As Time Goes By

getting good grades and spent more time studying, she began to perform better in her exams. By focusing on improving her grades rather than doubting herself, it created a change in her performance. This goes to prove that change is possible over time when it is coupled with sincere action. Similarly to, “Once More to the Lake,” by E.B White and “Forgetfulness,” by Billy Collins the authors both use different literary devices to accomplish a similar theme of how time brings change. In the text “Once

dream we speak of should give a better life to everyone but only according to their ability. To me this means that everyone deserves a better life but we cannot just give you everything, you have to show what you can do, and how far your American dream goes depends on you, your ability, and how hard you are willing to work. Though your American dream is based upon your ability being African American holds you back, though you have the ability to do great things you will not get the same opportunity due

melting cheese on the stove. As I lay here my bed feels like loud. I feel as if I'm on a throne with in the sky floating around with no end in sight. I hear the fan. It's roaring like a jet engine. I think to myself it shouldn't be that wild but life goes on. A beaming light

He goes to the elevator and tries to find the women, so he can live with her but she is not to be found. Martin gives up and goes back to his apartment to live with his dad. He goes back to the elevator after packing his bags, and sees the women there. Martin talks to the women for the first time, Martin says “ why weren't you at the elevator when I was with my bags” women replies “ I don't want you

In Speak, a novel by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about a teenage girl named Melinda, who is miserable in life. Melinda goes to a party, gets drunk and is sexaully assaulted by a older student. In Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson employs the closet as a symbol in order to create deeper meaning. In “ Stupid Stupid,” Melinda sneak into her closet after school and takes a long nap. On page 130, Melinda sneaks into her closet and finds herself there nap for hours. Anderson writes:

on to class in five hole minutes, and trying to keep up with my friends. There are many ways to solve it but here's how I do it. I keep everything organized in my locker so i can’t lose so much stuff in one day (that goes with keeping up with more stuff and getting on to class on time), i will get all my homework

when everyone thought the period was over Mark Johnson broke through the defense and scored a complete momentum changer of a goal with no time left. Coffey goes into great detail on how this was the most important and improbable goal of the game, which caused the Americans to win. Coffey does a great job explaining Mark Johnson’s goal at the end of the first. He goes into great detail throughout all

Imagine, if you were in college, and a football player, spending all your time and energy playing football and you are being paid. You work your way up to the NFL tryouts and haven’t been picked . Wouldn’t you be devastated. Now you have nothing else to do. You should’ve focused on something to lean back on in case this would have happened. The article I read was, ‘Should College Athletes be Paid?’. The topic was that people are considering paying college football players. But I don’t beleive that

Billy Pilgrim often retreats into a detached, otherworldly mindset as a coping mechanism. Billy has showcased this nonchalant type of behavior frequently in the book. Through the repeating of "so it goes" and "all this happened more or less," Vonnegut illustrates the theme of detachment in "Slaughterhouse-Five," reflecting on Billy's acceptance of death, the unreliability of memory is caused by Billy's trauma causing blurred lines between reality and fantasy. Billy's claim that "it's very silly for

for the children in Spain whose lives got ruined by the Spanish Civil War. After that by 1938 around 300 Spanish children were getting help by this plan. By 1945, this plan extended across Europe and China to help others in need, plan Canada at that time decided that they should run this program in developing countries because of their bad economic situation. In 1960 Plan Canada was somewhat recognized