Grass

Grass is incapable of speech. Or any intelligent thoughts for that matter. But if grass was sentient, what would it think of human race. Would it be impressed by our progress, or disappointed at all the obstacles we have yet to overcome? Carl Sandberg seems to believe the latter, as he writes of an impassive being posing as grass. He captures the unbiased perspective of nature and illustrates how pointless human warfare is to a being above such trivial matters. Sandburg, in his poem Grass,…

The Mardi Grass Video demonstrated two different cultures know so little about each other. In the first part of the video, it demonstrated how the simple colored beaded necklace that we can easily find at a local Dollar Store, are being used as a reword after individuals physically exposed themselves to the public. When random individuals were asked, where the beads came from and who made the bead they had no idea and I also had no idea or had never really thought about it. The film then takes…

two poems that I chose to compare are both written by Emily Dickenson; the first poem is “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass,” and the second is “[The Brain- is wider than the Sky].” These poems were written 4 years apart, the first coming in 1862, and the second was written in 1866. While we read “[The Brain- is wider than the Sky]” for class, we did not read “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass.” These two poems are very different, while at the same time they are very similar; Emily Dickenson has a special…

Wheat grass is a very rich source variety of essential of nutrients. It contains most of the vitamins, variety of minerals and other nutrients. a) Vitamin A: It enhances the skin shine and provides glow to skin and makes it disease and infection free. It helps to cure spots and improves the eyesight. It is also helpful in checking the eyes, nose, and throat disorders. It maintains hair and is helpful in fighting the problems of pollution. b) Vitamin B: It aids digestion. It is helpful in the…

In "Message to the Grass Roots" Coates remembers a specific quote "Don’t give up your life. Preserve your life. It’s the best thing you have going. And if you’ve got to give it up, make sure it’s even-steven." it was a profound claim about the value of your body that was very…

asserts this truth more than one time in his novel Green Grass, Running Water. When First Woman is taken to jail in Fort Marion and she asks about her charge, she is answered: "Being Indian" (GGRW 72). And to contrast the truth, American Indians were stereotyped as savages who would kill "a beautiful blond woman, her hands raised in surrender, watching horrified as a fearsome Indian with a lance rode her down" (160). The title of Green Grass, Running Water itself is a memoir of the injustices…

Naomi Clark J. Lindberg English 1101 22 August 2015 Slang in America The essay Slang in America, written by the early 1800s American poet named Walt Whitman, was an interesting essay to read. It really made me stretch my mind as to try to comprehend and understand what the 1800s poet was trying to say. Throughout his work he was trying to portray the distinctive American language; which introduces new words and the unique qualities of American life. Whitman believed that our language; the way…

In Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, the author is seamlessly stepping into the shoes of another and identifying himself with their experiences, he also observes them. Walt Whitman does not write this poem as a final stroke to his light-hearted, if not an egomaniacal sense of self, but rather as a celebration of all types of individuals. When Whitman uses the word assume, in his second line, he is not asking the reader to automatically hold all of his statements true to himself, but rather assume…

In "I, Too," Langston Hughes is obviously in conversation with the earlier poem, Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing." Both poems explore the idea of American identity -- who and what is an American? What characterizes the people of this nation? The two poets, however, reach somewhat different conclusions in response to these questions. Whitman is known as the quintessential American poet, in part due to poems like this one. Whitman's "Song of Myself" positions the individual at the center,…

Interest and Motivation: I chose the topic of how tennis affects people. When I first heard about this I-Search project, I immediately knew that I wanted to choose a topic that was related to tennis. Since tennis is one of my favorite sports, and I’m very passionate about it, I want to learn everything about this topic. I know that having tennis as a topic is too broad, so, I have decided to narrow it down. In sixth grade, I did a persuasive speech on the benefits of exercise. From that day on,…