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When you first see Olivia Tourney you might see her beautiful brown eyes or her silky hair. When you get to know her you will see her kindhearted sweet personality. If you call her at any time of the night she will answer and help you. She has a very close family with two brothers and two happily married parents. She cares about them very much. She goes home twice a month to see her family and her dog Cinderella, because of the care for her family. We spend a lot of time together doing school…

happy. I know the catalyst that brought about this happiness, but since it changed so much of my life I don’t know what individual change truly is causing my blissful contentment. Either way I do not wish to tie up my happiness and poke and prod it to figure it out. I’d rather just revel in it and experience my peace since I know it can’t last for long. At least not here, not like this. I sit in the long grass as I feel my skin absorbing the sun. The grass prickles my arms and itches, but I don…

Authors of any piece of literature have a vast arsenal of weapons to use in order to entice readers. Among biggest and most powerful weapons in said arsenal are rhetorical devices; these weapons are capable of aiding the author in his attempt to change his readers. In the autobiography Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass the author, Douglass himself, through the use of adroit allusions to the bible and descript imagery that depicts the absurdity of slavery as an institution.…

Flying across the ice, the two time U.S. gold medalists Alex and Maia Shibutani danced their hearts out to Paradise by Coldplay only to lose their third gold medal at the National Figure Skating Championships. Their dance and song choice touched the lives of people all around the world, but wasn’t enough to hold their own against the skaters to come. Although the title was the lost, the words to the Shibutanis song of choice speaks volumes. Songwriter Christopher Anthony pulls at the string’s of…

Critical Touchdown! The running back number 4 showboating in the end zone accompanied by the opposing team’s safety glaring. An uplifting crowd erupted from small silver bleachers. My mom came to one of my games for once, and I was happy as I saw her. Dad was also over there. He was constantly the one who accompanied me to my games. I jogged all over the football field looking for my mother and father. My shadow was the only thing that tracked behind my developed fifteen-year-old body. At the…

being encouraged on them and everyone is aware of it because they have the confidence and the courage to have their bodies changed for advertisement and other women probably wouldn’t know that their having their bodies transformed until they actually figure it out and discover changes, which could lead for people to sue companies and that would make profit go down for the society. There are more women who wouldn’t stand up for their self-worth than there are who would and that’s a big problem…

Boat” has many different qualities they both share. They both display a prominent use of the same key figures of speech, but one that stands out the most for both is imagery. Imagery is any sensory detail in a work. Meaning anything that seems very detailed and that can be imaged in people’s minds is imagery. Throughout the whole story they show a pattern of imagery very deeply. Another key figure of speech that both of the books use is third person. Third person is when you use either, they,…

Too many people bank on the idea that there is time. Time to do all they have plan out to do. People wake up every day to sit at a desk all day to do the same work they do every day. Then they drive home on the same roads they do every day, and come home to do the same routine every day. Working at a job they don’t like, in a town they don’t like, surrounded by people they don’t like. (Epistrophe) We have all seen it, we all know it. Many of us grew up watching this happen to everyone around us.…

fact that had I been sick at a different time, there would be no greater inconvenience. For now, I have no responsibilities, but four days from now I will be competing in figure skating on behalf of the U.S., and hopefully by then my weakened state will pass. I know I should practice, but currently I can barely move, let alone figure skate. The dark room feels…

Significant discoveries can be provocative and challenging that enables individuals to embark on a confronting journey to rediscover meaning, or a new aspect for the first time. A sense of curiosity and necessity is needed for a discovery to be transformative. An individual must first develop the ideology of being open-minded, strengthening an individual to overcome challenges, perceiving society, self and others differently. Michael Gow’s play Away explores the aspect of the necessity of…