Punch line Essays

Most students go to a school in which hundreds are enrolled in just one grade, that isn’t the case with me. There are just over a couple hundred students in my entire school, nearly all of them of South Asian descent. My brother and I are an exception. We are the only students of Mexican / Arab origin. I was joked about for years on end, even from my closest friends. In 8th grade, I was one of eleven students and the overall lack of diversity at my school made it easy for me to be picked on, I ended

When I think of my future I think of getting married and having a family. This means that I will have to find someone that I’m interested in. The five traits that I will look for in someone will be kind hearted. This is a big thing because I need someone that will be nice to me and treat my kids politely. In some cases I get very overwhelmed. A great trait to keep things balanced would be for them to be patient. I love people with a good sense of humour because I like to laugh so that is one trait

“Mass murderers are simply people who have had enough.” Quentin Crisp brilliantly explains a less told version of a miserable and dreary event. In most articles or reports about a shooting, the killer is often described as cruel, heartless, and cold-blooded. But could there be another side to the story? Could the killer be the one who had been hurt, damaged, and wounded instead of the so-called victims? Edgar Allen Poe truly gives light to this possibility in his writing. In his story “Hop-Frog,”

Rebel Without a Cause was filmed in 1955 and directed by Nicholas Ray. Ray commissioned Leonard Rosenman for the film score. Rosenman is known for his unconventional and provocative scores. Rosenman was a friend of Aaron Copland and he followed Copland’s fundamentals when scoring for a film. Like Copland, Rosenman liked to play with the silence of the film. Rosenman’s scores helped boost the future use of stylistic devices in Hollywood. The films’ main theme begins at the opening credits played

starts off telling the audience about the man and how his life usually is like. As the poem begins, Richard Cory seems well respected in the town as the Robinson wrote, “Whenever Richard Cory went down town, /We people on the pavement looked at him” (lines 1-2). Another example of the people admiring Cory, can be seen when Robinson wrote “But still he fluttered pulses when he said, / ‘Good-morning’, and he glittered when he walked” (7-8). This can be regarded that the other people in town held Cory in

Classics 101 Kristen Brenda Walker Friday 8.40 g15w1964 Due: 08 April 2016 Tom Dichmont The Odyssey Discuss the subject of sexual fidelity/infidelity as it occurs in Homer’s Odyssey, using examples from the text. (Refer to several relationships in your answer.) Introduction In the Odyssey by Homer the famous Epic poet, sexual fidelity as well as sexual infidelity are recurring themes throughout his work. There are a significant amount of relationships that express this theme

The boy is first introduced as someone “sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark”. From the first line alone, the reader gets a sense of despair and despondency, as the phrase “waiting for dark” could be a euphemism of death. Similarly, the phrase “ghastly suit of grey” could be a metaphorical reference to a ghost. The reader then learns that not only

The short story, “Desiree’s Baby”, by Kate Chopin addresses several issues that played a major role in the Antebellum South. Desiree, abandoned as a child, receives new hope when she is found and raised by Madame Valmonde. At a young age, Desiree quickly falls in love with Armand, who would later cause destruction and misery in their marriage. With the birth of their child, Armand and Desiree face racial tensions and conflicts within themselves. Throughout the story, Chopin shows the prominent role

comparison builds this sense of empathy for the veteran and displays how war Owen conveys the horror of war by describing the consequences of war. We know this because Owen writes “he sat in a wheelchair waiting for dark”. This is a very sentimental line as it shows what the soldier can do. All the soldier can do is “wait for dark”. “dark” could be a reference to death as death is usually associated with darkness and dark colours. “waiting for dark” could also indicate that the soldier is waiting

had color this time when in the last book they just had white face so they look more human and alive. The story line was real basic just talking about the opposite of each of happy and sad, up and down, high and low. This would be a great book to use if you wanted to teach children about the opposites of each other and the different between things. There was really no depth in the story line. This book is much simpler than any of this other books it had hand drawing, simple primary color, along with

A example of this is in stanza three line one and two “The hand that held my wrist was battered on one knuckle” this quote helps us as the reader visualize how violent things got. Another literary device used is a metaphor there is only one example of this and it is found in stanza one line three “But I hung on like death” he is comparing how he holds on to death because even thought his father beat him he will

pattern that can be seen within the poem is each of the stanzas consist of quatrains, meaning that every stanza has four lines. Another important pattern to note within each stanza is that the first and the third lines, and the second and the fourth lines could be considered half rhymes. In the second stanza for example: the first line ends with “instrument” and the third line ends with “document”. Though the words do not completely rhyme, they do look similar and sound similar. This pattern is

Stanza 1. In the first stanza, it states that it is a late, dark night yet the man is still awake. He begins to doze when he is awaken by a tap at the door. He calls out to them and asks who it may be but never got an answer. Stanza 2. Following stanza 1, the man states that this is occurring in December. He then describes how the fire is slowly decreasing and he is very much mourning the loss of Lenore. He also states that finishing the book he was reading brought him great sorrow. Stanza 3. The

Abstract: I Have a Dream is public speech made by Martin Luther King in Lincoln Memorial, 1963. It mainly talked about the equality problem of African American. Since Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans were waiting for the day when they were really free. However, even a hundred years later, the black people were still discriminated and their life still the same. I Have a Dream was written in such condition to fight for their own rights. In fact, this article is still

Lipika Chandrashekar Professor K. Jamie Woodlief LIT 165 February 23, 2018 Kate Chopin and Adrienne Rich: Freedom Versus Oppression and Gender Struggle “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich are works based on the main idea of the plight of women in a male-dominated world in their respective time periods and their struggle to get their freedom. They were written during a time when women were controlled by some male authority figure through

his father did for him, not out of necessity but out of love. At the time, Hayden took these things for granted and never fully appreciated the things that his father had done for him until years later when it was too late. This poem is a fourteen-line three-stanza sonnet poem with no particular rhyme scheme or meter. In the first stanza, Hayden reflects on a particular Sunday where

Stanza one: It all started in the middle of a dreary night. While he was nearly asleep, someone or something started knocking his chamber door. When he heard the tapping he said to himself, “Tis some visitor tapping at my chamber door.” Which means that he recognized someone was at the chamber door. Stanza two: He remembers the time of this happening to be in the winter month of December. It was dark and cold and the embers from the fire were bright enough to cast a shadow or “ghost” on the floor

rest of their body. 2. Reread lines 1–7 of “Hanging Fire.” Based on these lines, what inferences can you make about the speaker of the poem? From these lines, we can infer that the author is an insecure teenager, who worries about what people think about her. An example of this is when the speaker says “how come my knees are so ashy.” This shows insecurity. 3. Reread lines 19–21 of “Hanging Fire.” What does the contradiction or inconsistency expressed in these lines

In the opening lines “Clips from the battlefield/ in a Iraqi evening:/ a peaceable home” (al-Sa’igh 1-3) highlights the contrast between peace and war. The word “home” (al-Sa’igh 3) can be associated with peace and love compared with “clips from battlefield” (al-Sa’igh 1). “Absentmindedly drawing on a scrap paper/ funny pictures” (7-8) the innocent imagery of children disarms the reader and sets the poem up for a depressing realization that is reality. “The entire house becomes ears/ ten Iraqi eyes

The Fury of Overshoes Anne sexton The poem is written in first person and in a free verse. The poem does not have a specific order, and the reader cannot find a pattern, in which the author organizes the poem. The rows do not rhyme and they are short. The poem seems to be from the point of view of an adult, who reflects on her childhood memories. The theme is the difficulties during the growing up period, and the wish to be one of the ''big people''. The beginning of the poem describes the setting