Remembering history in this day and age is exceptionally important. So knowing the history of Cal Poly Pomona is just as crucial as the courses that it offers. According to a page about Cal Poly Pomona's brief history located on their official website, Cal Poly Pomona opened its doors on September 15, 1938. It had a total of 110 enrolled students that were all male and was located at the Voorhis Unit which was owned by California State Polytechnic College in San Luis Obispo. In 1948, Will Keith Kellogg, the founder of the Kellogg food company, transferred his ranch to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and in 1949 the land was deeded to the Kellogg Foundation.…
Musicology essay term 2 year 12 In order to depict Australian culture, landscape and people. Many Australian composers seek to have in his music a synthesis of ideas from the many cultures present in Australia. They also have in common in his music is a search for what it means to be Australian. Even among of those composers, Peter Sculthorpe particularly tends to have strong cross cultural music quotation and musical gestures made in an attempt to capture Australia’s geographical qualities.…
When students graduate from high school and then make their way to college a feeling of a mixture of nervousness and excitement consumes ones’ mind. We prepare ourselves for the inevitable hard work laid ahead of us, so we can build a successful future, but college is much more complex than that. In the essay “Colleges Prepare People for Life”, by Freeman Hrabowski, he talks about the growing noise surrounding the issue students have with college. He brings up matters like finding ways around the high price of college tuition and methods to picking the university that fits each student the best. On the one hand, I agree with Hrabowski that college is not a waste of time.…
“We die soon” is We Real Cool’s most important line because it is saying that our lives are not long enough to do everything we want, but to take risks and enjoy life. The significance of the poem is that life is short so you should enjoy it as much as you can. I came to this conclusion at first by just looking at the poem, you can obviously tell that this is a short poem just like life. Throughout the poem I picture a group of teens playing pool at night and just enjoying themselves without a risk in the world.…
The message the author is trying to convey is that the situations that all of these Vietnamese people went through were terrifying. For example, in the poem “One Engine”, “...Communists catch us fleeing, it’s a million times worse than staying at home” (87). The author uses the word fleeing instead of other words like escaping, and leaving because fleeing has a negative connotation, this makes the reader understand that Ha and her family did not leave by choice, but were forced out of there beloved country by enemies that would kill them, which makes the situation terrifying because they could die. Furthermore, in the poem “One Engine”, “Thailand is much farther on one engine. It was risky…” (87).…
It’s the year 2016, and the soon-to-be graduates from UIUC sit in the auditorium, all dressed up in their suits and dresses donning their graduation caps and robes. As Carrie Reil chatted excitedly with her friends, she can’t help but feel sad that college was ending. She managed to get through these four tough years of her life, but as she looked back, she could only smile about what had happened. All the moments with her friends, her teacher, her family, and even her cat! But as she was handed her diploma she realizes that maybe it wasn’t the diploma and degree that made her smile, but rather the journey and pursuit of her goal that was making her smile and laugh as she tossed up her cap into the air.…
Complete an analysis on a poem and author of your choosing. Use the links on Google Classroom to find your poem. Make sure to type your response on this document and to give thorough, insightful commentary. Remember, your analysis should be limited to one page or slightly more. Quality over quantity!!…
I am Hecate, goddess of witchcraft, necromancy, night and moon. *looks around the room* Listen closely… don’t listen and you shall be turned into a ghastly beast and become my personal servant along with the old witch Gale. But that is another story for another time. *looks at Cordell* Go to the crows, Aphrodite! Put the mirror down!…
Matthew Sayers Professor Jared Westover English 1302 7 October 2015 Poem Evaluation Title William E. Stafford’s poem, An Oregon Message, goes between talking about the beauty of space exploration and the possible disruptions that the space exploration could have caused. Stafford uses a mix of imagery, anaphora and metaphors among other devices to increase the affect his poem has on the reader. Richard Brautigan’s poem, All Watch Over By Machines of Loving Grace, also talks about the beauty of nature and how rapid advances in technology have affected the world. This topic, “A concern with nature coupled with often surreal and whimsical plots” is one that Brautigan goes to in many of his poems. Brautigan uses very similar literary devices as Stafford for a similar effect.…
“Ask Me” by William Stafford is a contemporary poem that compares the author’s life to a river. The reader is instilled with a strong sense of nostalgia, placidity, and introspection as Stafford reflects on his past and the meaning of his actions and life. The theme of this piece is life and its relative pace, similar to a river which is used as an ongoing metaphor Stafford introduces himself early on because this work is a conversation between the author and the reader. In the first stanza, Stafford repeatedly implores the reader to “ask me” (1, 2, 6) about his past and his thoughts. This repetition causes a slight uneasiness in the reader as Stafford is insisting the reader to participate.…
Poetry has been a big part of history that contributed to education and culture differently in its time. Both types of poetry are similar and contrasting at the same time, some of their similarities are its tone, and it contrasts in its main ideas or sophisticated writing styles by the authors. The first two poems that is will compare and contrast are “I, Too” by Langston Hughes, and “Cut”. The poem from the Harlem Renaissance is “I, Too”, and the Post Modernist poem is “Cut”.…
On Commencement day when I pass through the gates of Porter’s Lodge, I will see the words “Know Thyself” and think back on the ways that College of Charleston helped me discover my true self. During high school, it’s hard to know exactly who I am. College is the time where everyone gets a clean slate and is free to be whoever they want to be. It is the time to discover myself.…
There’s nothing that puts the message of mental illness out in the open better than poetry. Slam poetry has raw emotion, it’s real and so many people understand what that person is talking about. Depression can be a monster, a literal soul sucking demon. It can be big or small or somewhere in between, “Mom, my depression is a shape shifter. One day it is as small as a firefly in the palm of a bear, The next, it’s the bear.”…
Most of today’s society has had an experience like the character in Carolyn Kizer’s poem “Bitch”, by meeting an ex-significant lover/partner when visiting a local place. The awkward first moment while making eye contact with one another just like a past experience, often creates a challenge about the appropriate way to act. Especially, if the past experiences was not pleasant and/or was full of male dominance. Carolyn Kizer shows this in her poem through the theme, which is, you should never chase after something that was never really yours to begin with and is more harmful than rewarding. Beginning with the title, “Bitch”, most readers will associate this word to have two possible meanings.…
The reason why I chose to write about Nokugcina Mhlophe, it is because I like her work and stytle, because she was also involrd in fighting for freedom. I will be looking at her work in writing poetry. The inspiration that she gives out to young people. I was moved by her praise poem in honour of Nokukhanya Luthuli, widow of chief Albert Luthuli.…