Appreciation

As a child I was presented with alternative and folk based music by my father and classical and pop music by my mother. When i started transitioning into my teenage years I found an appreciation for bands like AC/DC and Quiet Riot as many generations of teenagers did before me. I found a way to connect my feeling to music that was as angry and rebellious as I felt. These bands’ resonated at a frequency that matched my own in a way I had…

In the book The Good Earth, the character O-lan—wife of Wang Lung—asked her husband for two pearls that she would like to keep. Wang Lung acquiesced, but he did not understand why she asked for them. Later, Wang snatched the pearls away from O-lan and gave them to his concubine, Lotus. The pearls held some meaning to all three of these characters, but it held the most importance to O-lan and affected her the most. First of all, Wang Lung, O-lan, and Lotus all regarded the pearls differently.…

theme in the Movie, The Last Samurai, directed by Edward Zwich is this very issue: tradition versus modernization. The protagonist of this movie Nathan Algren played by Tom Cruise, become disillusioned with using war to suppress tradition and gains appreciation for the values of the Samurai. While there is a difference between the settings in the novel and the movie there are some strong similarities between the novel and the movie. These include the change that each protagonist undergoes and…

according to that give their participation in work. Only one leader all time not able to solve all the problems of the employee. So individual focus on themselves not on the team. Sometimes lack of reward and appreciation to the employee cause the problem. Employee need the proper reward and appreciation from the leader so they can do their work very effectively. Employer should appreciate and…

Showing one’s appreciation can mean the world to some. Yet when such opportunities become frequent, or are practically scheduled like clock-work, we tend to forget to express our appreciation over time. It is only by looking back in hindsight do we realize we may have come off as ungrateful. In Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays,” the strong use of imagery create a heavy yet detailed atmosphere. Throughout out the poem, the speaker uses various degrees of imagery to help bring the reader…

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two writers during the 1800s. These two writers had similarities including their beliefs, but they did share some differences regarding their writings and upbringings in life. Ralph Waldo Emerson was considered one of the most important essay writers of this time period. He focused his writings on individualism and self-reliance. He was born in a distinguished family that included clergymen. He was well educated and a graduate from Harvard…

The images displayed on my vision board are various in type, meaning, and importance. One aspect of the board is education. I used a picture of a golden graduation cap to signify academic excellence, as it is a strong value of mine. To further represent my dedication to the acquisition and application of wisdom, I added a visual of an open book with a key nearby. The purpose in that was to show how important education is, and how I will use it to unlock opportunities in life. This knowledge will…

wanders, many times she “suddenly remembered every stump and hollow of the spot on which she stood –through the mushrooms I [she] encountered there” (Tsing, 142). As she continues, she expresses a revelation: “Familiar places are the beginning of appreciation for multi-species interactions” (Tsing, 142). She further backs this by explaining foraging working in this way for the majority of human history (Tsing, 142). To find various useful plants, animals, or fungi, the learning of familiar…

It’s not always easy to appreciate the unconventional, but being different has been a strong source of my self-identity. It’s given me a sense of perspective and balance that shapes my view of the world. As a child of biracial parents, I’ve always accepted that I was multi-faceted. And even though there are ongoing racial divisiveness and a history in this country that is notorious for its brutality, I never felt its culture clash in my home. Every day I experience the beauty and harmony that…

language in this poem develops the relationship between the speaker and the swamp by describing more in-depth the fear and respect that the character has for this environment. Rather than simple fear and respect, the reader begins to understand the appreciation along with the calamity that the speaker holds for the swamp and the swamp brings to the speaker. This figurative language feeds off of the established hyperbolic analysis and clarifies in stark detail how the speaker and the swamp affect…