If I Did It

Why did I survive, Allister? How come I didn’t die when I took those three rounds? One in the shoulder, one in the arm, one in the thigh and then the impossible. In another engagement I took an armor-piercing round right through my armor vest, why did I live to suffer?” Tank glanced at him through moistened eyes, looking for a reaction. He hoped that his revelation wasn’t overkilling, in the same way as he did with Ellie. “You’re alive through the grace and sovereignty of God. Tank, the Lord…

is very effective for the reader to connect the poem 's plot and conflicts with its structural features. "Did I Miss Anything?," by Tom Wayman is a short poem about a student who mistakenly…

I did not know how hard my parents had it for being adults. And I just started working for about 5 or 6 months now and I made my fist pay check first thing I did is buy clothes because I had very little. However, I got my second paycheck and it all went to bills that my mom needed to pay or she would be a month behind on paying the house bill. I let her use my money, which I was planning to save for a car. I ended up with only half my paycheck and I only help pay one fourth of the payment she…

He does not explain at any point about the sanity of individuals. An example that he is purely bias is by the first sentence in this article, “I think that we are all mentally ill: those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better” (King 561). He also writes about the different types and degrees of insanity in humans. An example is when he explains, “ If we are all insane, then sanity…

and real-life experiences people live each day. The movie sequel, Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married, focuses on the benefits and downfalls of marriage. Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too received fair ratings from the movie reviewers, analyzing the movie aspects and reviewing the purpose Tyler Perry portrays in his movie. One aspect of the movie is the characters. Compared to Why Did I Get Married and Why Did I Get Married Too, Tyler Perry develops the characters through similar…

Where Did I Go Wrong Have you ever had a miscommunication with someone close to you simply because you assumed they understood you? If that question was asked of anyone, the answer would very well be, yes, I have. It happens to the best of us and sometimes on a daily basis. As stated in the article from U.S. News and World Report’s called “Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication”, it stated “For many people, their communication skills with loved ones are not as strong as they may…

grade year, I was in band class and I was chewing some gum. The band director told me to throw away the gum and I responded, "okay" . As I was getting a piece of paper to place my gum in my teacher told me that I had detention, and I just started to cry because I hadn't done anything wrong, and when I went to ask my teacher after class he told me that I responded with an "attitude" and explained to him that I did not but he still told me to got to detention. Since I truly believe that I hadn't…

In the poem “Did I Miss Anything?” by Tom Wayman, the point of view illustrates the theme that the world doesn’t revolve around anyone, and it isn’t going to stop anytime soon. Throughout the poem Wayman uses a first person point of view with contrasting stanzas to convey a feeling of sarcasm through the narrator’s, presumably a teacher’s, point of view. There are two sections to the stanzas, Nothing and Everything. In each there is an extreme reply to the question “Did I Miss Anything?”. At the…

“(What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue” The genre of Jazz has been subject to constant change and development throughout history. Drawing on the various cultural practices of the areas where it became popular, one of the most widely known was New Orleans Jazz. Considered the Birthplace of Jazz, New Orleans was home to a vibrant musical scene, influenced heavily by the combination of a traditional African musical texture and rhythms and key points of European harmony and form. Throughout…

I did not grow up in the United States. My very first time speaking English was on July 25, 2005, the first day I arrived San Francisco. It was not my decision to come to the U.S. because I knew that living in a foreign country would be far out of my comfort zone although I had never been to the U.S. Therefore, coming and living in a foreign country was not something I desired. Although I also had been to different places other than my home town in China when I was little, it was always under my…