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Every single person in this world has been impacted by education in some way. Whether you have children who are still in school, are a college student, or even live in a third world country, education has impacted your life in some shape or form. Although there are multiple definitions and levels of what education can entail, focusing more on the school setting of education has always been of interest to me. In today’s world, there are schools of all types, philosophies and/or models. Private,…

Dan Loughlin Discussion 6 I think that this practice is still used today because it has become apart of the culture when people get married. Over the years it has always become natural and it is assumed that women will take the last name of the people they are going to marry. I think that it is assumed that that the women will take the last name of the man and not the other way around because it is thought that the husband is the masculine part of the marriage. In the past, it…

denotation. All of these instances are used in one line of the sonnet. “ And then, adieu, —farewell! —the dream is done. ” (Millay, line 9) the word adieu in that line can be seen as a denotation or a connotation. Millay uses denotation where the hyphen is put, to uncover the exact meaning of the word adieu. Millay also uses connotation in the same area but vice versa, by demonstrating the implicit meaning of Farewell rather than the explicit definition. “Yours is a face of which I can forget…

My homeland is the smell of spices, as well as the sensations of civil war. Like most people, I share the same values as my parents. My parents fled a country characterized by war and poverty in search for a better life, and better opportunities for their future children; the so coveted “American Dream”. I was always grateful to grow up in a country where I had the opportunity for education and success, in contradiction to my parents. I wanted nothing more than to make them proud -- to make…

For the Revision Assignment, I chose to revise my film review because it was my lowest grade that I had on a writing assignment. I felt I could improve on a lot of sloppy errors I made and missed he first writing process by giving it a more keen editing and revision process. I really enjoyed this assignment because it allowed us as writers to express ourselves with more freedom than the other, more academic, assignments we’ve been prompted to write over the course of English Composition I and II…

Troublesome Ties (A Discussion of the Connections in Hamlet’s Soliloquies in Shakespeare’s, Hamlet) “A soliloquy is a popular literary device often used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character... used to convey the progress of action of the play by means of expressing a character’s thoughts...without acknowledging the presence of any other person”(LiteraryDevices Editors). Many famous playwrights use and have used soliloquies to progress the action of their plays as described…

Romantic Era was a time of advanced changes in literary works. Whitman and Dickinson daringly changed the style of American Literature. They were the two most famous poets of their time period and with their unique word choices and style they both revolutionized poetry in America. Whitman was known as someone with a social and bold personality. This personality is reflected in his uplifting and positive writing. Unlike Whitman, Dickinson was very isolated and liked to keep to herself. She was…

Although the poem seems to contrast a positive life connected to nature versus a negative life of humans, it is possible that she could be suggesting the pleasant side of human life, “…and books –” (line 8). The way she ends this stanza, with the hyphen, could lead the reader to wander in their minds on how they believe the human world is, how it could be oppressive or how it could be wonderful. Hirshfield already gave room for the reader to think about the choices they have made and to discover…

Multiculturalism can be defined as multiple cultures living in the same country or community. It is usually used to describe constructed areas such as schools, neighborhoods, communities, and societies. Multiculturalism is also known as being culturally diverse. It is a way where different cultures are able to live together in a peaceful manner and where different cultures are respected. This can also encourage people to familiarize themselves and get to know about other cultures. Although many…

Have you ever struggled to manage and organize your time and work? Staying productive and organized is a pretty hard thing to do if you don’t have specific plans and system. But there is one little tip to push you through it. It’s called a bullet journal. Bullet journal is a setup system that was created by Ryder Carroll, a New York-based designer. It is a frame system that allows you to organize things that are currently going on and plans for the future. It is easily customizable to your needs…