...case with the poems "Dream Deferred" and "When I Was One and Twenty". They speak the same kind of concept in terms of life goals. In "When I Was One and Twenty", the old wise man says not to give your heart away so young because you will regret it. Whether he is talking about having your heart broken by someone at a young age or giving up on your dreams to settle down isn't known. If a person gives up on their dreams or puts them on the back burner to pursue a relationship, it is the same as a raisin in the sun. Although a raisin is a dried up grape that is still full of nutrition, it becomes hard and useless after a while. Such would be the case with life goals, if you put them on hold to pursue a relationship, they become useless over time and forgotten. If a young person enters a relationship while in college lets say, their focus is no longer on school really. Most want to spend as much time as possible with the other. As the writer looks back upon himself in "When I Was One and Twenty", he basically says that he should've listened to the old man's advice. He is only twenty two at that point and already regrets the decision he made to give his heart away. There are plenty of people that will tell you that they had given up on their dreams to continue a relationship. Whether it be letting a dream job be passed up or an opportunity to do something they have always wanted to. Some people might have the perfect relationship as one of their dreams. Giving your heart away...
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...The two poems, “ To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age” and “ When I Was One-and-Twenty” both explore the blissfulness of turning twenty one as well as the dangers that come with making your own mistakes. The two poems compare in that they both head warning signs about being an adult and about how being twenty one allows a person to be foolish. The two poems contrast in the sense that they both have different points of view and differ in tone towards coming of age and of being twenty one. The two poems both effectively use tone and point of view to convey the dangers of being an optimistic young adult. Housman’s “When I Was One and Twenty” takes a personal reflection of being twenty one and the dangers of being your own man. In the first stanza Housman writes about “[hearing] a wise man say” (line 2) warnings of caution on throwing “...Crowns and pounds…” (line 3) away. Housman ends the stanza with a nostalgic...
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...to 18 For years upon years there has been a huge debate on whether or not the minimum legal drinking age should be twenty one or eighteen. In the year of 1980 a law was passed that changed the minimum legal drinking age from eighteen to twenty one in order to decrease the amount of car crashes and fatalities and to keep alcohol out of the hands of an "irresponsible" age group (Ruth Streeter). Since the raising of the drinking age, more harm has been done than good and the drinking age should be lowered back down to eighteen, given some restrictions and changes. While each state was given the option of whether or not to support this act, the government threatened to cut highway funds if the states kept their drinking age to eighteen. It is strange that an eighteen to twenty year old can vote for our Nation's leader, risk their life fighting for our freedom, and be viewed as an adult, yet still cannot sit down and have a few drinks. At the age of eighteen one is considered an adult. This title of "adult" basically gives people the opportunity to make life changing decisions like voting, buying tobacco products, getting married, signing contracts, serving on juries, having abortions, and being drafted into or joining the military. Scientists claim that the pre-frontal cortex of the brain in which controls judgment is not fully developed until the mid twenties, which then leads to people against lowering the drinking age to claim that opportunities new "adults" take on are not...
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... When a person turns eighteen years old in our society we consider them an adult and they are no longer recognized as a juvenile. They are responsible for themselves in the eyes of the law and subject to the same laws as all other adults. They can vote legally or sign contracts and even join the military as a matter of fact they can do anything any other adult can do except for drinking alcohol. Because of the high death rate associated with alcohol among people in the age range of sixteen to twenty year olds, lawmakers began discussing adjusting the minimum age. The idea was not welcomed by everybody however, "It just doesn't sit right with me that people [at the age of 18] have the right to do everything else, including serve their country, but don't have the right to consume alcohol," state Rep. Richard Marron said. "It's a form of age discrimination."( Chiappetta, A. 2005.) Is it fair that they can be an adult, fighting for our country but not be able to drink like one? In this paper I give my personal experience and view both sides of the issues in the subject of soldiers drinking alcohol under the age of twenty one. Either way that you look at it, the current laws prevent under age drinking of alcohol in the military as a standard rule. In the early eighties though it was not the same as it is now and the laws were different. Before the national campaign against drunk driving was put into place the legal age for consumption of alcohol was different...
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...1971 voting age was changed from twenty-one to eighteen. Many states rationalized that “If young Americans could be entrusted to vote, serve on a jury, and fight in Vietnam, why couldn't they order a beer? “ For this reason during the late 1970s, the majority of the states in the United States (U.S.) also changed legal drinking age to eighteen. Subsequently, an increase in traffic fatalities in the states with the lowered drinking age forced state legislatures to reevaluate the drinking age. With a few exceptions on a state-by-state basis the minimum drinking age is now set to twenty-one in the U.S. In the U.S. at the point when an individual turns eighteen they are perceived as lawful adults with the rights to vote, serve on juries, get married, sign contracts, be indicted as adults, and join the military which incorporates taking a chance with one's life. There are less intoxicated driving car crashes and fatalities in numerous nations with the base legitimate drinking age of eighteen. In spite of the fact that the U.S. expanded the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) to twenty-one in 1984, its rate of auto accidents and fatalities in the 1980s diminished not as much as that of European nations whose MLDA are lower than twenty-one. The diminishing in inebriated driving fatalities as a rate of aggregate activity fatalities in the U.S. does not relate to the MLDA. Since 1982, two years before the Uniform Drinking Age Act setting up a MLDA of twenty-one, a decrease of t...
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...BOOK REPORT: - ONE DAY Do you believe in a story, which is spanning for twenty years? In the novel One Day, David Nicholls gives reader a sad/funny love story that is extended for twenty years. David Nicholls is a British author, screenwriter and actor. He has spent his 20s as a professional actor, where he played many roles at various theatres. Throughout his 30s he was seen as a screenwriter. During this period he was also garnered a nomination of Best New Writer (fiction) for a British Academy Television Craft Awards. In 2002 he wrote his first novel, Starter for ten, which was his one of the notable work. In 2005 he published his second novel the understudy and at last in 2009 he published his second notable work one day. This book was published in Great Britain for the first time. It was the biggest- selling British novel of 2010 and has been published in 31 different languages. David Nicholls has been achieving phenomenal success with this book. This bittersweet love story has been made into a film where, Lone Scherfig directed it and Nicholls wrote the screenplay. The movie was released after two years of book publishing i.e. in August 2011. One day is the ultimate feel-good book about love and friendship, fear and love. The structure of this book is very original. Since the whole story is focused on two protagonist, Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew. They are very different Edinburgh university students. The story begins on July 15, 1988 when Emma and Dexter meet each...
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...months ago, I was working in my store which is cellular phone store where we take payments and sell cellular phones. A customer walked in on a Sunday and was inebriated, he wanted to pay his bill. The customer bill was close to a hundred dollar. He gave me all twenty dollar bills, when I counted them they were six twenty dollar bills. Which were twenty more than his bill. I had a choice to return the twenty or keep it. If I would have kept it he wouldn’t have known. But I decided to give the money back to the customer, because my conscious wouldn’t allow me to keep the money. After the customer was gone I thought about it and I came to the conclusion that the twenty dollar I didn’t keep would not make me any richer or poorer than what I already was. Statement: Would the twenty dollar will make me richer or poorer. Solution: In this problem there are only two possible solution. A. Give the money back. B. Or you keep the money. On the first part when you give it back, you are dealing with a multitude of issues, starting with you ethical behavior, your upbringing, and your conscious. What I mean by this is when, I got the money I could have kept it but it would have been morally wrong of me to keep the money that didn’t belong to me. As a person I have always tried to do the right thing. And if I keep the money I would have been doing the wrong against all the principles that I have been fighting for all my life. That will kick my conscious in to action and I would not...
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...History 2009–11: Formation and Twenty One Pilots The band was formed in 2009 in Columbus, Ohio by college friends, Tyler Joseph, Nick Thomas and Chris Salih.[7][9] Tyler came up with the band's name while studying All My Sons by Arthur Miller, a play about a man who must decide what is best for his family after causing the death of 21 pilots during World War II because he knowingly sent them faulty parts for the good of his business. Tyler explains that this story of moral dilemma was the inspiration for the name of the band.[10] On December 29, 2009, they released their debut, self-titled album, Twenty One Pilots, and began touring Ohio. In 2010, the band released two officially unreleased tracks to their SoundCloud account.[11][better source needed] One, an original song titled, "Time to Say Goodbye" and a cover of "Jar of Hearts" by Christina Perri. They were originally available for free...
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...Philosophy 03/11/12 Drinking I have made many big decisions in my life, but one of my biggest ones is the choice not to drink. Many people take the chance and get their scholarships ripped up or even they could possibly get caught behind the wheel of a car and get charged for the zero tolerance law for people drinking under the age of twenty-one and possibly serve time in jail. Underage drinking is not worth the risk of getting caught. Overall, I am not going to start drinking before the age of twenty-one because there are way to many risks involved that can jeopardize my future and I honestly don’t think that it is worth it. The ethical egoism of my choice is so that I would not be charged with underage drinking charges because that will stick with me for the rest of my life. It would be hard to convince my children not to drink until they are twenty-one because I would not be able to set an example if I did not follow what I was saying. Another reason I do not drink is because of the lifetime risk. Around five thousand people under the age of twenty-one die due to motor vehicle accidents, suicide, and also falls, burns, and drowning all because they had too much to drink and could not control or think through what they were doing completely. Another dangerous effect of me drinking at my age is that my brain is not yet fully developed, so it could affect my brain from developing fully. Other affects that drinking has on a person at a young age is liver problems and may...
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...century and tells the life story of a young woman, in this case Elizabeth Bennet. Society was very gender-specified at the time, much different than modern society. In the 19th century women were faced with perils revolving around image in society, that could drag them down for the the rest of their lives and certain female expectations were amplified due to gender. Pride and Prejudice is an ordinary novel at first, but has complex layers showing the female struggle, one being woman’s image in society. In the 19th century, women were harshly judges on behavior, manners and the financial aspect of their marriage. If a woman was in her mid-twenties and unmarried, she could, and most likely would, be considered an old maid, even at the prime age of twenty-five. This could lead to harsh gossip seeping through society , and a great amount of mockery by other married women, even family like Lydia, because in that day and age, women were gossiped about more than men, “Jane will be quite an old maid soon, I declare. She is almost...
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...If there is one thing that all Americans desire it is entertainment. Americans spent more than eight hours a day watching television (1). That’s two-hundred and forty days watching television a year (Taking into account time spent sleeping, eating, and other necessities). People spend about the same amount of time working in one month as they do watching television. Then there’s the time being spent on the internet. Although not as much as television the internet is quickly becoming just as time-consuming as television. On average Americans spent sixty-six hours on the internet a month (2), that’s thirty-three days spent on the internet. These statistics have risen consistently over the past five years on average of one-hundred million users a year (3). Time isn’t the only thing that Americans give up in order to fulfill their need for entertainment. The amount of money spent also contributes to the substantial amount of missing from many American’s pockets. In two-thousand and nine Americans spent almost ten billion dollars on movie tickets alone. That doesn’t even include dollars spent on D.V.D’s, which reached just under seventeen billion dollars, (This includes both D.V.D purchases and D.V.D Rentals) (4). Americans have an insatiable desire for entertainment that will grow until something dramatic changes the routine that we have become accustomed to over the past one-hundred years. Everything mentioned so far has been to given to show Americans need for entertainment....
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...rebellious period called the roaring twenties, the time period right before the great depression, and to make it worst in the city that never sleeps. The roaring twenties period is the backbone of this story, characters in the novel directly correlate with the illegal, rebellious, and careless behaviors that are seen in the twenties. The prohibition caused lots of problems in this time period when it came to crime and binge drinking. First It is important to understand the social, political and economic effects of prohibition. In 1917 the Eighteenth Amendment was passed and stated that you couldn’t make, sell or transport any alcohol. The prohibitionist movement had a wide variety of supporters, including: Women, Church’s, employers and politicians. In the 1928 Presidential campaign Herbert Hoover won by calling prohibition “a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and farreaching in purpose; " this is interesting because it shows to the public that he is in favor of prohibition, but by calling it an experiment it shows that he may have some concerns about it .It definitely was an experiment that in the end was not very successful. The anti-prohibitionist of the time disagreed because they thought that the government had too much power because the enforcement of the law caused controversy with things like warrantless searches, wiretapping and multiple gun battles. The biggest problem that was starting to form was that prohibition was causing a breakdown of respect...
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...ethnic groups Caucasians, Latinos, African America, Asian, and Native Americans. All of the ethnic groups are different when it comes to things such as education, poverty, religion and politics. However, at the same time a lot of the groups populate the same states, but stay away from almost the same states. To begin with I will start with the different education rates from groups. African American ethnic groups have a relatively high education rate from what they were in the 1900’s with three point nine million (3.9 million) going to college. I broke down Asian American to three...
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...Visual poetry is literary verse written on the page with intentional form to add meaning to the poem. The form may take on a recognizable shape, or may use a free formed pattern to create a new rhythm when reading the poem out loud. These shapes and rhythms are typically tied to the central ideas and themes contained within the poems, and often serve to reinforce those concepts. Visual poetry is poetry or art in which the visual arrangement of text, images and symbols is important in conveying the intended effect of the work. Confusingly, it is sometimes referred to as concrete poetry, a term that predates visual poetry. When I Was a Baby When I was a baby I cried spreading my voice through the house, beckoning for a response. When I cried My blue pajamas wiggled, squirmed and turned against the rails of the crib prison When I was a baby, my small hands grasped the air as I inhaled, gathering one more breath to cry out for a meal and a cuddle When my tones reached through the air to my parents they would finally wake When I cried, they'd come to me I'd stop crying, look innocently upward and smile as I was lifted into caring arms When I was a baby Visual poetry uses the page as a canvas to visually represent the themes, subjects, or sentiments of words in a variety of shapes and forms. The beauty of the visual format lies in the poet’s ability to mark, prescribe, or record process; the replication of shape; or the simulation...
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...In Jonathan Lethem’s personal narrative essay, “13, 1977, 21”, Lethem reflects on when he was 13 years old, in the year 1977, where he watched the film Star Wars 21 times. But the essay is not actually about the Star Wars film. It is about the way Lethem used going to the movies to remove himself, or “hide” from the realities of his life, such as his mother’s illness and awkward pre-teenage years. The first few sentences of Lethem’s essay is where he blatantly tells the readers that he’s watched Star Wars twenty-one times in four months. He then uses the next three paragraphs to reflect on the circumstances surrounding his trips to the movie theater in the summer of 1977 and trying to understand what triggered him to go all twenty-one times. He describes the theater he watched the film in, down to the street in Manhattan it was on, and the interior of the theatre, that he explains was “a superior place to watch anything”. He also mentions that getting into the theater itself was “an accomplishment, both elevating and slightly dangerous”. He describes the popularity of the film at the time, where he says “any kid with a television had brought a single ticket for the same film in a single summer”, but emphasizes that he was a part of the small percent that turned watching the film into a full blown obsession. In the second paragraph, Lethem questions why he even went all twenty-one times. He writes: “But what actually occurred within the secret brackets of that experience...
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