he writes this‚ It shows personification. Poetry takes on characteristics that can only
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The poem gives advice on how to understand and interpret it‚ instead of expecting a literal meaning. The author feels disdain for the readers for being ignorant and close-minded when looking at poems. He shows the readers how to enjoy the poem instead of letting it become a frustrating and painful experience. Many believe that there can only be one meaning to a poem‚ but it depends on who is reading it. There are multiple points of view to a poem that can be interpreted in many ways. The speaker
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Honorable Headmaster‚ Members of Staff‚ Co-aspirant‚ Out-going Prefect‚ Fellow Student‚ Ladies and Gentlemen. I greet you all. I am very grateful for being given the chance to read my manifesto to you‚ as an aspirant for the position of boy school prefect. I am Benjamin Quarshie‚ a second year art student of this great institution. I am before you today‚ to solicit to your vote for the enviable position of a boys school prefect for the 2013/2014 academic year. Honorable headmaster‚ my reasons for
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The true nature of the poem was cordial and relaxing. The sentiment was also inspiring as the poem gave me the strong feeling of passion by his use of poetic devices and tone. The verse "Loving can heal‚ loving can mend your soul" paints a beautiful mental image which strengthens the power and passion the poet is trying to portray. In addition‚ the verse "We keep this love in a photograph" allows for the symbolization of a picture as a memory of love. This provides the poem with the basic foundation
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The second stanza looks into the past and future of their relationship. The are tossed up like ’flotsam’- like wreckage from a ship. They are the leftovers of a former passion‚ floating aimlessly. There is a sense that there is some feeling between them with the words ’or too much’. Perhaps there is something left between them‚ but because of the lack of communication they don’t know how to express it anymore. It would be so out-of-the blue now that they don’t dare show it. The line ’chastity
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Eileen Collins’ story in They Live the Dream exemplifies this point well because when she was growing up‚ “There wasn’t much money for family outings . . . so Collins saved up for lessons‚ and she had enough . . .” (Rather 44). Though she didn’t grow up with much money‚ Collins persevered and did what she needed to do in order to make her dream come true. There are numerous others like Collins who came from poverty-stricken families and make the best
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times have we seen or read stories of the defeat or capture of a criminal from the perspective of the hero‚ but rarely are we told the story from the perspective of the criminal and rarely do we find ourselves rooting for a deranged‚ psychopath. Patricia Highsmith’s novel‚ The Talented Mr. Ripley‚ is a story where we do see these rare qualities in effect. The eerily charming Tom Ripley‚ like most of us‚ is finding it difficult to be comfortable in his own skin and desperately craves a new‚ more enticing
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Theoretical Perspective Patricia Benner’s Novice to Expert Theory clearly informs my student teaching work with first semester nursing students who are just beginning to understand professional nursing. Benner’s theory is based on the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition where a student passes through five levels of proficiency” (Benner‚ 2001‚ p.13). Benner applies this model to nurses and shows how a nurse progresses through the stages of novice nursing student‚ to a skilled nurse. In the novice
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Most people try to shield children from the evils of the world; however‚ some may try a little too hard. The teacher in Billy Collins’s poem “The History Teacher” is an example of this. By teaching the children a fairy-tale version of history rather than the reality of it‚ the children fail to learn about the consequences of their actions. The desire of the teacher to protect his students has caused him to soften the harshness and reality of the past. Not wanting to corrupt their innocence‚ “he
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