Stephanie Gannaway EDUC 2301 Article Review #1 Fall‚ 2015 Shafto‚ E. (2011‚ September). Letters to my younger self. Educational Leadership What would you say if you could go back in time and speak to your younger self‚ especially at a critical period of development? In Letters to My Younger Self‚ the author thinks back to her painful struggles with timed mathematics tests during her second grade year‚ and the teacher’s response to those struggles. The trigger for these distressing memories is walking
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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry explores the struggle of the Younger family‚ with aspirations of a better future whilst dealing with poverty‚ racial oppression‚ and tensions within the household. The Youngers finally have a chance to lift these burdens as they receive a ten thousand dollar check‚ and Walter wants to use this money to invest and help his family live a luxurious life. However‚ Walter’s inability to responsibly manage large sums of money causes him to devastate personal relationships
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killing Duncan he “heard knocking at south gate”‚ but it was only his conscious telling him what a bad deed he did. He also saw a bloody dagger and said “is this a bloody dagger which I see before me‚ the handle before my hand”. He feels like he is going to hell and is damned for eternity so he cannot say “Amen or God Bless”. Macbeth chose to do what he did‚ but will he suffer the consequences eternally? Right from the start‚ Lady Macbeth was evil. A person reading this play would say her saying
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2005-2009‚ there were an average of 3‚533 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day. Swimming is a summertime activity that many people enjoy. Swimming can be very relaxing‚ therapeutic‚ and entirely enjoyable. Sometimes though‚ there are terrible mishaps involved with swimming. Maybe someone slips and bursts open their head; maybe someone accidentally inhales water into their lungs. Quite possibly‚ for my case‚ someone made a
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The waves- Darkness was upon us‚ the last beams of light shone down the street as the giant golden orb settled into the ocean‚ only to shine elsewhere. The waves crashed on the shoreline‚ each sounding different to the next. The last few beachgoers were starting to walk up the sand‚ mottled grey-blue in the dying light‚ and I thought to myself – “lucky”. My wheels squelched on the few grains of grit that lay on the path. “I love this part of the day”‚ I thought. It meant I could just be me‚
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The Sisters Grimm‚ is a fairy tale that is very mysterious‚ with all the things that happened in the story. Life wasn’t easy for Sabrina and Daphne ‚(the main characters of the book)‚ they got pulled into a lot trouble because of the disappearance of their parents. “ The Sisters Grimm” by Michael Buckley is a first person story‚ that has 284 pages‚ and is a magical fairy tale book. There are many conflicts in the sisters grimm‚ but the main conflict is the grimms against the everafters‚ these
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rldTexts convey the challenges and rewards face by individuals coming into the world. A Person moving into a new phase of life it can result in growth to a new sense of maturity and development for the specific person. This is evident in the Bildungsroman texts “Billy Elliot” (2000) by Stephen Daldry and “Ranger’s Apprentice: the Ruins of Gorlan” by John Flanagan which is highly effective in showing rewards and challenges faced when overcoming obstacles. The challenges in Billy Elliot spring from
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CHURCH GOING The theme of Philip Larkin’s poem “Church Going” is the erosion of religious abutments. this poem is perhaps his way of trying to understand the attraction of religion.The speaker of the poem sneaks into a church after making sure it’s empty. He lets the door thud shut behind him and glances around at all the fancy decorations‚ showing his ignorance of (or indifference to) how sacred all this stuff is supposed to be. After a short pause‚ he walks up to the altar and reads a few lines
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Football v.s swimming Would you rather play a sport that only a select few can play or a sport that anyone can play? Let’s get into that. So our topic today is swimming and football. There are a lot of swimmers and football players who debate which one is harder. Having played both swimming and football I can say from experience that they’re both difficult sports but i’m going to be honest‚ swimming is much harder. Never in my life have a played a sport harder than swimming. In swimming you rarely
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CHURCH GOING – PHILIP LARKIN A typical Larkin poem begins with precisely observed description of a scene from contemporary life and moves on to a conclusion which reflects on the significance of what has been described. Church Going is one such poem. Larkin begins the poem with a precisely observed description of a church he visited one weekday. The church was empty and looked like any other church he has visited with matting‚ seats‚ organ and flowers‚ now fading. He noticed the roof which
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