In the Country of Last Things

the reader that it is not glorious to be in war for your country. He explains that war is a terrible thing. He then says “To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est”. This poem uses consonance and assonance to add imagery that increase the reading experience for the reader and also furthers the poem's meaning that war…

spite of the fact that America is not a poor country. Peter Edelman writes an essay Poverty in America: Why Can’t We End It? which appeared on July 29, 2012 in the New York Times. He talks about the poverty, reason of increasing and the ways to get out of poverty. The number surprised me the most in essay is two because it shows the ugly picture of poverty as percentage is unsustainable and still growing. As poverty is increasing day by day and in the last decade has grown very rapidly as the…

sports of the United States and Canada? Most people wonder what it is like to live in a different country. Now I'm here to compare and contrast the U.S. and Canada. I am going to be comparing the national anthems of the two countries, the weather and climate of the countries, and the major sports of each. I hope this will enlighten you and make you want to ask more questions about how these two countries are similar and different. The national anthems of Canada and the U.S. are very different.…

parts of a person's life and many people want their childhood to last a long time, but for others its cut shorter than they anticipated. In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi shows us how a child can quickly become an adult when they experience major life events with stress and trauma. In the book Persepolis , a young pre-teen by the name of Marji is having her normal childhood as everyone else, but that is until the government of her country, Iran, gets overthrown by a new ruler. Everything around her…

is named, Lolita in Tehran, and the last one is called Persepolos2. In all the stories, they are about people living in countries where they basically are under laws that are unfair and they are bold enough and fearless to go out and do things they there are not supposed to do knowing what the ricks are if they get caught. In the first story it’s about two girls Salma and Mariam and in the beginning of the story the girls are trying to flee the country that they are living in which is…

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Collin Kaepernick has recently made a passive protest in the beginning of one of the last preseason football games that has brought up a great point. Kaepernick remained seated during the "Star Spangled Banner," which typically is when both team stand up with their hands over their hearts to represent their country, but Kaepernick decided that he wanted to make a point and stay seated throughout the song. He has set off a national debate on racism and patriotism,…

someone in India. The last one will be one in the Oct. 1960 when he got pulled out by the police after going into a department store. The first one I'm going to talk about when he visited the person in India. They were in India five weeks and they toured the country. He said that India was untouched and other things when he was there. He saw that they had low crime rate. He saw that everyone like everyone then he saw that America was different in many ways and other things. The next one is in…

Personal Essay Education is perhaps the most important service a country can provide to its people. Education leads to development, innovation, and growth; and also opens countless doors for people. Having educated people allows for the country to run in its most productive state, because its citizens are running in their own most productive state. Many times in this course we have discussed the how in order for liberation to happen education is what is needed. As Freire explains it, in an…

is known to be the best country in the world,but is that really true or is this just an opinion. Some might say this is fact,but many are willing to oppose. The America is a land of opportunity and it really shows compared to all the countries that have a lot corruption and very little freedom. Questioning our government is a huge thing that is going on and how our government is wrong, so is our America really a country of opportunity or is it disguised as one? If our country seems to be so…

independence, the idea of being independent. The last idea is liberty, an idea where it is the state of being free, within the society. All of these ideas are conceived in American history and define our country. The first idea is valor, which is great courage in the face of danger. In the USA, our military troops, firemen, or even everyday people have valor in some of the many obstacles they faced, and have valor because they are doing it for our country. At the 9/11 memorial, we learned that…