One Sunday Morning Essays

  • Graduation Speech: Hi Sunshine

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    Hi Sunshine, Good evening hope you had a good day and I must say it was lovely to hear the sound of your angelic voice first thing in the morning so soothing. You did tell me about your last relationship and how it went bad after 8years, once I am in I am in and there is no going back with me and I don't only want to see you 1-2-3-4 times a month I want to see you everyday but as for now we are getting to know each other and I am enjoying getting to know you Joyce. I have so much love to give and

  • Imagery In Robert Frost's Birches

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    the entire poem focuses on bent birches— too vague for the central purpose to be clear and solid. However, the poem’s copious examples of imagery enable the audience to grasp the scenery that Frost is attempting to describe. In “Birches,” Movement One depicts the author erasing the damage that ice-storms have done to birches by replacing this idea with a more sugar-coated version; he imagines that a “Boy’s been swinging them.” (Frost 3). In addition, he also describes the

  • Upon Hearing Tagalog Poem Analysis

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    reasons. Some examples are for love, for peace, or even maybe longing for the chance to go back to their family roots. This cycle of human emotion will never end and that is why numerous poems are written for expression of these repressed feelings. One example of an expression of repression is the beautiful poem “Upon Hearing Tagalog” by Fatima Lim-Wilson. The poem’s tone, word-choice, and even the figurative language used contribute to the concrete expression of this dramatic situation. First, to

  • Personal Narrative Analysis

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    that it’s a week like any other. Seven days, one hundred and sixty-eight hours, 10080 minutes, and a shit ton of seconds. But if it really was like any other week, there’d be no point in lying awake in bed at 3 AM. And here you are. Staring at the ceiling of your room, counting the remaining glow-in-the-dark stars you stuck up there ten years ago that faded and burned out far faster than any real ones. You’ve never seen any of them fall; they just vanish one day and after that you kind of end up forgot

  • College Admissions Essay: No Air Conditioning

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    no air conditioning felt like in Pittsburgh in the middle of July before applying to a STEM camp at Carnegie Mellon. I would have most definitely still gone, but I could have braced myself for the copious amounts of sweat that covered every single one of us at all hours of the day. At least we were in the basement of the dorms, where the air was a single degree cooler. Why I was still up, who knows. I was done the homework, but my two good friends (we’ll call them John and Dennis) were not so lucky

  • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Literature Review

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    CHAPTER ONE: BACKGROUND AND LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 Background Carpal tunnel syndrome is the entrapment of median nerve at the wrist. The median nerve originates from the brachial plexus at level of C5 to T1. It passes down through the midline of the arm in front of the elbow joint supplying muscles of the forearm continuing to the hand supplying the front of the thumb, the two first fingers and the lateral half of the third finger (Elsevier 2001). The symptoms in carpal tunnel syndrome include numbness

  • Critical Analysis Of Walt Whitman's Song To Myself

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    In Walt Whitman's poem Song to Myself, he stresses the importance of people, but more specifically himself. This of one of egocentric poems in human history as he begins with "I celebrate myself" (1:1). In some form or another, Whitman elaborates on Me, Myself, and I in all fifty-two sections of the poem. He mentions that "Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean, / Not an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar/ than the rest" (5:20-23). But as he is enjoying

  • Personal Narrative Essay: The Life Of Fishing

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    always look out the window at all the different trees and wildlife. When we get close my dad begins to drive very slowly due to the giant ditches in the dirt “road”. My dad stops after each ditch and plans out how he is going to get around the next one without his car slipping into it. As he goes down this road we are bumping up and down constantly, especially when he hits a small ditch. That road ends right at our favorite fishing spot. It is called “The Backwaters of Crooked Creek” or at least that

  • Essay About Creation Myths

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    Myths that include gods becoming part of the land include Greek and Chinese creation myths. According to the Greek creation myths, Gaea, one of the first goddesses, became the goddess of the Earth while Ouranos became the god of the sky. (Murtagh, cs.williams.edu) The Chinese creation myth says that in the very beginning, there was only a large egg that contained a god named P’an Ku. However

  • Comparing War In 'Bloody Sunday And Imagine'

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    “Bloody Sunday” respectively. Although both songs speak out against war and its effects at different periods in time, “Bloody Sunday” utilizes chilling, graphic imagery to communicate its message whereas “Imagine” asks the audience to imagine a series of fanciful, far-fetched scenarios to get the same point across. Ultimately, the personal level in which “Bloody Sunday” connects with

  • Stellar Academic Record Essay

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    Stellar Academic Record: While a stellar academic record is not exactly a ‘skill’ required to be a successful solicitor in the City, it indicates that the solicitor in question has some of the qualities required for success. A stellar academic record shows that the solicitor possesses intellectual ability and can put that intellectual ability to use through hard work and focus. I understand that the work of a solicitor in a City law firm is rigorous and demanding. So the solicitor in question must

  • Blueblack Cold Analysis

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    feelings and to the understanding of the poem as a whole. I have found the following words and phrases to be the most important: “Sundays”, “my father”, “blueblack cold”, “cracked hands”, “labor”, “No one ever thanked him”, “cold splintering, breaking”, “chronic angers”, “indifferently”, “love’s austere” and “lonely offices”. From simply reading through these words, one can already start to understand the main theme of the poem; it is

  • What Is Conforming To Society's Standards In To Kill A Mockingbird

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    Not conforming to society's standards. This is something people have struggled greatly with since the beginning of time. Why does it seem that so often we let what society says is right dictate the way we see the world? Why do we let others viewpoints control our actions? Harper Lee gives the reader a lot of insight into how these issues have been present in our society throughout the years. Taking these issues straight on through the unbiased innocent eyes of a young girl in the 1930’s is very beneficial

  • Zach Bryan's Song Analysis: Something In The Orange

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    the color orange is constantly repeated. He states “I miss you in the mornings when I see the sun, Something in the orange tells me we’re not done” (1:15). He is reminded of this lost and hopeless feeling he has when he sees orange in the sky. It is repeated, signifying that the color orange makes him feel hopeless. The orange is significant of a negative feeling he has about the past relationship. He is still hopeful that one day she will return to him, and the orange he sees reminds him of that

  • Lord Of The Flies Diction Analysis

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    represent the theme of when you fear an object or a person it can regulate great savagery. Throughout chapter nine it describes the boys in the novel as being afraid of the beast. This causes them to kill one of their own. The beast is the evil inside of a person. This comes out of every single one of the boys when they kill Simon. “Lord of the Flies” explains human nature when fear has taken

  • Chapter Summary: The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

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    Did you know some people hunt humans for pure enjoyment? This is true in the story “The Most Dangerous Game”. Richard Connell writes a story in the time of 1924 that consists directly from the idea of hunters hunting humans. This starts when a big game hunter named Rainsford finds himself stranded on a unknown island by accident and runs into a chateau where he meets a suspicious man named Zaroff, from there Rainsford finds out Zaroff hunts humans who come to the island by trapping them with a lure

  • Why Do People Offer In Lord Of The Flies

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    that the figure was the beast. “A thing was crawling out of the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly” (Pg. 152). The boys then beat Simon to death thinking he was the beast out of fear and irrational thinking because of their fearfulness. But after, one of the boys, Ralph, denies

  • Discussion Of The Poem 'Phenomenal Woman' By Maya Angelou

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    The poem 'Phenomenal Woman' begins with directly addressing the stereotypes that are placed on women in society. This is done when Angelou states what she feels a woman's qualities are supposed to be by saying. 'I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size' which shows the reader that while she might be aware of the pressures and expectations that are placed on women, she is not willing to conform to these; an idea that comes from the fact that the first stanza is based around her successes

  • Theme Of Violence In Lord Of The Flies

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    violence. Each of the boys are twelve years-old and are looked up to by the younger children, and Jack knows this and takes advantage of it by using fear to gain control. This causes conflict because Ralph and Jack both believe that there should only be one leader on the island, resulting in a jumble of negative moods throughout the story which leads to the next story element.

  • Into The Woods Hero's Journey

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    quest. The Baker is the hero, and his journey integrates those of several other fairy tales. Each fairy tale character in this show has their own reason to go into the woods, but the Baker and his wife seem to be the most prominent storyline-- the one that ties all of the others together. This pedagogical story teaches the audience that the only way to get your wish is to cross the threshold into the woods. At