It was my first day of college and I was both nervous and excited. Nervous because I’m older‚ have a husband and children at home. I don’t want to fail and disappoint them. I felt excited for the same reasons‚ my family. I can earn my degree and get a better paying job than my current EMS job. I would be able to spend more time at home and help my husband provide for our family. As I prepare for my first day‚ I look at my textbooks‚ my notebooks‚ all my pencils and pens and have my laptop out. Everything
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Who Are You? A Questionnaire for Students on the First Day of School Note: I will not share your answers with anyone without your permission. BASIC INFORMATION Name: ___________________________________________________________________ Name you like to be called: ______________________________ Date of birth: _____________________Place
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Love Sonnets When referring to a significant other‚ one would typically shower the other with lavish compliments such as complimenting their beauty and all that that person has to offer. Going against the norm‚ Neruda presents his lover in ways that most people could not even fathom. Metonymies‚ metaphors‚ and ways of hypothetical speech(not to be taken literally) are used in their entirety to most effectively portray Neruda’s unconditional love for his wife‚ Matilde. In our modern day society
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My First Day at University Every student of college‚ in his life‚ at certain point‚ dreams about his university life. It is the dream of every student to get admission in a university of high esteem. A university with full colors of life makes a bigger share in good memories. I also thought about the same thing. After I had done my Fsc exams‚ I appeared in entrance tests of different universities. I got admission in few of them and my final decision was for Air University for its emerging repute
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Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18. At the very first line‚ it is apparent that the metaphor that he chooses‚ is a "summer’s day‚" to describe his friend or loved one. For the ease of explanation‚ I will refer to that person using feminine pronouns‚ due to the fact that the gender of the person is not explicitly stated; I would believe it is assumed to be female. Through reading the poem a couple of times‚ I noticed that his choice of words would make it seem as if she is unlike a summer’s day‚ however‚ at
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to anyone but occasionally my family. The first day of middle school is one I’ll remember for a long time. All my friends from elementary school were all going to a different middle school then I was so on the first day I knew absolutely no one. Because we moved so late in the summer I was considered a late transfer student‚ so on the first day of school they still hadn’t made my schedule yet. I was stuck in the office fighting back tears for all of my first 3 periods waiting for them to finally finish
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plays‚ left behind more than a hundred of sonnets for all to enjoy. His sonnets are famous for the love and romance. One of the most well known of which is Sonnet 18. Sonnet 18 is a part of a collection called the Fair Youth. The collection of sonnets‚ composed of sonnets 1 to 126 is dedicated to a Mr. W. H.‚ whose identity is highly debated. The collection consists of beautiful and romantic sonnets exemplified by sonnet 18. The intent behind these sonnets is also highly debated‚ some say it is for
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her father and current relationships with her children through these works of art. In Olds’ first poems‚ she
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language in Sonnet 18 establishes an endearing tone in the poem. Firstly‚ the author uses diction in the text to support this tone of endearingness. For example‚ “But thy eternal summer shall not fade”(9). This entails that he is showing love and saying she is eternal‚ neverending‚ unlike summer. His word choice is enforcing the loving tone of the text. The phrase “shall not fade” further nailing in the idea of eternal love. Secondly‚ William Shakespeare uses specific details in his poem in order
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“First Poem for You” is a poem by written by Kim Addonizio‚ an American poet. This poem “First Poem for You” is a closed-form poem but written as an English sonnet. The poem a person who loves the tattoos in his or her lover’s skin. At the same time the tattoos scares him or her by their permanence. The thoughtfulness and the depth of details expressed in this poem makes us conclude that the persona or speaker in this poem is a female. The speaker is certain about the permanence of the tattoos on
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