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    Add school counselor to the list of people you can turn to when you need help. They know how to listen and can help kids with life challenges. Counselors have special training in how to help kids solve problems‚ make decisions‚ and stand up for themselves. You feel like you need to talk to someone about everything that’s going on. A great person to share your thoughts and feelings with is your school counselor. In addition to help kids with problems guidance counselors help kids learn about study

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    The poem on Turning Ten by Billy Collins for me is about leaving childhood behind and understanding that one must eventually grow up. Its Realizing that one Has to mature and stop the never ending theme park designer that is a Childs imagination. Turning a two digit number was written as a very sad event in this poem. It became a sickness‚ sort of a Disease of the psyche. Whereas still being a one digit number was a lot easier‚ not caring about what others say‚ playing with the imaginary friend and

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    In “The Names”‚ Billy Collins uses repetitions of names to designate the astronomical quantity of 9/11 victims‚ and to share his desires of the victims to not be forgotten as time passes by. Billy Collins goes on to present that these names are still pertinent and are almost everywhere around us‚ however he is unsure that these names are pertinent in future time. As time vanishes‚ people incline to forget events that have occurred‚ and this is something Billy Collins desires not to transpire for

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    philosopher‚ the poem may contain reflections upon certain actions‚ that lead to misfortunes found in tragedies. However‚ I also find the poem’s title‚ although being appropriate for the piece‚ to be partially ironic. This is due to the concept that poetry has no determined ending whereas‚ according to Aristotle‚ tragedies do have closure for the audience. The poem’s form is written according to the way Aristotle proposes how tragedies should be written‚ with a “beginning‚ middle‚ and an end”. Additionally

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    “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins Naturally‚ life is a continuous cycle of experience and learning. Yet often times so much is buried in our lives that we fail to remember or recall what we have learned. Memories that range from miniscule facts to important emotions can often leave unknowingly from our mind. Billy Collin’s “Forgetfulness” shows how memories are delicate and fragile‚ and that the process of forgetting is one that is nonchalant. Billy Collins effectively blends subtle humor and irony

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    NOTE: Go to assignment directions on page 2: “Prove This Claim.” You do NOT have to answer the  questions because we’ve already done them in class.    The History Teacher  (Billy Collins)  Trying to protect his students’ innocence  he told them the Ice Age was really just  the chilly Age‚ a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters. And the Stone Age became the Gravel Age‚  named after the long driveways of the time.  The Spanish Inquisition was nothing more  than an outbreak of questions such as 

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    more sentences than the amount of letters in “should.” It should explain in a paragraph a brief summary of what’s to come. It should…shouldn’t it? In the same way an introduction can be referenced sarcastically‚ Billy Collins uses several techniques to mock sonnets. In “Sonnet” Billy Collins uses speaker‚ external form and tone to mock the traditional sonnets. The speaker in this sonnet very quickly establishes a point of view by throwing out a pronoun to give a perspective as to who is speaking.

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    Hien Tieu Dr. Liz Ann Baez Anguilar ENGL 1302.012 1st October 2015 Billy Collins’s poem Billy Collins. "Adage" Poets & Writers 36.5 (2008): 29. Print. Billy Collins. “Aimless Love” Poetry 179.5 (2002): 251. Print. Billy Collins is well known for his contribution to modern American literature‚ especially with his “middle class” poem. He has won a significant amount of awards. His name also appeared in several well know journal‚ magazine such as the New Yorker‚ American Scholar‚ and the Paris review

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    where they maybe going or what their life will lead to. Billy Collins‚ the author of numerous poems including Introduction to Poetry and Schoolsville shows the aspects of this theory throughout his works. Collins provides enough details and description to let the reader know where they are when reading his poems‚ but not necessarily always where he is going with them. While most poets hide information or the fine points from us‚ Billy Collins does not. Instead‚ he indulges the reader with his clear

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    like anything the owner did for him. The author then finishes off the poem by saying that the dogs version of heaven is exactly like everybody assumed it was. In the end the author tells a theme of don’t assume the feeling of other. The author Billy Collins uses Irony in the last couple of lines “ and that is all you need to know about this place/ except what

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