...Narrative Essay A Trip I’d Like To Take I’ve always thought that traveling is so spontaneous, adventurous, and life changing. To me, it just means that we get the opportunity to discover and learn new things that other places have to offer. Considering this, I have tried to be content with the places I’ve traveled throughout my life; Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, New York etc. Recently I started to think about escalating my travels to new locations. And, to start with, I attempted to figure out where I wanted to start. While traveling to the places I have, I discovered that perhaps the most irritating aspect for me was that all these places are cliché, “Niagara Falls”, “The Islands”, and “The Big Apple”. I told myself, “The next place I travel will be the exact opposite of cliché”. I crave change; I was thinking maybe Spain. I enjoy conversing in the Spanish language, the culture, the food, and not to mention the people. Since I’m extremely attracted to what Spain has to offer, I hope to plan on starting my traveling journey there. From my early childhood, I was raised in a Caribbean/Spanish atmosphere, so I speak both of the languages and have always enjoyed the music. When I was brainstorming where I’d start my first adventure, it was no surprise I desired Spain. I’m literally excited by the immensity that the culture has to offer and the amazing feeling of a new surrounding. I hope that when I first visit Spain, I’ll be eager to return and motivated to go outside my...
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...yMacmillan Study Companions Sharon R. Wilson-Strann POETRY FOR THE CSEC® ENGLISH B EXAMINATION Second edition Prescribed list for 2012–2017 CSEC® is a registered trademark of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) POETRY FOR THE CSEC® ENGLISH B EXAMINATION is an independent publication and has not been authorised, sponsored, or otherwise approved by CXC. CSEC Study Comp Poetry 2nd Ed_2011.indd i 9/6/11 4:31 PM Macmillan Education Between Towns Road, Oxford OX4 3PP A division of Macmillan Publishers Limited Companies and representatives throughout the world www.macmillan-caribbean.com ISBN: 978-0-230-41802-8 Text © Sharon R. Wilson-Strann 2011 Design and illustration © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011 First published 2008 This edition published 2011 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers. These materials may contain links for third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the contents of such third party websites. Please use care when accessing them. Designed by Mike Brain Graphic Design Ltd Typeset by E Clicks Enterprise, Malaysia Cover design by Clare Webber Cover photo by Jenny Palmer The author and publishers are grateful for permission to reprint the following copyright material: Bloodaxe Books for the poem...
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...Summary of “Why Are Looks the Last Bastion of Discrimination?” Deborah L. Rhode has written several books based on race and gender. She wrote one essay titled “Why Are Looks the Last Bastion of Discrimination”. In this essay Rhode states that workers have been discriminated based on their attractiveness, also individuals seeking employment have also been declined a job or have been given a job based of their looks. In the essay Rhode argues that there should be a law established in the United States that is against looks discrimination. According to Rhode, the United States has made many laws in the past years to protect groups of people that are being discriminated based on sex, religion, race, or disability, yet there is no official law protecting employees that are being discriminated on their looks. Since there is no law that protects a person from this kind of discrimination, it is allowing corporations to discriminate an employment seeker, or a current employee based on his or her appearance. Rhode claims that companies discriminate people on their looks, because attractiveness is “job-related” and they want a person with an attractive appearance to represent their company. Deborah L. Rhode states that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and the fact that a boss has the power to say who is “attractive” or “unattractive” really gives employees a disadvantage in their job. This limits the person to show how good they can turn out to be in a certain job. Rhode insists...
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...Ms.Ravick ENG104 22 April 2015 Reflection During my first year of college, I have made things for me way harder then they had to be. Specifically in my spring semester of college when I began to take the class of English Composition 1. Taught by the brilliant and marvelous Ms. Ravick, English Comp. 1 was by far my toughest class of the semester. Throughout my semester of English Comp. 1 I have gain the enjoyment of writing essays, coming up with my own ideas, and stop repeating my writing when I write essays. Coming into English 101 freshman year was something that I was kinda afraid of. In high school English class never served as my strong point and I found myself constantly frustrated and confused as to why I never got the grade I felt I deserved. I would write essays to get it over with, using other people’s thoughts and ideas to support my less important thoughts and ideas about the subject. I never felt connected with any papers that I was asked to write and it showed, so coming into college being forced to do it all over again was definitely something I feared and something I wanted to get over with, but now I find myself enjoying writing. I have always written freely or on my own, but I find myself now able to sit down and enjoy writing an essay again. I enjoy the process of coming up with my own ideas and concepts and trying to make an argument for my reader so they can also take my side in that argument. With this class, I have learned to enjoy writing again...
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...On the first day of the class when Mrs. Shannon said peer review makes people very vulnerable to the words they get from the peers. I thought she had psychic power to read minds. Ever since I took a regular English class and had first peer review I felt guilty, because I wasn’t capable enough to provide advice or find their mistakes. I felt I was the only one getting helped and I was afraid they might judge me by my writing. This made my habit of revising the essay fewer time and not asking for help. Eventually making me avoid writing. For the past month, I have learn how important the peer review is, but it did not change me to like the writing. From this English comp. 1 I have learned that peer review and revision is essential to produce...
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...Brandon Pitchford 4/21/2013 English Comp II Editing and Revising Being a college student I can clearly see how the average writer can become “cluttered” or “flustered” when writing paper with the increase flow of all this new information. When you find all these different articles or facts off the Internet or textbooks we students can sometimes put too much information in our papers and not have enough sited sources. Often times the cluttering of essay and point can side track or even confuse the reader. This is the reason the revision of essays is 100 percent fool proof and is essential to have an extra set of eyes read your own work. In the essay "Simplicity," William Zinnser states, "clutter is the disease of American writing" (129). With writing any type of paper the writer may run into the same problems that pelages many students, which is the clutter of information. Today generation have an almost infinite amount of sources of information on the Internet trying to document each source is often not taking into account. The biggest problem that professors have is to advise students to site their sources to comply with MLA format; but if hey have too much information and don’t source their information they are plagiarizing. With today’s technology becoming smarter the younger generations are losing some of their grammar skills with spell check or auto spell. In "Its Academic, or Is it?” Charles R. Larson writes how students writing grammatically correct...
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...Omar El Karhat Lucas Peters English Composition 1301 October 12th, 2012 Insatiableness, Materialism and Boastfulness “The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil” Jesus The Christ, A study of the messiah (1915) The idea that wealth and happy lifestyle coexist, mainly, among Moroccan AUI students is really widespread. This knowledge has affected the thoughts, behaviors and the perspectives of AUI students when the majority of them had become more materialistic and snobs rather than being realistic and spiritual, nowadays. Of course, most students from our university come from rich and wealthy families regarding the expensiveness of the tuitions. Thus, they do not care about how hard parents are working for their sake. Their affluence has made their lives comfortable, indeed, nevertheless, what is this wealth really costing parents of AUI’s students- especially AUI learners? Moroccan Capitalism begun to appear in late 60s and the political system reformed and encouraged more the economical trades and ownerships. The idea of wealth grew out of the capitalism concept which is according to Comp² “Our Wealth: Where it is Taking Us?”, “capitalism is a largely system based on consumerism.” Page1 The principle goal of investors that invest in AUI College, such as Sodexo and Newrest serving meals, is to produce many goods and services as, I think it would be better to describe its prices as “cheaxpensive” (which is the mixture between not too cheap but expensive...
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...Sarah Fiore Mr. Hallmark English Comp 1 3/18/2014 Source Summary Living to Work Sayers, Dorothy, Living to Work. Dorothy Sayers was displaying her views on the working people of the world as she sees it. She believes that out of all these people there are only two groups to be classified in; the people who live to work and the people who work to live. Her purpose in writing this was to convey how she feels about the much divided classes of work. The theme of this essay is the attitude the masses have towards work in the modern era. The work to live group hates the mundane jobs they occupy while the other group, the living to work category, love the occupation they chose for they are able to gain a sense of completion from their crafts. In class we are focusing on the future jobs that we have in mind and the life that will be a head of us. In this story we are able to see two different types of work and taking that into consideration apply that to what we have planned for ourselves. Do we want to take a career for money, love or convince? My first thoughts during and after reading were that this author believed there to be no grey lines. That there are the ones that hate and the ones that love their work. That the society sees a successful job as one that makes one wealthy, not one that that being moral comfort. That the world has become obsessed with the idea of success being something that gains money or fame, not something that will help others directly or works...
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...Lauryn Waddle Selected research topic: Bacon’s Rebellion. Research question: How did the ruthless attacks, known as Bacon’s Rebellion, originate? Thesis statement: During this era, English settlers could not seem to get along; Bacon’s Rebellion is one example of the many squabbles between the races, the poor, and the wealthy. The poorest Virginians were at an extreme disadvantage in 1676. They were struggling to survive while the “English gentlemen” had the finest of living. The land the poor had was far inland and pushing into the Indian territory. They found it unfair that they had to live the way that they did, competing for land while the wealthy did not have to do the same. Nathaniel Bacon was among the many who were not happy with the...
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...or three books. My mom noticed that I always had a book in my hand. My comprehension level was higher than most, I even had the highest reading level by third grade. When I was in fifth grade I was introduced to essays. I enjoyed writing them because it was the thought that I could write anything I wanted on paper for people to read. It was then I realized I had a passion for books and writing. To emphasize, growing up I loved every type of book, especially the ones that challenged me. I liked books with pictures, but I preferred books with no pictures. With me constantly reading, I always had two or three books checked out from the library. My first favorite books were Junie B. Jones book. I could never put those books down. Every time my school received the magazines to order books with the school, I was the girl always buying the Junie B. Jones book set. At one point I had every book, and I had read every single one of them. I had to find a different series to begin. As I began my journey to find the book for me, I stumbled along...
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...Ms. Q English Comp. II T/Th 8:30 6 October 2014 Ketteler, Judi. "Critical Essay on 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'." Poetry for Students. Ed. Elizabeth Thomason. Vol. 13. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center. Web. 6 Oct. 2014. Ketteler states that “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” it is “highly readable” carpe diem poem. Ketteler points out that it also contains underlying messages such as “uplift”, “waste no time”, and “live your life to the fullest”. Despite the optimistic view, Ketteler also shows a more serious side to the poem that talks about death and decay, very much like “cycle of life.” She talks about the blend of idea of Christianity and Paganism ritual. Ketteler mentioned that life is paradoxical and full of dilemmas, that one thing connects/leads to another. Overall, there is no one perspective of the poem, whether is encouraging virgins to lose their virginity, living life to the fullest, use time wisely, or follow dreams. To Ketteler there are no specific way to put it. Ketteler brought up a good point that there is no one way to interpret “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.” Just the title itself, it can be looked at in various ways, such as virgins should not waste time and should go explore sexual counterparts, or value the time as virgins because it wont last forever (until marriage). In the article, life and death are at constant conflict, as time passes, death is near but yet it says to cherish the present. Overall...
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...English Comp 111 15 February 2015 Finding a Solution to Poverty Are we doing enough to eliminate poverty and help the poor? How are people still starving with all of the sources we have as a country? Poverty exists for many reasons including: lack of education, unemployment, housing, and money. There are no overnight solutions to this world wide epidemic, but some of our leaders are just as much to blame by turning their heads rather than finding the solutions. According to statistics one out of eight individuals suffers from malnutrition. This means that out of 7 billion people in the world, 870 million are still underfed. In Jonathan Swift’s “Modern Proposal” essay, he snubs the Irish and English rulers for their economic policies concerning the poor. Swift explains that they are not dealing with the issue of poverty in Ireland by refusing to create a solution. Citizens and those in power need to create lasting solutions to end poverty in our nation. Jonathan Swift essay, “Modern Proposal” presents solutions to keep poor children from being a burden to their families. The English government turned their heads to the deplorable economic conditions in which the people were living in and he hated the inhumanity that he witnessed. Ireland was in dire poverty and most of the victims were women and children that were beggars (630-631). So Swift devised a number of proposal and solutions to rid Ireland of this problem. Swifts argues that poor children would be better off being...
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...Stephen Hallett Mr. Dawson English Comp Fund 16 November 2001 Cats and Dogs This compare and contrast essay is for English composition, it will be on cats, and dogs, and The three points are going to be about; fur, hearing, and dogs being omnivorous, and cats being carnivores. Cats and dogs are at the top of the list for pets in the U.S. today. One can train dogs with a lot of time, and hard work, yet most cats are difficult or not trainable at all. Most dogs and cats have different lengths of hair, and they come in many colors, and lengths. They both have a strong sense of hearing, and a tremendous sense of smell. My family and I have owned many pets. We currently have two dogs, and two cats. Phoebe is a Yellow Lab with short blonde hair, and Lizzie is a Black Lab with short black hair. Most dogs shed, but there are some breeds that shed remarkably little, or not at all. Brushing a dog’s coat will cut down on the amount of hair on the furniture, and floors. We adopted our two cats from an animal shelter. Shockte has short white hair, and Izzy has long gray hair. Cats are easier to take care of than dogs due to their self-grooming habits; therefore, they do not need baths regularly. The only problem is they do get hairballs that can lead to health problems. There are three ways to rid a cat of a hairball; a bowel movement, regurgitation, or having them surgically removed. The more love and affection a pet gets, the more they are likely to give back. Cats...
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...Matt Esquivel Mr. Chris Chandler English comp 1015 Essay 1 February 23, 2015 Online Anonymity There are many people who have been affected by online “trolling”. Trolling is the disruption of ones beliefs or actions on a subject of matter. Online anonymity has multiple types of behaviors that can really affect a persons life. Social media plays a crucial role in our every day lives. Some people rely on social media so much that they allow it to run their lives. It can only take one troll to make a users life miserable. Although online anonymity has a lot of negatives, it can be somewhat beneficial to users. It can allow the anonymous person to express his or her beliefs and opinions for everyone to see. Having said that, people don’t always use the privilege to speak anonymously. By allowing anonymity anyone can literally write whatever the user wants without any repercussions. Majority of the people are normally just being facetious when commenting on blogs just to get a rise out of some people and gain attention even if it may be negative attention. Cyber bullying can be very dangerous and illegal for the most circumstances poses as a threat. Threatening someone via online anonymously can still get the user in some trouble with the law. It is still considered assault or harassment on someone even when it is anonymous. Law enforcements have a way to track the anonymous attacks ...
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...Lernard Chambers English College Comp 1 Mr. David Glimpse March 3, 2014 The Other Meaning of Race This essay “What’s in a Name,” Henry Louis Gates created a expresses on his viewpoint of the discrimination that his parents, particularly his father, experienced during his childhood in the South. The specific example that Gates refers to involves an incident where a shopkeeper who was friendly with his father referred to him as “George,” a name that Gates now realizes was a popular way of referring to African Americans in those times. Perhaps because his father made good money and the shopkeeper felt uneasy about his status, or simply because of the color of his skin, Gates’ father had to accept this discrimination and there was nothing he could do about it. “The “Black Table ”Is Still There,” Lawrence Otis Graham, this story he created a point of view I would never imagine over something so small, like sitting at the wrong table. Mr. Graham had mention,” It was always something that was a source of fear and dread for three hours each school morning of my early adolescence. What I found interesting was that the Gates family was different than the other African American families in the town. They were treated with a mix of dislike and respect. An example would be “Them being allowed to eat where other blacks couldn’t due to Mr. Gates’ reasons and were of privileged status.” Once the incident with Mr. Wilson had occurred, the author might have felt ashamed or a bit embarrassed...
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