Journey's End

‘Direct entrants in transition: becoming independent learners’ published in 2013 by Hazel Christie, Paul Barron and Norma D’Annunzio-Green in the journal for Studies in Higher Education. Its goal was to evaluate independent learning journey’s and struggles that direct entrant students experienced becoming independent learners entering a second or third year of their degree compared to first-year students. Hearing from students themselves will expose how they successfully made the transition to…

that is impossible for Odysseus and his men. This shows that Odysseus would be there forever and never be able to go home to Ithaca. Basically, Homer is saying that if you go through so many obstacles you may never be able to reach your Ithaca. I may end up getting bad grades through high school that can affect my chances of going to UCI. These two ideas are similar as they…

Gabriel Roche Professor Paul Calkins English 1-B 4/21/2016 An Analysis of Dostoevsky, by Charles Bukowski The poem Dostoevsky, by Charles Bukowski, is an inspirational poem that tells the story of how Fyodor Dostoevsky, a famous Russian author of the 19th century, was given sudden reprieve from death by firing squad, and because of this turn of events, was allowed to write and create, and thus was able to inspire the author as well as countless other writers. For me this immediately reminded me…

reasons and food, “Brian yanked the covers back. Lying on the mattress next to Mom was one of those huge family-sized Hershey Chocolate bars… She’d already eaten half of it.” page 174. As for the hard working kids that strived to get out of the deep end of this hole they call a family, Jeannette, Brain, Maureen, and Lori Walls learn at a young age not to be dependent upon their parents. “We fought a lot… Not just to fend off our enemies but to fit in.” page…

he wanted to stay with his wife, Penelope, and his new son, Telemachus on the small island of Ithaca. However, between the beginning and end of his journey, Odysseus passes through 14 tests of his wit, strength, and bravery. Because of this, Odysseus not only learns of how there is more outside of his tiny island, this is spoken for by the act of the journey’s themselves, but he also learns that he is most happy on his island next to his wife, “Now from his breast into his eyes the ache of…

policies and it is a taboo subject concerning, migrant. “As many as 8,000 of these children are placed in an elaborate system of border patrol detention centers, shelters, facilities, and, courts” (pg. 833). Most of these migrant youth end up in detention centers or end up detained because the U.S does not have the proper policies or laws in action to properly handle immigration in general. The U.S is an economically stable country and we have so called freedoms, which make it an appealing…

Development can be characterized by a plethora of metrics, which by their own nature can be hotly contested and debated. Three things must characterize the bildungsroman: an adolescent protagonist, a journey, and a conclusion by the protagonist at journey’s end which is counter to that of their society’s prevailing cultural norms. This characterization of the bildungsroman does not necessarily denote development; in fact, comportment with social norms would indicate that society has “developed”…

Early into the text of ‘Regeneration’ we are taught about what is known as the “soldiers’ declaration”, written by Sassoon, who was a very strong-minded man who said, “I believe the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it”. However, to most working class soldiers it could be viewed that this statement portrays him as “wrong and wimpish” by cause of the fact that they were just not expected to do that, but this is contradicted as if you went to war and you were…

attends a second Zen retreat gets a glimpse of more than he had in the beginning. He tries as a mediator to silence the restless “monkey man” inside, before calming down: “Maybe enlightenment is when the monkey just sees the sunset and when the sunset ends that monkey just looks at the stars.” Another thing Moore brings up is that “You can’t slow the brain down with a few brief attempts any more easily than you can stop a speeding freight train with a white picket fence.” To the authors…

an amount of grief enough for him to feel alienated from his peers. The good that came out of it, though, was that it caused him to commit to the ultimate end goal of finishing off his nemesis. This stage of his character growth showed that he was willing to undergo a metamorphosis and that he was willing to die for the greater good. Near the end of the series, Harry’s willpower to overcome Voldemort’s psychic connection and negative influence resulting from that connection on his mood and…