Homecoming

perspective of the world of which they use to portray specific messages to their intended audiences. The messages and tones conveyed throughout each author’s poems have similarities that create common threads throughout such as anthem for doomed youth and homecoming with their common theme of the repercussions of war and London and Composed Upon Westminster Bridge with their common setting of late 1800’s London. The poems, Anthem…

In the following story I will be drawing a parallel between the poem “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou, and the upcoming Homecoming football game between Lane and Curie. In it I will be demonstrating why I believe that both lane and Curie are caged birds. My piece is titled “Escaping one's Cage”. Escaping One’s Cage. Before the game even began you could see the growing anxiety on the Lane Tech football team, they were about to go out representing their entire school, in front of an immense…

War poetry showcases the distress and emotional affects that were encountered by soldiers in the war. “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen, “here dead we lie "by A E. Housman and “Silent Homecoming” by Richard E. Mcginty All display the reality of war and how terrible the after effect of war is to past soldiers. These respective poems express the hurt and distress felt by the soldiers, resulting in the inability to feel welcomed back. Wilfred Owen both project the idea of isolation by the use of severe…

home with her because she knows that there’s always a chance they he may not return home. In that case, he didn’t. So from that scene, we see how important it is for one to return home, to have a homecoming. A homecoming represents ones victory and success, the end of a journey. In the Iliad, a homecoming would be one who was away reuniting with their family and loved ones. It would be a long, overdue celebration. 6. Dante’s Inferno can be considered allegorical by adding a sense of reality to…

the Trojan War because “Helios, the Sun God, took away the day of his homecoming” (27), Odysseus is finally allowed the opportunity to return to his home in Ithaka as “that very year came in which the gods had spun for him his time of homecoming” (27). However, the trek home is not easy, and making a successful return tests Odysseus’s strength, determination, and courage. Odysseus’s character is first tested when his homecoming is prevented by Kalypso, a nymph who detains him, “desiring that he…

their best friend or any friend or that matter. "It's okay, you'll make up eventually," they all say. However, here is one fight that still hasn't met its final destination. It all starts back in early September when I got booted from my original homecoming group which included my best friend, Tori Read. Tori and I have been best friends since about 2nd grade and we've gotten in little fights here and there but we have…

to a specific environment. (CITE) Hedda Gabler climbs up the social ladder to survive. The play takes place in a large drawing-room that is furnished and in this private room is a portrait of her father. It is focused around a room similar to The Homecoming. Hedda is very territorial over her desires and manipulative. Everything she does is for her own personal benefit, and readers can observe them through her exchange in dialogue with other characters. Hedda says “humans should attack as soon…

unimaginable and the adrenaline rush is just as strong. With this being my senior year, I felt like I needed to prove myself to everyone, that we could win.. That we were winners. What better time to prove that than the homecoming game? Thursday night before the nerve racking homecoming game against the mean ferocious Richwood Lumber-Jacks, my mind was so restless. Going in a million…

time with friends and family. B. Describe some non-professional rewarding activities that you have engaged in recently. A rewarding activity that I recently engaged in was attending the homecoming football game at Northern Illinois University (NIU) with my youngest sister, girlfriend, and friend. At the homecoming event we tailgated, attended the football game, and later explored the campus. I planned this event primarily for my sister and I because we are both applying to NIU. I am applying…

1. Why do you want to be a Co-Chair? There are many reasons why I want to be a co-Chair. The first reason is that I want to actually meet new people. I think being a co-chair is a great way to meet different or new people that I have not talk to or even meet. Another reason I want to be a co-chair so I can enhance my leadership qualities, so in the future when I have the opportunity to be a leader, I will have had the co-chair to prove that I was a great leader. (Only if I get the chance to…