...Friendships are a big part of careers, through the whole story Edgar Prado tells his friendship between him and his horse Barbaro. My Guy Barbaro, by Edgar Prado, was about a young, aspiring race horse named Barbaro. From the start of his first race, America knew he was something special. Then their careers took a turn both of them wouldn’t want. During one of their races Barbaro severely injures his back right leg. Survival is a lens that goes with this book because both of their careers have their thicks and thins, their ups and downs but it all can come with greatness attached with it. The jockey / author, Edgar Prado develops the theme that greatness can come easy, but greatness can come hard as well, by using setting, symbolism, and conflict. To begin Edgar Prado uses setting to develop the theme of the story. Setting is where and when the story takes place. For example on page 11 Edgar says, “They had gotten into a spat over a horse Michael trained named Kicken Kris. I won a race on him at Belmont in June 2004, convincing Michael to run him in the Arlington Million, a big summertime race in Chicago.” This quote supports the thesis because his agent and trainer got into a feud with each other. So Edgar has to figure out a way to settle this feud between his trainer and...
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...this piece I was trying to make this essay seem like a research paper. The genre of this piece is an analysis essay, to achieve my purpose I went back and looked at some of my old analysis essays to pull old ideas and included them into my analysis essay. I believe I was pretty successful in doing so, to achieve my intended heartbeat, I made this essay, but short and...
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...Guys don’t want to try Charles Dickson WP 3 Composition 1 Nowlin While a higher education is still valued in the United States, most boys in college avoid the class room unlike their predecessors in the 60’s, but is it that “guys still know what they are doing”, as Ehrenreich suggests? Girls on the other hand were not as much of a presence in school during the 60’s, and were typically not expected to be the bread winner of the family. In her essay Guys Just Want To Have Fun, Ehrenreich shows that boys are not putting forth the effort girls are, but still rule the business world. Even though most men earn more money than women in present day, girls try harder in school than guys because less men graduate from college than women and guys don’t put forth as much of an effort while in college but still seem to be more prevalent in the business world. It doesn’t make sense that most men earn more money than women in today’s society, it’s true though. On the official Whitehouse website (www.whitehouse.gov/equal-pay/carear) it is stated that “On average, full-time working women earn just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.” So there is statistical proof that most men earn more than women, but could the reason lie within the type of college experience they had? In the op-ed Guys Just Want To Have Fun, Ehrenreich tells of an interview with “an Atlanta woman” who was “a skilled website writer” and after a few weeks on the job was fired without an explanation. In the interview...
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...It’s been a while I had graduated from my high school and I feel privileged that I am standing in front of you students and parents to make my speech. I had been going through the same process when I was undergoing all my graduation. I had many questions and concerns when I was graduating at the time. I was thinking about where I am going to be at after graduating from my high school because I didn’t had any idea what majors to select and what school to go to. I have learned a lot from my past experience. And I will love to share all my knowledge with graduates and parent. To be honest I wasn’t a good student at all I used to bunk my classes and I used to listen to music during my class timing but still managed to graduate. As you guys specially students might be thinking that I was really a brilliant student that’s why today school have invited me to be in front of you guys. But really isn’t true. I am just an illumine of and got successful after graduating from the high school but before that I didn’t had any direction where to head on. You wouldn’t call me successful as I don’t own mention or classic car but I earns a descent salary and live a decent living. According to you guys the most successful person might be Lil Wayne or Lebron James but let me tell you not everyone possesses that kind of talent. High school was the best time of my life I met so many people of my age group and I consider my high school friends still my best friends because they after high school every...
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...Aaron Schwartz Professional Communications Essay outline Prof. Kirshenbaum Farleigh Dickenson University Wednesdays 1:00-4:30 11/1/10 “Boys will be boy, girls will be girls” They say: “Boys will always be boys and girls will always be girls”. What does that even mean? Well our society has come to interpret this often said phrase to mean; little boys will always play with their guns while little girls will always play with their dolls. Teenage boys will always play with a football while teenage girls talk on the phone for hours. Men will always watch professional sports while women will still be talking on the phone for hours. Now is this just a stereotype or is this indeed a fact of life? Are guys truly more aggressive? Are women really more nurturing? You better believe it! Gender differences are real and they are simply more than just a serotype. “Boys will be boys” because their brain tells them to be, not because our society does. “Testosterone plays a huge role in aggression testosterone is the primary male sex hormone produced by the testicles. The male is said to produce forty to sixty times the testosterone then women. The University of Wisconsin did a study in which the researchers injected testosterone into unborn female monkeys. Once these females were born they did not nurture or groom their children they acted like male monkeys and began to become more violent and very aggressive.”(York) from that experiment we learn that once the testosterone...
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...chalk, copy Reading Reference : I’m Glad a Little Guy by Carlos P. Romulo, I am a Filipino by Carlos P. Romulo Objectives : At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to: Employ a variety of cohesive devices in composing short written personal discourse. Organize information gathered from primary and secondary reference. Compose a capsule biography of person interviewed using appropriate literary and cohesive device. Use predictive and anticipatory devices/tasks to activate prior knowledge about the topic reading/viewing selection. Respond to ideas, issues, and concerns presented in a reading or viewing selection in creative form. Arrange words in clusters. Use variety of expressions to affirm, to negate, to see further clarification and to summarize points in a dialogue or interview. Note specific details of text listened to. Formulate assumptions and predictions about the content of the narrative text. Prepare a list of available primary and secondary information resources concerning a particular topic. Introduction : Show students a picture of a small guy and a big guy. It may be a small guy carrying a heavy load and a big guy carrying small load. Ask students...
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...For my comparison and contrast essay I am electing to use Mrs. Louise Mallard from Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour"and Mrs. Mathilde Loisel from Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace". In my essay I am not only going to compare and contrast these two ladies but also explain each one of the characters backgrounds, actions, and their motivations as well as each of their settings. The story of an hour , is among other things, a reflection of the idea that marriage is confining and limiting for women. It is Louise's reaction to her husband's death, her new found freedom and renewed excitement about life that illustrates to the reader that her previous existence was one in which she had no freedom, no excitement, no interest in the uncertainties that lie ahead. There is also this sence that was unacceptable for her to feel this way. To have an interest in driving her own future or to have any kind of joy in being alone, or living for oneself. Mrs. Louise Mallard lives in an era were women obeyed their husbands and took care of the house. Kate Chopin is a feminist writer. In Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace", Mathilde Loisel is attractive and pretty,but unhappy, very unhappy. She believes that life has played her falsely. She feels relegated to a lower station than she deserves. She wanted to be appreciated and loved by some rich gentleman from a good family, but instead, having no dowry, she had to settle for a junior clerk in the Ministry of Public Instruction. Mathilde is so humiliated...
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...Leanne Westphal Humanities 70 Contemporary Television 2 April 2016 Offended Much? Sick, twisted and politically incorrect seems to be the special brew for the hit animated series Family Guy. In this essay the author writes about the balance between humorous and offensive and the fine line the writers walk to create humor. I like to think this animated show has found that balance for its viewers. Family Guy has been under fire by many groups of people over the years for its taste and indecency. Groups from the Parents Television Council to the Venezuelan Government have filed complaints with the FCC regarding the content of episodes and also have banned the series completely from airing in their country. This series has many groups of people up in arms for the way it has carried its motto of “The show is an equal-opportunity offender” (Sarah Palin vs. Family Guy: Seth MacFarlane Responds (sort Of).Web. 02 Apr. 2016.). I have watched this show numerous times but I would not call myself a dedicated viewer. I find the show to be humorous and tune in to get a laugh when needed. It’s an animated series that I would never take serious nor would it ever offend me. It’s a TV show plain and simple. There are far more issues in this world to take on that would be far more productive for these groups other than trying to bring down a show that parents can change the channel to. The ability of the writers to bring humor into life situations I feel is amazing. When did we stop...
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...Knopf Essay 1 My Best Friend Ian While most people think how they met their best friend is an amazing story, I believe mine trumps them all. I met Ian when I was about thirteen and he was fifteen, on the first day of school. Wanting to fit in, I was dressed in a way I thought was “cool”. I had a plaid button-up shirt, jeans, high tops, a very poor excuse of a Snapback, and some ten dollar white Oakley’s. By lunch I had made a few friends in all my classes; it was proving to be a pretty great day already. After getting my meal, there was a huge commotion coming from the back of the lunch room. It turns out it was someone’s birthday; gifts were being given and everyone was singing “Happy Birthday”. There were some usual party things being passed around, such as: party hats, cake, confetti poppers, etc., and some unusual things such as, little stick-on handle bar mustaches. By now everyone is having a jolly good time and I’m being only semi-awkward. Then this kid starts making everyone laugh, his personality was one in which you can’t help but like the guy. This was Ian, I remember him being a pretty tall guy, he had glasses, and the start of facial hair. He started gathering all of the left over party hats and attached them to his head. It started off with one on his forehead, another on the back of his head, and one on each of his ears. This continued until his whole head was covered in party hats! I remember thinking to myself, “Man this guy is crazy!” This was my introduction...
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...person who doesn’t work and we based it on the clothes they are wearing to explain why we think that way. In the essay “My Essay Hector” by Michael T. Kaufman, the author misjudged his Hector when he thought he was a longshoreman because he would wear a knitted watch cap. He also misjudged Hector when he saw that he was not in the Special placement and Intellectual Gifted Children class but Michael was; therefore he believed Hector was not going to be successful in his career since he wasn’t part of that class. I agree with the author, misjudgment is not acceptable in any way even though we might have the foundation of why we believed in that way. This essay is about my Achilles heel, except I was able to solve mine. When I entered Third grade, I was a simple and respectful kid for the most part. Everyone liked me but I was no one’s best friend. I was reliable, but when something new and exciting came along, I felt like I have went investable to everyone else. There was this boy in my classes from third through fifth grade. He was a wonderful person with an amazing personality to go with it. He was the pride and joy of all the teachers. He was the coolest guy with the closest friends. He had the nicest clothes, the nest tech, and was good at sports. Mr. Extravagant could be caught being nice to everyone and always going to church on Sunday. He appeared to be, what my teacher use to say, “Sweet inside and out”. I hated him instantly. I envied his amazing aura he carried around...
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...Thi si my essay yeah I have to write 250 words in order to get on this website so this is it it is pretty boring to do this I wish I didn’t have to because . my essay is going to be about hoe people in America are letting the government take control of them. Not only do we give the government about 30% of our paychecks but we have to listen to all there stupid rules too I mean we are the ones that are financing this company and all their salaries so we should be able to do what we want. And most of the time these govermnet officials are all crooked. They have all these millions of dollars and barley have to pay taxes because they find llopholes to get out of payin all their taxes. It is complete bullshit and I believe that as Americans we need to do something about this, but its hard because we all cant stand together and get along. Well that concludes my essay so basically the government sucks balls! Actually im not done I still have about 70 words to do but I don’t really know what to talk about. I think for president we need trump because he is actually the only one trying to lok out for us Americans. Everyone else wants to help foreign countries with all this shit bu I mean we got to help ourselves first right??? Well this is the conclusion of my essay and I hope you guys enjoyed...
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...Margaret Lazarus’ essay “All’s Not Well in the Land of the Lion King” details her opinion of the classic Disney movie. She states how she believes the movie is racist, sexist, and anti-gay. While it’s not difficult to see where she’s coming from, most of her points are far-fetched at best. The first major point Lazarus tries to make in the essay is that The Lion King is racist. She came about his idea with the hyenas living in the not so privileged area and the accent they have. She states that one of the characters has a Whoopi Goldberg accent. The essay that was wrote made it sound like it was a little extreme. After watching the movie with a better understanding. Many of the ideas that were discussed made sense. She gives many example to back up her ideas and some, but not all, made sense. While thinking about it, it is hard to believe that a Disney movie would have such a meaning. While watching the movie, it was easy to see where her ideas come from. When Scar and Mufasa were together...
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...Essay Reflective Journal “Non- verbal communication.” Few months ago, Me and my aunty went to the Hungarian restaurant for lunch. So we obvious to seat a table close to window. Eventually, the waitress comes greet us and gives the menu card. We select our food dishes and drinks and as usual waiting for the food to arrive. While we were waiting for our food, a group of about 4 people came to the restaurant, they sat at the table just next to us, they were not Hungarian seems Chinese foreign students and speaking in English. As like for others the waitress came and gave them the menu card and took their order. After about a 15 to 20 minutes the waitress came along with their food. One the them wasn’t seems to be happy and satisfied with his food so he called the waitress and tried to explain about the food that he doesn’t like the food and that something is wrong with it. The problem was that the waitress was Hungarian and she couldn’t speak and understand English and at the other side the guy also could not speak Hungarian (local language) so the both side were facing communication problem. By the facial expression and hand gestures, the guy was trying about the food to the waitress. Observing the indicates the waitress understood but could not reply or do anything because she can’t speak English. Suddenly she goes and brings the manager. The manager was trying to solve the problem but the bigger problem was that he couldn’t speak English too. The guy did the same for the...
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...personal experience, has noticed the way people lock their car doors and cross to the opposite side of the street. He knows he can alter just by walking through. 3. Staples walk the streets at night because he has insomnia. 4. The "making of a young thug" are those where a young man is seduced by the violence, "by the perception of themselves as tough guys." Staples also states that men are supposed to be fighters, to be hostile and have the "fighter's edge" in everything they do. 5. Staples attempts to make himself less threatening by moving with care, giving people more space, and whistling relaxing tunes while he walks places. He pays attention to how closely he is to people, makes it apparent that he is not following them, and is generally very cautious. Purpose and Audience 1. The thesis is it was in the echo of that terrified woman's footfalls that I first began to know the unwieldy inheritance I'd come into- the ability to alter public space in ugly ways. 2. He uses personal examples throughout the essay, and throws in a few direct quotes from essays he's read that relate. His personal examples make it a strong essay because it is from his viewpoint, and he uses so many stories to back up his point that it is difficult to argue against him at all. 3. He assumes that women are always "victim" and that they all would move across the street and show fear. He also assumes everyone is scared of him. 4. He is trying to induce the fear that people feel...
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...adult. Ms. Dillard’s essay uncovers the differences between how adults and children view the world and seek happiness. However, there are a couple points to this essay. It seems as though, one of the author’s main points was to convey the message that some of the simplest moments in her life were also the happiest and most memorable. For example, she says, “I got in trouble throwing snowballs, and have seldom been happier since”. Also, I noticed that the author seemed to be motivated to inspire readers to chase life’s experiences passionately until one is satisfied. In the essay the author uses two rhetorical modes: narration and description. Ms. Dillard uses narration to describe her perspective of what it was like to be a child in America. In addition to using narration she also describes the intricate details of that particular winter day “Six inches of new snow had just fallen. We were standing up to our boot tops in snow on a front yard trafficked Reynolds Street slowly and evenly; they were targets all but wrapped in red ribbons, cream puffs.” (91). In relation to the unit theme: The shaping of Identity this writing piece uses an autobiographical narrative and flashback writing techniques to portray the American Childhood. Ms. Dillard’s perspective of an American childhood was quite accurate and helped me to remember my own childhood. I really enjoyed that her essay didn’t portray her as overly girl but someone that could hang out with the guys, be a tomboy and be accepted...
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