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    accomplishing individual goals‚ following the advice of those with more experience can help to prevent mistakes from being repeated. Every day is a chance to learn‚ every mistake is a chance to grow. That being said‚ it is wise to take advantage of the fact that there are billions of people in the world who have already made mistakes; learn from them. Whether one understands the advice when it is given‚ or it takes

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    I chose to compare “A Prison‚ A Paradise” by John Jeremiah Sullivan and “Once More to the Lake” by E .B. White. There are many reasons to choose to travel; specifically for these two authors‚ it is to visit a place that has meaning to them on more than the “excursion for a day” level. They temporarily suspend their daily lives to take a trip to spend time in a different environment. Both places they choose to visit can be considered at least somewhat remote‚ secluded‚ and‚ for all intents and

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    This week I am writing about the first reading assignment‚ “Once More to the Lake” by E. B. White. I chose this reading item to write about as I was able to easily relate to spending summers camping outdoors‚ fishing and boating. The author did a great job enhancing his writing by adding detail to his story. I was able to follow along easy and too felt the connection of his past time passion for being with his dad and enjoying nature. The author’s technical style of using hypens and semicolons

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    Vanessa Soler Professor Isabel Grayson English 109 September 17‚ 2013 The Reality of Life In the essay‚ “Once More to the Lake” by E.B White‚ a father returns with his son‚ to a vacation lake in Maine‚ where his father used to take him when he was younger. When the father spends time there with his son‚ he begins to reminisce on the experience he shared at the lake with his own father. The thought of immortality and timelessness tricks the narrator into believing no time has passed. While

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    Upon reading both stories‚ per the assignment‚ my choice to write about is‚ "Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White. The story has very concise and appropriate wording which helps to excite and enlighten the readers. The author does a great job at continually compelling his audience to further read the story‚ while also entertaining them with facts‚ examples‚ memories and he does a very good job at providing details throughout most‚ but not all of the story. While reading the story‚ the audience

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    E.B. Whites‚ “Once More to the Lake”‚ is about the author and his son going on a fishing trip to Maine. Throughout the fishing trip E.B white recalls his own childhood at the lake‚ he unavoidably sees himself in his son and is brought to awareness of his own mortality. This evocative writing deals with time: its delightful past‚ its pleasant present‚ and its tragic future. This writing‚ affectionate in tone‚ shows that White needs to reconnect with this lake before he too‚ passes on. One descriptive

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    what is it really? In E. B. White’s “Once More to the Lake” the author talks about the summers he spent on a lake as a child. The main point of a memory is to explain how one place could make someone feel young or happy. Like my grandmother’s house‚ even though she has passed away‚ every time I go back I feel happy again. In White’s essay‚ there are certain things about his childhood that have not changed such as the atmosphere‚ the people around the lake‚ and the author. First is the atmosphere

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    acAnalytical Questions Regarding an Argument’s Structure Once More to the Lake By E. B. White Examine the argument’s opening statement? In the first paragraph Mr. White story speaks of a man’s memories in the summer of 1904. This man began to remember trips to the lake he took with his family and of his father. This month long camping trips were an annual event to the lake; in Maine. These trips always took place in the month of August. He talks about‚ his siblings and himself getting ringworm

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    When I was a little girl‚ my life was very much E. B. White’s story‚ “Once More to the Lake.” In White story‚ he describes the town as being always the same‚ even years later when he takes his own son there‚ “-the waitresses were the same country girls‚ there having been no passage of time” (White 203). Like White‚ my grandfather would always take us camping and for many‚ many years nothing changed about the lake in Kirby Landing. There were always the same pine trees that needed to be cut the year

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    especially evident in "Once More to the Lake" by E.B White and "On Going Home" by Joan Didion. In both of these personal narratives‚ the authors struggle with the overwhelming sensation of yearning for the past. In an effort to conquer the nostalgic sensation‚ they both visit a place that is very dear to their hearts. However‚ as the authors soon figured out‚ nothing stays the same forever. Once More to the Lake tells the story of the author returning to his campground with a lake‚ a place where

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