...Taylor Tamayo Period 2 Feb. 3, 2012 Friday Night Lights Movie/Book Analytical Essay H. G. Bissinger was a writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer when he was selected to be a Harvard Neiman Fellow. This was while he was at Harvard he had the idea to write a book that specifically focused on the role of high school football plays within American society. This happened to take place in particular rural societies. Bissinger returned to the Inquirer for a short amount of time, received a Pulitzer Prize, and then decided to go out in search of a community in which high school football was prevalent. Bissinger then settled on Odessa, Texas. In Odessa, Texas Permian High School and its football team, the Permian Panthers, had a long history of winning in Texas' 4A and 5A divisions. This earned Permian High School winning championships in 1965, 1972, 1980 and 1984. Bissinger moved himself and his family to Odessa, Texas and spent the entire 1988 football season with the Permian Panther players, their families, their coaches, and even many of the townspeople in an effort to understand the town and its die-hard football culture. Bissinger's newest book, Shooting Stars, was published by Penguin Press in September 2009. The book, co-authored with basketball superstar LeBron James, tells the story of James' high school career. Bissinger is now in the process of completing a book about his twin sons. Born 13 weeks premature in 1983 and weighing less than two pounds, they...
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...Persuasive Essay Robyn Ralston COMM/215 January 26th, 2015 Paul Korzeniowski Persuasive Essay Even though adding a Turf Field would cause higher taxes, adding a turf field to a school al-lows all area schools in the district to have a field to play on and other clubs can play weekend sports on the field which will generate more crowds. Many school districts have annual votes to have many items voted on to have added to their school district. Greece Central in Rochester, NY has always played around with the thought of adding a turf field to one of the area’s high schools. With four Middle/High Schools, the ques-tion becomes where do we add it? On January 13th, Greece’s school board meeting was held, and the board approved on going forward with a vote on the stadium. The district decided they will have a vote on March 24th, 2015 to have a turf field added to local high school Greece Ar-cadia (McDermott, 2015). Adding the turf field to Greece Central would allow for all the high school teams to have a place to play a home game at night. At this current time, the only time any of the high schools in Greece plays the night game is at another district where they already have a tuft field under the lights. Adding this new stadium with the lights will be able to host these games. Many parents have stated having a Friday night game under the lights would make it so they would be able to attend more games. According to "13 Wham" (2015), ““It's a culture I think we've...
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...Mark Brown English 112 Essay week 2 I grew up in a small town called Waldorf, which is in Maryland. We only have one movie theatre within a 30 mile radius and is not a very good one at all. There is always a fight and cops having to be called to the movies every Friday and Saturday night. Families are afraid of taking their kids to see a movie due to how bad it has gotten. People in Waldorf feel that it should be shut down due to other illegal activity that goes on in there as well but it’s the only movie theatre we have in our little town. Fights breaking out isn’t the only thing that makes this theatre look horrible and never want to come back to. The outside of the theatre is covered with gang graffiti ,gangs around every corner, parking lot damaged with pot holes, trash not being picked up from outside and there are no parking lot lights for you to see your surroundings. Inside the movie theatre the carpet is badly stained, the seats are damaged, the workers are very rude, and the air stinks of cigarette smell. The theatre doesn’t allow smoking but teenagers will smoke in the back of the movie and sometimes even weed. A few years ago before they started building new neighbourhoods and allowing public transportation, the movie theatre was a well kept and maintained movie theatre. A place that didn’t have you worrying about your kids going to for a late movie. The theatre use to attract...
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...English 175-‐02: Introduction to Literary Genres Instructor: Aaron Schab aschab@uidaho.edu 209 Brink Hall Department of English University of Idaho Course Meets: Life Sciences South 163 Monday/Wednesday/Friday 9:30 am – 10:20 am January 9, 2013 – May 10, 2013 Course Description In this class, we will learn about the basic conventions and terms used to understand and discuss the three major genres of literature: fiction, poetry, and drama. This class will help you understand the sometimes baffling world of literature, and is intended to provide the general student with basic experience in literary analysis. Additionally, I hope this class will lead you to a lifelong appreciation for (and engagement with) reading literature. Although this class features extensive reading and writing, it is not necessary for you to be a bookworm or a writing superstar to succeed in this class – if you ...
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...Essay #3 Everyone looks like they are having a great time, people are yelling, people are laughing, people are spilling drinks on the bright white kitchen tile. It was just the right place to be at, on a chilly Friday night in Hancock. The house was full to the max; anyone at that party definitely had a hard time getting through to opposite end. The music was at the right volume, not to low, but not too high so police would not have to be called. It was around twelve when the party was really starting to get going. The refrigerator was stocked full of beer, the freezer was full of liquor, there was also two jugs full of jungle juice. All they needed was the crew from “The Hangover” movies and it would have been the best party of all time. The owners of the house knew exactly how to prepare for this big event. The reason for this party was for two guys’ birthday. They just wanted to throw one big bash together instead of having it separate weekends. As the clock came around to one things started to heat up a bit more on the “dance floor” of the house. Two girls started to make out like crazy, everybody was cheering them on, and then the wildest thing happened. One of the girls flashed everyone that was on the “dance floor”. Everybody by this point was a bit intoxicated, but nobody cared. Everybody was just raging on to some hip hop music, while singing along to the music. Just when this party could not get any better, it got worse, flashing red and blue lights filled...
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...Alexis Martin Hour 3 English 2 Essay 1 A relative that I will never forget… Jodi Marie Ross was an amazing woman! She was known as the first female contractor in the state of Missouri! My lovely grandmother had many jobs before becoming a female carpenter. She also worked as a florist for about six years but soon after that she started her own company ,whom is now run by her youngest daughter Jodi Dale, Ross Management! Jodi always helped a lot of people that had nowhere to go and no one to turn to. Many of the people that worked for my Grandmother where people that had been standing on streets corners either soliciting or begging for money. The people who she helped the most were people that wouldn’t so much beg for money but they would ask for food. I remember when I was six, almost seven years old, my grandmother and I were heading home from her work on a Friday evening. We were leaving 52nd and Wabash and we stopped at the light right before Churches Chicken which had graffiti all over it and busted out windows. There was a guy standing on the corner who had the cutest little boy with him. He looked to be about three or four years old. The guy was holding up a sign saying “Food Please!!!! God forgive me for my sin!!” When my grandmother saw this she began to cry! She pulled her car over into the Churches Chicken parking lot. She told me to stay in the car then she opened her door and got out and begun walking over to the man. I couldn’t quite...
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...It was a dark and stormy night…”No that’s not it,” I try to think of a good story for language arts class. “Uhh, I hate this class,” I accidentally say out loud. “Shhh, work on your story!” the teacher says embarrassing me. Riiiinnnnng. “Thank goodness,” I sigh to Maggie as we walk out of the classroom. “Come on Missy, language arts is fun, you just have to try,” Maggie replied. “I do try, my hardest is your worst,” I say wanting to get out of this conversation. “Whatever, I’ll see you on Monday, ” Maggie walks away annoyed, “I bet you’ll come up with a great story,” she said less annoyed. Today I slowly walked home, I wanted to be anywhere but home. When I did arrive home my mom was sitting at the table waiting for me. I knew it,...
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...like smoke, and like a smoker’s cigarettes, it became my smell. No one in my high school noticed. We all smelled like something: motorheads of motor oil, farm kids of wheat chaff and cow dung, athletes like footballs and grass, dopers like the other kind of grass. It did not appear to anyone — including me — that residing within my family’s weapons cache might affect my life. Together, my three brothers own at least a dozen weapons and have yet to harm anyone with them. Despite their guns (or, arguably, because of them), they are quite peaceable. As for me, I have three guns, one inherited and two gifts, and I’m hardly a zealot. In fact I never had much interest in guns. Yet it is I who killed a man. It was the second week in August, a Friday the 13th, in fact, in 1982. I was with a group of college roommates who were getting ready to go to the Omak Stampede and Suicide Race. Three of us piled...
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...Kyiesha Covington Gen 1o2 Dream essay 11/21/2013 The Robbery that changed my life forever. According to Sigmund Freud’s the interpretation of dreams; all dreams represent the fulfillment of wishes. No matter what that dream is, whether the dream is happy, sad, recurring, realistic, sequel fantasy, or in my case a nightmare. It still represents a fulfillment of wishes. I remember my dream like I dreamed it last night. It was a cold and stormy September night. My cousin and I had just finished watching Friday the 13th and , and was lying in bed talking about boys of course I mean what teenage girl does talk about that, when all if a sudden the lights began to flicker on and off , and 5 minutes later they were off for good. That’s when things really began to get weird; the glass on the back door had shattered. We didn’t think much of it since, it had been storming all day and rocks and branches had been picked up by the wind and tossed against our windows, so we continued our conversation like nothing happened. “Bang Bang” two gun shots were fired and a frantic scream was coming from the living room/ hallway area. My cousin and I quickly hurried to our feet, and sprinted to the door where we poked our head out my bed room door to see what was going on. With our heads poked out my door we couldn’t help but notice my little brother laying there on the ground two bullet holes in his chest and blood gushing everywhere. I pushed my little cousin back into the room, where...
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...2011 Digital or Man-Dating? In this essay, I will examine two articles, one of them is Digital Dating: Desperation or Necessity?, written by Christine Hassler, a former Hollywood Agent, and the author of the book called Twenty-Something, Twenty-Everything. This article talks about social networks, their impact on both of our social and love life. It tries to convince us to try to experience all the benefits that online dating provides us. The second article, called “The Man Date”, written by Jennifer 8. Lee, a reporter for the NYT, tries to encourage the male population to try man-dating, a term that describes a new trend among guys that involves two heterosexual guys, usually good friends, going to a date. Lee also writes about the stigmas about relationship between two men that pervade our society. The purpose of her article is to change the perception that majority of adult males have about men-dating. These two essays are written by different authors, as I already mentioned, who share similar views of social and love life but also use distinctive styles of writing, by using different types of claims, proofs and language which makes their articles special in their own way. The first thing that we have to do when analyzing and comparing two articles is to identify the claims. As we all know, there are five types of claims: claims of fact, definition, cause, value, and policy. The author of the first essay does not directly state the claim but it can be implied...
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...experiences and changing one’s environment can lead to a person finding his or her own identity. They may physically dissociate to spend more time with self while searching or changing their own identities. As Christopher McCandless does in Jon Krakauer’s essay, “Selections from Into the Wild,” where McCandless decides to get away from his normal life of interacting with people and takes a trip to Alaska on its own. He goes to this unplanned trip to Alaska without having any clue of hiking or the environment in the woods and does not rightfully prepare for this trip. Existing his real world and entering into this solitary world on its own is dissociation as Martha Stout discusses in her essay, “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday.” Stout...
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...Anna Hauss Jennifer Parrack-Rogers English 111-006 Description and Illustration Essay 13 September 2011 Goodbye Home Sweet Home It was a day like any other day. I woke up early to prepare for what Monday had in store for me. Class was first on the agenda and I was driving into town when my phone started ringing abruptly. Dad was calling. The moment I picked up the phone my stomach dropped and cold chills devoured my body, as he told me our house had caught fire. I sensed the chill of a shadow cast over me and everything seemed to be moving in slow motion. Instinct pricked me and I knew I needed to return home. When I arrived, my entire street was blocked with fire and rescue crews. On the surface and from a distance, my house looked fine. I started to wander towards the chaos. The closer I proceeded, the damage was more apparent. My eyes began to fill with tears as I sat down tucking my legs to my chest as tight as I could, hiding my face between my knees. I had images racing through my mind of my house being engulfed in flames, with thick, dark smoke pouring out of the windows and roof. I sat in disbelief feeling utterly alone, suddenly assaulted with the vastness of the destruction. I sat, as tears continued to slowly make their way down my somber face, and studied the entrance of my black, damaged home in absolute doubt. I could not help but feel sick to my stomach with anger and discomfort for the obvious injustice of the situation. I heard car doors shut and my...
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...Different Types of Paragraph Descriptive paragraph: A descriptive paragraph has sentences that work together to present a single, clear picture (description) of a person, a place, a thing, an event, or an idea. Descriptive paragraphs let the reader touch, taste, see, hear and smell what you are describing. The reader should feel as if they can see what you are describing clearly. You want to paint a picture as you write the descriptive paragraph. Samples of descriptive paragraphs: Sample 1 My friend, Andrew, is really weird. First of all, he is only twenty four years old, but he dresses as if he is living in 1950, instead of 2009. He combs his hair completely slicked back, and his clothes are always too small for him, but he seems to never notice. His teeth are also never clean, and his breath is horrible. He thinks he is cool, but he repulses women. One day he tried flirting with a girl, and she ran from him. In addition, he eats the weirdest foods. For example, the other day, he brought over a hardboiled egg and mixed it with peanut butter. Andrew also has the loudest and most embarrassing laugh, and he laughs at things that no one else thinks is funny. For instance, one day he told a joke that no one found funny, but he started laughing at his own joke and loud, which made other people turn around. Furthermore, he has the most ridiculous accent; he was born in America, and his parents were born in America, and none of his relatives have accents. In addition, he likes...
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...A Write an essay (900-1200 words) in which you analyze and interpret Karen Shephard’s short story “Popular Girls”. A part of your essay must focus on the narrative technique and the many references to labels and certain locations in New York City. Popular Girls A short story by Karen Shepard You know who we are. We're Kaethe and Alina, CJ and Sydney. Stephanie. Our hair is blonde or brown or black. Rarely red, rarely curly. It's thick and straight, and falls back into place after we run our fingers through it and hold it away from our faces long enough for you to see our striking eyes. When we do this, you get shivers. It's 1982, and we sit on the benches lining our New York private school's entrance, after classes are over and before we head home. They are old church pews, and we are from another world. Our canvas book bags mass at our feet. They're from Sweden. They come with an excess of zippers, a plastic ID tag on a small chain, and a ruler that we never use. We buy them at Chocolate Soup, on Madison, the store for cool kids. We say things like "Tenth grade is the Howard Johnson's of school life." You can sit on these benches too, but we do not notice you. Last fall we excised some of you from our group by taking you aside five minutes before chapel and saying "It just isn't working out." We see everyone who walks past us, in and out of our 200-year-old originally Episcopalian school. We sweep you with our eyes as if you were a landscape. We've seen...
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...Lies of Silence Written Assignment PAIR WORK Marc & Mikael 2.a. Historical Context The conflict in Ireland and Northern Ireland is a long on going conflict about religion and most importantly whether or not Ireland should be a part of the United Kingdom. The background for the conflict can be dated all the way back to 1169 when the English king Henry the second invaded the country. The conflict in Ireland or the so-called “ The troubles” was a conflict from 1968-1998. On April 10. They made an agreement to a cease-fire. The agreement was called the Belfast agreement and it was a principal agreement of a peace process between the British and Irish governments. The two largest apposing paramilitary groups was the IRA who where fighting for the republic of Ireland and the Ulster defence association (UDA/UFF) who were the largest paramilitary and vigilante group in Northern Ireland. They both conducted terror actions such as bombings etc. against each other and civilians. Sinn Féin is an Irish republican party in Northern Ireland and the republic of Ireland. They are often linked with the IRA, but they refuse any connections between them. Another party is the “New Ulster Political Research Group” which is the political wing of the UDA who has ben active since 1971. Another of the big parties in the Northern Ireland is the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). The Democratic Unionist Party has since 2007 formed government with Sinn Féin. Repetition of “Lies of Silence” ...
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