politician’s life are put under the spotlight and receive a greater deal of attention than ones in a civilian’s life. For this reason‚ celebrities and politicians usually step up on a public platform to explain their actions. One such event happened with Ted Kennedy at Chappaquiddick Island after he left the scene of an accident and failed to report it to the authorities‚ which led to Mary Jo Kopechne’s death. To polish his tarnished image‚ Kennedy portrays Kopechne’s death as an accidental tragedy through
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Elizabeth Honeycutt St. Brigid’s Day Intercultural Communications February 18‚ 2013 Ireland has many holidays that are a combination of the country’s Celtic/ Druid past and their belief in Christianity. One of these is St. Brigid’s day. St. Brigid or Brigit as she is sometimes referred to‚ is the female patron saint of Ireland. Her feast day is February 1 which is also the first day of spring in Ireland. “The Celtic feast of Imbolc is also February 1 and is dedicated to the Irish goddess of
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May 7‚ 2013 St. Augustine‚ Discovery to Present Day It was April in the year 1513 that Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed in an area between Cape Canaveral and the mouth of the St. Johns River. Over the years‚ archeologists have performed many “digs” at the Fountain of Youth‚ which is a National Archeological Park‚ where the village called Seloy was once occupied by the Timucuan Indians. This is where the city of St. Augustine began. Ponce de Leon arrived during the Easter season which
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Saint Francis of Assisi Throughout the history of the Catholic Church‚ there have been only a few people fortunate and deserving enough of the title of “saint”. Originally named Giovanni Francesco Bernardone‚ St. Francis of Assisi is honored as the patron saint of animals and ecology. He lived a life of complete obedience‚ humility‚ and poverty. He was a guy who was truly in love with the Lord and wanted to follow in his teachings. He was a man willing to give up his belongings to help those less-fortunate
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Salvation Langston Hughes After reading the excerpt from Langston Hughes’s autobiography‚ "Salvation"‚ I pondered the many factors of religion and what makes a person believe in god or not believe in god. I believe that religion is a form of individual expression‚ and that each person should have the freedom to conform his or her identity to whatever religion feels right to that person‚ or even to conform to no religion at all. I think that if I had been in Langston’s position sitting on a mourner’s
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What will you leave behind after you’re gone? In the poem “Abandoned Farmhouse” by Ted Kooser‚ Kooser describes a vacant house‚ and all the everyday items that were left behind by its previous owner. This poem not only leaves the reader with a sense of mystery‚ but also develops the idea that the things people leave behind can tell us a lot about a person. Kooser does this throughout his poem using vivid imagery. The author uses imagery to develop the controlling idea when he says “says the
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child commits a crime it’s very essential to take the best decision because that decision will impact them the rest of their life. In a TED talk by Sarah Jayne Blakemore she uses charts and explains by color how the brain of a teenager changes throughout the years. Blakemore also says that teenagers do something at a current moment and at the next they forget it. The TED talk of Blakemore indicates how teenage brains are not as developed as an adult who would know what is going on. When a teenager commits
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Langston Hughes contributed a tremendous influence on black culture throughout the United States during the era known as the Harlem Renaissance. He is usually considered to be one of the most prolific and most-recognized black poets of the Harlem Renaissance. He broke through barriers that very few black artists had done before this period. Hughes was presented with a great opportunity with the rise black art during the 1920 ’s and by his creative style of poetry‚ which used black culture as its
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St. John Bosco A man with a vision‚ with an awareness of the good that lives in people‚ with an ability of dreaming dreams of beauty for those he met along his way‚ this is John Bosco. (www.catholic.org) St. John Bosco (1815-1888) was born to poor parents in Recchi‚ Italy‚ the Piedmont area of northern Italy. When John was two‚ his father died. As a boy‚ John lived on a farm with his family doing the only thing they knew how‚ farming. He worked hard everyday to get food on the table for his family
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society strive to reach a certain level of success and acceptance. It could thus be said that we likely have a dream we hope to achieve. In "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)"‚ Langston Hughes makes use of powerful sensory imagery‚ figures of speech‚ and rhyme to show the emotions created when a dream is deferred‚ or not achieved. Hughes uses rhetorical questions with similes to show his opinion of unfulfilled dreams. He suggests that deferred dreams‚ ¡°like a raisin in the sun¡¦like a sore¡¦ like rotten meat¡¦
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