Running head: SUMMARY AND PERSONAL RESPONSE Assignment 1: Summary and Personal Response English 115 1 SUMMARY AND PERSONAL RESPONSE 2 In Jessica’s Hemauer’s essay “Farm Girl”‚ she provides a detailed and complex insight into her life growing up on a farm. Jessica describes‚ “Having to balance her farm chores with her schoolwork and activities and how it helped shape and mold her character”. Without knowing it‚ her responsibilities on the farm and later all her activities at school created a
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In what ways does Heaney convey feelings of disappointment in ‘Blackberry Picking?’ In Seamus Heaney’s poem “Blackberry Picking’ the poet vividly recreates a seemingly unimportant event in which he goes blackberry picking as a child. However by the end of the poem this experience acquires increased significance. Throughout Heaney’s description of this event we are made aware of the theme‚ Heaney’s childhood hopes and dreams in contrast to the harsh realities of life. This theme is effectively
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Charles Murray: Are Too Many People Going to College The higher education system in America has become an expectation‚ and an apparent necessity‚ for those looking to achieve success in the work force. Young adults’ mentors‚ including teachers‚ counselors‚ and parents‚ urge students to attend college after the competition of high school‚ no matter the circumstances. In his work‚ "Are Too Many People Going to College"‚ Charles Murray brings this system of postsecondary education under question‚
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Summary and Personal Response English Composition Summary and Personal Response Se Habla Espanol by Tanya Barrientos was about a Latina girl who struggled with her identity. She was born in Guatemala but has lived in America since she was three years old. In the beginning she was somewhat embarrassed by her Hispanic heritage. Tanya felt inferior to the white people because of how she looked and because of her last name. The tone of the essay was a serious
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Thatcher: Old Workman: the thatcher described from outside the mason speaks for himself Heaney accents strangeness and skill Hardy emphasises endurance Although methodical‚ there is a touch of the magical to the thatcher. We appreciate the mason’s humanity and kindness‚ rather than his skill. Similarities and differences in the poets’ attitudes and the candidates’ personal preference: What each poem is about: Thatcher • A description of a local workman: his manner‚ equipment
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Noughts and Crosses- Malorie Blackman The book Noughts and Crosses is a sitting on the fence sort of book for me. The writing of it hooked you in and made you think but I absolutely hated what happened in the end. The plot was good but as I said I didn’t like some things that occurred during the novel‚ like the fact Callum dying made me want to scream and rip my hair out (I did restrain myself by the way). But the fact that I did want to do that was because you grew attached to the characters‚ as
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Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s greatest and most intriguing female characters. She is evil‚ loving and witch-like all at the same time. However‚ during the play we see her in two different ways. At the time when we first meet her‚ she is a brutally violent‚ power wanting witch‚ and later on she turns to a shameful suicidal grieving woman. At the beginning of Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth is very vicious. She thinks nothing of killing King Duncan. She has no sense of what is wrong and right‚ and
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PERSONAL RESPONSE TO LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI The novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta (1993)‚ is about a young 16 year old girl named Josephine Alibrandi trying to find herself in her final year of high school. It shows high and lows throughout the novel with Josie finding her father and starting a relationship with him‚ to losing her close friend John Barton from suicide. There are many themes in the novel such as Family‚ Relationships‚ Search for identity and MULTICULTURALISM. The narrative
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What intrigues me most about the poems of T.S Eliot is the subtle delicateness of his writing and yet it is delivered with amazing strength and profound depth. In certain poems‚ I felt that Eliot wrote in a rather impersonal‚ detached dry tone. However a lot of his poetic lines are brimming with attitude. His general tone is quite understated. However this only serves to sharpen the impact on the reader’s feelings. I felt his poetry was a type of aesthetic despair. While registering a despairing
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PERSONAL RESPONSE TO TEXTS ASSIGNMENT Suggested time: approximately 45 to 60 minutes You have been provided with three texts on pages 1 to 4. In “The Jackhammer Syndrome” by Al Purdy‚ the speaker recalls transcendent moments of elation as he walks about in his business suit. In the excerpt from The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean‚ Laroche is characterized as an individual who pursues his personal obsessions while maintaining an unconventional code of conduct. In Gilbert Garcin’s Diogenes or Lucidity
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