Let It Be

As I was trick or treating, I was thinking of how much candy will be on my inventory. I am assuming the more gruesome and scary your costume is, more than likely you will get more candy. I was cladded in a scary looking werewolf costume. I went up to my first house to get candy from, and they gave me not what I expected, and I had a grimace on my face. I saw a corn maze to get to this big house, and I thought to myself, I bet there is a lot of candy there. So I was gingerly walking through…

In “Let Them Eat Harmony: Prejudice-Reduction Strategies and Attitudes of Historically Disadvantaged Groups”, the authors have some interesting opinions about intergroup prejudice issue. The issue has been rethinking from psychological perspective. According to the author “harmony with good relations and conflict with bad relations is limited”. Two models are discussed in this article. One is prejudice-reduction model and the other one is collective-action model. To begin with…

On 02/05/2016, Audry Nance of Lincoln wrote “Let Death Penalty Die” and is an example of what happens when someone twists facts about the death penalty and government actions in general. Even though the legislature did overturn the governor’s “spiteful veto” there is enough pro capital punishment supports to force a referendum and vote on it in the November election. Almost $1 million dollars was raised in the campaign to support the referendum, so the governor and his family were not the only…

In the article “Let Steroids into the Hall of Fame,” by Zev Chafets the author strongly supports the use of steroids in baseball. The overall theme of the story illustrates the concept of steroids shaping the way we know baseball today, with it’s concerning influence on the youth who view players as their role models. The author begins with the background history on steroids in baseball and supports the claim that players have altered the game since the beginning, as many of the famous players…

Kristen and Duane Watkins have adopted children from Ethiopia for several years. The family has recently encounters Brandon Stanton, practically a complete stranger to the family, who helped them raise $26,000 to complete the adoption of their son in Ethiopia. Duane Watkins has said, “kindness is too small a word to describe what their family experienced” (CNN). Stanton is a bond trader-turned-photographer who created the website Humans of New York about three years ago. Duane, a television…

In Yona Wallach’s poem “Let Them Come” found on page sixty-six from the Collected Poems (1976), Wallach entices her readers with a poem about a woman who is having her last moments but wants her mourners to come and serve her. “Let them come and bring me foods,” this first line implies that she wants someone to serve her the last meal she will eat. The diction used and phrasing techniques lead the reader to believe that she is of importance. Specifically “let them come” as in she was okaying…

Kids these days don't really know about the past. I have found a way to change that. With the with the time traveling charm bracelet or I like to call it the TTC bracelet. You can go any place and date. All you have to do is pull the charm and think of the place and date. Why study when you can live it. A new and creative, fun way to learn about the past. Instead of spending an hour or two on studying. All you have to do is use the TTC bracelet. Now you don't have to spend any time studying…

Over the last few years, my mother has separated from my nuclear family. She simply stopped calling us and withdrew completely. I continued to call, but she ended the conversations abruptly or made an excuse not to talk to me. Up until two years ago we talked every few days, saw each other several times a month, and had never missed a holiday meal together. Mom severely limited our contact and decided it was not worth, “messing up either of our houses for a holiday dinner.” I was unsure why…

“Let America Be America Again” is a poem written by Langston Hughes in 1935. In the poem Hughes openly shares his thoughts on the American dream. The meaning of the poem is that the idea of the “American Dream” seems to be just that, a dream. Since the beginning, early Americans practiced slavery and oppression, they destroyed the land that belonged to the native people in order to build their own settlements. So this whole idea that America was founded by people with complete freedom in mind is…

of the City of Liverpool. 4.2. “Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death” “Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death” is the poem by Roger McGough that I chose to analyse. It is composed of five stanzas with an irregular number of lines (between four and six). The poem is written in free verse without a rhyme scheme. That is to say, it follows the rhythm of a natural speech. Furthermore, we cannot find any punctuation mark in the twenty-nine lines. One of McGough's early poems, “Let Me Die a Youngman's Death” (but…