Sunday Essays

some of their most well-known works including “Imagine” and “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

Robert Hayden’s poem there are a few lines that are crucial to the understanding of the speaker’s tone, thoughts and 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

When it comes to motivational speeches, the pre-game speech given by Al Pacino in the movie Any Given Sunday ranks with the best of them. This speech was given before a big championship game football game to a professional football team that was crumbling apart. Even though the aging coach’s job was on the line, he gave this speech not to save his job, but instead to motivate his team to put differences apart and come together and to inspire them to perform the way they were capable. Al Pacino is

Since the dawn of time, people have been longing for different 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

It’s the last week of summer before senior year. Technically, you know 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

There I was, in the middle of summer, dealing with homework. At 2am, no less! Who does that? Even worse, the air was humid enough to swim in, and the heat was equally unbearable. I wish I had known what 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

The popular song, “Sunday Bloody Sunday” was written and sung by the very famous Irish rock band U2. This Irish group is known for not staying with the norm of the music industry, they like to speak their minds and sing about the problems in the world and how they affect others. Each of their songs have different beats, and tunes, making them one of the most well-known and well-rounded bands in the world. This song is ranked in one of the best song of all time for many reasons, first it has a historic

Many authors utilize imagery to allow the reader to engage in and understand their works. In Robert Frost’s “Birches,” there are several instances where the poem contains heavy usage of imagery for this purpose. The meaning of the poem “Birches” is very under-the-surface— 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

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

sisters bicker about the sunday chores. Everyone always wants to be the one to go down to the bakery and get the bagels for brunch because the owner gives them the leftover cookies from the day before. Those cookies were like heaven on earth. They were still gooey on the inside and had a thick dark chocolate glaze on top. But this time it wasn’t her turn to go to the bakery. Today she had to do the laundry. Laundry day was the only day she really hated being Jewish. Sunday was always laundry day

Since the existence of human beings, there have been creation myths to explain how life existed on the planet. These creation myths have a huge impact on how people view utopia. Nearly every culture or society has its own creation myth, which is just a version of how humans came to exist on the planet Earth. Many religions also have their own versions, such as the Christians, Islamic, and Jewish. Some cultures with creation myths include the Greeks, the Romans, the Norse, the Chinese, the Mayans

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

attacked by police dogs, beaten with clubs, and had their eyes stung by tear gas; all of which, were caught on camera, as activists asked that the march be publicized-not knowing that it would become violent. This event came to be known as “Bloody Sunday”. Then, on March 9th, the second march took place; troopers, police, and protesters faced each other at

Sunday Sunday is a fascinating song whose subtext is interesting in that, on the surface, Sondheim’s lyrics in Sunday use color, shapes, and other such visual descriptions simply to hearken to the painting Seurat is creating. Yet Sondheim used these lyrics to convey the emotions of the characters, just as Georges Seurat used them in his painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Instead of directly describing feelings, Sondheim relays them in an Impressionist manner, giving the

Sunday Night Synthesis - Week 3 - Buckmiller Two common themes expressed by all the material presented this week are, that we need to develop a relationship with our students in order to motivate them, and second, we as educators have to show true enthusiasm for what we are teaching. In chapter two of Meet in the Middle, Dr. Wormeli gives seventeen suggestions of ways to keep students motivated. Though all these are relevant, there were two that I related to the most. First is Meeting Learning

being courteous to my parents. I have used this form of poetry, and have found the structure very useful as well as easy to use as a form since there are other forms that make poetry slightly complicated from time to time. With the poem Those winter Sundays, this form actually perfect for conveying the true message of gratitude from the author. As I said before, I don’t think I would ever write about gratitude, nevertheless the theory is not only interesting, but also very

mud and rats of the trenches, the hellish noise of the bombardment, the insane waste of life, the high heroism and the bitter cynicism' -- Illustrated London News 'Mr Gardner steers his course... with skill and discrimination' -- Cyril Connolly, Sunday Times 'Mr Gardner, who has chosen, introduced and put notes to this admirable anthology, shows the First World War poets in all moods' -- The Times 'To read through this anthology is ... to live the years 1914-1918, adding to the images of battle

Lone Survivor in Mass Shooting Nytimes.com On the 15th April 1984 a man named Christopher Thomas went on a jealous rampage and murdered ten people in Brooklyn, New York. Seven of his victims were children. This mass murder became known as The Palm Sunday Massacre. He shot all the victims at close range with one of the two handguns he carried with him. The jury found him guilty on ten counts of manslaughter and agreed that he acted under extreme emotional disturbance. He received a sentence of 83 to

The poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden creates a feeling of nostalgia from the narrator. However, this sense of reminiscence holds both positive and negative aspects and encourages a theme of actions creating more impact than words. The poem begins by recounting how the narrator’s father would get up early on Sunday mornings and “then with cracked hands that ached / from labor in the weekday weather made / banked fires blaze.” This shows the reader that the narrator’s father took care

through his poem, “Those Winter Sundays.” A father is unthanked for all the things he does for his family and son. Imagery is also used to help establish the constant rough labor the father does to make sure his family is comfortable. Due to Robert Hayden having a difficult childhood, having but one parent that actually loved him inspired a theme of “love doesn’t need to be expressed through words, it can be expressed through actions” in the poem “Those Winter Sundays.” The use of imagery identifies