Looking at my word cloud, I see that I stayed on topic by focusing on the word pride. In the cloud, I can see that the words that are much bigger came from my definitions. The surrounding words were examples and description of pride. I do not see anything about my word cloud that shows something about my research. This essay tied in personal examples and a history fact. To add to this, the size of the word cloud surprises me. I expected for me to use repetition of a word throughout the paper. Something like that adds variety to the essay and shows growth in vocabulary.
After analyzing many of my written works, I highlighted my writing weaknesses along with notable strengths. Evident in my earlier works, my vocabulary was more basic and was not as powerful unlike my more recent essays. Seeking to improve, I started utilizing words I learned during the year
In the light of the Civil War, the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which consists of black soldiers who are Northern freemen while others are escaped slaves with Col. Shaw as their leader. The 54th Regiment led a brutal attack against a Confederate fort in Charleston, S.C. They continued to march as part of their disciplined skills and despite the bloody and gruesome fight. The soldiers strong dedication remained evident till the end. The 54th suffered a bloodbath. Due to their courage and discipline, on July 18, 1863, the North recruited one hundred eighty thousand black soldiers who provided an impact during the war.
Furthermore, I think the strength of my essay was my thesis and supporting ideas of the
The movie Glory was a wonderful depiction of the group of men involved in the 54th Massachusetts colored regiment. The men of the 54th regiment were part of the first black regiment to serve in the U.S. military and were all volunteers. Lead by twenty-three year old Robert Gould Shaw these men were held a high amount of pride, enthusiasm, and bravery as they willingly fought against all of the racial harshness of the U.S. military system. The men of the 54th regiment put up with stereotypes and unacceptable training conditions - while being consistently being challenged to actually stay in the military and not desert. Glory depicts all of the issues that surrounded the 54th regiments black solders and white captions with amazing
n light of the recent news of New Orleans voting to remove prominent confederate monuments, as well as the call for the flags to be removed from any federal locations, many have come to the defense of the flag, claiming that removing it would be "rewriting history" and that it doesn't stand for racism, but rather a heritage of southern pride.
The book Zeitoun basically talks about a Syrian American family’s experience in the time of Hurricane Katrina. It was mainly divided into two story lines, one of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, the main character, a Syrian American contractor; and one of Kathy, his wife, a white woman converted Muslim. Zeitoun had an extraordinary life, also an extraordinary experience in the time of Hurricane Katrina. He was a successful well-known businessman in local area. When everyone else was fleeing their hometown before Katrina came, Zeitoun chose to stay to protect his house and business. Later then when the city was flooded, he travelled around with his small canoe, delivering help and resources. However, he was wrong
“I am an American. I lay no claim to an ancestry which arrived here by the Mayflower or by the slave-ship of 1619. I do regard myself, however, as a representative of blended humanity, carrying in my bloodstream the three great races of man —Caucasian, Negroid, and Mongolian.”
Where’s the Penn State Pride?By Sahib KaurDear Executive Board of Penn State,I once was a prospective student who was considering applying for Penn State, among various other universities. When doing my college research, the first thing that I did was look up the college websites. And as most other students would believe, the website is the main source for discerning the institution’s credibility and status. Unfortunately, I have to say, that Penn State’s website does not do the college justice. With no visual ascetics, no organized structure, and no evidence of pride, the Penn State website is at best, mediocre.When opening up to the page, the reader is fiercely exposed to a vast expanse of a bright blue hue. While I understand that blue
A recurring theme has emerged from the texts and the film, that social stigma towards mental illness is rampant and destructive. There is a large discrepancy in the society of today in that we so readily accept illnesses of the body that can be explained and treated by physical means, however, when it comes to an illness of the mind we are so quick to claim lunacy to explain what we do not understand. This results in the overwhelming consensus that an individual with a mental illness would “rather have something wrong with [their] body than something wrong with [their] head” in order to be accepted by the society in which they live. As the mental illness of the individual is reliant on their reactions to social stimuli, often much of the social stigma that is created is due to an unusual or abnormal response. For example, Christopher Boone, the main character in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, does not
Left, right, left, right... Those two words rung in my head while I marched until the thunderous voice of my drum major was heard. HALT, I was brought back to my senses. The banging of the bass drums, the turf under my tattered marching shoes, sweat rolling down from my shako. I was here, at assessment, the vibrant sound of clapping from the bleachers and the sight of judges ready to mark how we perform. “Pride of Potomac marching band, you may now take the field.” That is our cue, time to deliver our show, The Heist. Finally, after three months of sweat, tears, and blood, literally, I will earn my superior rating. I mean, what could go wrong right? Or at least that is what I thought until I heard the sound that will haunt me for the rest of the day, thud.
On my first day of summer pride, it was very rough and hard. Summer pride is a activity where you run and workout over the summer for the next football season. I was always tired after right after every practice and go home take a shower and then go straight to sleep. Although every practice was tiring it was worth it for are next football season. I liked summer pride, because are coaches were always having us lift weights, but what i did not like where we woke up at six in the middle of the summer. The running was also frustrating because it would be very hot and humid outside. The first freshman football game was against McArthur and was one of the best games of the season. We worked hard for are first game, and we won. The game ended up
Webster Dictionary defines "Glory" as - "magnificent; great in beauty". While this definition does seem to quantify one aspect of the word, it doesn't cultivate a holistic meaning.
I decided to write about the word determination because I have had to use determination many times in my own life. This essay was very dreadful to write, so I compared it to the off-brand cereal Crispy Rice. The title of this essay, “Determination”, is simply the word that I had to describe throughout the paper. It was one of our longest essays we had to write, and it was difficult to fit length requirements since the entire thing had to be centered around one word. I had started off my brainstorming process by using an organizer with examples on it with ideas I could write about. This is how I came up with most of the topics for each body paragraph. I added in examples of well-known people that achieved success
Although I have gotten better at writing, there are still areas for me to work on improving for the future. One item is my word choice. I want to add more complex words to my writing in order to make it more interesting for the reader, and I also want to try not to repeat “basic” words as much. This semester, I have really focused on those two areas by using an online thesaurus to find better replacements, and I will
Pride and Prejudice was first published in 1813 and it depicts key themes in society and the impact these themes had on life for the characters in the novel. One of these themes is social class, which was a chief contributor to the characters problems in the story. Social class is an underlying issue in the lives of the characters and greatly affects the decisions they make during the novel. Every character is aware of the importance of social standing and it becomes a key factor in the development of each individual in Pride and Prejudice. Mrs. Bennet is the mother of five daughters and she is desperate to have them married. Elizabeth wants to marry for love and not social gain. Charlotte is the example of what a woman was expected to