As Time Goes By

Time goes by so fast. It’s been almost a year since I moved in the US. What happened the first week since I landed here it’s something I will always remember. Last December I came in Peabody because my sister lives here so I could spend a couple of days with her before moving to Fort Lauderdale, Florida where I was registered for the winter semester. I didn’t know much about where I was going to live so my brother in law offered to come with me and help me to know the place better. We left Boston

Fear sometimes goes away over time, like when you were little you were afraid of monsters under your bed. Sometimes they stay with you for a lifetime. One thing is certain; fear is almost inevitable. One of my biggest fears is drowning. When I go swimming I have to be able to touch something or else I get panic attacks. This fear started when I was about seven. My friend and I decided to take the swimming test so we could jump off the diving board. We wanted to be just like our friends who had

“Neither One of Us” was composed by Jim Weatherly and performed by Gladys Knight & the Pips. The style of this music is Motown music. The melody goes by piano and harmony goes by guitar, bass, and backup singer (harmony group). The tempo of this song is little fast and the meter was measure by 4/4 times. The dynamics of this song is little loud. In this song guitar, piano, bass, drum, and violin. There are seven different I can hear in this song. The song give a dance move and it’s a one of nice

2024. o Encyclopedia Britannica, Panama Canal, is useful to my research about the positive impact made by the Panama Canal to the United States Economy. The online source goes over the shortened distance and time to reach the Pacific Ocean coming from the Atlantic Ocean by the creation of the Panama Canal. The source also goes into detail about its geographical location and values, which helps understand

“So it goes”: Three simple words that have a comforting connotation of the reality of death. The phrase “So it goes” is used 106 times in Slaughterhouse Five. Every time death is mentioned, the incident is followed by this phrase. The phrase “So it goes” is a reminder that death happens to everyone at some point. The phrase refers to death in an equalizing way. No matter whether it is a massacre of many people or the death of a single person, the phrase “So it goes” applies. It could be death by

the phrase “so it goes.” In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut the phrase “so it goes” is used 106 times. This three worded phrase does not seem like it has more meaning than the four worded phrase, “a piece a cake,” but it actually plays an important part in the novel. The phrase “so it goes” is specifically used after a person has died in the book, which occurs frequently. Vonnegut uses this phrase to demonstrate that whatever happens in life happens and so it goes. Kurt Vonnegut starts

sense in Vonnegut’s cosmology. The hobo-soldier on the prisoners’ boxcar dies uncomplainingly. “So it goes.” Robert Weary threatens revenge on Billy Pilgrim for his predicament. When captured with Billy, Weary was forced to wear wooden shoes. He dies of gangrene in his mangled feet. So it goes. At age forty-four on the night after Billy’s daughter’s wedding, the champagne has gone dead. “So it goes: Billy Pilgrim padded downstairs on his blue and ivory feet. He went into the kitchen, where the moonlight

“So it goes,” is a phrase that boggled my mind, ever since it was first mentioned in the book. A phrase that can have many different meanings, but yet it is only three words. The phrase “So it goes,” was used after every death, making them all equal. What even shocked me, is that Billy was calm when talking about death. Implying that there was nothing he could do to stop it, and it would happen to the best of us. In my opinion, the phrase “So it goes,” represents the idea that the Tralfamadorians

Lincoln, he is the general manager of the bank. He goes to work every day at eight thirty in the morning, he gets to the office at nine o´clock, he parks his car under the bank in the parking garage. In the morning he usually works from nine o´clock to half past twelve. He spends a lot of time talking on the telephone and reading financial reports, he usually has lunch near his office. There are many good restaurants in the center of Lincoln. He goes back to the office at half past one and stays there

So It Goes & Poo-tee-weet Within the novel Slaughterhouse Five the author Kurt Vonnegut uses symbols and themes within the narrative to help reveal the mental effects of war. Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time because his mind is mentally going through a breakdown because of the things he seen in war. “Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren't necessarily fun. He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part