...Author Note This paper is being submitted March 9th, 2014 for Mr. Zimmerman’s ENC 1102 English II course. Poetry Essay Death. Death is the ultimate end of a living creature or a process. With death, once what was can never be again, just a mirror or similar shadow. Death is the final scene and emotional goodbye. Even though depressing, death is both necessary, and sometimes rewarding in a sense of cleanse and beginning of a new state. PARAGRAPH Mid-Term Break is a poem relating to my theme by the death of a young boy. This poem happens to capture the normal reaction to death, although shown differently by random people. The father taking it the worse, “In the porch I met my father crying – He had always taken funerals in his stride.” The boy was seemingly confused by death, and what it actually was to behold until the end of the poem. “He lay in the four foot box as in his cot. No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear. A four foot box, a foot for every year.” A hard line to read as we learn in the end that he was a young boy, while his brother realizes that death is definitely not forgiving. He also notices that death is not always violent or shocking in appearance, but cold and unchangeable due to the pale and empty look of his brother. A very sad poem and challenging time for family and friends. PARAGRAPH Let Evening Come is a less depressing poem relating to death. It is more of a poem in acceptance of death, and reaffirmation that it is normal and ok. Death...
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...ENC 1102 Paper One Assignment Narrative Essay A narrative essay is the story of a significant or memorable event in your life. A narrative should include specific details, descriptions, and perhaps even dialogue. A narrative is a story told from your perspective that includes not only a narration of the event, but also an evaluation of this event. For this essay, I want you to focus on food as the guiding theme behind your narrative. In order to write this essay, please consider some of the following questions: 1) What is your food story? 2) What role does food play in your gatherings with family and friends? 3) How much does your culture influence what/how you eat? 4) Are there recipes that are particularly significant to you? Why? Where did you get them? 5) What is your most significant memory involving food? 6) How does food affect other aspects of your life? The essay will be graded on the following criteria: 1. ASSIGNMENT FULFILLMENT (Basic Elements): Is the essay 2-4 typed, double-spaced pages? Does the title introduce the subject of the narrative? Is this work a clear-cut narrative with a proper timeline? Is it formatted properly (page numbers, MLA manuscript form)? 2. CONTENT (Hook, pacing, conclusion): Does the introduction have a good hook, one that captures the reader's interest? Is the essay's narrative pacing o.k.- neither too fast nor excessively slow? Does the conclusion wrap-up the essay effectively, providing...
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...Enderson Velasquez ENC 1102 A normal day fishing in the ocean can bring surprises with it. “The Fish” is a poem written by Elizabeth Bishop about her own story when she catches a huge fish while she is in a rented boat. After she catches the fish, she holds it up half out of the water. The fish looks pretty ugly, tired, and old with “shapes like full-blown roses, stained and lost through age” (lines 14-15). Algae is growing on it, and she realizes that the fish has five fishing hooks with the lines still partially attached hanging from its jaw. The speaker start to think how tough this fish must be and how much the fish probably fought through his life to survive. She begins to respect the fish. The story takes a final turn when she lets the fish go. The Theme of the poem is that great lessons can be learned from simple situations in life like a normal day fishing in the ocean. At first the speaker says “I caught a tremendous fish” (1). That is a simple description, then the speaker gives some detail about the fish and how it looks “his brown skin hung like strips like ancient wall-paper”. At this point, the fish is nothing special. After that, the speaker begins to examine the fish more closely, and she imagines the inside of the fish “dramatic reds and blacks,”(30) and a “pink swim-bladder.”(32) The fact that she is using her imagination in connection with the fish implied that the fish has a meaning behind simply being caught. The narrator learned from the persistence...
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...Jessica Carr January 24, 2015 Enc 1102-325 The Big Tattoo Boom You see them everywhere you go. They are on the waitress who are serving you dinner, the veteran waiting for medical care, and even on the football players we watch on television. According to Dictionary.com, a tattoo is done by marking the skin with indelible patterns, pictures, and legends by making punctures in it and inserting pigments. Tattoos which date back to hundreds, even thousands of years ago have slowly grown into a booming business. Many things about the tattoo world have changed over time, from the tools and ink used, to designs, and even meanings behind the tattoos. I plan to explain how big of a business tattooing has come to be. There was a time when getting a tattoo wasn’t an expression or even a choice. According to the Lineberry’s article from the Smithsonian “In terms of tattoos on actual bodies, the earliest known examples were Egyptian and were present on several female mummies dating back to 2000 B.C.” Meanings of tattoos during the ancient years ranged from religious, to cultural, and even to represent skill or ownership. In the beginning tattoos weren’t given using the usual tattoo gun and ink like you would find today. Tattoos have changed a ton since first surfacing in ancient times. I’m sure the Egyptians never imagined tattooing would turn into a thriving business or a way for people to express themselves. In 1891, Samuel...
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...Courtney Schluter Teresa Scott ENC 1102 18 July 2015 Annotated Bibliography-Fairy Tales Zipes, Jack. The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2012. Print. Jack Zipes is an American Professor of German who lectures and publishes about fairy tales, their evolution, and their social and political role in civilizing processes. He believes that fairy tales serve a very social meaning. He also believes that women had a very powerful impact on fairy tales by focusing on paintings, drawings, etc. This particular book focuses more on the cultural and the social aspects of fairy tales just like Jack Zipes agrees with. I didn’t realize that culture and social aspects had so much to do with fairy tales. It opened my eyes to see the past and true roots of a fairy tale. Grimm, Jacob, Wilhelm Grimm, and Maria Tatar. The Annotated Brothers Grimm. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. Print. This book really opened my eyes up about culture. Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm didn’t set out to entertain children at first. They did not expect any type of entertainment for that matter. The fairy tales in this novel are so much different than the ones that I was told as a kid. These are the true fairy tales. They are not a type of imagination. Culture played such a huge role in fairy tales; especially back when the Grimm brothers actually wrote the fairy tales. This book was interesting to know that the Grimm brothers really...
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...Bailey 1 Hunter Bailey Professor Barbara Austin ENC 1102 12 February 2014 Character Builds You Character; a person’s moral values of honesty, courage, integrity, or values. While one person may look as an individual's character being built of what they wear, or where they live, who their parents are, or even what school they go to, all these are wrong. In the story “A Conversation with My Father” by Grace Paley, the narrator is telling an instance of when she visits her eightysixyearold father and tells him a story about a drug addicted mother and her son and how no matter what, an individual can turn their life around and make the best out of any situation or tragedy. While using the time to connect with her father in her final days, Paley uses the characters to tell a story on a morality of a person’s character that is reflected by their experiences in life. After reading this story, I completely agree with the daughters statement that, “... it’s not necessarily the end…” (Paley 417) The author adds at the end of the story that “Of course her son never came home again, she did change.” (Paley 417) This is the type of quote that I, as a person of believing “everything happens for a reason”, try to live by. The son in this story may have never came back home to his mother, she made the decision to pick herself up off the couch and make something of herself and her life. While people may think that just because a rough spot in someone’s life comes up, it is time to give up...
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...ENC 1102 Ashley Molina 10/29/2012 ENERGY DRINKS Recently, it seems that energy drinks have become the latest fad - from tired college students to business professionals and children. While there may be countless different reasons for the consumption of these drinks, the question remains, are energy drinks ultimately harmful to your health? As a college student who has to stay up late at times to study, I myself have had to use energy drinks. However, I found myself wondering what was inside these drinks and when I looked at the ingredients, I realized I didn’t recognize many of the ingredients that I was drinking. As I try to be very cautious with my health and the things I consume, I wanted to further explore what was in these energy drinks and if they were ultimately harmful to my health. To begin my research, I searched Google to see whether these energy drinks were harmful to my health. I found an article by the McKinley Health Center, published in 2011, and titled “What’s the Buzz with Energy Drinks?” This article discussed how the amount of caffeine in energy drinks is usually much higher than the Food and Drug Administration allows in cola beverages. A high intake of caffeine may have minor effects in the short term, however, in the long term, it can have more substantial and detrimental effects such as bone density, harming unborn children, and weight gain. This article provided some good evidence to the detrimental effects of energy drinks; however, I wanted...
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...Ana Magalhaes David Frisch ENC 1102 30 January 2016 The Morality of Animal Testing in Cosmetic Companies Preface The ethical treatment of animal testing is a controversial topic in the field of zoology. Different aspects on animal testing range from positivity to negativity. Animals such as dogs and rats are used for experimental trials because they have been found to have psychological and genetic correlations that relate to humans. Although the benefits and improvements to modern medicine made it possible to ban animal experimentation completely, animals are still the main subjects in cosmetic industries. Something important to keep in mind when it comes to animal experimentation is that, “Most experimentation has nothing to do with disease research… it is cosmetic product testing” (Medical News Online). According to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) over one hundred million animals suffer from experiments to test cosmetics. Many people stand against animal experimentation claiming that animals are not ours to experiment on, and even though that’s an important point, there are many other issues that should be discussed. For example, ninety two percent of all animal trials in cosmetics that are effective on animals are ineffective on humans (ASPCA). Meaning that the reasoning behind it is the lower cost of animal testing provided to those companies. Unfortunately, theses experiments are the cheapest options and some companies are required by the FDA...
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...Anna Kingsley: A Remarkable Story Kimberley DeBessonet ENC 1102 Prof. Sandra McDonald Everest University October 4, 2011 Anna Kingsley, was born Anta Majigeen Ndiaye in Senegal, West Africa in 1793. She helped establish some of the communities in modern day Jacksonville and Orange Park, Florida. Daniel L. Schafer, Professor of History at the University of North Florida, spent nearly twenty-five years researching about her life. Early accounts of her life are based on history memorized by a griot, the oral historian of the village, who passes down the historical accounts through generations. “Mamadou Diouf, a Senegal Historian, speculated that at some point Anta Majigeen Ndiaye may have been recognized as a child of royalty and received special treatment at the time she was sold” (Schafer, 2003, p.18). However, early aspects of her life lack written evidence and the accounts of her being a “royal princess” are just legends. Anna Kingsley overcame the adversity of slavery because, she gained her freedom, she became the respected wife of a plantation owner and she was a successful business woman. By all accounts about that era, her story as an African slave to matriarch of the Kingsley family is a remarkable story. In April 1806 Anta, her mother and the others from her Wolof family village were captured, rounded up and herded to the coast for sale into slavery. She survived the transatlantic crossing, called the “Middle Passage” to Cuba and then was later purchased...
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...Michelle Castillo Semester 2 ENC 1102 Negean Mohi Paper Two Final 1 February 2012 Humanity Humans will never be fully rational. Of course some are more irrational than others, but we all have a weakness in something that leads us to making decisions based on emotion. If you look closely, in today’s world being rational usually leads to more financial success and can sometimes be interpreted for cold hearted. After reading Mary Roach and Joan Didion’s article, Roach would be labeled as harsh, the rational one, and Didion would be labeled as sympathetic and relatable, the irrational one. Many readers are more capable to putting themselves in Didion’s shoes, many of us would not be able to view things the way Roach does. “If you really want to stay up late worrying about lawsuits and bad publicity, explode a bomb near the body of someone who has willed his remains to science” (Roach 358). Mary Roach mentions this quote in her article when describing the personal consequences when considering cadavers. When describing the situation, Roach focused on the political concerns, complaining about the burden it does to herself other bearing in mind the cadaver’s family feelings. Her sarcasm would normally offend most readers, however, some of us wouldn’t know how to react because we simply just don’t understand the complexity of life. This is because the same type of people are everywhere, whether they are in a rural area, a big city, or another country, we're all...
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...Kerry Kempink Mrs. Morris ENC 1102-69980 24 April 2008 Sentence Construction and Style It has been argued for decades on why the first year of college is so important for a student. The first year of college is generally filled with attending class and completing work for courses that seem to have little to no noteworthy importance on what a student wants to achieve a degree in. Some courses for example, humanities and psychology, endow students with just enough information to give the student a broad idea of what the subject matter the student is enrolled in is really about. Writing courses are no different from information based classes. In a writing course however, a student is expected to complete a task that few other courses will expect from him. The areas of concern are many for writing instructors, but places where progress is most often desired are in the areas of development or sentence construction and wording also known as style. Writing style is the manner in which a writer addresses a matter in prose, a manner which reveals the writer's personality, or “voice.” It is particularly evident in the choices the student makes in syntactical structures, diction, and figures of thought. Why is writing style important? Writing style is what depicts how the reader reads the essay. For example, the statements, the journalist has a very journalistic style, or the scholar's style is too scholarly, reveal the redundant and misleading nature of talking about style...
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...Professor Gordon ENC 1102 TTH 830 am 19 November 2009 Research Paper Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck the author of the novel, Of Mice and Men, wrote a story about two migrant workers and their dream of one day owning their own piece of land (Bloom). George Milton and Lennie Small are the two main characters that travel together in search for work. The story took place in California, during the Great Depression, a time in history where everyone suffered from the economical problems and hardship. It was a hard era to live in, there was an extremely high unemployment rate, no one had a steady job and people had to adapt to a new living style. John Steinbeck was present at this time and had a firsthand experience working on a ranch (Leaf). He wrote about the American dream every human being wanted; through the characters of George and Lennie, who both dreamt for the same future, in owning their own land and working for no one else. These two characters are both similar in the sense of wanting the same thing, yet are completely different. Also, Steinbeck included a character, Curly, who lives every American dream and displays how he is. I am going to characterization these three major characters and show their part in the novel. The story begins with two different, thus alike men who are each other’s companion. George and Lennie are both men who work on ranches for money and do not have family, thus they both have a common future. They are both hard workers and optimistic for...
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...,July 21st 2009 ENC 1102 M,W, 7:45am Term Paper “The Theme of Human Struggle in the Works of Ernest Hemingway” In my research paper I will show how elements of life and death, folklore/fables, myths, and rites of passage support the theme of human struggle against nature in the stories "The Old Man and the Sea," "Indian Camp," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway. Through comparative analysis of these stories' underlying themes I will address the initiation experiences of his heroes. Human dignity, morality, and the formation of human individuality through mental strife and the struggle against nature are often themes of Hemingway. Humans cope with the complexity of the world by developing simple mental models based on opposite parts. Life and death are together, two extremes of one energy. Life is the active force and death is the inactive force, but they cannot be separated. Thus, they are two aspects of one reality. When people are reading about living beings and mythological beings or those who are dead, they view the word of the dead as a living world. The dead eat, sleep and move. In the book “The Hero in Hemingway's short stories”, J. DeFalco points out that: " in the Myth there are usually three dominant movements which are cyclic in pattern. They are the departure of the hero, the initiation, and the return from heroic adventure." (17). The movements of the hero to the world where...
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...Professor: Enc 1102; MWF 9:00am 4/8/10 Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel, known by his friends and family as Ted and better know by the world as Dr. Seuss, was born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was born to Theodor Robert and Henrietta Seuss Geisel. His family was very financially successful until Prohibition and World War I halted their success. His father and grandfather were brew masters in the city and the threats of prohibition caused them some financial hardships. Despite the financial bump in the road, Ted and his sister Marnie had a very loving family and an enjoyable childhood. In Ted’s early years his mother would recite to him chants she made up at her job in a bakery during her youth. Dr. Seuss later gave credit to his mother “for the rhythms in which I write and the Urgency with which I do it.” (Morgan) After high school Ted attended Dartmouth College where he experienced the life of a typical college student. Through hard work he became the editor in chief of Jack-O-Lantern, the humor magazine sold by the college. Not long after earning this position he managed to lose it for partying a little too hard. He and his roommate were caught drinking with ten other students in their dorm room at the Randall House. This party violated the laws of prohibition and the policies of the school and was not taken well since the incident happened the night before Easter Sunday. Ted continued to write for the magazine despite losing his position as editor...
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...ENC 1102 Research Paper May 1st, 2013 Unreasonable Discrimination Racial discrimination is an issue that has persisted through many centuries and across geographical boundaries. Members of the black race have been strongly affected by racial discrimination since colonial times when white conquerors brought blacks from Africa as slaves to carry out hard labor jobs. Meanwhile, conquerors treated African slaves as inferior and usually worse than an animal. Society has evolved since and through a lot of work and effort, in the United States and most countries in the world slavery has been abolished and there is a constitutional equality among citizens regardless of their race or background. However, in reality our society even today experiences different degrees of racial discrimination. In spite of this, African Americans have fought against racial discrimination sometimes resorting to physical means, but most importantly utilizing intellectual means. African Americans through centuries have written poems, stories, plays and motivational speeches that express their pride in overcoming hardships in a way that could never be silenced. This way, African Americans have shown over the years that they are not an “inferior” race as it was considered in colonial times. The Homo sapiens species is so diverse that it is difficult to draw clear lines between humans based on their race or the color of their skin. However, even today societies attempt to classify people...
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