Figure It Out

Technology today is a great assistant for many daily tasks to people all over the world. It can be used for anything as simple as looking up directions to get somewhere to getting research to help create a presentation. The Internet helps display information that has been posted by people all over the world with a wide range of knowledge. Part of the reason it is so great is because it is easily accessed. The Internet is becoming more and more commonly used in the learning environment, and…

we fell onto the floor. Making it good luck so we would not fall on ice. We stood up and took our mike-n-ike and said our reminder- such as smiling, having attitude, you know the little things. Then our hands in a diamond on our lower back, we walk out turn around and do not watch the performers on the ice. Our coaches said it just makes you more nervous so you never watch. We remove our hard guards and wait, the hardest part ever is waiting next to the ice and having the nerves build up. The…

maybe the next time she tried to quit she would tell herself she was going to ease off it and just have a few less cigarettes a day. The bottom line is she would keep making up tiny excuses as to why she could not quit. She was taking the easy way out, and that only lead her away from her goal. Eventually, she was able to quit. She stopped feeding herself the nonsense of “needing one more cigarette” or saying she only had one because it was a tough day. She through rationalization aside and…

well as our project. I grasped the concept of the “Sh*tty First Draft” immediately. I spent so much unnecessary time on trying to cough up a perfect paper on my first try. Throughout this semester I realized how much easier it is to get your ideas out in a brainstorming fashion first. Once all of your thoughts are on your canvas…

Doing What You Have To: An Analysis of “A Life Beyond ‘Do What You Love’” It is ingrained in many young children to follow their dreams and to make career choices based on those dreams, but sometimes that is not always possible. Gordon Marino, an award-winning professor, brings light to this subject in an essay that he wrote and that the New York Times published. In his piece, Marino argues that it is not always wise to do what one loves. Marino persuades his audience to consider the possibility…

Character Astrology Signs Santiago Amongst reading the novel, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Santiago is the protagonist who sets off for a adventure in seek of treasure when he was informed by a wise man named Melchizedek. In addition Santiago learns about people’s opportunity to achieve their so called,”Personal Legend” in which he pursues his own Personal Legend embarking from Spain and concluding his journey at the Egyptian Pyramids. Throughout his venture he encounters several people…

The freedom of slaves King’s speech has been known as a masterpiece of rhetoric. One rhetorical device that King used is repetition. There are many examples that show repetition but the most common example in the speech is “I have a dream” that shows different aspects of King’s vision of rhetorical harmony. As learnt in class, Kairos shows opportunity, time and place. The speech was so powerful because of its kairos. In one of the sections, King repeated the phrase “one hundred years later”…

Not only does Louv take this stand, but also do we, for his writing style in the end paragraph includes the reader by taking them into the future to tell their grandchildren what we used to do-look out the car window. “We” saw the birds, counted the cows and horses and coyotes, stared at the horizon and rain, imagined our cars driving alongside us, and “considered the past and dreamed of the future, and watched it all go by in the blink of an eye…

Awakening into the reality that is “the real world” can be rough and turbulent. Adolescents go through significant phases in their journey of figuring out who they are and how they fit into the fabric of everyday life. The first one being the naive phase; this is where we believe we know everything there is to know. This is the stagnant phase where we cannot see change and think about forever in the most literal sense. Second is the turbulent phase; where we find ourselves rebelling to anything…

Rhetorical Analysis Sojourner Truth, a black Civil Rights Activist, was born in 1797 and raised in a minefield of mistreatment and slavery. She ran away from the New York estate where she was enslaved when her owner failed to obey the New York Anti-Slavery Act of 1827. She spent the remainder of her life fighting against inequality and injustice. In 1851, Truth spoke at a Woman’s Rights Convention, advocating and sharing her ideas on equal rights between those of men and women, specifically…