Busta Rhymes Essays

Introduction I. Attention Getter Pop, rock, country, opera, classical; did you know that your heartbeat mimics the beat of the music you're listening to. A. How many of you listen to music on a daily basis? B. Whether to or from school, or just whenever you get the chance. II. Reason to listen: I think it’s safe to say that all of you have listened to or heard music at one point of your life, but did you know music influences and manipulates us more than we know? III. Thesis Statement: Today I am

Getting to It: Accomplishing the Important, Handling the Urgent, and Removing the Unnecessary by Jones Loflin and Todd Musig is about discovering what is important to you and how to achieve that. Those two main goals are broken up by smaller, but well needed steps. Each step of the way requires reflecting upon it to make sure you are following through with your original intention. The steps included defining what it important to you, which they called it your IT (important thing), planning, and doing

The definition of poetry: “The art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts” (“Poetry”). When I think of poetry, its definition is exactly what I invision. I see people trying to make an impact, deliver an important message and grab people's attention so that they can understand and relate to the topic being written/spoken about. There are many different types of poetry: Haiku, traditional poetry, contemporary poetry and music

“Havisham” is a poem based on “Miss.Havisham” on the novel “The Great Expectations”. The author Carol Ahn Duffy used several techniques to describe her feelings and symbolizing her emotions with objects emphasizing love and hate throughout the poem. In the poem, she introduced 5 different colours to represent her feelings and emotions which has made it very effective for the readers. For example, “green” implies jealousy, which shows how Havisham is envying the woman who took her man, compeyson

The Book of Job is undoubtedly a great literary work of art. It is poetry bracketed by a prologue and an epilogue written in prose. Its structure is relatively straightforward. The prologue introduces Job as being a righteous and worthy man of God whom Satan seeks to test. Job’s test includes a number of trials that include the massacre of his flock and cattle and the death of his children. He then mourns with three of his friends for nearly a week before entering poetic dialogue with the three in

Both poems, 'Orkney Interior’ by Ian Hamilton Finlay and 'The House ' by Sweeney investigate the components of an unusual and dreamlike atmosphere by utilizing subjects of surrealism, destiny and issue. Finlay uses elements of an island to describe the landscape, in order to highlight the routine he is trapped in and Sweeney uses many techniques including tone, specific choice of words/diction in order to make this poem compelling and erect a weird atmosphere. The theme of solitude/isolation is

“The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.” - A poem by Donika Kelly With a purpose and message being the goal for their work, poets are often found using many specific qualities in their writing. By making use of these devices the poem is a piece of composition that connects with its writer. Strategies like the ones used in this poem have been utilized since the beginning of writing. This specific piece of Donika Kelly’s work, “The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.”, utilizes

Poetry Analysis Once the poem “History Lesson” was written numerous poetry foundations celebrated it for many reasons. “History Lesson” not only makes an impact on literature today it has also impacted people also. This poem inspires people and moves them to the point to where they can find a personal connection to the poem itself and to the writer. Not only does it hold emotional value for those who were victimized and those whose family were victimized by the laws of segregation, but the poem

Many of William Blake’s most popular works, including Song of Innocence and of Experience and The Book of Urizen, have had a significant influence on 1930s writer Dylan Thomas. The thesis that fulfilled Hugh Grant’s Masters of Arts in English titled “The Influence of William Blake on the Poetry and Prose of Dylan Thomas” explains that Thomas came from a lower class family, was self-educated, and his work was not very popular when he was alive, similarly to Blake (13). The thesis discusses Thomas’s

“In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color. It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing” (Cisneros ,1984). Esperanza Cordero is the most important character in the novel “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros. Esperanza is smart, joyful, and kind of awkward in a charming way. She is just like you. Ok, you probably weren’t born and

The Grass is Always Greener over the Battlefield: How Carl Sandburg’s use of free verse, anaphora and tone in the poem Grass inform us of how forgetting history dooms us to repeat history. Carl Sandburg’s use of free verse, anaphora and tone transform a simple eleven-lines of verse into a powerful and dynamic poem. One could apologize for the nod to Erma Bombeck’s book The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank a book that uses humor to explain the growing dissatisfaction of suburban housewives

Jesus Hinojos Ms. Knierim English 3, Period 5 20 February 2018 Life and Career of Raymond Carver Imagine making a career out of little more than pocket litter, Raymond Carver proved anyone can accomplish their dreams, no matter what. The American poet Raymond Carver led a difficult yet intriguing life. An example of his poetry is “The Cobweb” which discusses that life is fragile by examining how the speaker’s life changes over the years. Carver was born into the family of Clevie

Stage 2 English Responding to Texts: Poetry On a Portrait of a Deaf Man - Sir John Betjeman Casehistory: Alison (Head Injury) - Ursula Askham Fanthorpe Have you ever lost someone, or felt like you’ve lost part of yourself? Death is inevitable, and it is likely that we’ve all experienced some form of it. The poems I will be talking about today are On a Portrait of a Deaf Man by Sir John Betjeman and Casehistory: Alison (head injury) by Ursula Askham Fanthorpe. Both of which contain themes of loss

For many Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken,” is thought to be a poem that symbolically challenges individuals to take the road less traveled in life. However, Frost’s work can also be taken in a more literal sense as many have often noticed that there was not a road less traveled but both roads were equally worn. No matter what one sees as the motivation for this thought provoking poem, the use of figurative language such as metaphors, imagery, symbolism, is a reflective depiction of the

“Who Am I?” is a poem condensed and modified by Gilbert Wrenn. This poem could possibly mean that the speaker is questioning his own identity. Unlike most titles, this title is not straightforward and it is also a question which means that even the speaker of this poem has a sense of unsurety. The author of this poem is quite clever because the title compels the audience to continue reading in order to answer the question: “Who Am I?” This poem expresses the basic reality for everyone. The author

I am reading “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D Wetherell, and I am on page 5. This short story is about a boy, the narrator, that has a crush on a girl, Sheila Mant. He learns little details about her as he observes and analysis her. As the summer goes on, he finally makes the decision to ask her out on a date, soon he would face a challenge that, at that time, must have been the hardest decision he’s ever had to make. Being compelled to choose between getting the girl, or catching a

Love is a common theme among artists, who all define it differently. James Joyce defines love’s power in his collection of short stories: The Dubliners. Throughout Joyce’s short stories “Araby” and “Eveline,” Joyce uses literary devices to show love causes innocence to become ignorance. The unnamed narrator’s innocence shows throughout his attempts to impress his crush and transition into the adult world. Joyce characterizes the narrator before meeting his crush as optimistic when “The cold air

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself “And what I assume you shall assume, “For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” A groan escaped my lips as Mary’s polished voice began to recite the first three lines of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. She had almost the entire poem memorized, and would begin to quote certain lines when they pertained to a situation, or when she was just trying to annoy me. She fell in love with the poem when she was in the eighth grade after doing some American

The poem “My Love for You is so Embarrassingly” by Todd Boss is a poem about love and the whirlwind of feelings you get when experiencing it. In this poem, Boss uses many figures of speech in order to put ourselves in his shoes and help us better understand what love is to him. The title may cause confusion; why would love be so embarrassing? Throughout the poem he uses several metaphors ultimately explaining it. Boss’s love is so grand; he is so infatuated that it is embarrassing. Boss starts the

According to Joyce Carol Oates, Sylvia Plath, an extraordinary yet discouraging poet who has published pieces of poetry that have a heartbreaking quality about them. I agree, simply because it is in fact true. Plath has had a disturbing history of imagery situated in her poems. “Mirror,” “The Times are Tidy,” “Child,” “Poppies in July,” and many more. Within in one of my favorite poems, “Mirror,” Plath experiments by telling the hidden story of this piece of poetry in the mirror’s point of view