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From the first-time read through, the poem gives a basic understanding of the narrative: a daughter telling the audience about her mother’s struggles

After reading, Breaking Night by Liz Murray, it left me in all, in a swing of emotions but thrilled in the end. To listen to Liz struggle and pain that she endured as a child and being homeless during her teenage years made me look a life in a whole different way and made me appreciate my life so much more. I could never imagine going through the obstacles Liz was thrown with, such as, drug addictive parents with AIDS, the pressure of taking care of everyone but herself, juggling school and more. It made me realize that my life isn’t so bad, that there are people going through worse situations than I am and to appreciate the little things that I do have.

Anna Quindlen delivers at speech at the Mount Holyoke college, here she expresses her opinion on life and the adversities that she went through during her college years. In her speech she uses a casual tone for instance her use of simples sentences like “Being perfect was hard work, and the hell of it was, the rules of it changed” (Quindlen, 296). Throughout her whole speech she was being very casual and you could see that it was meant for young adults as she gave advice like “ Instead I’d like you to give up Give the backpacks”(Quindlen, 299). Furthermore her speech is arranged so it is very much like an anecdote, and in this anecdote she uses devices like pathos and ethos to appeal to her audience in order to bond and give a meaning

Friday was educator 's day, but they had an author luncheon that was open to the public. The authors at the luncheon were Sarah Dessen, Ruta Sepetys, and E. Lockhart. I met up with my friend, Avery, to go to the event. As we were sitting in the lobby, we saw Marie Lu walk in and I started freaking out. I wanted to go and ask for a picture, but I was too shy to go up to her. We went inside and sat at a table close to the front (closest to the reserve author table).

One reason I liked this poem was because of the concept and the way it flowed together, I really enjoyed how she described things thoroughly and caused deep observations to be made. One of my favorite lines is “A man leaves the world and the streets he lived on grow a little shorter.” I hold this line to be special because it really stuck with me and opened my eyes somewhat.

The time has finally arrived to say goodbye to Becoming Ms. Burton. After finishing the book, I felt like I connected more to Ms. Burton than people my own age. A part of me saw pieces of myself through Susan’s experiences, specifically the ones she had during the lower points in her life. I also saw myself in Ms. Burton, especially where she is embracing change and accepting help from others. Even though Ms. Burton and I share no explicit similarities, except our gender, her story was still is able to resonate with me on an emotional level. How did Ms. Burton accomplish this: to successfully tell her story where anyone from any cultural background, gender, and skin color can relate to her?

I won the Hopwood Award for Poetry (rare for first-years) and the MFA’s Vermont Studio Center fellowship. Nevertheless, my scientific background has left me like a surgeon with dexterous hands but no training—with every poem, I stumble blindly to the operating table. Just as I’ve regretted touching down in a country without knowing its language, I need academic training to do my art justice. MFAs take one graduate-level English course, and in that single semester, examination of the canon expanded my notion of what poetry can do, shifting my attention from single-image poems to ambitious works that centrifuged in a common vial my Southern identity and the persecution of gays abroad. If one seminar can transform my aesthetic, three years of rigorous academic inquiry could work

With no means of solving this feeling of insanity, she grabbed her yellow, spiral bound notebook and began doodling. (Call To Adventure)Slowly, but steadily, this doodling became writing, writing about nothingness and yet... in its own way everything. She wrote about her favorite tv show, her classes, her friends till somehow she transitioned to world problems and... somehow that was what was bothering her. The world. The world where girls could not walk home alone. The world where children were sold for profit. The world where women are given less of a worth. Soon, this lengthy essay was minimized to a paragraph. A paragraph with emotion, and heart woven into it. Spencer decided this paragraph meant so much to her and that this short compilation of words strung together, needed to be published so that the world knew she was upset with it. In her own adolescent way, that made sense to her. (Refusal To Meet The Call) Yet, as a seventeen year old she could not quite press publish without worrying about what her peers would think. (Meeting the Mentor) She worried and contemplated till, “bzzz bzzz,” Spencer’s phone vibrated, indicating a call from her

One thing that stood out to me about the meeting is that there were a wide variety of women in the inner circle. Most of them are mothers, some are grandmothers, one woman is blind, two are from other countries, one woman is a lesbian, and one

As I read this novel, I could not stop crying. The way that the characters persisted moved me, the ending was a perfect mix of joy and pity, and the imagery was far beyond amazing. This quote, specifically, speaks to me because I can apply it to any aspect of my life, especially throughout my metaphorical journey in seventh grade. This book of poetry is not a series of poems that I tell my story through, but rather a biography written about the challenges and successes in my life. I have changed and evolved into the scholar and young woman that I am today throughout one school year, which is remarkable and overwhelming all at once.

Strength does not lie in numbers, but rather in accumulated experiences. Some people choose to live in such a way that every fathomable opportunity is seized, while others bow down to grief and avoid the gift of pleasure out of pure fear. In Sara Teasdale’s poem “Lessons”, she lyrically explores the idea that individuals have a great bounty of life experiences to enjoy. Life is too short and this earth is too plentiful to not take advantage of every unusual and thrilling opportunity, including understanding and facing our rawest emotions. Through diction and personification, Teasdale iterates that opposed to shrinking away from moments in time that may make us uncomfortable, individuals should embrace what they feel and what beauty this earth

This event taught us as media professionals to always listen to the whole story., In the beginning of the segment the broadcast stated that this was a theatre production. Not only did this encouraged active listening, this also encouraged us as media professionals to be more detailed with all the stories that we present to the public. When presenting stories, we want the audience to actually care and maybe not have the exact reaction they did but to have a level of

Mrs. Song changed the way I view the world, and encouraged the transition from childhood to adulthood within my culture. She was my tenth grade English tutor, and though her main job was to instruct us through literature, she used movies, hands-on experiences, and personal stories to teach us just how relevant the books’ topics were to everyday life. Mrs. Song introduced me to a new way of viewing society, and taught me I can make a change in the world, even with limited resources. Because of her mentoring, I am changed, and I will continue to change. I have not only come to adore multiple varieties of literature, but I also have come to understand the value of communication, perseverance, and redemption.

Haupt describes Brooke Ellison’s story to provide emotion and appeal to her audience. Brooke Ellison was “struck

Have you ever read poetry that can inspire you in your everyday life? Poetry that discusses the deep truth about our world and the people who wander it? Well, there is some poetry that can give you a better understanding about life,ourselves, and how to handle situations that come across our path. Inspiring you and motivating you to do your best. These types of poetries can really give the reader a deep knowledge about how to challenge the unknowns. Guiding you on how to work on your up and down moments. Poet Erin Hanson writes poetry that explains the cruel reality of life and also poetry that attracts all walks of people and their everyday challenges with life itself. This essay will present Erin Hanson's excellent poetry motivating many