Welcome back my friends to the blog that never ends. I’m so glad you could attend. Read along! Read along! There in this class is some prose that’s pretty crass. Be careful as you pass. Read along! Read along! Wow! How disappointed Emerson, Lake and Palmer must be in this sophomoric attempt at humor. Certainly, a painful finale to wonderful class. Admittedly, I have struggled to produce original and interesting content for these blogs. It wasn’t always so. In the autumn of 73, I experienced no such struggle. Ideas burst forth freely and often to form exquisite prose delighting my English professors. Indeed, the fact that I now struggle was a compelling argument to register for this class.
At first, I thought I’m just too old and senile to be clever. Maybe, it’s a
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However, at the ripe age of 86 years old, the ancient one, the poet laureate himself and the author of my freshman text, Donald Hall, claims he can no longer write poetry. “Not enough testosterone, he says.” Yet, he has just published a collection of prose titled Essays After 80. Therefore, I’m discarding age as a contributing factor. Nevertheless, I felt compelled to mention my difficulties to my doctor during a recent exam. I asked him if it was the medication, prescribed for chronic pain following two back surgeries, causing my difficulties. Two of these are opioids and two others, Neurontin and Ambien, alter brain chemistry in other ways, including short term memory loss. He confirmed they could be interfering with my mental faculties. Although, he admitted the possibility they were detracting from my writing skills and journalistic acumen; I’m not sure I’m buying that explanation, either. I’m reminded of Samuel T. Coleridge who produced two poems of considerable renown while addicted to opium. Who has not had to recite parts of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner or does not remember the lines, “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan\A stately
The Crucible was created to described what really happened in these witch trials, and the effects it had on the Colony itself. There was more than 50 men and women accused of witchcraft but less than 20 were hung. The town embraced their trials as a template for their envy of hate.
In Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld, Holden would like Lee because she is a predictable person. For instance, she is predicted to do anything anybody asks her to even though if she does not like it or promised that she would never do it again because she puts peoples’ needs before her own. For instance, “And this was it, the last time: I was retiring from cutting hair” (158). This shows that Lee is retiring from hair cutting because she felt disgusted by Aspeth and Cross’ behavior. They were flirting in front of her when Lee was cutting Aspeth’s nasty blond hair. “My hair desperately needs cutting” (164). This shows that Lee is predictable because after she vowed that she would not cut anybody’s hair anymore, she cut Ms. Moray’s hair a few days after
On Wednesday August 31st 2016 in North Muskegon Michigan, Brittany Miller and six year old son Granderson went shopping at a local grocery store. As they made their way up and down each individual isle Granderson suddenly began making high pitched screeching sounds. Just as some other autistic individuals, Granderson is more sensitive to sound. Therefore as a coping mechanism, Granderson often will imitate the sound of a fire alarm to help him deal with the overwhelming sounds and noise. Miller explains shortly after her son began to display this behavior it was only a few brief moments afterward, that she turned around to find a note that was placed upon her bag that read: “You need to buy that kid a muzzle!!”. His mother expresses that she
Genarlow Wilson from Ohio was release after doing 4 years of his state law mandated a minimum 10-year sentence for the crime he committed when he was 17. While Mr. Wilson was 17, he had consensual oral sex with a 15 year old girl and because of this act was later convicted of felony aggravated child molestation. Georgia Supreme Court would later rule that his 10-year mandatary sentence was "cruel and unusual punishment." Since he has been release from prison he has moved into college at Morehouse College while getting aid by the Tom Joyner Foundation, an educational nonprofit founded by the nationally syndicated radio personality. This foundation will be covering all cost associated with going to college.
Men, women, children, aged and crippled, were victims. A 103-year-old woman was whipped, as was a completely paralyzed man. In Georgia, Abraham Colby, an organizer and leader in the black community, was whipped for hours in front of his wife and children. His little daughter begged the Klansman, "Don't take my daddy away." She never recovered from the sight and died soon after. In Mississippi, Jack Dupree's throat was cut and he was disemboweled in front of his wife, who had just given birth to twins.
The United States government policy was not to meddle in foreign affairs. But, the danger was enough for a top-secret mission. United States intelligence received reliable information about a plan to kill west African leaders on a yacht in the Atlantic-ocean. Intelligence officials agreed to act because the situation was a risk to the political stability in Africa. The command was given to stop the assassin and orders were immediately sent to the department that handled international problems.
C.F.W Walther in his first evening lecture concerning the proper distinction of the law and the gospel said, “As Abraham sent Hagar into the desert with a loaf of bread and a jug of water, so the Law hands us a piece of bread and then thrusts us into the desert.” As Paul outlined in verse 30, the blind following of the law does not cause us to inherit the freedom and grace of God, but rather it cause us to be thrown out from the promise of eternal inheritance. In modern America, we do not encounter Judaizers zealously attempting to convince us that the gospel of Christ requires us to continue in the practices of the Old Covenant, but their idealistic spirit remains. Do we ever sit back down in our pews after communion and think to ourselves,
The 1920s started off well with two good contracts: Odebolt and Hawarden asphalt city paving; however, the uncertainty and risk in unit-priced contracting soon developed. The rigidity of the monetary system caused a minor depression by the scarcity of money and its corollary, credit. The Odebolt advancements were renegotiated perforce to 7%, which was an outrageous interest at a time when municipal bonds grew 3%. The Hawarden job could not be financed through regular channels, so a new source was developed through Fred Hubbell, President of the Equitable Life Insurance Co. This proved that money was a commodity that can always be had – at a price.
In July 30, 2003 " a team of Spanish and French scientists reversed time, they brought an animal back from extinction."(NGM. National Geographic.) It was a wild goat known as a Bucardo. Consequently, the baby Bucardo died ten minutes after birth because of the growth of one of his lungs. This brings us back to what a moral Philosopher named Peter Singer believed in. He believed that "all animals are created equal, suggesting that animal testing should be completely eliminated."(People Opposing Views.) On the contrary, Henry Wu or better known as Dr. Wu had the ability to clone and thrive. Thereupon, the death of the baby Bucardo should have sent an exceptional message to many scientist saying that there cloning experiments are not always going
The sidelining of Harold and the appointment of Carol can be considered an ethical issue because there was no definitive proof as to who would be better at the job since neither had been principal before. There were no facts or data to prove it. It was a subjective decision. The decision was between Carol’s qualification and Harold’s experience. There are several solid arguments out there for and against qualification or experience. Cole, 2014 mentions both sides of the argument. On the side of qualifications, it can be argued that a degree is not just about getting a job/career. The benefits affect all parts of life; intellectual, social, sporting, personal, artistic, ethical, and so much more (Cole 2014). So the belief that obtaining a
One conclusion to be reached is that the way an individual develops does not only depend on heredity or environment. Instead, it is a like a combination of each as they both resemble the pattern of development. Even sometimes it is misunderstood that genes have the major responsibility for development, genes are not the only ones playing the role. As per psychologist Davide Moore’s perspective, it is ambiguous to talk about genes for eye color, intelligence, personality or other characteristics as based on his perspective, individual’s development arises from a combination of different factors and not just genes. For a person to become a criminal, it would have to happen upon the environments the individual grew up in. Therefore, genes do not
I will discuss now whether No Advantages causes the readers to identify the homodiegetic narrator to the author, offering an autobiographical pact to the reader. Beforehand, I want to point out that returning to the author must not necessarily means to equate author and narrator simply (see Kumray 32f). In contrast to this, I more interested in revealing the rhetorical strategy that leads the readers to assume that the author speaks to them, and not a narrator ontological independent from him/her. Obviously, the easiest way to provoke this equation is that the author and the narrator share the same name (see Kumrey 43). However, information about the author that the readers have and can relater to the narrator lead likewise to identitify
When it comes to dream people are capable to do anything in their hands. It does not matter if what they need to do is not what they do best or their talent. A lot of people’s dream is to become famous, but chose something that they are not good at. In other words, these people try to fake a talents that they do not have it and this is why they never make it.This is what happened in Jason Anderson case. Jason wants to get famous and in his minds the only way to become famous is singing. It does not matter what the judges said Jason stills believing that singing is what should be doing. A reason that might explain Jason’s reaction can be that his family and people close to him always have told him that he is a singer and support him on that.
Dallas man was believed to kill and hold his three co-workers captive inside a closed northeast Pennsylvania grocery store overnight Thursday involuntarily guided police as he left traces behind him when he posted a video on his Twitter account, praising the shooters of Columbine High School of 1999.
This class enabled me to encounter a wide cluster of composing styles and systems which really improved my own work. This class gave me the opportunity to analyze passages by creators of an assortment of instructive levels. From the excerpts that we did for our triple journal entries, to the Handmaid’s Tale, to the scholarly articles the we had for our final portfolio, this