May Swenson

Life, according to David Swenson, is not life unless it is happy. In order to achieve happiness, one’s life must be submerged with a sense of meaning, reason, and worth, thus happiness must be justified. To obtain a meaning to life, one must contribute to life to progress their talents which will, in turn, help themselves and others. But more importantly, Swenson speculates that the purpose of one’s life is to develop an instinctive view of life to achieve happiness. Swenson explains the…

roles. In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, the Miss Bennets are a variety of girls that portray the tone and theme of the poem, “Women” by May Swenson. In Swenson’s poem, the tone, theme, and literary devices utilized in the work convey the expectation of women in the 1970s in America as well as coincide with role of women in 1800s England. May Swenson was born in the United States in 1913. She was a well known poet who was highly praised by other poets as well (poemhunter.com). Her poem…

Authors like Linda Pastan, Janice Mirikitani, and May Swenson have written poems to convey their message about the stereotypes of gender roles. In Linda Pastan’s, “Marks”, we see how a woman that is a…

dominance controlling the female identity was extremely prominent in works of art such as the play Trifles written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, the short story A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor that was written in 1955 and the poem Women by May Swenson written in 1967. In each of these three works of art we see a central theme. We see each of the authors touch on the idea that in a world with a strong history of male dominance, men are mistaken in their assumption that women derive…

are successful for collaboration amongst the general education teacher and the speech-language pathologist. Collaboration can be defined as two or more teachers work together as equals to assist students to succeed in the classroom. Williams and Swenson tell us that collaborative co-teaching between the general education teacher and speech-language pathologist (SLP) requires a common understanding of the different roles they have, the particular approach they take, and the way they communicate…

getting the reader to anticipate what will happen next while reading a State of Wonder. The first chapter alone already has you contemplating on what will happen. Especially when Mr. Fox calls and asks Marina about going to Brazil. Knowing that Dr. Swenson was also her former med- school professor. I believe that Dr. Singh would not have gone to Brazil on the idea alone of Mr. Fox asking her to go. If it hadn’t been for Karen Eckman pleading for her to go Marina would have stayed. The…

Pipeline Company, LLC Docket No. PF15-20-000 Monthly Pre-Filing Status Report No. 13 Work Completed April 13, 2016 through May 5, 2016. Retrieved from FERC Online eLibrary: http://elibrary.ferc.gov:1/idmws/doc_info.asp?document_id=14473581 This report documents between April 13, 2016 and May 5, 2016. It contains updates between the docket change of RGLNG from PF15-20 to CP16-454 (Swenson, 2016). It also includes information about Rio Bravo Pipeline, assigned docket CP16-455. As a result of…

While scrolling down the discussion posts trying to find something interesting to answer to, your post caught my attention. I was interested because just this morning I was reading a Facebook post regarding how Medicare require documentations and six months wait before filling this woman insulin order. This woman also happens to be pregnant, and she mentions in her post that her insulin supply is getting low and having a refill is crucial to keep her and her baby alive. She also went on to say…

Autistic Students Teaching art to children with autism is always going to be challenging because of the inherent nature of the diagnosis – each child has different sensitivities, triggers, and aversions (Furniss, 2007). Many educational professionals may perceive these students as exceptionally high maintenance and potentially become extremely overwhelmed, wanting to lump everyone together with the same expectations as the other children. (While “othering” can be very isolating for special…

Poets use different techniques of writing to convey their main idea to the reader. May Swenson and Wanda B. Goines’ poems are different in structure and motif, yet the deeper meaning that the poems possess are quite similar. The speaker of How to be old is the author as the poem is not written in second or third person. The poem centres around ageing and the importance of one living their life to the fullest. “One must work a magic with time /in order to become old.” The register used is formal…