Grammatical mood

November 4, 2011, was my first day at Brekingview High. It can also be known as the day everything changed for me. I like to think I'm generally a nice person, well until I get these sudden outbursts of rage. i'm not too excited about being shipped off to this new school considering everything at my other school was going great. If you're currently wondering why I'm just randomly being shipped to another school with everything going great, well it would be because my parents couldn't ever get…

The poem opens introducing a long and dark street. The speaker walks through the street clumsily, stumbling around due to the darkness. He hears his feet on the stones and the leaves, but also hears someone else behind him. The person behind him is doing everything the speaker is doing, but when the speaker turns around, there is no one there. The speaker can’t see or make out anything, only his footsteps. He follows the endless street around its endless corners, and says that no one…

Introduction: • Tense o Original:  Once she was put into a situation where she could lose her life, the grandmother sees the error of her ways and becomes a new woman. o Correction:  Once she is put into a situation where she could lose her life, the grandmother sees the error of her ways and becomes a new woman. o Reason:  The tense wasn’t the same through the sentence. I needed a consistent tense through-out. First Body Paragraph • When works better for meaning instead of by o…

“Amber Kowalski from Illinois, please report to NASA headquarters through teleportation, I repeat, Amber Kowalski from Illinois, please report to NASA headquarters through teleportation, thank you.” That was the message that would forever change my life. Everybody knew what would happen if NASA called you to their headquarters. You would get put in the “waiting room”. The “waiting room” is a top secret area located in the headquarters of NASA space center. NASA secretly chooses two people from…

The Things They Carried: Purpose of Third Person In Tim O’Brien’s:The Things They Carried, the narrator switches from a third person perspective to a first person perspective a few times. He does this to provide a general understanding of war as well as to detach himself from the truth. In the first chapter, O’Brien uses the third person point of view to help the reader connect to all of the soldiers more easily. Since war is not a one-man job, this point of view symbolizes the idea that all…

I received an email on my phone notifying me stating that I owe Shippensburg University an amount of four hundred dollars for tuition. Furthermore, I need another three hundred for books, plus another two hundred to place a deposit for a dorm next semester. As I was telling her this expensive statement, she turns around and says, “I’ll take care of it.” This was the one of the few experiences that I went through with my mother during this previous winter break. In summary, I experienced her…

The issues of migration and labor have very complex definitions on the US-Mexico border and those definitions are based on two important aspects which are race and gender. Race in simple words is the social construction that defines a specific group of people with similar and different physical characteristics; and gender refers to the roles, identities and practices that society makes for each interpretation of the sexes. Being part of a specific race is one thing that an individual carries…

People’s actions are often influenced by society’s expectation of them. Characters such as Viola and Olivia from William Shakespeare’s comedy, Twelfth Night, and Britomart from Edmund Spenser’s epic, The Faire Queene, are used to critique society’s conception of the masculine and feminine that expects women to be subordinate. These characters are confronted with various opportunities to assert themselves; however they must first overcome obstacles created by the general taboo against women…

The function of a narrator in any story is to do just that, to narrate the story. However, skilled authors realize that narrators do so much more than simply narrate: they are an essential component of how the story is expressed. Decisions such as having a third person, first person, or omniscient narrator are critical to point of view. In the case of this story, if the narrator had been Sonny himself, the story would be significantly one dimensional; having the brother narrate provides a…

In Shakespeare 's sonnet "Sonnet CXXX," the blazon is constructed in a very peculiar way. Mary Wroth, in sonnet 42 "Pamphilia to Amphilanthus," interprets the blazon within herself rather than her love. Both uses of the blazon depict a time in which love is of the essence. However, in both sonnets, the person in which they are describing is forever unknown. Shakespeare attacks the blazon of his sonnet and creates an anti-blazon, while both sonnets are still in singular perspectives. In…